For what reason are you telling your story?

Oh man, that reason has evolved so much over the time. That really takes me back

When I was a bit younger I was actively playing Forum RPs in a Sonic Forum. I had a ton of fun making characters, designing my own bad guys and doing all the cheesy things, you do with Sonic OCs. With me and my friends getting older our stories of course evolved and the RPs didn't have much in common with Sonic anymore, except the character designs. One friend of mine specifically stuck out because he was working on a story for years already and was/is planning to use it in a video game. I was very impressed by the amount of work he put into building his world.

This kinda inspired me to evolve my own skills and build on the things, I already had. So I chose one of the characters with a more interesting backstory and expanded on it. While doing that my character evolved from a fan character to his own thing and became the protagonist of "The Machinist". The comic actually kinda tells her backstory.

Of course a bit more thinking was put into that before making the comic. A lot of political themes found their way into the world, new characters got invented and so forth. I started the comic with a very personal goal in mind, mainly getting more disciplined and learning a lot about composition. But if you want to be technical, the reason I tell my story is that I wanted to tell a story of an RP character, that had more potential than that (in my humble opinion) ^^

So err this is mine... or rather it's my rendition of it

I've always loved the stories I was told as a child but as i grew up far away from my home country, everything became more and more distant. I wanted something to tie me back to my home and to remind myself that even though I'm not physically there the stories of my past still define me as me. u..u

As for me I had the characters floating around in my head for a long time but I was to insecure to get started at first. But in the end I just had to get started because I really needed to get the story out there. It was living inside me. After publishing the first chapter of it it has developed more then I could ever had dreamed about. I keep going because I love the characters and I want to keep on hanging out with them.

I used to sit in my bedroom and look at the bookshelf, full of my comic books and be upset that I spent sooo much time working on them and no one would ever know. It's very personal and important because it always felt like unfinished business.

My lord...one of these threads.
okayy...

So.
I used to base this on my friends and social life. Like, a certain friend of mine would influence this character, this event would be in there, and so on and so forth.
That's the short story.

The long one:
My friend decided to make a short story that landed him in one hell of a time when it was revealed to the general populace.
Not wanting to be left behind, I made my own version, except, you know, less controversial. That would later become the foundation of Background People.
Then later, well...Background People was born after one of my friends said a really nice little quote, which I used in the title.

"We're just the people in the background. The background people."

And so...there this thing was formed.

I started Paladin in response to a post on r/Writingprompts. The prompt was: "What doesn't kill me has made a tactical error."

Honestly didn't have any backstory or worldbuilding at that point. I just thought it'd be cool to write a paladin whose powers were more like a death knight's.

Also my dad had died three months before, so I had a lot of things weighing on my mind.

Oh man, sorry to hear that.

okie dokie

Maxiboy became a thing in my head when I was walking home with a friend (at the time we lived together in this ''US college inspired dormitory'' in Brazil, run by one of the most hateful men I've ever known) and he was telling me how when he was a kid he had this super hero he created which was, well, himself and his name was like ''SUPER D'', for his initial and all that.
I was just enchanted by how simples and honest something like this is. I was reading a lot of Silver Age comics and had just read Supergods, the autobiography/super hero treatise where he said what he loved the most about this age, creativity aside, was how authors would sprinkle really personal themes in absurd stories, stuff about identity, fears and whatever. I also love Smallville. I'm obsessed with it.
So I just wanted to do something a little like that: a Silver Age kid Superman, mixed with some 2000's teenage drama.

At the time I was also writing some 3 projects and they all had snarky, messed up protagonists. People who meant well but had some really heavy flaws, so I wanted to write a really upbeat, clean cut hero for a change.
Besides the point that I believe everything we do is a mirror unto itself, the idea of Maxiboy became very important to me as my life kind of spiraled out of control those last years. I find myself revisiting and dealing with childhood memories through some of this stuff sometimes. I also like to give this kid hero the strength I find myself lacking sometimes.
It's personal to me in the way the best super heroes are.

Whoa it's fun to see many reasons here. I'll share mine too!

For me, I got this idea on final week. I used too many sticky notes at my notice board and it suddenly reminds me with something. When I was a senior student in high school, my deskmate and I shared quoted post-it note nearly everyday as our motivation boost. It was just a simple sentence but it's nice to see people reading it.

