I’m feeling rlly bored so
A post abt what inspired me to make Limler and his history, since he was the first onceler I made ever.
1. Creature Feature/Rufus Rex
Creature Feature was a band started by both Curtis RX and Erik X in the 2000s. It’s more “niche” nowadays but back then they had merch in hot topic and everything. Rufus Rex is a solo project from Curtis RX and I wanted to base Lim off of his work, so he’s more Rufus Rex than he is Creature Feature.
2. School For Little Vampires
Batler is more inspired than Lim is for this one, but I took HEAVY Inspiration from the art style. This show is originally german and, of course, based on a german book under the same name but Netflix picked it up and provided english episodes up until the last season. I thought the art style was cute and I had grown up with the show, so I wanted to use the art style for a nostalgic feel.
Once again, a music thing. You’d pronounce recognize him from his knife game songs, the noose songs, the cuss words song, or him building a giant guillotine and pretending to chop his head off on livestream, but i’ve been a fan of his work for quite some time now and felt I wanted to incorporate my love for his work into a character.
History section,,, aka me just rambling.
I think I had wanted to make a onceler myself for a few months before thinking of him, and he’s definitely gone through some phases. I’ll try not to spoil the story here,,,
Originally he was a showman running a freakshow and his name was cf-ler. This concept centered around The Greatest Show Unearthed, but I scrapped the idea. Then he was gonna be based off of Dr. Sawbones, a song and character also by CF and he would have a garden where he would use corpses as fertilizer. I wasn’t satisfied with that idea either obviously and tried to settle on him being trapped in what was kind of just the backrooms. I didn’t think of it like that until a friend pointed it out and I thought it was funny, that’s when i named him Lim.
Finally the most planned out (and still scrapped) concept. One of his engineers tampered with one of the machines in the factory, causing an incident where an employee had died. Because of the backlash and his inability to just let go of the past, he boarded himself up in his factory and refused to leave despite being tormented by the ghost of said employee. I liked the idea, but in the end I just didn’t like him as much as I could and now we’re at the current story!
