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How many OCs can be born from the same root?

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“Trust you to watch bloody Countdown.”

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Okay so, as you can tell, this is nowhere near finished to my usual standard.

I wrote this comic out well enough but neglected to really consider how it would work visually (lesson learned). The more I tried to make myself finish it the more problems I saw, so eventually I decided to just chuck some colour on it and call it a day.

Now I could have just not bothered, of course, but I wanted to post this for a specific reason - as you can see, the TV is an old CRT model. The presentation is specifically a late-80s-early-90s aesthetic, too - in fact, you can see it yourself right here.

So why would I do this? Well, part of it is that it’s just more interesting to me. Tacky old computer-generated pages are a lot more interesting (and easy, aheh) to draw than the modern equivalent. But also, part of me wants to specifically set The Unnamed in the past - an alternate past, sure: there’s monsters and magitech - but still ‘the past’ in comparison to us in the real world with our smartphones and flatscreens and [insert other thing old people complain about here]. It feels to me like I would then be more free to depict time moving as the plot demands, but I can’t really explain that logically.

I dunno. Focusing on these sorts of worldbuilding questions is something I’m hoping to do more of this year. In the meantime, here’s Matthew and Almar sharing a moment.