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Where I’ve Been and the Future of the Comic

I will begin this by saying that I am really sorry to have gone this long without an update. It wasn’t my intention and I know I should have made this a lot sooner. 

Quite frankly, things have been so hectic in my life that I got out of rhythm when working on personal projects, such as this comic. I hit some heavily severe depressive episodes and I’m sure I hurt a lot of people around me with some of my outbursts because of it. This isn’t an excuse, just an explination, and is something I have to answer for and work to fix on my own.

Now that I am finding time for personal projects and personal things (I started playing FF14 for instance, im willing to share my username if anyone plays on Primal and wants to play. I started actively writing my original stories and doing original art more. I started posting one of those original stories online as well) I had to re-evaluate some prior projects and what I would drop, keep, and re-imagine.

Now, onto the comic. 

Sad to say it, but I will be dropping it. I will keep this blog up as an archive and maybe one day I might come back to it to finish, but as of this moment I don’t have any drive to actually complete the comic as is. I still have my notes, so I will go over the changes I intended to make, which is mostly centered around the characters Elci and Nora Geep. 

(Funfact, Nora Geep is seeing new life in one of the original stories Im posting online)

Elci

The thought behind Elci was mostly that she would be used to show Sans and Papyrus that there was a chance at a better life with someone who cared for them. She would have eventually come into contact with Sans and Papyrus which would reveal two things about her to the audience: She had met them before, and she was a prototype Shapeshifter that was to be ‘discareded’ by Gaster and Dr. Felix.  Sans would not have a clear memory of this, Papyrus no memory, but Sans would have a faint recollection of her abused shapeshifted form in Gaster’s lab and being wheeled away by Dr. Felix to be ‘disposed of’ (dusted, but she managed to crawl away and survive instead of freezing in the snow, which is when she would have been found and taken to the doctor by the Dog Pack). Elci would have recognized Sans and Papyrus immediately and had a meltdown, which would keep her from revealing this until Sans and Papyrus were taken. She would have been able to tell Grillby and the authorities the door codes and secret lab location as she would still remember what/where they were.

At the end it would also reveal Dr. Felix was her father, and that her mother had dusted prior to the start of the comic. He offered his daughter as an experiment subject due to his own grief on losing his wife and because Gaster needed monster subject and Elci was a rare Chimera-Type (made of 3 or more types of monster: Deer, Abstract, and Reptile). You can see some of these hinted at in Bio’s and also some of the character’s reactions in comic (Elci could sense Sans and Papyrus when she was at Grillby’s, Dogressa is aware she is a Shifter and was nervous when Grillby brought them up, Felix can be seen in the flashback where Dogamy had ripped out his eye, ect).

The last shot I had planned of her would have been her running around with Sans and Papyrus in their shifted forms, finally free of Gaster and Felix’s looming presence in her life. 

Nora Geep

Nora is an interesting character in that her influence wasn’t really needed all that much, but made it a bit more believable in terms of some of the background aspects. So her story in the comic was rather limited, but where she had influence was meant to have the most impact. 

If you haven’t picked up on the foreshadowing: She is Grillby’s estranged wife. The two had married Pre-War and only seperated some time after being sealed in the Underground. Despite this, they actually aren’t divorced yet and Nora still wears her wedding ring and wedding band (The gold ring and golden scarf she wears in her hair). She took over the role of Archivist from what would have later been revealed to be Seam from Deltarune. 

The reason for their split was because of her burn: it would have been revealed that Grillby had accidentally burned her during a PTSD episode and he basically chased her out to protect her. She was against it, but relented more to Asgore and Toriel’s urging since she could barely walk after first recieving the injury. Grillby would have narrated that he opened his restaurant sometime after and that he had some regrets about it, since she had always wanted to open a place where people could relax, enjoy good food, and maybe read a good book or two. (Funfact: In a Deltarune short I was planning for after this she would have opened a book cafe with Grillby in the town)

The reason for her strained relationship with Gaster is because she gave him the logs, books, and research on Shifters that led to Elci’s abuse and Sans and Papyrus’s creation. She was unaware of Sans and Papyrus, but did learn of Elci after she escaped and was horrified that letting him into the archive let this happen. Since she blames herself, she shut herself off completely from Gaster and anything to do with the Research Labs, even when Asgore would ask that she share. This would have come to a head right before Gaster made an attempt to reclaim Sans and Papyrus, as Nora would have found out about them and would have begun making moves to help. Gaster would have taken some of the other cast offs with him and gravely injured Nora, resulting in a lowered security in Snowdin as they would have been looking for Nora’s attacker. (They would not initially known who it was as she was unconcious when found by Berdley and Noelle). She would not have made a fully recovery by the end of the comic, but would have shown up with Berdley and Susie in tow to help Asgore and Gnash against Gaster and the other Skele-dogs. 

