#skepticasks

starting out, it was just a silly role play that we just kept adding on to over time; both story wise and character wise! there was a Lot of retconning within the rp itself and comparing it to the comic now, literally nothing is the same, but it was still a good place to start for us imo!

then after high school we stopped rping it due to just not having any more time to do so and went on to just sort of discussing it more seriously when it came to actual comic stuff? but a lot of our favorite ideas have been born from us just going “WHAT IF THIS WILD THING HAPPENED” or “I JUST MADE THIS RAD CONNECTION AND IM GONNA YELL IT AT YOU RIGHT NOW”. and just sort of having fun with it and bouncing whatever ideas/dialogue we have off of each other when we hang out!

I really feel like a big part of making it work out is just being honest!! sometimes I’ll suggest something and Kate will be like “that doesn’t make sense and here’s why” and vice versa! it’s really good to have someone else to keep u in check. I get really impatient with making long term stories like skeptical for instance and Kate rly helps me to slow it down and look at the big picture (and to also check pages for me before I post them when she’s free from work and school lol).

you’re not being pushy at all! i think i’ve covered p much everything here in this previous ask.

ooh yea most definitely!! i wish i could rewrite/redraw the entire first arc and probably a bit of the second one, too. i wasnt planning on this to be a long-running thing when i drew the first parts and also did them on impulse so theres not a lot of thought put into them, its just very loosely based on the original roleplay.

heck yea!! It started out as like, “I created this oc just now” “I also created this oc just now” “they should date” “Yes”, and then Kate and I roleplayed the original story on lined paper in school until we graduated i think. after(?) high school we continued to rp still for a while over tegaki messenger! these days tho we actually plan stuff out in full. I still have the beginning rp in a folder somewhere but no other eyes shall see it as long as I live

It was also Incredibly Dark when it first started out?? I won’t go into that either because it was Bad, and also Chip and Louie had noses. also, Noah was a wimp before I accidentally gave him anchor arms in the comic, now he’s a jerk and everybody loves him.

I think there was at least a yyyeaaarr between starting the rp and then starting the comic itself completely on a whim?? My initial thoughts were like “this won’t be a long comic. It’ll just be a short thing, I’m not gonna draw the entire story and all these characters that’s just Silly”

i was a FOOL

BUT I AM HONESTLY really happy that I started it when I did!!! I think if we had put more planning into it before starting out there would have been a lot more hesitation, like, “is this good enough??good enough for the Internet?” Which i feel is what stops a lot of people from starting their own comics!! A lot of the story has changed drastically since we started out, and there’s stuff that’s still changing every time Kate and I talk about it… I don’t know how long it’s going to take until I actually finish it But I’m still super excited to draw all of it!!!