9. why were you drawn to each one of your characters?
oh man i always love this question
Jane: so janeās like, my fav disney girl. she is me. Iāve been rping jane for liek....SEVEN YEARS. or ratherĀ āa janeā. I like the fact that the nerdy, awkward girl has this thirst for adventure and follows her dad to africa and is just so passionate about learning all that she can. I loev that. I tried to do a diff version of that here--like jane come back from africa. like what wouldāve happened if she left tarzan and came back and just had to live through edwardian england? sheād be deperessed, man
Howl: simply put, I wanted a sorcerer. I couldnāt find one I liked though, till I was like hey can we use GHIBLI films. I am a fan of the movie and the book and they are very different and Howl was an attempt to reconcile both those versions of Howl. And explore magic. I love sorcerery, i love witches, ugh.
Eva: my other fav magical beings are vampires. but canonically thereās like,,,no,,,disney vampires. so mk and i improvised.
Roger: rog is another old character. i wanted a #hip musician essentially, in his first run. and hip musician grew to loveable goofy roger and i wanted to bring him to swynlake
Callie: the muse bios were DOPE AS HELL and i wanted in. also i was watching a lot of steven universe at the time ad aĀ lot of Callie comes from steven fun fact
Daisy: i wanted a poor little rich girl. i also had a daisy before but she was MUCH different. I also wanted to explore a mental illness. plus,, its fun to be rich.Ā
Jake: i wanted someone with a similar racial identity background as me to explore Chinese culture and how one reconciles that with Whiteness (Tm)
Ly: man, i just wanted iLLUSION MAgIC. I LOVE ILLUSION MAGIC. sheās v heavily inspired by the night circus, aka like my fAVOurIte book and i wanted a chance to explore that and also a girl who has lost everything and someone who just romanticizes the shit out of literally everything aha
Al: al was a joke. essentially, i wanted to create the combination of every single character trait I hate in people and somehow redeem him. have i done so? thats a question for the audience at home
Alana: i wanted a family, i wanted a bitch, I wanted a swynlake native. i really Lanaās slyth secondary. i think sheās my best example of a slyth secondary--sheāll twist and turn and youāll never know if she actually hates you
Dipper: i wanted a Nerd. he is my Big Nerd. i was also hella self indulgent w my fc choice bc iāve loved devon bostick since diary of a wimpy kid