Lmao looking back at old content, everything looks like i copied it out of arcane what, not to mention how i made it look like player x blank is canon in my main au what š
Anyway here's random facts about cs-blank-au i think i can share, idk i don't rlly like sharing unfinished work back then so i was a massive gatekeeper. not cuz i think ppl are gonna steal or anything but i wanted to be able to post the content chronologically :p
Random Facts about CS-BLANK-AU (from the perspective of someone looking back at old posted content w the long lines of lore i had initially planned still printed in the back of my mind)
Planning to rework a lot of things anyway but this is based off what i've posted.
- Player x Blank isn't canon. Idk maybe at first i did plan it to be canon when i had a crush on Player when i was 14 years old, but ig as time went on i didn't really see them match in terms of lore, Player dating a murderer wtf. I do see them getting closer post-timeskip or post-csbau-return of vile. I didn't really actually plan on implementing the ship posts :/
Also it kinda stopped being fun for me to look at as an adult now considering Blank used to be a self-insert. It felt more predatory looking at them acting like a couple despite both of them having just a 1 year gap. Maybe post-timeskip or something like that but i don't really see it happening
- I still don't know where to draw the line between Blank being an OC or a Self-Insert. Like there are many aspects of Blank that just don't align with my irl sense of character. Sometimes i like to think of it as like "This would be me if i were put in this situation" but honestly it was just me projecting the inner feelings of 14-16 year old me. It feels wrong to just call him an OC but it also feels wrong to call him a Self-Insert. I mean it's an AU anyway (someone pls help me find the right term)
- A lot of the old content was just me projecting about my relationship with people in my personal life. If i recall, it was mostly Carmen, Black Sheep, and Shadowsan that i projected personal relationships towards. Not really like copy paste from irl to au, but rather snippets of my life in my writing. With a clearer mind and a better perspective of things happening in my life, i can say that i REALLY gotta rework a lot of this šš
- Blank's main inspiration was Catra from SPOP, and S1 Jinx was more of a Raven's view era Inspiration (aka Crow/Young Mob asset Blank). I think it was most obvious when i posted post-timeskip Faculty Blank, but it genuinely looks like i copied off of Commander Caitlyn Kiramman when i had this drafted before Arcane s2 even came out š. I kin all 3 characters anyway but the way i portray Blank felt more like a Frankenstein of characters i kin rather than how 14-16 year old me would act. Idk i just wrote whatever made me happy with my work :] It's not like it's gonna kill anyone anyway.
Also, Jinx being a voice claim was just because i couldn't find anything that sounded "just right" to me š Not even Jinx's voice sounded right when i tried to pitch it down. I was looking for a deeper androgynous/feminine voice without it sounding like a "dom fem fatale" or a dark edgelord.
If i had the knowledge i have today and had the choice to choose Blank's Voice claim, i would choose maybe Zooble from TADC? The accuracy is a 5/10 tho, this ain't rlly set in stone
- I changed Carmen's character design in the timeskip of my au. I feel like Carmen would try to be more practical the more experienced she became with field work. I just changed the coat design, her hair style, and made her more lean in a Lara Croft way. Her personality changed a little as well. I made her more of a lady with intense repressed anger than someone who lashes out at a major inconvenience. because who wouldn't be pissed tf off knowing an organization had you controlled to do their bidding for half a year? Idk i feel like mid 20's Carmen would act like that
- Blank is always portrayed similar to how the Golden guard of TOH was. Ofc i always posted my main oc so edgy, bcuz whoever was viewing it was seeing it in a first/third person perspective. Looking back at it, yeah it was cringe but i was happy
- Zari became less obedient of specific orders due to it getting less progress for ACME and it always came at a cost. Gain 5, lose 10 type of situation.
- Shadowsan felt like he had some sense of ease when he came into terms with Blank. Not really in a way that makes him drop his guard (the man wouldn't fully.) But rather it felt less like being burdened by mistakes because they finally mutually acknowledged the facts of what had happened.
- Blank and Paper star are basically Black sheep and Tigress part 2. all 4 have some spectrum of hate against each other anyway
- Crackle plays a bigger part in the post-timeskip because what the fuck was he doing in earlier seasons other than being a plot progress guy.
Eh this is just what i could think of from the back of my head. Csbau content is mostly just portfolio filler anyway
