About two months ago or so, I went through a rather awful and traumatic separation from my girlfriend, and needless to say I had a very hard time with it. During that time, I became very familiar with the 5 stages of grief, and after a while I decided I might draw the 5 stages represented by some of my characters, as a way to take my mind of everything.

During that time, I thought about my characters a lot, and thought about how they would react to the situation and what it would be like to talk to them and whatnot. It was very comforting to be able to retreat back into my own world for a while and forget about real events.

Phylla as Denial
Valentine as Bargaining
Grace as Anger
Naomi as Depression
Fubuki as Acceptance

Im doing a lot better nowadays, for a lot of reasons. Nothing is resolved, but my mind is distracted and this picture has helped a lot. It was nice being able to wake up and look forward to drawing something new.

[This is a reupload from DA, this is about a year old as of uploading]