With my webcomic, Joe Flamingo, It's a project that I let myself make mistakes with and push myself. Doing things I'm not used to so I can improve. But for the story itself, I just combined things I enjoy and give it my own twist to it. My own "Yanik-flair"! 
My Webtoon was originally going to be an overwatch fan fiction where I made an OC and the narrative was that all the characters in the game would come together against a common enemy, understanding one another. However, as I made it, I realized I had a lot of original ideas so I decided to add a magic system, create more orginal characters, pick the theme of Empathy as my foundation. I wrote the story and later, I decided to get it made into a Webtoon, directing every step of it. Gama Byeonhwan was actually Hana Song but she was modified into her own character. The Ingan were the Omnic. The man who is now Chibimask was previously my OC but he's been modified a ton.
Link: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/veraque/list?title_no=401821
Oooohhhh, I know what you’re talking about. I actually read the manga 
To you, the Immortal. I found it on a whim like a year ago. I’ve never found anyone else who reads it 
it didn’t inspire my story but the reincarnation/immortal aspect did make me think of it
I found it this year while browsing Amazon. Isn't it so good??
Got it, it's different anyways but it still made me think of it haha
A team based Shooter with a decent amount of lore. I wanted the game to have a narrative so I was going to make my own but then I realized that I could just make it its own story. The webcomic I'm writing now is massively different from what my fanfiction would have been.
I used to have this habit, I did it with media both good and bad where I put a random voice into the existing story and just made fun of all the characters for their actions. I was doing this with Twilight and then I thought about making a parody of the vampire genre. I came up with this story of a vampire priest, but it was basically just a very straightfoward typical vampire story, but with a gay priest twist. However one of the side characters from that story, I ended up liking a lot. He was kind of a Danny Devito vampire and now he's my main character.
It evolved from the concept of just a creepy weird town with all the residents being secretly monsters and it followed an emotionless 8-year old girl. I remembered having no adult show their face as a style choice. All coming from a joke about "what the hell was wrong with this place".
It changed alot from there the characters are now 13, the every resident being monster point was eventually dropped, though it did had lasting effects on my human character designs. And my characters personalities were either tone down (hila, F) or just changed completely (Mc)
I had written a story in Turkish about people with masks covering their faces. The no face part reminds me of it
Just a prompt is enough for me to build an entire story. *Our Universe was actually a short story I wrote for a writing prompt in a discord server:
When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world. This creates fissures, valleys and even cracks in the pavement. Tell a story about one of the broken pieces in this world.
I made it a short cosmic horror romance story, and then I was like "this could be a comic". So I did that. It was supposed to be a oneshot as well. But then it just got bigger and bigger. Now I'm working on ending season 2 and leading into season 3.
I will say that even vague concepts can help with a story. The vaguer or the stranger, the better. Hell, I've been working on a comic based on the fact that butterflies also drink blood. I ended up doing concept art of a woman with butteflies in her hair because she's dead. And then I thought -- "what if she was a ghost or back from the dead?" Boom -- another cosmic horror story.
Thanks! I really like vague prompts when it comes to storytelling. And if not a vague prompt, then a certain aesthetic or basic concepts (such as the four seasons, the four elements, chess pieces, etc). It gives me a lot of room to play around with the ideas and really throw in the things I want.
It's like using flour for a base. The idea is the flour, and all of the spices and herbs are the things I want from the idea and my end goal. A sprinkle here, a dash there, and you got yourself a nice flour mixture you can use for recipes!
This may or may not be a little embarrassing, but I came up with Super after listening to the song “Shadow” by BTS. The lyrics gave me this idea of what it would be like to be famous but also have all of these terrible things going on in the background that the public doesn’t see. So while you get everything you want, fame and fortune, you’re also faced with challenges that most people would never in their lifetime encounter. It shows just how lonely it can be at the top.
