#prismaie

1. what’s the last screenshot you’ve taken for your story?

not very pretty or glamorous lmao

5. how do you choose your characters’ names?

answered here!

6. how long have you been working on your story for?

the save got started in august/september 2017. it was basically gameplay and very little to no storytelling at first. i'd say the storytelling started mostly around late september/october which might not seem like a long time, but in practical terms this is the span in which i played chief of mischief up to soulmate so... yeah. i worked on it on and off during the years, though. i did plan things in my 2018 hiatus, but mid 2019-march 2021 i did no work.

the ideas for gremlin started in winter 2017/2018. i had a rough place of what i wanted to include in all parts, but they only get fleshed out as i approach them.

7. whats the biggest risk you’ve taken with your story? did it pay off?

that's an interesting question! i can think of two:

malcolm as jessamine's primary partner. the original plan had khalil as her primary partner, and he would have another partner in basil. (jessamine and basil were always meant to be half-siblings so they would never be in a relationship) i had always planned to have jess be enemies with someone in chief of mischief, with whom she'd make amends in friend of the world. malcolm was it because he was part of the welcome wagon. and then he stuck around. and my wife fell in love with him and so did i! and that was it. i think it paid off. jessamine and malcolm have.... grown on me, i suppose. they're two deeply broken people at the start. their relationship was a mess right off the bat. they made a friendship work, and then they rushed the romantic part of their relationship because "that's what normal couples do" and they had no idea what an actual good couple does (i've been meaning to do an edit for them with hozier's like real people do for an age). hence all the mess that happens between master chef and party animal. they've made it work.