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Anonymous asked:

How did you come up with idea for Phantomland's story, world and characters? Were things different back then? And have characters changed in any ways from when you first planned them?

Good question, thanks!

I think the original idea was that if I’m gonna draw such a big project, naturally it should be something cool & entertaining so I just proceeded to slap together some of my OC’s and a bunch of story elements that I personally found interesting. Out came a world of uniforms and fighting, basically :D Writing an action-heavy thing about regular people would’ve been too limiting so I came up with the ghost virus, too. Things kinda evolved from there and the overarching drama and conflict ended up being mostly about this special minority of people and their role in society

Most of the characters haven’t changed all that much from my first drafts. The chief I originally designed to be male but changed at the last minute. Such a good decision though! Jon started off as a somewhat talkative type with witty remarks, but those traits seemed to suit Elias better, so I turned Jon more blunt and simple to balance that. Overall I haven’t been changing things so much as expanding them from where I started, like character dynamics, and how the virus works, and the politics and history of the city

But yeah, these things I actually explain in better detail in the bonus pages of the print version :)