Some of the events, especially in the beginning, are also based around real-life issues I faced.
listening to Dynamite by BTS
Did you say BTS 
That's perfectly fine, nothing embarrassing. Who knows, maybe people will understand "how it can be lonely at the top" thanks to your story
Oh? Do you dance? 
Oh I tried to dance but I‘m not so great at it 
I was more so referring to what happened towards the end of chapter one with the best friend and the whole housing thing. I had a “friend” once who went behind my back and basically kicked me out of my own apartment to get the master bedroom from me. It was a hot mess, but I’m better off away from them.
And lol yessss Dynamite is amazing! 
Oh, that sucks. I hope they regret doing that to you now, not that it matters much after all this time.
Yes, it is! I've been listening to it on repeat today haha
I feel like I’ve had Dynamite stuck in my head for the past week I’m not complaining though! It’s really catchy
Yeah I saw some interviews recently and J-Hope’s English has improved a lot over the past few years!
Are you an army?
Well that really depends on the story on hand here.
Do you mean a individual story or the entire universe here?
That’s understandable, I follow some of them on insta and Weverse, but for the most part I’m focused on the music
Well talking about the story I’m currently making into a comic is much less cringy than talking about how the world came to be.
My comic Anti-Deity started off as a language arts assignment for school. We were suppose to write ourselves as the main character for a survival novel. I never finished the story as 1. I hated it, and 2. It wasn’t required that we finished so yay.
Harlow (my main character) is a self insert. In fact, 60% of the characters are based off my friends and people I have met online. So the story is like one big self insert, but without all the wish fulfillment.
The whole universe however… I best not talk about that.
Sure, you don't have to if you don't want to haha
I think my stories are self-inserts as well. I'm not very social irl so I have limited resource to turn to for characters
The Draygon books I've been working on came while I was binge playing Dragon Age Inquisition. Now it's been so long I can't remember what my original idea was, but as I actually wrote it the first book evolved well beyond Dragon Age so now the only resemblance of the game is I have a version of tranquil mages. I call them the Vanguard Mages and they're forced to wear bracelets that zap them of all freewill and thought.
I had another book called Lady of the Mysts that was inspired by the Aes Sedai in Wheel of Time. That one ended up staying a little TOO similar to the Aes Sedai for my liking so it needs to go through some major rewrites at some point so it no longer looks like an out right copycat.
The final book that was directly inspired by something is a book called The Thirteenth Day. I was reading the Raven Cycle books and really liked the Ghost character in it. Made me think about what would happen if he wasn't actually dead but just trapped while his body was dying. I know that story has actually been done a million times before in both books and movies, but it's still what I wanted to write. So I wrote a kind of love story where the boy could see ghosts and was supposed to use his ability help them crossover. But the girl ended up not being a ghost, just treading that thin line of life and death.
Dragon Age Inquisition! I played that game(but never got around to finishing it )
Your stories all sound interesting though the last one sounds sad as well
My upcoming webcomic, Celestials, started off as a sort of parody of Hetalia. Basically, the premise was "what if Hetalia... but with planets instead." I was too lazy to do research on space and stuff so I kind of made up my own lore. And over the 3-4 years I've had the idea, it managed to occupy parts of my brain space enough to the point that the lore and story is incredibly different to the ones I originally had. It was originally a stupid comdey slice-ofplife feautring aliens, and is now a fantasy webcomic set in space.... featuring aliens.
Sadly, Celestials isn't released yet, and it's not gonna release in a while. Life stuff and the occasional writer's block makes it so progress on writing it has kinda grinded to a halt 
but I'm excited to share it on Tapas when I can!
I wanted to do a comic remake from my childhood, which Inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM, and some Isekai stories. It's more battle shounen-like. Over the years it has becoming more and more elaborate & detailed in my head: a large cast of characters, plots and places... I feel that it's too large and ambitious for my first webcomic.
So i decided to tell a much smaller scope, intimate and grounded of a story: a backstory of a certain new member of a group. It's all happening in the same universe i created, just on a different place, story tone and drawing style.
