[ID: Digital portrait painting of Mani, a transman with a anthro cinereous vulture head. He is wearing a black trenchcoat and has a solemn expression as he looks the viewer. The background is a dark purple with a light blue light source from the top left, illuminating the back of Mani's head but shrouding his face in a lot of shadow. End ID.]

First uploaded 16/05/24

I may as well start with posting all my Mani art. This isn't the first art I've done of him, but I think it's a good introduction to him here.

Mani is a Iranian trans man in his 40s with a quiet and thoughtful disposition. He has a affinity for taking short walks around the decaying city he lives in, tending to stick with quieter lanes and roads than anywhere bustling with activity. However, Mani mostly lives indoors and in isolation with a tendency to spend weeks or even months in his home, especially if he encountered something frightening outdoors.

Mani has many difficulties putting himself in any social situation, not only from severe social anxiety, but also from a tendency to imagine the worst happening to him or others. Strangers to Mani are like ghosts, people he sees coming and going without any indication he'd meet them again. Friends and loved ones he sees as those with more flesh, but with a risk of 'rotting' and all the dangers meat can have or face. Due to this paranoia over possibly seeing people he knows and loves rot and die, Mani doesn't form many close attachments so he doesn't have to face the inevitable grief.

He is characterised for his cinereous vulture head, but it isn't a literal trait. Anyone he interacts with will just treat Mani as a fellow human being, though Mani's tendencies to dwell on death and decay often have him compared to vultures by those who know him.