...and it brought back memories. There is a nice story behind it (as you would have known if you understood the Vietnamese the artist wrote).
I used to play an MMORPG and made friends from there, among which were guys A, B, and C. Guy A was majoring in journalism (should have graduated by now) and wrote an article about mythologies in MMORPGs. For this he interviewed a bunch of gamers, among which were guys B, C and me. Seeing that we shared the same opinions, guy A decided to make a website dedicated to mythologies as manifested in different MMORPGs and recruited us to the team. I never interacted much with guy B. Guy C was an architecture major (should also have graduated by now) and had done a lot of drawing and CG. Known by the screen name of "flute", he drew this picture to represent us four, the would-be founder of the website, thus The Fantastic Four.
The figures are modeled after the elements and mythical creatures. Guy B is Fire, the Devil (top left), who also has those curly horns due to his screen name's reference to ifrits. Guy A is Air, the Harpie (top right) and he looks just like that in real life. Guy C is Earth, the Reaper (bottom left). I don't think either he or the painting has any resemblance to the Reaper, but I guess the element of Earth does fit his personality. Last is Water, the Mermaid (bottom right) -- me.
We kind of just abandoned the project halfway, but this picture still makes me smile every time I see it.
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