Monochrome Heart
Cloud from Kingdom Hearts
by Elise
eigwayne@hotmail.com
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/in_media_res/
March 31, 2003

This is based off an image scanned from, of all places, Playstation magazine, from a big ole article about Kingdom Hearts. It's tweaked alot. The contrast is up, the colors saturated (I think)- all to make him stand out from the grainy grey of the photo of the Coliseum behind him. Yes, that's a terrible joke, but as a student of ancient Rome and a lover of bad/shallow symbolism, I like it.

*hearts* KH Cloud is so broody and gorgeous. I don't even care that he looks the bastard child of FF7 Cloud and Vincent Valentine. He's yummy.

The skin is named Monochrome Heart because the name came to me while I was working on the skin image. Nevermind that Monochrome Kokoro is the name of an album by my college friend Murasaki....
Yeah, it's not truly monochrome. But Cloud has lost his light, leaving him in the darkness, the grey shadows, without color, where the only thing that stands out are his red half-cloak, his Mako-blue eyes, and his chocobo-like hair.

Font used is Courier New. There is also a non-functional EQ called eqmain2.bmp. If you decide to use this, delete or rename the original EQ and rename the file eqmain.bmp. You can see Cloudy's swanky claw better in the non-func version ^_^