So… I want to tell you a little more about Mary. She’s the most epic and deeply developed character I’ve ever created. Almost all of her lore and personality live inside my R.E.P.O. stories — and I’m planning to start posting them here very soon (I just discovered that you can actually drop really long texts on Tumblr!).

For the past 4 years I’ve been under constant pressure from our fascist dictatorial regime (yes, I live in Russia — someone please get me out of here, aaaaaaaa). A regime that forces me to stay silent. I can’t even whisper the tiniest criticism of the government without risking 10+ years in prison. This silence is slowly killing me from the inside… A soul born to be free cannot survive in a cage.

And then, suddenly, all that accumulated pain (not only from the regime, but from everything else too) poured out into Mary’s story and her adventures. At first she was just a character inspired by other people’s semibot OCs — basically “haha funny robot with a wig and cat ears”. But step by step she grew into something much bigger: a mirror of my soul, a piece of me.

I think I might have gone too far, turning a goofy big-eyed robot into something genuinely epic… but well, what happened happened. Get ready for my stories. Some will be light, silly and fun — others heavy, even tragic and epic, born straight from the pain inside me.