I'm not sure that I'm totally abandoning PPTR (AU) but I have been thinking elsewhere.
I have a lot of anxiety about being tied to Poppy Playtime as a source material when my AU is increasingly different. I feel it limiting, and the list of characters that I have to figure out a place (and often new design) for fills my head and time.
I felt like I should be making something more "meaningful" to me. That I could be if I got back to my own ideas. I'm not sure.
I think I just want to make something I feel passionate about and not something that I am making because of my number of complaints with the source material.
I actually love kids entertainment and toy history, it's been an interest of the collective for many years. That's probably why I get so passionately angry about the way it is frequently mishandled in mascot horror.
I ended up being so invested in correcting inaccuracies that I was unable to have fun with the science fiction weirdness of the genre. I got to the point where it'd be easier to just remove half the mascots that I really didn't care for.
And really, why not just spend all that effort making my own company, characters, and unfortunate events to play around with? I've had many ideas throughout the years.
The tricky part is just adapting them all, and also keeping it small, so I don't stress myself out like I have many times in the past. That's really the hard part.
