Guest Filler: Zombie Chow
We’ve got something a little special this week rather than more blue text. A guest page drawn by Fallingfeather, and scripted by me. This little exchange is set a few hours before Arrie and Sam showed up, and is completely canon.
As for how things are going on my end, I’ve managed to learn quite a bit, and if I only needed to use my current assets, I’d be ready to get back into production. But if you recall, this program switch hit me during a flashback that (and Sally did mention it, so not a spoiler) involves a battle between four people in magitech armor. Unfortunately those models aren’t done, or even started on. I don’t even really have designs planned out. I was originally confident I could sort it out before I needed those models, but now I’ve got a bit more to learn before I can get that off the ground.
And with that said, I think this is an opportunity to really hone my craft. I want to do more than relearn the novice skills I already had. There’s a whole world of 3d skills that I haven’t even considered up to this point. I mean seriously, give this video a watch. It’s about very technical stuff, but it just brushes through a bunch concepts one at a time very quickly. When I see a laundry list of possibilities like that, I can’t help but think it’s time to branch out.
All that said, I’ll be keeping the lights on around here. We’ll be doing something a little less linear, though. I won’t be returning to the main plot for now, but I’ll start making some side stories. That said, I’m not gonna be shy about handing out some lore and details that might have been hidden or slower to reveal in other formats. It’s gonna get weird (and I can’t promise a schedule yet) but hopefully it’ll make it worth hanging around till the dust settles.
UPDATE 3/17:
Current events being what they are with corona virus shut downs, my niece’s daycare is closed and there is a LOT more babysitting in my schedule. Progress was already slow, and this is a solid chunk out of my schedule. Just thought I’d pass that info along to set expectations. I’m sure we’re all doing shit differently these days.
Oh, it is so cool seeing this on the site! I’ll probably make the text smaller on the next one- it looks… ginormous now that I see it in full. I can’t wait to see what comes of your studies, too- I hope it goes well!
Clearly, “Zombie Chow” needs to be the ribwitch’s seasonal name in October. Also Mona is still as adorable as ever. She’ll be hell to deal with when she grows up though. Imagine how bad her ‘Goth Phase”will be given that she’s literally a demon.
I didn’t think Mona was a demon? :0 She doesn’t have red eyes or plague markings. I was under the impression (granted, could be wrong) that demons couldn’t have kids because the…uh… associated organs are just plague bile fascimiles (if they exist at all and its not just generic sludge in there), and that Mona was born before Cerene and Morris were infected.
Huh, I thought Sig’s little geneology lesson included demons, but I guess I got them mixed up with Wights. plus looking back on Mona’s intro, Morris never really said that Mona was a demon, only that she couldn’t get in a preschool because he and Cerena were.
I guess with how infectious Demonhood was in the old comic was, I just sorta assumed Mona would be one as well given her parents.
As for them potentially being sterile… erm, I always assumed Demon biology worked primary on the “clap your hands if you believe you have a liver!” methodology. Meaning they could have children if they both A) believe they can, and B)really want to. After all, wild demons seem to not have any problems multiplying, so I don’t see why a sane Demon would.
Well for now I’ll just confirm that Mona is human. That whole family certainly has a story to tell.
It’s interesting to see you both make a case for sterile demons and “Steven Universe rules” demons. I’ve already leaned a certain direction on the matter, but I’m not gonna close to door on this in a comment. There’s story potential to be mined here.
But anyway, a grown up Mona would be a pretty cool character that I’d really like to write one day. You know the saying that raising a kid “takes a village”? This kid’s got quite the “village” around her. There’s just so much to work with and pull from for how she’d turn out.