Some things to note, some cool tidbits about my writing process.
-When writing Where We Lie, before I posted chapter one, I had finished the rough draft. I thought some of the idea was pretty solid, until I realized something. So, in the story proper, Ahmond doesn't want to be with her annoying cousin Baynana, so she offers to trade places with her, so Ahmond will sit in the front of the train and Baynana in first class. I realized: "Wait, they're already sitting in different spots. Ahmond just swapped tickets so she could sit in a worse seat."
-Where We Lie got a few plot alterations along the way. I even altered the final boss battle.
-I was high when I wrote the scene with Owlis about to whack Ahmond. I'm not kidding. I've even done minimal edits to that scene so I could just keep that raw, Mary Jane writer's energy.
-I'm gonna write something while high again.
-I actually can't re-read Call of the Wild. Several lines of dialogue from N:Era were ripped from my real life. Ironically, I was worried because I felt like, people who hadn't gone through something similar would think the dialogue was cliche. But now, those sections actually hurt me to read.
-When writing Cyras, I tend to just write her actions and dialogue on the spot, and don't need to think them through. I'd argue Rosod is likely the hardest for me to write, but Owlis is right there. Though usually I got an instinctive grasp on the characters.
-I think if other people had to write my characters, I'd argue either Cyras or Owlis would be the hardest. A lot of people tend to misinterpret them. Cyras isn't the most likely to be a "bully": She literally stands up for Ahmond several times and protects her from Lilu and Owlis. Also Cyras isn't a "tomboy". Nor is she dirty, filthy, or mucky just because she's a Wild Child - think about this here. Do you like being covered in grime? No? Then why would someone else? Just because they're not afraid of germs? Being clean inherently feels nice and there are grooming instincts.
-Speaking of, Wilders are just those who lives on the outskirts of any society. Tribal peoples would be a society and are not Wilders. Of course, eventually the line gets blurry. To what point is a pack not a society? These are the debates that rage through Wysdom.
-Kieral does all the Russian translations, all the accurate ones at least.
-Ahmond gave me an Eastern European vibe when I drew her. I didn't take up that Chesniy was based on Russia (or at least spoke Russian) until I realized I have like, at least eighty friends who spoke Russian.
-Cyras' design is based on the primaries, red, blue, and yellow. I actually think her ears are supposed to be the same blue as her paws, not purple, and I just saved the info wrong when I made her character sheet proper...
-Owlis' design is based on purple, green, and orange, though really a brownish orange.
-Excitingly, this means we have a blue-purple, red-purple, yellow-green, blue-green, yellow-orange, red-orange, character on the horizon!
-I don't really wanna say Cyras and Lilu are in love, as much as this is just mutually understood between the two that there's budding romance. Cyras also is gentle with Ahmond and protective, but that's more like she has to protect the sweet little bulochka.
-Of Vidya Game roles, Cyras is a Rogue/assassin-type of character. Lilu would be a brawler or tank, specifically anti-meta. Ahmond would be cleric/support. Rosod would be a mage/support.
-Lilu is the oldest of the N:Era girls.
-In most rough drafts, Rosod went with Lilu and Ahmond to find Cyras. However, in the end, she got scrapped from that moment because she wasn't adding anything to the scene, plus I wasn't sure if Cyras could whoop all three of them at once.
-A lot of inspiration for Wysdom was taken from Germany, England, and the US, for Germangland States.
-Towers is, in fact, both a Yugioh and Magic parody (and partly of Pokemon too as well!).
-The general timezone is 1920's in terms of technology. That's why there's references of stuff like Owlis finding out they're inventing refrigerators. Usually magical cold rooms is where people kept stuff or iceboxes.
-That timezone IS fluid. Some stuff that should be out by 1920's isn't really out yet (such as Chesniy having cars but Wysdom does not), meanwhile technologies up to 1980's have been referenced. We've seen they do have TVs. Video games will be referenced later.
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