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My favorite character has always been G2.
In BotP, I identified with Jason's being misconstrued as the hothead; common words from my parents were, control your temper, engage brain before mouth, and, it's not what you say but how you say it.
It made me feel better to see that you could have a bad label and still be a good person.

Almost twenty years later, I found Gatch, and an older G2, Joe. I'd mangled my vision of Jason's character over the years through overidentification. Joe's character gave me a fresh perspective to work from for an older and more mature me.
He was more opinionated, stubborn, his heart wasn't always in the right place, sometimes he needed reminders, but he did what he had to for his beliefs.
In adulthood, I could really identify with the deeper feelings of triumph and loss, and living with your mistakes, that come with living as best as you know how.

I love all the characters, but the one for whom my perception changed most is G5.
Tiny was everything I hated about myself; fat, sleepy, and left behind. Though I knew he was a good guy at heart, I could never like him much for those reasons.
That's since changed. There is so much more to the G5 character than first impression offers and he now holds a warm place in character studies and fanfic.

Fan art is from Gatchaman series. Some are just sketches, but the computer art is drawn from my thoughts on the fanfic, Darkest Days. I doubt there will ever be a G4 because true cartooning isn't something I can do, but there is always hope, as I would like to complete the series in both writing and artwork.