The final scene I had planning with her was Grillby and her having a heart to heart in Grillby’s about their past and the present. I would have left it open ended on if they got back together or not, but the following seen would have been Asgore welcoming Seam back as the Senior Archivist and Berdley as a newly assigned Junior Archivist to replace him once his training was done. 

Noelle would have been revealed to taken over as Royal Scientist and a hint that Alphys would become her apprentice in the future. 

Some other things I would have revealed were what happened to the other Skele-dogs afterword (I mentioned it in a post before) but shots of them being found by various characters and taken in, such as the recurring Green One being taken in by Asgore temporarily. There would have been a shot of Flowey at one point as well. 

I will answer any lingering questions if anyone has them, I will keep this blog open and will ocntinue to answer questions as they come in. Feel free to reach out. 

Sorry, I should have made this post a lot sooner ^-^;;

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Comic breakdown (symbolisms and stuff)

Keeping it under a readmore as not to take it up, because uh, this is pretty long

The very first panel lands smack dab in the middle of the conflict – Emily and Trellis being cornered and being on the very precipice of a cliff and their survival. The barrier being in the middle shows the two threats that traps them – a humongous monster, and the void below.

From the get go, it gets established that the barrier serves as the actual panels except for a select scenes where we can see very close up shots of the characters. It serves as an active part of the story as a character itself, even showing cracks (which will be important later).

The very first panel lands smack dab in the middle of the conflict – Emily and Trellis being cornered and being on the very precipice of a cliff and their survival. The barrier being in the middle shows the two threats that traps them – a humongous monster, and the void below.

From the get go, it gets established that the barrier serves as the actual panels except for a select scenes where we can see very close up shots of the characters. It serves as an active part of the story as a character itself, even showing cracks (which will be important later).

The audience may get a clear shot of their reactions, but you gotta remember – neither of them can’t. They have no idea the other is also on the edge of despair, although we go more in depth with Trellis.

The black, white, and red coloring all serve to appear jarring and harsh to the viewer -which is how Trellis views those memories. The first is when the Elf King scars him, the second is after Luger incapacitates him in book 2, and the last is when the Voice taunts him after Emily transforms – all of these memories reminding Trellis of his weakness and failures – and if you zoomed in, it’s actually typed into the background over and over, a subtle yet unrelenting constant reminder.

This then also contrasts with the 4th memory, that, despite being on the background, is vivid and in full color – it’s the act that Trellis regrets and feels guilty of the most and haunts him greatly.

Which leads to this:

Trellis arms droop, and his hands tremble. He’s in the dark and the barrier has also but disappeared (I kinda headcanon he sees that mastering it makes him feel more safe and secure in his control), which represents his state of mind, vulnerable, scared, and insecure.

Which also represents by the black, desaturated colors in the panel he is in, while Emily is colorful in the light – which is how he view each other.

Once again, they juxtapose one another – we are looking at Trellis downwards – emphasized with the flow of the energies behind him, we can’t see his face, his eyes in the shadows, and it looks like he’s CONTAINED. While we are looking at Emily upwards – also emphasized by the flow of energies, and we can see her illuminating her own light despite not activating her amulet, and she overlaps the panels above her, appearing she is not contained.

The memories panels have bluish coloring and blends well with the other colors of the scene, showing these memories are not remembered as bad, or even fondly – it also serves as the memories that they share with one another and what connects them both. It contains scenes of Emily rescuing Trellis from book 3, them confronting the shadows in book 5 (not the hug scene alas else it’ll be repetitive, I intended the last panel to be that), and the last is book 8 in my head – Trellis gets Emily back. In fact, the look like glowing a bit.

The texts are also in single line in comparison to the rant-like depiction in the previous page. It symbolizes on how their friendships solidified over time – until it becomes unbreakable in the last panel.

Also, Trellis’s question aligns with the last panel - this is intentional, because it shows his question is already answered.

Remember me saying the barrier being important as a character earlier on?? Yeah, well know we can see it break as the tentacles crushes it in its grip.

God, I keep making contradictions, don’t I?? Once again, their roles are reverse – Trellis is now looking upwards, while Emily is looking downwards. Also I uhhhh hard to explain but the blood flowing downwards is contrasted with Emily’s tears floating upwards -somethin something having a bit of the other…

Also, where Emily in the previous page realizes Trellis is just as scared as she was, this is when Trellis realizes vice versa.

Ok, ngl, I’m patting myself on the back for this one because the teardrop of sheer sadness transforming into a barrier that would be the hope that may or may not save them – tbh, I’m kinda surprised how I came up w that one.

Which leads to the ending!! Trellis’s dialogue at the bottom is seen last, almost like a quiet plea. We can see the barrier is not fully solid.

But, the next panel gives us hope. Because despite the large wave of destruction, it does imply Trellis managed to get his barrier strong enough to cause a large impact. Whether he survived the strain of using his powers for such an incredibly taxing feat – is up to you.

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Not quite done with sketching out Chapter 5 yet but I have the first 3 pages done and I really wanted to upload them.

So yeah.

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Only 3 more pages to go!