The name Zeero Huy was derived directly from the Gundam Wing pilot’s name Heero Yuy. This is probably my earliest digital artwork I have any record of.
Zeero Huy is an improved Version of the Root. He is also somehow a reincarnate, having all the Root’s memories, and strangely, Version 2’s as well. It is said that Version 2 was his past life.
Being a reincarnate, he was able to stop himself (Version 1.2) from committing the same mistake as he himself (Version 1) did in the past. Having become two different persons, they now lived separate and different lives.
Zeero Huy, The Rockstar
Unlike Zero (Version 1), he is not a normal person. He has the ability to control the element of fire, in its hottest form, as long as the fire is touching him.
Zeero Huy is a 19-year old boy who, just like the Root, wears his hair the same way, except this time, he wears a bandana around his head. He wears jacket (in which sometimes he folds it all the way up to his biceps) and pants that have the symbol of Version 2 printed on them: the blue fire. He wears spiked bracelets on his wrists and a barbed wire necklace around, of course, his neck.
He is the main protagonist in the sequels to the story Siopao, which basically describes his life after. He is searching for an answer as to why he was reborn; probably there is a deeper meaning that he was given another chance. In the sequels (starting with Belgium), he meets a lot of new characters, based on real people I have encountered in my life.
Other concept art
Zeero Huy in “Zirostilo”
March 23, 2006
Zirostilo is the name for the style I came up with for drawing my characters.
Oreez
March 23, 2006
Oreez is the evil version of Zeero. I can’t quite remember his origin story or what his deal is with the overall plot though!
Other appearances
He also appears (briefly) in the indie comic collaboration with KC Salvador, entitled Siopao:Bun.