Thank-you very much for your reviews. ^^ I should get to drawing Erik seriously more often. He's fun. XD
Well, in case there are people in this guild who don't know about the author of my signature, perhaps I can give a bit of a portrait-history thing.
[longrant] Joseph Carey Merrick was born in Leicester in 1862, and began showing severe deformities by fibrous tumours by the age of two, which rapidly grew and eventually covered over 90% of his body. From the time Merrick was twelve to about eighteen, he took up work as a freakshow oddity, commonly known by his stage name as "The Elephant Man." Later in life, after having been abandoned by his "owner" in Belgium, the London Hospital took him in under the orders of Sir Frederick Treves, a popular surgeon at the time. Until his death in April 1890, Merrick was known to write beautiful poetry and prose, most of which were lost during the bombing of the hospital's records during World War II. [/longrant]
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