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signalhill-if · 1 year ago

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Fun fact: a lot of the story ideas I have came from the world I designed for an Apocalypse World game, and at the time I was reading @attollogame and loved Sysba and wound up making a character with a similar premise of being a god banished to live in a human body. That character took on a life of their own and became like everybody's favourite NPC. But they were really specific to that game's story at that point and were very fultifaceted, so when I started writing Signal Hill (which has a totally different plot) I decided to split their role in the story into two different characters, Yvette and Aldrich.

In other words, if you trace it far enough back, 1/3 of my main cast is just Sysba from Attollo

#i expect a cease and desist in the mail promptly #i am joking ofc ames your work is soooooo beautiful and very literally inspirational haha #i'm posting this cause the other day i was talking to my partner about a book series i used to love as a kid called the unicorn chronicles #and i realized that the backstory of the character elihu is literally the same as the AW character in question #like man. inspiration in art is so weird #i hadn't even thought about that book series in years when i came up with that character #watch the tomska video about 'the somerton scale' it'll make you really think about your creative ideas and where they come from #and also he's funny #i've been meaning to do a bit of behind the scenes talk about the origins of signal hill if anybody's curious #i think that might be fun. the process of coming up with it is very roundabout #ALSO IN CASE ANYBODY THINKS THIS IS A SPOILER. IT'S NOT. neither character in signal hill is a god in human form that would be fucking wild #yvette is just yvette <3 aldrich........ well their storyline was ripped from an old story i wrote and never finished. not spoiling that #also there is no cannibalism in signal hill. none. i prommy #yet...

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