It's been a while since I last designed one of Lila Storm's transformations:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lila-storm-art-129075666
I have a treatment written out for the pilot (featuring this one who is 100% intended to be a NiGHTS expie as she's supposed to represent fandom OCs that tend to just be recolors of the canon characters. Everybody thinks of Sonic when they think of that, which is why I gave her Sonic's color scheme, but NiGHTS was the first online fandom I ever participated in where that was common, except I'd argue NiGHTS fans were even goofier about it because at least Sonic fans half the time make their recolored OCs imperfect clones or long-lost siblings or something, they'll acknowledge that their purple Sonic looks like Sonic and address why he looks like Sonic, good luck getting a NiGHTS fan from 2009 to admit their flying jester with a twin-horned hat looked like NiGHTS in the slightest and that making them red with white stripes instead of purple with darker purple stripes wasn't fooling anyone) and I've been hard at work on a treatment for the second chapter, an unfortunate necessity considering getting the treatments all done for my Captain N revival was borderline my new year's resolution and I've been pretty stuck after the first major character arc. That one felt like it was writing itself, like I wasn't telling the relevant character what to do, he was telling me what to write. The next character who needs to go through their arc is not working with me as easily, so I might as well chip away at something else until she decides to. For context, I'm not much of a writer, it doesn't come to me as easily as drawing and character design, and I just plain don't find it fun which I'm sure doesn't help, to me it's just a means to an end that I have to do before I can get to the actually fun part, so it's a much slower process for me than it would be for a lot of other people. I'd also really rather not pass the writing duty off to anyone else, literally anyone else, I don't care how uncomplicated or noncerebral both Captain N and Lila Storm are intended to be, I'd rather it be a slow process and be mine than have to draw someone else' vision of what they think my idea should be
theinvertedconnar
2025-08-24 15:23:52 +0000 UTC