A few months ago I was thinking about joining a pokemon mystery dungeon related group on deviantart. I guess the ones, who're into pokemon and know the art of also get an idea which group I'm speaking about.
Well.. I didn't submit anything, even though I really REALLY liked the ideas I come up with for the application. This Archen is one of two pokemon I wanted to be in the game: Archeru, the ancient Samurai. He's the protector of Lady Yukiwa, a Snorunt, who's the princess of a far away land in the east. Archeru escorts Lady Yukiwa on their journey to the kingdom of the north, where the princess is supposed to be married with the prince of the northern land. She's not very happy about her fate, but tries to accept it 'cause she knows how important it is to strengthen the connection between both kingdoms. Archeru on the opposit side can't understand the princess' behaviour and tries to assure her to be happy about being able to make such a big step to protect her kingdom. Therefore he doesn't recognize the real reason behind her stance to the marriage and that he's much more than a guardian to her...
HAPPY END?!
Haha, sorry for babbling, but I thought it could be interesting for you to know a bit more about the background story of Archeru and Yukiwa, who'll never ever join the PMD group ('cause of lazyness *drop* |'DDDD)...
Don't know if a picture of Yukiwa will follow this one.
Great colouring