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lemme kisses u

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I remember you mentioning this in your old Regimen MBTI post once, but how do you "get into the characters' headspace?" Is there a particular technique you utilize or is it the result of from being in the EW fandom for so long?

I'm ngl anon, I tried to really think of a general, family friendly, way to answer this. In the best way I can for the sake of most people, it really is just a matter of putting yourself in their shoes, you have to imagine what its like to be in their situation, what facts are available to them, what do they know, how do they cope? Then go from there. You're also right tho! It comes from years in the fandom, and being exposed to many portrayals I like and don't like.

But I have got to confess, for how I do this; it's trauma.

I won't go into specifics, but I had to grow up knowing how to read people and anticipating how they will react to something, I had to see the world through their eyes, and learning that skill came with so much cost. But I know it.

I was also a maladaptive day dreamer, so I honed in on the imagination front too.

Its slightly why I had to drop Regimen for a bit, it was legitimately ruining my healing process during a very bad time for my mental health. The skills I utilized while writing echoed my survival coping mechanisms, and I just really wanted to get better.

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Omg welcome back niel how have you been?

WAHAHAHAHA Nonny, you dont have to sweat so much with how you spell my nickname, either or is fine, I just chose Neil because I share that name with some mutuals and they use Niel, so I use the other version for slight differentiation. Dan/Danny/special mention from another anon: Bacon is also fine. As for how I've been ssssssssss well, not exactly back back in ew, I still have some lingering fandom burnout, Im super into a game rn [see my mainblog] and a wife I acquired in it :3c

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Art!!!

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so you want to... slather me.. in peanut butter? i.. i suppose i wont stop you. oh, do i prefer creamy or crunchy..? creamy, i don’t like the peanut chunks, he he.

Thats it. Im leaving forever.

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Neil! Come back to us, we miss you!

(On a serious note how are you doing?)

OH MY GOD ANON IM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG HAHAHAHA I WILL, I PROMISE I WILL BUT ITS JUST- look recently I scrounged up enough money to buy myself A Game,,,,,unfortunately that game provided me a wife, and I am now obsessed with my wife,,,,, Seriously though: A little rough a little okay, animation waits for no one. My studio also ran into a problem, which led me to pursue a temp part-time job to continue earning decent enough money, so, mostly tired too lol

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Happy pride month y'all, shout out to all my gay people

HAPPY PRIDE TO MY EW OOMFIES <3 I didnt forget about yall (っ◔◡◔)っ

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Opinions on if I should actually sleep tonight or just keep staying up. As it's 1 am atm, for me, and I have a little kid's birthday party and shopping before that.

SLEEP!!! SLEEP GODS BELOW!!!! I WISH I COULD SLEEP AND YOU’RE GOING OUT TOO YOU WILL HATE YOURSELF!!!

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tw regimen tord

i hate him i hope he dies

I love all the hatred towards the rat man, he really IS the worst version of himself

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Yo bitch boy, do you like kalmari?

Just a mite bit aggressive but yes I do partake in a bit of squid now and then. Why? You sharing?

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Hey uh thinking bout the little comic thing you made a while ago maybe idk time wise where Tord wants to hug Tom but can’t and I just.

I’m sorry😭

Oh you mean the one where he has intense pining and YEARNING for his own damned HUSBAND???

REALLL

his clingy ass is NOT surviving any degree of separation

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Hi Neil :D!!! I hope you're doing well big hugs!!!

Also can you l make R!tom beat R! Tord to death thank you ^^

HIHIHI HOUND!! I hope you’re okay too! And yes, RTom has expressed his need to beat him to death multiple times, I’m sure he’ll have the chance (maybe)

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TLDR for regimen tord. tord needs a bath and less power than he has

My worst Tord fr fr, Im taking every opportunity to have Stay Tord punt him into the sun

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What's your process on figuring out / how did you come up with all your ideas for your version of the EW cast (or characters that aren't yours basically, sorry if this doesn't make much sense)? I'm very new to writing fanfic and one of the main struggles I keep running into is getting into a character's headspace while still keeping things believable, so some advice on that would be much appreciated TT...

Also how did you come up with all your world building (Ex. Your Stay AU) and how do you keep track of all of it? I can't for the life of me make any of the ideas in my head coherent enough for them to work-

Sorry for all the small tangents there, I love your work a lot Neil! Keep it up!!

– a fellow Filipino Eddsworld fan <3

Honestly? I wing it most of the time. I have a lot of love for these characters, I’ve been a fan for so SO long, as in classic era amount of time, I was THERE waiting for new eddisodes to come out.

It’s not VERY hard to come up with certain portrayals of the cast, as they were meant to be default slates with a specific set of characteristics. I keep their original aspects in mind and try to work around them in a way that makes the most amount of sense to me.

Take for example, Tom. His default is that he’s often the “straight man” with occasional goofy tendencies. So to me, he seems like somebody who may have a lot of hurt hiding underneath but he’s still yearning for something kind, something he doesn’t often experience hence why he’s so prickly, but deep down he still believes the world can occasionally be fun and good.

I try not to treat them as mere characters on paper, in my head I like to imagine what it would BE like if they were real people I met and got to know. I’ve had many, MANY, experiences dealing with all sorts of people, so I have a point of reference.

As for my different AUs, they all simply start as a story idea. Stay was created originally upon the prompt of “What if Tord stayed with the guys longer? What if he didn’t leave right away?” And the world built itself pretty easily soon after based on the kind of story I wanted to tell, which in this case was just the need for deeper character relationships. All the whimsical stuff was just a bonus based on all the weird shit that seems to happen so easily in eddsworld.

Two Kings was made with the prompt “Red Leader and Blue Leader but they’re actually TRULY equal.” I wanted a wtfuture tomtord story that was the complete antithesis of Regimen, I wanted their dynamic to still be strained and tragic but there’s actual love and grief involved, centered on the choices they made.

I just really like taking simple ideas and running with them, my advice is to find a prompt you’re passionate enough about to start building on. That’s the keyword here actually: Simplicity. Nothing has to start complicated.

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U reread ur whole fic ??? Jesus- Bacon, don't go spiralling into the screaming void

Oooh its okay, while yes it’s difficult to confront the themes again, my damage is more of the cringe kind. I have new medication and they’re GREAAATT! Havent felt this stable in a while so I’m pretty okay to try and tackle this again

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Damaged myself by rereading my own fic, I need to overhaul

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I had art block so I reverted to something I haven't drawn in 5 years......

(Normal content back soon lolz)