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(The FAQ will be updated over time)
-General Comic Questions-
Q: What is Penpals?
A: Penpals is a highschool au for my two favorite OCs, Saturn Lonli and Graham Berry. It starts set in early summer of 2008. It was based off the idea of Saturn and Graham meeting in their teens due to a chance encounter, and becoming friends after that.
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Q: Why is the AU called Penpals?
A: Because its about Saturn and Grahams long distance friendship and eventual relationship, and how the main way they talk to eachother often is via online chat clients or email, making them like pen pals, but like. digitally.
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Q: What genre would you call the comic?
A: I didn't really have one in mind when I started, but it's been called a teen drama before, and looking at everything that happens, I'd say that does fit. It's usually more lighthearted than one though...most of the time.
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Q: How many arcs are planned?
A: Arcs cant really be planned out like story chapters can, but I have set ideas for the plots of the first 7 arcs currently, and a few more that I have concepts for.
-World Questions-
Q: What is the name of the planet the story is set on?
A: Terrafurma
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Q: Is the old saturation lore still a thing?
A: In a way, yes. If the person who was truamatized was also a magic user, or a naturally magic species, like a dragon or demon, they can saturate and desaturate due to it being emotion-based magic. It is very rare, since it only effects people with strong magic or people who are often around strong magic. Other people can see the change, but because its so uncommon to happen, most people won't know what it means.
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Q: Why do the characters still have punny names?
A: I wanted to keep it, I thought it was fun. There is no big reason for it, in-universe pun names are considered more traditional, but names that aren't puns also exist, they are just not common.
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Q: What is the main species of animal people called? And what do they have as their version of animals/pets?
A: The animal people are called anthromals, anthros for short, and they evolved from animals. The creatures they keep as pets are called miximals, due to them looking like mixes of already existing animals. Not all non-anthro creatures are miximals though, mostly just the domestic ones.
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Q: What kinds of magic anthromals are there?
A: Theres a lot, so I might be missing some, but currently there are: demons, dragons, vampires, slimes (shapeshifters), griffins, pheonixs, mind readers/ESPers, and, after an anthromal dies, ghosts.
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Q: Does homophobia/transphobia and the like exist?
A: It's complicated. Generally they don't exist, but a lot of people still have heteronormative and allonormative views. Objectum people are also seen generally by society as being weird and not taken seriously, like in real life. Objectum people can/will still be given eggs, however, if they want them.
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Q: Where do eggs come from?
A: The Eggster Bunny.
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Q: Who is the Eggster Bunny???
A: The Eggster Bunny (any pronouns) is a rabbit anthromal that learned strong life-based magic after anthromals stopped being able to reproduce 20,000 years ago. He makes and gives out eggs to people who want kids. She used to be able to check if the person getting the egg would be a good parent, but with how many anthros are in the world now, he doesn't have the time anymore and usually just guesses. Because of this, there are a lot of people who get eggs they didn't actually want, or people getting eggs when they shouldn't be parents.
-Character Questions-
Q: Are any of the characters neurodivergent?
A: Saturn, Graham, and Bugsy are all autistic. Saturn also has depression, which will be touched on more later, and Graham has anxiety.
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Q: Are there any queer characters?
A: Most characters are, I'll be making a seprerate post listing all the characters later.
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Q: What other kinds of characters will we meet other than Saturn and Graham?
A: A lot of the other characters here are either Saturn or Graham's classmates from school, or people they meet through chance encounters who they end up becoming friends with. You'll get to see Saturn's school friends, as well as Graham's.
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Q: What's Bugsy's last name? Why doesn't he have one listed?
A: That will be answered later.
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Q: Is Saturn's past with Forge canon here?
A: Unfortunately, yes.
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Q: For any new readers that don't know about Saturn, what IS his past with Forge?
A: Forge was Saturns boyfriend during his freshman year. When Saturn felt like his other friends were abandoning him, Forge swooped in and convinced Saturn that he was the only person that cared about him. Saturn believed him for a while, despite how horribly he was treated. Eventually Saturn told his sister, Lily, about what was going on, and she stepped in to help.
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