Progress updatee (brain toast)
Note: This is how I feel abt everything rn, but my judgment is very prone to changing lol. Which is also why I self-censored & tried not to go into too many details.
I’m almost done re-outlining TS and I rlly like the changes & new stuff so far :D!
The beginning’s strong, the mid’s pretty good, the latter parts—I’m iffy on & still writing. Might need several drastic changes. This is much better than how I felt abt the previous outline (as far as I can rmbr). I have a direction while writing here—well, except for the late parts. There’s still many ways I can go about it; I want to find what I think works the best.
After I’m done deciding all that, I want to:
- develop Caine’s backstory (cause I want to give them appropriate depth, I feel like I’m neglecting their presence/importance in the story atm bc I haven’t directly written them in a hot moment)
- edit Jackal’s if it’s in need of edits and
- then I’m gonna write the new demo!!!
I’m keeping chunks of the old stuff, some with edits, some minimal on that front. It should go smoother in comparison cause now I don’t have to learn to code on the fly & I’m better at writing/plotting now than when I started (I hope). Worldbuilding does help… screw you, worldbuilding. I hateeee how long it takes to balance ur world.
I should develop MC’s & Willow’s story too (I should & prob will, depending on how I find writing the demo goes), but their stories/characters are more mutable than the 3 RO’s. The most notable change is that Willow will be a “side RO”. I’m not doing this cause I want to expand the roster/writing time, but cause I want to give her proper presence in the story. Cause I want to rip MC’s heart out properly this time (“want” is the operative word here, idk how successful I’ll be about anything).
It’s hard to balance screen time between everyone, but yeah. I’ll either do an ok job of hitting all my goals or flop. Exciting!
I dunno how much romantic stuff u can do with her cause spoilers, she’s still deffo gonna die, but you can at least have the choice between being sorta friends and close friends with subtext and all that. Also, I’m thinking I wanna rng her gender as M/F (not NB unfortunately because that would add a lot of coding, and I’ve been cutting down on some stuff), but mb you’d prefer it to be set the same way as the gender choice for the ROs.
Lemme know how you feel or else it’s gonna be pretty much up to rng (u can always just restart until u get what u want idc that much abt diversifying the cast lol).
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