Fade Away

∙ Horror | Mystery | Slice Of Life ∙ "What happens when the whole world wants you to fade away?" There is something strange happening at the small town of Evanesce Haven. After a kid that has never been seen before appears at Littlewood Foster one day claiming she's always been around, Kana is set on figuring out how and why.

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#facomic: All of the pages for the comic so far, each page has an extra tag for organisation purposes (Examples: #prologue, #arc1 #ch1)

#reference: Character references

#FAtalk: Me generally talking about anything fade away related.

#FAlore: Information explaining the lore specifically, like worldbuilding, family relations, etc.

#FAart: For any art related to the comic

#ask: To track all the asks answered so far.

#fanart: drawings other people have made for the comic.

I also tend to tag posts with the names of the characters in it so they are easier to find.

There is another artist that helps with the comic.

Trailing-Feathers: Does the characters' flat colors. You can find them at Twitter / Instagram / Their Portfolio

Complete masterpost of Arcs and Chapters, underneath Keep Reading link

ARC 0

Prologue - Spider In The Stairwell

ARC 1

Chapter 1 - Stranger

Chapter 2 - Evanesce Haven

Chapter 3 - Devil's In The Details

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[Arc 1 Chapter 3 - Page 179] - "Devil's In The Details"

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We're dragging Noriel into it for moral support.

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[Arc 1 Chapter 3 - Page 178] - "Devil's In The Details"

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VERY OLD Noriel and Leo animatic! (made all in exactly 1 day.)

Nowadays I would conceptualize a Noriel and Leo animation Very differently, but there's nothing about this one I would consider "innacurate" (except maybe Chad being short af lol that guys masive)

To this day whenever I listen to Waving Through a Window I still get emotional over Noriel my beloved and that one blond guy that I hate. So I need it on the FA tumblr so everyone else can know about it too.

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Shadows info sheets (so far!)

Hello hi I have some fun stuff I rediscovered today! I made these small comprehensive sheets of the shadows we've seen so far and I thought the notes were fun! There will be more shadows to come. Maybe even sooner than you realize.

We haven't seen The Hoard's bug forms yet, it will take a bit to get there. I will absolutely do more of these the more shadows get revealed! But they have to be properly revealed. If they just have been hinted at, it doesn't count.

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[Arc 1 Chapter 3 - Page 177] - "Devil's In The Details"

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I've had this character hidden and kept to myself for one william years so posting this feels really weird!! We're entering a scene I've been looking forward to since the comic started, too. Kinda scary but it'll be fun I hope.

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[Arc 1 Chapter 3 - Page 176] - "Devil's In The Details"

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She used to be such a mama's girl. And now...

[tvstaticsolo]

Hi, Mom.

The one at the middle right is my personal fav <3

Characters belong to @crystalcanis

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Kana's messed up mom!!! Holy heck, I love seeing people draw Kana's mom with the weird fucked up visuals and context clues we have so far, it's like seeing my writing for her work in real time!

The middle right one is indeed very good! I love the face posing on it with the sparks. The one with her face covered with a piece of paper is very dynamic and imaginative, and I adore the one where shes just HUGE holding a little Kana up.

The bottom one just hurtsss augghhh my poor baby girl... she deserves to get real mad about it tbh. Thank you sm for the sketch page, I love it sm!

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What inspired you to create Fade Away?

Mainly the mechanisms of my twisted mind.

But I also have this!

All of these have something in common and I'm going to need you to not think about it too hard ok. /silly

Specially Night In The Woods and Omori are the biggest influences to the story. If you have ever played or seen NITW you will realize how unoriginal I am soon enough KBSDVBD. (I say this sorta as a joke, I have dug very very very deep into what the final/main message of FA is and Ive made sure that it has something new to say.) Also knowing of NITW and Omori makes it so obvious why FA is Paced Like That. So much meandering of characters talking and sharing experiences to explore themes, it lets you take in moments slow and sit with feelings… until the story suddenly hits you with the thing connecting it all together. These two stories have influenced FadeAway in every aspect of it. From the merging of the fantastical with reality, to the exploration of mental health, character led story, and more.

I wont get too deep into why Life is Strange, Over The Garden Wall and Firewatch, but besides the Other Things, they all contain what I affectionately call The Vibes. You will also notice they are all orange. /silly

And then the Black Phone movie because uuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dont worry about it!

Here are some comparisons!

