and yeah I understand where you all are coming from it's not like I'm out to try to get the same recognition that indigo does(lol I'm quite a bit far from that) I just liked his style for this particular peice and was just doing it for a bit of fun as something different than what I'm used to pixeling.

the problem is that your not imitating the style but the piece itself. you only changed the hair, eyecolor and mirrored the expression. why don't you go ahaid and change the pose like some here told you? the pose is not part of the style, and by doing so you would protect yourself from the heavy referencing you did until now, which won't really help you gaining new skills..

I am not sure about the colours of the edges, this depends on the surroundings of this thing, but the middle looks awesome.
Some nitpicking:

I actually like the darker version much better. It is no readability-issues at all and creates a nice cave-atmosphere the rest while the brighter version seems to work a bit against the atmosphere.
Ah I would love to play this game fullscreen right now
Only thing I might crit is the use of cyan in the green crystals. It looks nice but makes the hues of the blue and green crystals even nearer which might make it a bit problematic in gameplay,and look a bit inconsistend considering the much greater difference between the other items.

I really don't get why one would add a gradient to an edit.

@Dokzai: Your palette needs more contrast. The two brightest skintones are in my opinion too close to each other. That's also a reason why your AA looks so jaggy, because its gamma is so low. Also I don't think the hue-shift to a blue-ish brightest tone works, as normally one would hue shift to a warmer brightest tone, since in most natural situations the light source isn't neutral white or even colder than neutral white, but warmer.