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Art Club: Something oddly familiar
🕑 Added 2019-06-04 12:51:01 +0000 UTCWell, here's something a bit different.
Late last year, I decided to re-read a weird little sci-fi story I wrote back in the early 2000's. Two things quickly became apparent: I was far more interested in writing about one of the side characters than I was about many of the more pivotal members of the cast; and said character was a great big trans analogy. Here's the fun part: I didn't know I was trans at the time, though this story was written right around the time I first started to wonder if I might be.
Long story short, I ended up re-purposing parts of that story, forming the foundation for Pandora's Tale. I took the side character I liked, and made her the main character. I also made her explicitly trans this time. I also kept Isabelle, who was originally the main character (albeit with a very different background), but replaced most of the rest of the cast.
I had a lot of drawings of these characters, and many of them were lost several hard drives ago, but a few survive - including this full cast picture. Proto-Pandora has different coloring and ears, but her design hasn't changed a whole lot... though this version, not being a pre-transition trans girl, has boobs. Isabelle is basically unchanged aside from the wildly different outfit: she was a space princess in the original version.
One other character on here survives the transition to Pandora's Tale, though I suspect her design will be quite a bit different this time.
Maybe one day I'll share this story that served as the inspiration for Pandora's Tale (IT IS ACTUALLY STILL ONLINE IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK).
Comments
Sarah Medea Wells
Neat!
