What inspired your comic?
Damn, that's a tough question. And a bit of a warning, but this may touch into spoilers for the comic.
I've mentioned it before, but this is actually the second reboot of Eldritchfell I've made, and the very first concepts were ended up different from the first comic I put out.
Eldritchfell was inspired by three things mainly though, I think.
For one, I've always loved taking characters the fandom sees as 'villainous' or 'evil' and thinking 'well, surely it's not as simple as this. What if the truth is a little more complicated?' As an example, just starting Eldritchfell, I'd just come off writing a fanfic with the premise 'what if in Soulless Pacifist, Chara's plan was not to kill everyone on the surface, but to use Frisk's stolen soul to revive Asriel.'
That's kinda a major impact on all my stories, to be honest. I just can't get start writing a story until I can get into the villain's head, and understand why they do and want what they do.
Second major influence was my love of the eldritch, and especially my love of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. For the unfamiliar, it's set in a fictional town in the American desert where every single conspiracy theory is real, and plays with satire a lot. Often monsters, eldritch abominations, and conspiracy agents walk the streets alongside normal citizens-- and sometimes they ARE the citizens!
But at the same time, I've never found a more gentle horror story. Though many terrifying and fucked up and downright strange things happen in Night Vale, the narrator goes out of his way to state the love he has for his town and his community, the loving detail he goes into when describing its denizens, accepting even beings like a five-headed dragon or an omnipotent and faceless old woman or angels he's not allowed to acknowledge the existence of as his townsfolk. And even when they're bad people, he still tries present many of them as people.
So I wanted to write a story with eldritch elements. But I also wanted to consider... why are the eldritch and otherworldly beings doing what they do? Is it really so incomprehensible?
And the third and final inspiration... well, the Undertale Multiverse, for all it's called 'cringey' or 'dying' or 'toxic', is something I really love. I wanted to make my own addition to it, to make an homage incorporating and referencing it. Maybe even give people another angle to look at it from, another setting to play in with their AUs. I wanted to explore the multiverse in a way I hadn't seen people do so, yet. To take characters that I've seen dozens of iterations from, and put my own personal spin on them and the world they live in. Eldritchfell, despite the name and some... divergences, is actually extremely close to classic Undertale-- had certain events played out differently, perhaps it'd just be an AT rather than an AU. Perhaps it is still just an AT, for all its newfound differences. Perhaps you'll judge for yourself.
We're not very far into Eldritchfell. We haven't even seen the state of the Underground. But I can't wait to show you all. Thank you very much for this question, it was very fun to answer. ^^