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Subconsciously calling Kana's mom "Slendermom" until we get a name for her

-the guy who said she had Slenderman proportions

HAH I like slendermom, very fitting for her.

She wont get a name for a very very very long time (she does have one, thou!) So I love to see the different names people attribute to her in the meantime.

I've personally been calling her The Woman Of A Thousand Sorrows based on a silly drawing a friend made of a theory of theirs. So many nickname possibilities!

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this girl has been through ENOUGH can she be joyous and happy please @fadeaway-comic

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OOH!! OOOHHH!!! MY KANA FADEAWAY!! You drew her soooo cute oh my goodness, I love her little blushie face and her pose holding/brushing her hair. It makes her look so cutieful and bashful <3

She looks so adorable in your style, Bren, thank you so much for drawing her for me!! I will cherish it forever. Ur so right she need to be saved from her not so good very bad week.

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(TW self harm next weeks page!!) Awww, she loves it <3

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Do you have any fun/interesting anecdotes about life in Latin America that you've represented in your OCs/Stories?

This was a very fun question! I had to take some time to think about this, and there's probably still a lot of things escaping my mind.

My favorite ones that I ALWAYS like to bring up to friends to shock them is how we like to set effigies on fire out on the streets (for new years), called monigotes/años viejos and that our garbage trucks have silly music like ice cream trucks do in the USA. (You can hear the song if you click here. It's been the same song since I was itty bitty.)

Kana will mention the burning of effigies on chapter 4! But there's no mention of the garbage truck music on the comic so far. Kana didn't live on LATAM long enough to have those as a memory. But maybe somene else will mention it.

There's also a lot of flooding that happens every rain season here and there was this one time I just? Saw a guy surfing on it? Like, tied a rope to a post and let the flooding waves make him "surf" in place. Really fucking funny. I bring this one up because Evanesce Haven does flood in rain season and I do have characters (Max and Ash, who haven't shown up on in the comic yet) do a lot of similar stuff playing in the rain and messing around with floods that reminds me of stuff I've seen and done myself in my city.

I think the town on FadeAway conceptually is very LATAM inspired despite being in the USA, even thou it wasn't on purpose. Because I tend to write the world as I experience it and well I live here dfbvd. Like, Evanesce Haven being situated somewhere at the base/start of a mountain so it causes the town be covered by mist sometimes. There's a lot of places where I live that do this and La Sierra(mountains) in my country is important to me and so so beautiful, so I made a town like that out of instinct without thinking if that fit anywhere in the USA (it does thankfully LOL)

There's this river area in the woods of Evanesce Haven where the river's water overflows and has a toooon of little rocks everywhere that Noriel and Kana like to pick up and find little trinkets on. Because I couldn't imagine my characters not doing what I do when I go to the beach/La Costa :'D

Then the fact that The Marketplace is a very prevalent area in Evanesce Haven and the reocurring in the comic as a whole until it's very end… because I've spent my life surrounded by market places like El Mercado de Otavalo and other similar ones my entire life.

LATAM has dug a hole and made it's home right at this comic's heart!

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[Arc 1 Chapter 3 - Page 174] - "Devil's In The Details"

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Kana Torment Nexus

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Added some more characters today…I need to read more comics because I want to add more characters

I added Kana and Noriel from @fadeaway-comic and I’m sad they didn’t have a low ponytail for Kana’s hair!! Noriel is missing a scar because the face paint wouldn’t have worked

Laika and Mars from @laikascomet have been on my island since like day one.. Laika is in love with Orville from animal crossing and today Mars got into a BAD fight with Frisk??? Like.Frisk refuses to speak to them😭

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OH MY GOSH!! Ok but why do they look so perfect, you made them look very on point! Those are my baby girls!! I see you drew in their little unique hair shapes, that looks so fun. Im so happy to see their hair textures were very close to how they actually are and their big noses <3 Kana's future sunspots and Noriel's scar and eyebags. Kana's necklace on the third one!!!! All very detailed stuff! Also Noriel going :] makes me particularly happy. Laika and Mars look super cute too!! Love those two fellas so much.

I don't have tomodachi life so I'm living vicariously through this. Thank you so much!

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I'm like if a missing person was literally right there

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Characters: Young Loona Walker (FadeAway) | Dander (FadeAway) | Sasha Carrion (FadeAway)

Some fun sketch requests I made of FadeAway characters!