Well, I didn't win the contest, but I don't feel bad. Seems that everything in it that won was anime. And take a wild guess who doesn't like or draw anime.

This is Teal Harper. He lives in a future where the
color has begun to fade like a photograph left out in the sun. When he was younger, what did he care? He couldn't see the color anyways. He was born colorblind.
His father was an artist and color was his world, so they didn't get along. Then, when his mother died, he had nothing but a monochromatic world.
A tragic accident a year later almost kills him, but when he wakes up, the sounds he hears turn into color right before his eyes. He finally sees what his father saw so beautiful.
The guitar was a gift from his father before he died as well, but despite the deaths of his parents, Teal didn't hate the world anymore.
With his new gift for music, he paints his own world with color, but sees the need in others to stop the fading. So he starts painting graffiti murals. Along with the rest of the Chromatica Underground, he introduces the world to color.

Quote: "What's all the color without a little black and white?"

In short:
Name: Teal Harper
Age: 19
likes: color, all sorts of music
dislikes: fighting, silence
style: whatever he can get his hands on
He is a pacifist who tries to get along with everyone and make everyone get along with each other, sadly (and ironically) people have wanted to fight him for this.

This is for *clayscence's contest @ [link]

Teal Harper and The Chromatica Underground © bekkia 2008, steal them and i shall consume your ovaries

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