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[hamsternamedmarinette]

Ostania's normalest family

The next day, at a hastily thrown together birthday party at the Forger residence:

[aerequets]

holy MOLY THIS GOT SO FREAKING LONG BRO im lowkey delirious but im gonna put the rest of the caption under a read more because it'll probably get extremely long as well

this started when i reblogged that one post and put the idea of twilight getting jealous of franky's other friends in the tags. then it got in my head and i was like, twilight is a friendless loser lowkey it would make a funny comic. so when i started this comic i intended it to be short like usual, and mostly silly in tone (you can kind of tell even by the way i draw the panels, if it's something goofy i'll hand draw the panels so they look a little messy, but if it's more serious i use a tool to make the lines neat and straight. the panels are mixed throughout this monstrosity which drives me a little crazy but i digress (digressing seems to be all im doing)). however the more i drew it the more i thought, Damn. it's not that he doesn't have friends, it's that he's actively like self-sabotaging because he thinks it'll go against his life mission of being a spy, which took #1 precedence after all of his friends and family died. but obviously he's never honest with franky about their friendship (even though IRONICALLY franky is the person he's most honest with otherwise), but he's been slowly opening up to yor, so i had to draw a whole sequence where yor and him had a conversation. and then obviously yor is a GORGEOUS QUEEN ALWAYS so i had to up the quality of those panels, but by the end you can tell i was so done because they're pretty rushed drawings. the ending in general is a little rough imo but i'll need to reread this comic in one go to get a feel for the flow, which i def wont be doing anytime soon because IM SICK OF LOOKING AT IT. this is the most amount of time i spent drawing a single comic and it revealed to me why i NEVER DO IT!! every time i went to add another drawing it warranted looking through every other page in succession. I have seen all 23 pages of this mf like 20 times each. IM DONE. MY NECK NEEDS REST! AND I SACRIFICED SLEEP FOR THIS TOO! GAHHHHHHH

[buf309-art-binder]

Post-Reveal domestic fluff?

My neck hurts 😠 so I curse him the same 😇

[riiisinghooope]

Been so focused on Twiyor lately that I almost forgot about this particular development

[chambre-grenouille]

@abluescarfonwaston’s idea

[yihsch]

Mission 1: Unexpected Guest (part 6)

[Start] [Part 5] <- -> [Part 7]

I forgot that we were finally shown Loid's pajamas after the Wheeler arc, and the theory that Loid sleeps in his jeans got debunked, but I already gave him some period appropriate ones. Though they're a little Auschwitz core (which is kinda fitting for this story...?).

Anyway, announcement!

Originally the script was 20 pages long and I liked most of it but the ending just wasn't hitting. So things have gotten out of hand and now I'm nearing 40 pages, meaning I'm almost finished with mission 2. Imo it's really good; not only highly diabetogenic, but also contains probably the funniest scene overall (or maybe I just like my own jokes).

Anyway, I decided it needs to be a trilogy so 3 missions in total (probably 60 pages of dialogue). For reference this part is on page 10/11. I have some vague ideas for the last mission and I really hope I won't fumble at the end.

Why did no one tell me that writing is kinda fun?

Oh, I almost forgot, bestie @witless-winion1

[claudettedells]

Just whipped up a mini-comic of Damian coming back to Anya! I imagined what he'd be thinking in a little internal monologue. Totally non-canon, just inspired by the vibe of chapter 123.2!

[rafaron1223]

SPY x FAMILY's Initial Plot

As previously mentioned in my last post, I found a magazine from 2020 featuring a segment with Endo discussing Spy x Family. In my last post, I shared the drafts of the volume covers, but now I want to dive into the really interesting bit here (that I've found for now lol) that is the manga's initial plot.

Spoilers for the manga ahead, as I'll discuss some of those here.

There are many things one can see when comparing it to the manga's current story, but keep in mind that this is merely an initial version of the story, and some things that are written here may not be indicative of what's to possibly come to the future of the story, but is still good discussion nevertheless to see what could have been.

