RRY2K

But, before I share said art, lil ramble from me.

Forzen and Benrey are incredibly personal characters to me, encapsulating my journey as a disabled 'n mentally ill trans guy learning to be okay with myself. Forzen contains my journey with gender and disability, while Benrey contains my journey with mental illness and disability; having depression for as long as i can remember, Benrey is especially personal to me. For me and my characters, RRY2K was going to be a story of growth and healing, learning to become okay with yourself and accept help from loved ones, that even if you can't get to a point of self-love, self-neutrality is just as good if not better. I'm not all too sad to see RRY2K go, and despite Everything, I am glad for the friends it helped me make and for the story I was able to craft with my friends despite the hardships 'n stress.

While I can't lie, RRY2K and the behind-the-scenes stuff for it was incredibly stressful for me. I can't thank y'all enough for supporting us and showing interest in us, our story, and our characters despite everything. The art, and theories, and interest meant the world to all of us, and I can't thank y'all enough for supporting us even with everything.

So, thank you, Emails, for everything.

Anyways, enough of me ramblin' art time >:)

Deep Web and its associated characters ^^

Various other behind the scenes doodles (:

Something else I contributed to the blog that was incredibly important to me was The Deep Web. Every blog of this nature has one, but I wanted it to be something special for us. RRY2K's Deep Web was a complex thing that I put a lot of time writing and drawing into, so I'm taking the opportunity to show off that too while we're here. I don't know if I can do it justice explaining, but we can still sit and appreciate the visuals together, ok?

You'll also see bits and pieces of other late-game plot beats and character moments beyond just Coomer and The Deep Web because of just how much art I did for the blog that you haven't been able to see before. Happy Third Birthday, RRY2K (:

Long time no see, where have we been?

Since Summer of 2025 I've been working with the team to try and give this project another go with a fresh set of paint, better planning, and a lot more comfortable of a space to work in than our first attempt writing for the blog. It was something some of us were really excited for, and hoping we could revive the project with a little hope, trust, pixie dust, elbow grease, whatever it took!

Though, in the end we've come to realise that the weight from our first attempt is just something we couldn't shake, couldn't separate from the concept itself, and due to that and other internal issues that have arose since we've decided it's in the best interest for our own mental health and remaining love for the characters we each have to lay RRY2K as a story of its own into its peaceful rest like we should've back in 2024 before our First anniversary celebration.

That's not to say the characters themselves won't persist, but they'll each be in the hands of their own individual writers to give them each their own story to be everything they didn't get the chance to be on the blog, and to tell those individual characters' journeys in their own ways or make brand new ones for them. Each of the characters from RRY2K was incredibly personal to their writer, and I want everyone to get to keep their characters close to them and make something new that they're really proud of.

That being said, despite the project now being what I suppose could be considered abandoned I don't want to see Anyone trying to remake, recreate, reclaim, or revive RRY2K as a whole, a concept, or its cast of characters, whether they be a member of the audience or a member of our own team. I consulted everyone I could, and we really do all want this project to just rest as it is, and have that behind us all. It was an incredibly personal thing to us, and isn't one that anyone should be attempting to recreate outside of the characters they themselves wrote for the project.

That might sound a little scary, but I have to say it because someone has told me someone may have already been attempting this in some form, so we have the boundary now in plain text, ok? No hate to any of you emails, rest assured. I'm just looking out for myself and my team.

There's a lot of other things I could say about RRY2K, but to throw it all in one post would be overwhelming to say the least haha. But I do have the ask box open just in case. I won't guarantee answers, but if you had a question that I have something worthwhile to say about, then I'll do my best (:

For now, what's in store for the big occasion today?

Well, three years is a lot of time for a lot of art that you all haven't gotten to see before. As the person within the team who's probably made the most art for the blog over the years I thought it'd be nice to share with you all some of the stuff I've drawn since the project was first announced. Because my most notable character was a "spoiler" I wasn't allowed to post most of my art publicly before or talk about him, so there is a LOT of it. Let's change that today, yeah? He's been under lock and key for three years, and I think it's about time I showed our Internal Clock off (:

As December approaches we now reach the halfway mark on our writers’ holiday break. Just a little longer and then we’ll be returning to you once more with more behind the scenes updates as we get RRY2K back into shape for its rerun!

Hello emails, we meet yet again for another update! These may get a little shorter while the team's taking the care to balance RRY2K work with their important real life priorities, but that doesn't mean we'll be leaving you without news. In fact, here's a few of the things we've done since the update last month!

Hello, emails! We’d like to formally welcome you to the first of our progress logs. These posts will give you a spoiler-free sneak peak behind the scenes of RRY2K to share some of our enthusiasm for this project with you as we’re getting things ready to go! On the 24th of each month from now until the start of our first session you’ll be seeing a post much like this updating you on all that we’ve been working on and some more of what’s to come. We hope that these can bring you some excitement as you await our coming redebut :)

Without further ado, our August Progress Update!