I'm just here to put in a plug for descriptive or at least relevent post titles. The trend towards pretentious/noninformative wordvomit is making the forum annoying and less navigable. Im not looking to start an argument, only saying this once...I just thought it needed to be.
I agree. Misplaced wackiness.
And isn't this odd - Madhatter and 1up (1up was there first of course) have nearly the same pixel style
and wacky forum posting style. Separated at birth? If you guys exchanged pics you may find you're identical twins. Or is Madhatter 1up's bipolar account?
As for the sprite, it's simple, just make him a limbless, hairless, faceless war veteran. In doing so you'll solve all difficult limb drawing problems, you'll establish interesting character background and even have an obvious choice as to what his overall attitude is like, which you can use to keep his interactions with other characters consistent.