Reban - Crystal Archetype

REBAN'S ARCHETYPE

While building a character, we need to think about every aspect possible this with the main purpose to understand him/her better and be able to show and develop a more accurate personality.
Reban, being the main character, would fit into the description of Hero due to his unusual circumstances of birth and the series of traumatic events that will lead him into his quest (and not to mention his supernatural ability), but in some way he's also got a similarity to the Child archetype due to his age and the way he reacts thanks to his horrible past. Also he will have to act mature and take responsible decisions after escaping the laboratory.

I wasn't sure which style to go for, but at then I went for the one I feel more comfortable at the moment (just not to make things more complicated...I mean, come on! drawing crystals itself is complicated!). But I'm definitely trying new styles for future projects.

With the help of a character sheet I manage to get this for Reban:

Physical Description:
12 year old // blond-brunette (just the inferior back of his hair) // 151cm height // mid-tanned skin // eyes amber // crystals always popping out his forget, neck and part of his back // crystal colour is normally turquoise but changes with emotions // sharp teeth // basically the only wears a short overall and rarely any tops, due to his constant change of shapes (crystals)
Character Traits:
He doesn't know much about his past...ever since he has memory he’s been changing from hand to hand like an animal. He’s been spending his past few years in containers and only been able to establish contact with a few scientist. Right now, he’s being studied to make use of his crystals as an alternative fuel for new machinery, that is planed to be used in war.
Character Background:
-Family Background: Unknown
Story based on early 1800’s with a steampunk-like environment in which some countries are about to start a war.
-Habits/Vices: Very curious about everything, and even though he’s language skills are not very good, he’s always asking questions.
-Education: None. He learned basic language by scientist and previous owners.
-Personality: Curious and scared of people.
-Likes: Anything new. Food. Natural landscapes
-Dislikes: Needles, medicines and vegetables.
Motivation
-What is his goal?: After he’s realised by the daughter of a scientist he run off with her. His new goal is trying to merge into society, learn about his past and try to find a future.
-His plan to achieve goal: With the help of just a few people he´s trying to escape from being used as a tool for war.

People have been asking me if he's an elf or an imp, but I never got to think about it in a deep way. My original plan was him to be a human (with deform ears) and the only difference with the society would be his skin colour, but that only because he's in a european-like society where most people have white skin, but this doesn't mean that in that world, in other countries, there isn't any others like him.

As for the design, like I said in the previous post, the crystals change in shape and colour, and later on, he will be able to control them by controlling his emotions.

This are some of the crystals' shape according to the last post that I did, just picture the colour on them :)

For the colour scheme I didn't do many variations, since i knew I wanted a good opposite-like look of a classic european person, so the skin had to be tanned, and for contrast I went with blond hair and amber eyes.