somewhere in the abyss

dance in a skeleton way | @somsonsomsoff (<- main blog)

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if you want to ask something please don't be afraid to send it in, i'd love to talk about working on this comic, the inspirations behind it and my characters!

about me: hi! i'm soms and i'm an adult with any pronouns (they/it describes it the best). i like working on my ocs' stories and i might've overcame my language anxiety

i don't believe you can describe a person fully by their personality type, but if someone finds it's helpful i'm ENFJ 2w3! my stories tend to contain some psychological stuff (like characters being heavily based on defense mechanisms) so if you want to discuss it i'm more than glad to help because i feel like i have a responsibility to balance the uncomfortable aspect with some understanding or hope, that's generally how their story goes

i also want to say i appreciate every bit of feedback, even if i'm mostly doing it for myself i still want to inspire at least one person to work on their aus/ocs and go crazy with the worldbuilding and stuff, it doesn't matter if you're doing it perfectly and canon compliant or not, it's cool as long as you're doing it yourself. be free, respect others, project into your characters and turn gestalt into a sparkledog. so. yeah!

my other blog: @/somsonsomsoff

about the au in general:

for now the focus is on the scientists, as the nexus core is always the reason behind everything, but eventually it will be focused on different characters with their own stories and different lives being stitched together, since it's based on the arena mode's origins. i don't have plans to make it really canon compliant and include every origin, because it's a personal au, so it's mostly about the characters i created here or about some random thoughts and observations i had!

i see the arena mode imprints as their own S-3LFs combined with something else, a very different dimension that acts as their personal memory storage that allows them to safely retain their experiences and memories while their physical shells are being given to the nowhere to be forever deleted from reality… so that's convenient for this kind of narrative. they still remember who they were, retain their personalities, but they also obtain the memories of the imprints they once were. and maybe now they can see the eyes they had, the smiles they lost and the acceptance they haven't felt in a long time

so, in short, sometimes this story is more about the people themselves than the universe around them! but i definitely won't rush myself, because good lord that's a lot of pages to draw

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the rest of the connections!

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first part of some connections i added on artfight

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and now a set of backgrounds specific to this au that i'm going to link on artfight!

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a collection of arena mode screenshots i had for reference purposes to keep putting the player in evil situations (feel free to use/link/etc!)

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not much updates for now because i'm focused on getting an education but i've prepared an artfight card for this year!

i also updated my characters to have more polished pages and added connections for some of them! (lucas, colin, michael and juan. there's a lot of lore in these!)

(SPOILERS FOR PAGES UNDER THE CUT)

here they are

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MAY | THE PROLOGUE

the first pages are coming along! the first ten pages are basically done, and ten more already have the linework (i think it'd be ~15% of the whole comic)

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a blockbench tutorial for people who want to create their own 3d references!

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MARCH | THE PROLOGUE

i've managed to add 44 more pages in one month which means the sketch phase is finally complete! 105 in total, including the cover

it's about the terrible experiment after all

(more text and plans below)

now i'll work on the backgrounds first before moving on to the linework to make the process less monotonous, and will maybe put together a small, easy tutorial on it!

it would be a good idea to create a set of backgrounds just in case i need to reuse them for similar frames. maybe i'll eventually post something like that too, just to show how the facility looks in more detail

not sure if i'm going to post anything lore-wise yet (drawing is my priority for now) BUT if anyone's interested i'm really encouraging you to send questions or suggestions through asks! including tutorial requests and stuff : ]

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a collection of various doodles accumulated during the drawing process, now stored in this post

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FEBRUARY | THE PROLOGUE

i'm on the 60th page! (sketch)

for today's post i have another frame with colin to share

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JANUARY | THE PROLOGUE

the story outline is done

all ~104 pages have at least a thumbnail

37 out of them are properly sketched out

my current plan is to continue working on it, then doing the linework, coloring, shading and placing the speech bubbles

the prologue's title is "no time to be heard", which is a story about four nexus core scientists being stuck together. one of them is michael, their team leader and the boss of the separate research facility. he has no fear, only his moderately convincing speeches and strong ambitions. this also happens to be a story about the terrible experiment's origin!

(and a bonus piece for the first post occasion!)