「 ✦ Exko Media ✦ 」

I'm Exko or Echo X, whichever. I'm a novice writer and artist.

I'm currently working on two three four (but one’s a secret) projects (all currently incomplete)

Quick disclaimer:

All of these projects are passion projects, but also not guaranteed to ever be completed (due to a whole host of personal problems). As such, my work will always be free, but somethings may go unfinished. I deeply apologize for this.

That Distant Shore

Play here on Itch.io

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The Last Mage AU

(Info post tbc)

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Saint Winslows, Vulston Pride

Read here on Quotev

Read here on AO3

Saint Winslows, Vulston Pride by ExkoXx Chapters: 3/20

Read here on Wattpad

For ‘That Distant Shore’ it’s especially interesting because that was supposed to be a book before it became an IF.

The two names I was able to find for TDS were:

Crashing Tides and a Mothers Hand - this was like… the first version and all I really knew is I wanted it to be a family tragedy on a coastal town lol

The Things We Lost - this was after I knew a but more about where I wanted to go with the concept. But it was still far from the current draft.

Then for Saint Winslows, I basically only knew I wanted a boarding school mystery story (this one actually came about cuz of She Who Shall Not Be Named and my learning about her being an awful human being. Her book series was big for me as a kid though, so I wanted to do something similar-ish while being inherently queer cuz I live off 50% hope and 50% spite)

The oldest name was “The Haunted Halls” which is… definitely a name. 👍

That’s kind of all I have to say about that. The only thing that carried over into what it is now is the town layout lol. This first draft was bad. Like… soooo bad. It was ridiculously wordy. There was a three part prologue that was entirely just describing the town.

This draft eventually changed names to be “The Flowers We Saw That Day” which honestly has nothing to do with the story I have no idea why it was called this other than I think an ex recommended the name. It also finally got to some character stuff. Was still pretty bad though. Eventually I completely rewrote it, starting off with the man characters actual thoughts instead of a disembodied voice explaining the towns layout in excruciating detail. Then I settled on the current name. Somewhat inspired by Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (or the title at least). But also horror movie titles for some reason. (The taglines specifically)

AHHHHHHHHHHH

First piece of 2026 (and first complete piece since last May 😬)

I had a sci-fi outfit idea which gave me motivation to break out the iPad and from there it kinda snowballed into this. Originally it was just gonna be a quick outfit sketch, so I used a pose based (not sketched over, but still, transparency and all that) from Pinterest. I don’t know who made the base, but if I find out, I’ll add the credit.

I think imma name her Caelum. :)

I am clearly less creative than I thought I was because this is twice now that I've used a car stopping as a way to transition out of exposition...

My adult Frisk design for The Last Mage AU. Rough sketch, please ignore the low quality.

Read The Last Mage AU here!