heyy so i was thinking and wow this blog has been around for... nearly three years? whack
so a lot of the people following me probably have no idea that “Inky Legacy” is in fact a whole au i’ve been working on all those years!
(i dont blame you, i p much dipped for half that time and only posted small bits so far)
so here’s a quick explanation what Inky Legacy is all about:
Inky Legacy was originally just an interpretation of canon events I came up with after chapter 5 was released, with an attempt to turn a bunch of theories and speculations into some kind of coherent narrative
at some point between the books getting released and me getting a little carried away with said narrative i just accepted its a canon-adjacent AU
the story i’ve come up with for it is split into five acts plus the.... not quite spin-off, definitely not a sequel, however Sad, Lonely and Bad at Math (SLABAM for short) can be defined, which has a blog for it over here
there’s a masterpost here but tumblr kept breaking the links so i’m also making a new better masterpost on carrd over here
the acts of the story are split not by length but by whatever made the most sense to me narratively so don’t be fooled by the fact that there’s five, act 1 is about as long as the other four combined
i’ve finally figured out a way to work around my adhd and with how much progress i’ve made on writing the script for this just in the last month im tentatively gonna say the first comic should be ready for posting around the beginning of next year?
also i’m gonna do quick summaries of the acts under a cut to give a better overview of the actual stories without making this too long lmao:
Act 1 (Schere Stein Papier): From the early days of the studio to its closure, this act explores how everything spiralled. Mainly how Joey Drew spiralled tbh
about 30-40% done with scripting?
Act 2 (Another One Bites the Dust): Yeah the song reference kinda tells you everything. Main focus is Henry returning to the studio 30 years and how he got trapped in the loops, with a few side stories about some of the other characters’ fates
~50% done scripting
Act 3 (The End): The shortest chapter of them all. The End of several things, including the loops
100% done scripting, 100% done storyboarding
Act 4 (The Beginning): How those still trapped in the studio deal with the end of the loops, and where everything goes from there
idk like 20% scripted
Act 5 (Legacy): Something something how the actions of the parents condemn the child, aka just because the loops are over doesnt mean we’re done with cycles of abuse yet, aka i asked myself what the hell is supposed to happen after chapter 5 of batim ended Like That (aka the grand conclusion of the whole story or at least most of it)
50% scripted probably?
SLABAM: Purely written format with occasional illustrations, written by me and @ichaisme. There’s a separate tumblr to post the chapters just to keep things orderly at @sad-lonely-and-bad-at-math. Starts of the same as act 1 of Inky Legacy, but then instead explores how things could have gone had Joey chosen to actually try and be a good boss. More canon to IL than that makes it sound, but how the two stories tie together is a spoiler for both
hard to tell a percentage bc on one hand the first few chapters are published and we have a general plan and several outlines, on the other hand i still have to read tiol to figure out the timeline more
and thats it thats my 1am attempt at explaining this
