Bonus : About Laurence…
Well, I thought I’d be taking a break, but I’m still working hard on a ton of Frivolesque-related stuff. :(
Here’s a little bonus content in the meantime! (Which actually took longer to make than I thought it would. There goes my R&R.)
Thank you guys for sticking with us!
If it helps, this is what George RR Martin refers to as being a gardener-style writer: planting the seed and letting the story grow and evolve on its own terms. I do the same with my writing as well.
Martin even has be beaten when it comes to the sheer amount of characters.
Yours do have a longer life expectancy though. If Martin wrote this Clementine would die and you’d feed on our rage and sadness.
If Martin wrote this half the cast would already be dead :).
The hat your comic avatar wears makes you look a lot like a young George RR Martin actually.
Pray she never develops fourth wall awareness
Don’t worry, she already shredded that wall beyond recognition, so she won’t be aware of it any longer.
That would explain the feeling I have that Laurence is watching me watch you watch her.
“This lead to a dilemma” led
“ended up feeling felt like” is mix of two ways to phrase it.
“much more nonsensical thaN”
Fixed everything, thanks guys.
I should proofread myself more.
You’re welcome! :)
Heh, I totally loved where this went with Laurence. It really helped to install some sort of, what can I say, magic into the comic. Dez, you’re a great storyteller and you’ll never cease to amaze us, whether this was intended or not.
Yes, I totally agree on the magic thing. I like peaceful mysteries like the beginning of the anime Air, so I have a soft spot for the whole mystery surrounding Laurence as well.
You call it “little” bonus content, Dez? I thought it would be just a pin-up! =)
Anyways, if your characters are rebelling against their creator and making their own decisions, it means you’re doing everything just right)
Btw, “a girl that looked eerily similar to Laurence” – didn’t you mean “similar to Flore?”
Also, what’s with the “Gail”? ;)
The four characters were initially called Gaia, Saki, Maki and Yuki. Then I tried to “deweabooize” them later and they became Gail, Rain, Chloe and Marie-Neige. But since Saki was Japanese anyway, I decided to keep her as “Saki” for Frivolesque and kept “Rain” as her code name. “Yuki” was also kept as a nickname of Marie. (Ben is the only one calling her that so far) I reverted Gail to Gaia at the very last minute because it was just nostalgic, and not all that bad. (just before drawing her first strip) That’s why some early material still had her called “Gail”, like that early mugshot pic.
Are any of the characters in this story PC gamers or do the all game on consoles? Somehow I can imagine Marie-Neige building a PC from scratch.
I believe M-N plays on PC, MMO or something.
http://frivolesque.com/archives/comic/fujoshi
Marie does play mostly PC, but she sticks to korean MMORPGs, fan-made visual novels, indie titles on Steam and a bit of emulation. Her machine is as stock as it gets.
So no characters with cool powerful gaming PC’s. awww : ( lol
So, the sixth main character is either the frog, the bear, or the Old God in the box, right?
Err, the Toad. My bad. Please don’t kill me. D:
It’s actually the walrus.
Drat! I was so close, too!
I’ve learned to never question serendipity, and that trying clarify a mystery/paradox only creates more mysteries and paradoxes. So Clementine HAD to become the sixth. And perhaps Laurence should be the classic, “This will never be explained…”.
OR you could just have fun getting commenters to hunt red herrings with Chekhov’s gun. ;-)
Voted for Frivo again and as of this post, it’s 191st place.
“(…) and a hint of the character Paprika from the 2006 movie of the same name (…)”
Awwww… A missed opportunity to use the word “titular”. This is a word too fun to miss out on using whenever you can. ;-)
But seriously, thanks for the insight into the writing process, and for the chibi Liliane. :-D