Marguerite
Active Member
We still haven't told easy child 2/difficult child 2 about exBF's recent projects. For those who missed this earlier - he has just published his first manga comic (b/w) and the main characters (two of them) are based VERY closely in himself (his alter ego he uses on a well-known animé website - even to the same appearance and same name) and easy child 2/difficult child 2. She is a redhead, not easy to depict in a b/w comic but he's used a greay-scale commonly used to show red hair. He's changed the character's name but only slightly. The girl's character is the darker side of easy child 2/difficult child 2 but amplified a lot, complete with cutting, suicidal tendencies, being very difficult to get on with and hostile - you get the picture. There are some clothing items VERY similar, but this has been argued by some of his friends to be coincidence, because what drew him to easy child 2/difficult child 2 in the first place, is she looks like a manga character (and dresses like one).
Since then, husband has been surfing the 'Net and found a link to some COLOUR sketches he's done. And now there's no mistake - the eye colour, the hair colour - it's easy child 2/difficult child 2. For those who may not know her as well, you could ague the resemblance is coincidence, but we are her family - we know the shape of her head, the curves of her figure, her specific dimensions. And to see a colour illustration which you recognise as your daughter (complete to clothes of her own design which I could go and fetch from her wardrobe) - it's creepy. And when one of those sketches shows the girl half-naked wearing a chastity belt (with nothing under the chastity belt) - it REALLY creeps me out.
NO way are we showing her, or BF1 (fiancé).
I'm not sure what to do about this. I could get in touch with him and ask him to cease and desist but he clearly has invested a lot in this character, his first comic book is clearly the first in a series. Plus, he's a real drama queen (and in my opinion, still carrying a BIG torch for easy child 2/difficult child 2) and ANY reaction from our family is likely to give him satisfaction.
But on the other hand, I don't want her first encounter with her won image as a cartoon porn star, to be seeing it on the display table at the next manga convention.
It really is obvious. The only people who don't think it is, are HIS friends primarily (who are also difficult child 1's friends) who don't want to admit they did not show her enough support when the break-up happened; it's easier to still behave as if there is no big deal over anything.
Still not sure what to do.
The boy has talent. He could sell this work here and overseas in Japan (his ambition is to go there and work as a cartoonist).
My friend who I go to for legal advice is currently out of the country, right when I really need to talk to her. Still, nothing is going to happen very fast. And thankfully, the boy lives interstate. I just wish he'd get a life and find a totally new girl to immortalise - or preferably, be better at making something up and not try cartooning from life.
What to do?
Marg
Since then, husband has been surfing the 'Net and found a link to some COLOUR sketches he's done. And now there's no mistake - the eye colour, the hair colour - it's easy child 2/difficult child 2. For those who may not know her as well, you could ague the resemblance is coincidence, but we are her family - we know the shape of her head, the curves of her figure, her specific dimensions. And to see a colour illustration which you recognise as your daughter (complete to clothes of her own design which I could go and fetch from her wardrobe) - it's creepy. And when one of those sketches shows the girl half-naked wearing a chastity belt (with nothing under the chastity belt) - it REALLY creeps me out.
NO way are we showing her, or BF1 (fiancé).
I'm not sure what to do about this. I could get in touch with him and ask him to cease and desist but he clearly has invested a lot in this character, his first comic book is clearly the first in a series. Plus, he's a real drama queen (and in my opinion, still carrying a BIG torch for easy child 2/difficult child 2) and ANY reaction from our family is likely to give him satisfaction.
But on the other hand, I don't want her first encounter with her won image as a cartoon porn star, to be seeing it on the display table at the next manga convention.
It really is obvious. The only people who don't think it is, are HIS friends primarily (who are also difficult child 1's friends) who don't want to admit they did not show her enough support when the break-up happened; it's easier to still behave as if there is no big deal over anything.
Still not sure what to do.
The boy has talent. He could sell this work here and overseas in Japan (his ambition is to go there and work as a cartoonist).
My friend who I go to for legal advice is currently out of the country, right when I really need to talk to her. Still, nothing is going to happen very fast. And thankfully, the boy lives interstate. I just wish he'd get a life and find a totally new girl to immortalise - or preferably, be better at making something up and not try cartooning from life.
What to do?
Marg