Manga

My drawings progress, storyboarding and all my manga notes.

Aydin Yusuf

So far, i've made three characters, this one is the main one:

IQ: 195 Name: Yusuf Aydin Age: 15

Yusuf should have an air of mystery surrounding his past. As a child, he often caused trouble to get attention, growing up as a parentified kid with three siblings—two of whom died from illness. One sibling still attends the same school as him. His parents are alive but rarely present.

On the surface, Yusuf acts funny and easygoing, but underneath he feels hollow.

Traumas: He was SA'd by a teacher. He’s unstable, something that shows in drawings; sometimes he behaves normally, other times he snaps into aggression. No one knows the full extent of his backstory, which is essentially a series of awful events repeating throughout his life. He has severe mood swings and likely struggles with sh and an ed (implied in panels).

He has three main hobbies: skateboarding, tinkering with technology (the kind of kid who fixes electronics just for fun), and sleeping—he sleeps a lot.

Design notes: His design is simple and based on everything above. He wears a bandage on his cheek, a turtleneck long-sleeve under a T-shirt printed with ribs and a femur (chosen because of his ed), and loose, baggy pants. His hair is simple, though hard to describe in text. I don’t want to sugarcoat his struggles—his story is meant to reflect them honestly.

Elias Schneider

Age: 20

Backstory:Elias grew up in a fractured household in a working-class Berlin neighborhood. His father was a tailor, a man worn down by years of nervous picking motions, and sometimes slips into icy withdrawals when flashbacks overwhelm him. His power manifests as sharp, kinetic energy control—he can "cut" through almost anything with bursts of energy focused like a blade from his hands. Training in the anti-terrorist group is as much about controlling that tempest as fighting real enemies. Elias constantly tailors his identity, trying on personas like clothes—sometimes cold and distant, sometimes fiercely protective of the few people he lets close, never fully sure who he is or who he wants to become.

Elias Schneider is the kind of complicated character who embodies both destruction and creation — he “cuts” through obstacles but also longs to “tailor” a better life from damaged cloth.

Nikita Zorin

name: Nikita age: 15

iq: 178

backstory: raised in a household where emotions were treated as weakness and success was the only measure of worth, he grew up believing affection had to be earned; he was praised only when perfect and paraded as a prodigy, but puberty brought burnout—insomnia, panic attacks, paralysis from perfectionism, and emotional collapse leading to slipping grades; his parents saw him as a disappointment and eventually put him into the adoption system, creating his core belief that he is disposable once he stops performing.

new family: a gentle café-owner father, an attentive and nurturing mother, a protective 17-year-old sibling, a teasing 16-year-old, and a 9-year-old who idolizes him, all offering unconditional care he doesn’t yet know how to trust.

hobbies: reading stories where characters aren’t abandoned and playing videogames with stable, predictable rules.

trauma: fear of being thrown away again, explosive self-defensive reactions, emotional shutdowns triggered by small mistakes, and compulsive overworking to “earn” his place.

relation to yusuf: a volatile mix of clashing and bonding, both carrying self-hate expressed differently, Nikita admires Aatos’s composure, and Aatos easily reads the consistent patterns beneath Nikita’s emotional storms.

Aatos Saari

**Name:** Aatos Saari (Finland)

**Age:** 13

**IQ:** 185

He’s the youngest, and by far the most silent. He was bullied as a kid because he doesn’t talk—he isn’t mute, but he refuses to speak due to autism. He’s secretly a genius. He’s calm and shy, but incredibly quick at figuring things out. His childhood wasn’t good: his mother was narcissistic, and his father wasn’t present. He ran away at 11 and eventually became a punching bag for drunk men and sometimes errand boys for the mafia. Eventually, a kind man from Finland took him in and cares for him now.

**Struggles:** communication, detachment, self-care, low self-esteem

**Traumas:** emotional and physical abuse

**Hobbies:** music, drawing, and jigsaw puzzles

He wears a grey hoodie and black shorts, likes wearing gloves, and always has on Crocs.