The consolation prize for ! He got a sketch for being the second to capture my 100,000th pageview. Yeah, it's not a perfect system, is it?

Anyway, funny story: even though I never met darkstripes before, I was actually familiar with his character. Back in '99 when I was new to the scene and starved for Pokémorph artwork, I stumbled across artwork of Fault. Fault was a direct inspiration for a character of mine at the time (for crossover fanfiction, don't ask) who was also a Sandslash morph who did not wear a shirt, named Trent. (In that canon, Trent was the father of my very first iteration of Jenna) Small world, I guess!