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Big changes in Defans Amis and excitement for world building by Cowboypunk
So way back when, Defans Amis was just Alette and Beau in a writing group called Umbagog, where anyone could build characters and have them run around the group's universe, writing with and off of each other. A lot that I was excited about for Alette and Beau was for them to interact with other people's characters and have other writers be more involved with the story's creation. But now, that was something like 3-4 years ago. The group has since effectively died, leaving Defans Amis with a pretty big, immobile, extraneous appendage. I'm disappointed and a bit frustrated that I don't get to have that anymore, but ignoring that part of my ego, I've decided to instead reinvent the universe and cut off the connections to Umbagog (outside of one guest character, Yena, whom I still need to deal with). I'll be spending a good chunk of the next month or two doing new world building, finding ways to incorporate/adjust old lore into new lore and producing new characters, locations, history and all that fun stuff.
There are a few things I know I'm gonna add, like a greater focus on the wilderness and wildlife as well as a significantly emptier world (I know it's always been empty so far in-comic, but I promise, there were lots of zombies elsewhere lol). There was definitely an apocalyptic event, and I have at least three very zombie-like individuals and a lot of deer that I'm going to have to rebuild around, but Defans Amis will no longer have zombies. I have a few ideas about the cause of zombie-like people and the fate of the world...mooost of them are associated to plants, which makes Alette's gardening and Beau's drugs more significant. The comic will very likely change to an overall theme of the human relationship to nature and our abilities to heal and adapt from it and in it, which I'm honestly far more excited about than zombies.
I'm admittedly mostly excited about designing new monsters, though. :D :p
So all in all, there's gonna be a good stretch of road for everyone to look forward to and I hope you guys can get excited about it too.
Big changes in Defans Amis and excitement for world building
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It is the most exciting part! I'm filling out a google doc with all the new lore and relevant concepts, which I'll post links to later this week (hopefully, if I get enough time to finish it before I have to work on other things!) so that anyone can read through it and give me their suggestions/comments or tell me if the see any holes :>
Instead of zombies, now there is more or less an infectious parasitic fungus that has wiped out roughly 90% of America's population (I haven't decided how exactly other countries have been affected), leaving a loooot of empty, slowly decaying cities and towns. I've written out just about all the attributes and symptoms from infection by the fungus - mostly it sucks really hard, eats your skin to sprout mushrooms and gives you panic attacks, insomnia and spasms, and if all that mess doesn't kill you, then maybe you'll live on to mutate into some sort of animalistic shroom fellow who! - so I'll be making designs for all the mutations and mushrooms and stuff soon :3
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This all also means that since none of these people infected are actually dead, just really, really sick, Alette and Beau's been just killing people without really realizing it 8I they both think they're all just monsters cause they're disturbing to look at and incoherent since they haven't been sleeping for days/weeks, are plagued by anxiety and panic attacks and probably lost all their friends and family 8|
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I LOVE that you are going a fungal infection route! Don't see that too often. Oh the joy of spores inhabiting your brain!
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I see... tell me all the things. Sucks that you lost your lifeline so to speak. But world-building is the best part if you ask me so I'm excited for you too! Can't wait to see what you come up with. And zombie-like peoples sound interesting. Let alone this whole flora/fauna angle you're talking about.