An Old Idea: Blue Hood and Gray Hood

I'll be upfront and tell you that I never got far with these ideas. These were entertainment I created while listening to Spanish class which might explain the mediocre grades I received. The first character was a faceless man I called Blue Hood. I can't remember what I was watching or reading at that time so I can't trace the source. Hidden behind a blue hood was a man who used weapons for...something. The plot's details have long been lost in the dust in my brain's file cabinets. I still have the old drawings of the character but all I drew was his hood and mentioned that he was muscular. Muscular and overbuilt like one of those professional body builders set to the extreme. It's strange where my mind goes when it wanders off into unknown lands. I can't even remember what his purpose was supposed to be or why he fought. That was one of those things that never came up in my imagination. It's probably why I thought it would be a good idea to let others work on the design rather than go places my brain didn't want to venture. The second character was Gray Hood who had the same faceless personality but had no hands. Instead he used guns that would attatch to his limbs through these locks I called "teeth." All the weapons came from these smears on the chalkboard. My spanish teacher would write words for us to memorize and then erase them. This created a smear that kind of looked like a Megaman blaster, only several times bigger. I remember my favorite one was this gun that launched a canister of propane with a loop. The design made no sense to me. Gray Hood was the opposite of Blue Hood in that he was scrawny and thin. Looking back I should have combined the two ideas because there was no chance that Gray Hood could carry all these heavy weapons let alone put them on his arm. Because the teacher always wrote over the smears, I had to quickly jot down the images the picture conjured in my mind, usually at the expence of falling behind in my vocabulary. But these markings were important...to a middle schooler who was bored. I think I still have some of the drawings in a notebook somewhere. I've found a few and now I think they are goofy abominations that have no rhyme or reason. The principal design behind guns in video games is that their form tells you what they do. If they look like they have a canister on them, they probably shoot fire or acid. The same applies to snipers and shotguns and other categories. My guns had none of these attributes. It's funny how what you think is cool as a kid becomes grotesque once you grow up.