Practice drawing 🎨 and writing 📜

@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:36:22 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

CAOMouse:

Can you give me some examples of random ideals?I don't know which ideal is worth it

The main characters and the magic runes with circular designs in Errant are scraps of another idea I had but abandoned because it was bad. I had this comic idea where two girls get sucked into a fantasy world and have to travel with a spoiled prince and his two bodyguards who are knights. I quickly found that the characters were a bit boring, and the "ordinary girls sucked into a fantasy world" felt really played out, so I scrapped the idea, but kept elements I liked for later, these elements were:

Knights with magic powers.

The King's bodyguard knight characters, Rekki and Subo (Rekki became the main character).

A story with female friends as a central element (but instead of the two normal girls, one of the girls was replaced with Rekki and I created a friend character for her, which if you've read Errant, it's obviously Sarin).

I also brought in other scraps of ideas I'd had and written down. These included:

I thought the way that in Iaido the drawing of the sword is an attack in itself, and sometimes the draw is the decisive strike. So I came up with a system based around sword draw magic.

I hate how in a lot of fantasy stories "changeling" is used to mean "shape-shifter" when in the actual old British mythology it means a child who has been swapped for a fairy. I incorporated changelings who are more like the latter into my setting.

Magic treated as a type of energy with coloured wavelengths and a spectrum visible to humans, based on the electromagnetic spectrum which fascinated me when I learned it in high school physics.

A character who looks like Belldandy from Oh My Goddess but is secretly evil! This concept evolved a lot and ended up as the character of Juliet (named for Juliet Cesario, the VA for that character in the dub of the old OVA of that anime) who moved a really long way from that concept through development.

A modern British setting with magic where the weather is almost always rainy or overcast.

Arthurian legends and a twist on the Sword in the Stone mythology.

Alternate Universe where the Anglo-Saxons never conquered Britain and it remained more of a Romano-Celtic nation in cultural terms with Paganism as the dominant religion and worship of deities like Brigantia, Mercury and Sulis-Minerva. I find Roman Britain fascinating and wanted to incorporate some of that.

Colour palette based on the print colours in pre-digital American comic books because I love the vibe of 80s X-men.

Basically, anything that isn't out of place and that I can work in, I'll see if I can work it in. Otherwise, I'll save it for another project.