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ladyyatexel

Auxiliary Art Dumping: scraping the reSWAN barrel

Oct 25, 2014 21:09

Since I've been doing so much at work and the people there have been exhausting me, AND I've been doing sort of a barebones version of Goretober, there has not been a lot of action on the creative front. But I have some shreds of reSWAN stuff that I can throw at you, because I'd better get it out now while I'm still reasonably fond of it. I learned ( Read more... )

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kuzujuk October 26 2014, 04:15:28 UTC

I think Johnny could definitely have some moments of less-selfish clarity without losing his essential Johnny-ness, after all even canon Johnny sometimes recognizes how awful he's being, he just doesn't really DO anything about it... so a less terrible but still fairly terrible Nny I could see taking that essential step at least ONCE in a while.

Also this might be kind of a weird thing to fixate on but I love how you draw his wrists. Although when I was thinking about what it is I love I couldn't articulate that, but did think "they definitely look like they'd be breakable", which I guess is a thought Banshee probably had at one time.

ladyyatexel October 26 2014, 13:51:50 UTC

This is good news! I've always been a little concerned about the balance, especially because canon!Johnny's moments of realizing he's done something horrible are usually comedic, so it feels like it rings strangely tonally if I make something too sincere. It's why his usual defense mechanism is to make his sincere moments funny or laugh them away, because that seems closest in tone to what he did with his original moments of 'clarity ( ... )

kuzujuk October 29 2014, 03:27:26 UTC

Yeah, I can see how it would be tough, but I think you're striking a good balance! There always has to be some shift in tone, I think, when you're moving from a comic to a prose medium, and then this version of him is a more complete person in some ways, while still have crucial things that are not fine.

Also I totally forgot to say I'm sooo glad Dib is going to show up again, I love Dib. And it's kind of cool to think hey, he has an audience, they know that weird supernatural stuff is happening, that's just what actual Dib always wanted!

anonymous October 26 2014, 05:02:18 UTC

Given the things you're doing with Johnny, I can totally see him being less terrible in reSWAN, yet still in character. Even in the original canon, Nny would have moments of genuine care for people (Devi, Squee), and moments that showed he knew who and what he was. I think what SWAN is doing is emphasising that. Like you said, Johnny's still horribly broken, but in SWAN he's a few shades more human, and I think that's important for the story and universe you've set up.

ladyyatexel October 26 2014, 13:59:56 UTC

I'm really glad you feel that way! A lot of what's going on in the reSWAN version of things is happening organically, so I won't know when I get there whether any of what I've doodled will go down the way I've doodled it or at all, but it's nice to get occasional outside confirmation that I'm not completely missing the mark in wanting him to express some shit other than 'lol asshole' occasionally. I'm lucky that it's in this universe where he's a few steps away from the super hard grip of madness and supernatural fuckery that had him in canon, so I can get away with more, but I always feel like I need to be constantly finding justification in the source material somewhere. For some reason it feels like a much larger event when I have him feel something than when I see it in the books, haha. Maybe I'm just hyper vigilant about heading off people who would say I've made him too squishy at the pass or something ( ... )