Theme Piece 3

The next character for my theme, "Developing original novel characters through portraiture and diction" (I think my wording changes every time because I always forget what it is).

This is Ulysses Smith, and he's the third of the four "protagonists" of Letters from a Thief. In this novel I'm trying to create very deep characters with dynamic personalities, altering mindsets and motives, and an overall sense of complexity.

Ulysses is not one of those characters. He's a buff dude with a cybernetic arm that loves 'Murica. That doesn't really change. He's comic relief in a way. But the other comrades he's gotten to know understand that they can't live without him. Or so they keep telling themselves.

Anyway, obviously it's unfinished. I still need to put up some 'Murica related quote and layer up some areas (read: everything ever). I added a black outline to basically everything to sorta make the style of this one seem more like a comic book character, and that's basically what Ulysses is.

Questions are...
1) Was the black outline a good idea?
2) Should I add more dark values? If so tell me where.

Well, have at it. And maybe while I search through the parts of the novel I've written already with his lines, you guys could think of something goofy and 'Murican for the quote to be if I don't find anything.

EDIT: I actually did find something for the quote in the chapters I've already written. I edited it a little to make it flow a bit...and omit the vulgar language.

"Do you know what this flag means? It belonged to the greatest country on this planet! It represents liberty, life, and happiness to everyone who lives on the soil it flies over! It belonged to AMERICA!"