So I made it a little bit twist and yeah. After discussing with my friend, the plot is done on final week when I'm supposed to revise everything on finals. I'll just hope I'm doing well hahaha

I started mine cause i loved watching mystery stories but always thought i could write a better scenario , then i realized how dificult it is and just continued from habbit.

Of all the episodes of Sanguine I wrote, I think this one highlights my thinking most clearly.

Several conversations with a fellow nerd at my work had me wanting to tell a story wherein humans didn't really matter for a while, and Sanguine is that story. It struck me that there are so many tales wherein angels, demons, gods, vampires, high elves, immortal aliens, or whatever else with active interests and ambitions, but among them all, humans still tend to have the run of the world. There are a hundred ways to handwave that, of course, but it mostly comes down to the trope "Most Writers are Human" .

I'm not immune, really; for all their power, blackbloods still assume human form more often than any other. No one thus far has brought up to me the darker implications blackbloods casually gloss over, but I do hope those who read are picking up on it.

It was thank to a random incident.
When i was a kid and i was playing with my cousins, for some reason i found a rock in my toy box. I mockingly used it as a "character". This character was an inanimate object.
I made "Rocky" the hero of this story and we laughed a lot. That incident remained in my memory for many years. I had to make a story with that concept, so i started drawing Rocky the rock. The people i showed the story loved it, and i had a lot of fun doing it. Many years later i decided to improve the story and post it here.
Edit: adding a link to my comic

I'm trying to get back into drawing regularly so that I don't lose the skill. Also I just wanted to get the ideas out of my head.

Here is the story:

My story is a mix of things. I always have a battle within myself with one parent telling me to pursue a more practical field and one telling me to be happy and pursue something creative, even if I don't make a lot of money. Long story short, I choose a very accelerated track and also have a hobbling writing/art career that I have surprisingly also kept up. Then recently the creative parent passed and I felt this void, so I have a year of the practical field left to finish and I have amazingly written 16 short stories and 2 comics in one year alone. I'd like to think that that would make my parent happy. So that's why dead end florals is dedicated to my mom.

The second person who its dedicated to is someone who I had to leave behind. That person didn't really understand why I was over-extending myself to pursue two careers when one already pays very well. I wish I could've had that person understand why it was important to keep art in my life.

At first I created a webcomic because I wanted to make a fun story about a jazz band that sucked. There wasn't really a storyline or anything, it was a generic funny "squad" webcomic.
Overtime it kind of just evolved into a story about a girl trying to get her life back together lol

Eh, there's a few reasons why I made the comic I did.

1. I wanted to improve with drawing cities, and perspective.
2. Growing up I saw things like mental illness used as a cheap way to villainize a character, or both mental and physical illness being used as a lazy way to force sympathy on a character without the author doing any research or only bringing up these problems for convenience. Getting a little sick of it I wanted to make a story where those subjects where a major focus, treating them with a sense of humanity, and a part of the character's life rather than a plot device.
3. I really like characters who are flawed visually and personality wise. People irl suck, and I wanna show how much they can suck via my comic.
4. It's fun making fictional characters suffer.
5. Friend and family love are the best kind of love imo, and I feel like those aren't touched on enough in stories.
6. I wanted an outlet for my frustrations, and depressive thoughts. Analyzing dark, abysmal stuff via a comic helps put my own feelings into perspective. Having a comic also gives me a purpose drawing wise, which is good because drawing is like a coping mechanism, and helps me relax after being stressed out all day.

I'd say my current project is moderately important to me, it touches on subjects I really enjoy working with while being a tool for my emotional benefit and improving my mad skillz.

I had this OC I really wanted to make use of, but none of the worlds I made for him could stick long enough for me to work on them and I kind of don't see a point of having OCs if they don't belong somewhere. And also I really badly wanted to make a comic about him. After many changes in his appearance and many tries at making a story I finally talked to my best friend about my problem. She gave me a "kick in the butt" and few ideas, so I could finally work on my series and now I'm motivated enough to keep it going even though it's still very new. xD

I've always wanted to tell slice-of-lifeish/adventure-y stories set in a semirealistic world about kids growing up and whatnot. finding that story within the world has been my struggle, buut I'm getting there!

I've noticed i like telling emotional stories with "lessons" if you will that might help readers struggling with a similar problem irl. so i guess, besides exploring a new medium, i want to help people via sensitive storytelling, because why not? plus I've got a ton of original characters I'd like to introduce to the world!!

(also because comics are the poor man's animated film and Hollywood sucks amiright?)