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Young Psycho Mantis Unmasked (colored)

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So my brother showed me a screen of Tretij Rebenok (young Psycho Mantis) in Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain without the lenses of his gas mask. The developers apparently modeled his eyes very pretty and sassy with this dark smoky eye makeup. So, naturally, I now have this image that Psycho Mantis was a pretty boy before he went "psycho" and got all his scars. So here's my "unmasked" version of him…

See the black and white version here.

Considering all the retcon Kojima does, I am still unsure whether canon Metal Gear literature has Psycho Mantis receiving his facial disfigurement early or later in his life, so for the sake of this fan-art, I will just assume that it was later.

Sorry to any fans that think making Psycho Mantis pretty is sacrilege. This is just a fan interpretation of him inspired by the screen I mentioned.

I am also doing an older version of Mantis unmasked that I will hopefully post later...

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I really love this picture. The shades and especially the light on the side. But the style is the most cool thing. It just has... I don't know. I like the colors, the lines (at some point sketchy), his face...
Really awesome work!

P.s. Третий ребёнок (just trying to find out if DA allows Russian letters here. There is written "Third child" in Russian. 'Coz I'm Russian. And stuff.)

:P