I am currently re-reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, it is without a doubt one of the greatest cyberpunk books ever written (thank Lester for putting me onto it).
The central characters in the story are a half black half Japanese sword wielding pizza delivering hacker named Hiro Protagonist and a 15 year old blonde haired Caucasian girl (Y.T. or Yours Truly) who is a "thrasher" and a courier on her hi-tech skateboard unbeknown to her Fed mum.
This book was so far ahead of it's time and in fact Google Earth is a direct rip off of Hiro's Earth program, this book is on my all time favourite list. (actually just about anything that Stephenson or Rudy Rucker write is)
Anyway on the train tonight I thought I'd tried to conceptualise what Y.T. would look like (in my opinion) and this is the rough design I came up with, I will definitely have a go at Hiro as well as Raven and maybe an Enforcer in the future.....
Obviously I've gone Manga style and as it's concept it's very rough.
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