Viking Jackson

Viking Jackson (Born on August 20th, 2005), is a visual artist, writer, and the friend of William Hutchins. He is best known for his illustrations, but he also has written several stories and is a co-creator for the WHCU.
== History Online ==
While posting art is what he mainly does nowadays, it is not what Viking started off doing. Sometime in 2015-2016, Viking would make his first online appearance as “Plushtrap Gaming”, a YouTube channel based on the character Plushtrap from the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game series. While the channel name promised that there would be gameplays at least, no videos were ever uploaded to the channel. However, on February 19th, 2017, Viking would make a new channel and would actually upload a video that same day titled “Attack of the Onion Rings”, which was a horror themed iMovie trailer, of which Viking would go on to make several more videos of that style. He also made skits, short vlog styled videos, videos showing off his Goosebumps collection, and plush videos, most notably featuring the characters of Sealord, Woody, Smiley Balloon, Ender, Creeps, Ender’s Little Brother, and Hawaiian Woody.
Prior to the creation of his main YouTube channel, Viking had created a short comic titled “Portals” in 2016. It was based off of an artwork that he made not too long before of two children being chased by a monster in the woods, and escaping from it by jumping into a portal. He would then later that year make a sequel titled “Portals 2: Video Games”, which improved the visual style of the comic and also more heavily featured video game and internet aspects, of which were already present in the first comic to a lesser extent. This comic would go unfinished. In 2017, Viking would redraw the first comic to match the visual style of his last project, and unlike the previous two comics that had not been shared publicly at that point, Viking would upload a video showing off the entire comic on June 1st, 2017.
On the YouTube side of things, Viking’s activity would continue as it was up until 2018, where the output of videos would drop a considerable amount, partly due to Viking running out of storage on his iPod, of which he filmed all of videos with. However on November 19th, 2018, Viking would create his DeviantArt account (VionRejeckOnom), and would begin posting all of his art there. His first three posts were related to YouTube, those being his current avatar at the time, and the thumbnails for William’s Five Nights in Anime 3 gameplays; playthroughs of a Five Nights at Freddy’s fangame. By 2019 he had solidified himself as a member of the community; posting there frequently and making connections with several other creators. While he had already posted a few other related pieces, Viking would upload all 7 pages of the 2017 redraw of Portals, starting on September 13th, and ending on September 27th, as a way to promote the upcoming remake of his comic that he was planning at the time. Nothing would come of this supposed remake until December 31st, 2019, when Viking would post the first page of the remake, simply titled “Portals”, as a way to celebrate New Year’s, which was less then an hour away at that point. While having the same name as the original comic, it was indeed a new story, as the protagonists Bob and Larry would have a more proper introduction, and the comic was broken down into chapters, a thing Viking had previously experimented with in early 2018 when he was working on his second attempt at a Portals sequel, simply titled “Portals 2”, which had nothing to do with the previous scrapped sequel. Nothing new would come of this remake until April 1st, 2020, when a fake version of page 2 was posted for April Fools. Despite the seeming promise of more pages, the comic would be silently cancelled, and nothing new would come out until December 31st, 2020, when Viking would drop a character sheet of 5 characters in the new upcoming comic; those being Larry, Bob, Mom, Scatty, and Satan. That same day, an artwork was posted that revealed the name of the new comic, “Portals: The Arrival”. On April 4th of 2021, the first page of this new comic would be posted. It was a near carbon copy of the 2019 comic’s first page, but the visual style was greatly improved, and 5 more pages would release from April 14th to July 9th, before this comic was too cancelled. This time it was stated over on Viking’s Portals Instagram Account (Portals_Comic_Official) that it had been cancelled due to things not being properly planned out beforehand which led to the comic suffering as a result. He wasn’t happy with this and so he decided that he was going to restart the comic one more time, and on October 15th, 2022, the cover art for the comic would be released, showing that the comic was keeping the name of the 2021 comic, and with the promise of new pages that same month. That didn’t happen though, although the pages would finally start to release on November 16th, and would continue to release all the way up till now, as the comic’s first chapter is still worked on.
== Involvement with the WHCU ==