This story has three parts, let's begin with the first:

So we can already see here that "A" aka Loid is a lot different in this version compared to what we have now. He retains his womanizing skills but is not a very good spy. Which is an interesting thing to do, but I just kind of think of Daybreak when I hear "not a good spy" lol. Though I got no idea if Daybreak has any charming skills in the SxF world lol. In any case, I think it would have been interesting to see how a less-skilled version of Loid would solve the conflicts that the current Loid has faced so far.

Another part is how this version Operation Strix (which more or less has the same goal) and the formation of the Forger Family was going to be handled. As this version of Loid was unfit to take on the mission, it was instead going to be assigned to another agent with an actual family. But because of Loid wanting to take credit for the mission, he decides to create his own family. I think seeing Loid acting more selfishly like this is very fascinating, as it's something I can't really see current Loid doing.

Also, Endo having Loid start creating the family by finding a wife first is an interesting choice, but I can see why he went for the child in the current version. It's a much stronger start.

Now we move on to the second part:

"B" aka Yor is very interesting to compare to her current version. Her reason for becoming an assassin is very different here, with Yor on a revenge quest to find the person who killed her family, which is part of the reason why she decides to stick with Loid. But aspects like her secretly desiring a normal life and falling for Loid during their first meeting are the same (though the idea of Loid immediately flirting with her is very funny). There is also Yor working as an office lady, which seems pretty similar to her city hall job. I remember Endo saying in the EYES ONLY fanbook that she was originally a janitor, perhaps this script was written after he scrapped that idea?

As a side note, knowing that Yuri's character was simply going to be just "Yor's brother" before Endo combined him with the SSS officer hunting Twilight by the time he got to chapter 10, I wonder how he would have played into this version of the story.

And for the third and final part:

To start, it seems like Endo always intended to set this story in a post-war era. He may have already mentioned it before in other media, but I can't remember, someone please remind me 😂

As for "C" aka Anya, there's a lot going on here. Usually we don't get a lot of Anya's backstory, so getting this draft version is really cool to see. In the current story, we never know what the lab is and how exactly Anya managed to escape it, but this version explains that she is a government experiment (which at this point I'm pretty sure we all think this lol) and escaped the lab with her telepathy. Reading how the orphanage she stays at afterward feels pretty similar to the condition we see it in chapter 1, but I imagine that's why Endo had some ideas to draw her as sickly at the start. Also interesting to note that she instinctively knew that it was a good place to hide from the government. For however old she's supposed to be, she's a pretty clever girl.

Anya also missing her parents seems to be an aspect of her character that remains in the current version of the story, though it's more about her mother than both of her parents.

Later, when Loid comes to the orphanage to adopt, pretty much the same scenes play out except that Anya hears the name of her parents in Loid's mind (or Yor's, seems like there was a possibility of her being there with him), which motivates her to get adopted by him, thus completing this pseudo family.

It's interesting that this version of Anya remembers her parents' names while our current Anya doesn't seem to at all (as far as we know). Makes me wonder if this version of Anya was slightly older, perhaps being an actual 6-year-old's age if the school admission plotline was a thing during the writing of this plot.

Endo has also stated in the EYES ONLY fanbook that Anya was originally going to have some sort of superpowers, and seeing the combination of telepathy and a little bit of telekinesis is wild. I wonder if Endo will ever revisit telekinesis and give it to Anya later down the line, but I'm not sure if I'd like that.

It also seems like Loid would have been slightly aware of Anya's abilities, but brushed it aside.

Regarding the final line of the plot: "C"'s target is a lieutenant general. It's a simple line, but there's nothing we can go off from here I think. But knowing that this version of the story states that Anya's experiments were headed by the government, I can imagine her remembering a particular figurehead from there, that being this lieutenant general.

All in all, I really enjoyed having to translate, read, and share this draft version of the story! Getting to see Endo-sensei's older versions of the characters we know as the Forger Family w

as super cool to see! The next post related to this will hopefully be the last, the entire 6 page interview with Endo-sensei, but I promise to deliver! Thank you for your patience, and I hope to see you guys next post!