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guhh I need help. I called the mutation types 'body weird' and 'parasite', in my musing posts and in the lore doc I'm working on I've just called them type A and type Z as a placeholder, but I don't like either of those names. What do I call them. How do I classify them.

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More Mutation Thinkings.

So before for Body Weird mutations it was like. IV will be the example. Okay. She was a "headless mutation" so her mutation would always be that she can remove her head once she gets decapitated. Triggering that is not easy, obviously. Many headless mutations do not realize they're mutations at all, because decapitations aren't common. I don't like this!

So INSTEAD I think it's rather like... You have a mutation gene. Perhaps the mutation gene is recessive, for funsies.

I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how I wanna word this LMAO.

The gene itself allows you to survive extremely traumatic injuries, including ones that would Absolutely kill you if you were human, like IV getting decapitated and dismembered, Daya getting shot in the face, The Works. Along with this, sometimes the body. well. mutates. to Adapt to the new injury. IV can safely remove her head and limbs, but they won't bleed NEARLY as much as they would pre-mutation. Bleeding Constantly would be crazy inconvenient!

...I don't know why Daya's tongue would get bigger, admittedly, but. Let me have this not everything needs to make sense GJFH.

I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Might finally be brave enough to watch CS2 to prepare for script writing, I'm super afraid LMAOO. I might liveblog some of it just to bully myself from ten years ago because I KNOW there's gonna be shit in there that's handled poorly or is just like, embarrassing. If I do the tag to block it will be '#cs2 liveblog', if you're not interested in that.

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Your OTP is lying side by side on the grass together. They've survived the Horrors, they've survived the Plot, and now they're safe and happy together, just watching the clouds.

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Pondering how mutations work again. There's clearly two different types.

Type A) Body Weird (IV, Daya, Baylin) Type B) Parasite (Unega, Ink)

Both species have black blood, sometimes their mutations can fuck up their bodies with health problems, and they either have really short lives due to complications or they live a super long time. It's a case by case thing.

Body Weird mutations aren't always apparent when the child is born. These mutations can sometimes be dormant until they experience a physically traumatic event, like IV getting decapitated and later dismembered, or Daya getting shot in the face. Baylin was born with her mutations apparent. Again, very much depends on the mutation, it's also a case by case thing.

In Parasite mutations, they are always born with the mutation apparent. The tentacles they have aren't fully controllable by the host as well. With dedication and practice they can manage the tentacles well enough, but they sometimes act on their own based on the host's will and/or if they're running on high emotions. When Unega gets REALLY mad, for example, its tentacles can lash out and attack others without it meaning to.

Body Weird mutations are more common, generally speaking. Parasite mutations have a lot of stigma around them because the mutation can cause organ damage (the mutation is almost like a poison and many Parasite mutations die due to organ failure), including brain damage, and it can cause them to be extremely emotional, impulsive and violent. Not everyone is like that, obviously, but you know how stigmas can be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I got sony vegas 15 set up on my desktop and I prepared the main file for Danny animatic and like. I'm trying to pace myself so I don't burn myself out of drawing or writing but GOD I WANNA WORK ON IT SO BAD.

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A Baylin sketch to adjust to my big desktop! It's gonna take me a while to get used to it, the colors are different from my laptop and GOD the screen is huge LMAO.

I think this turned out okay though.

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I don't know what to call CS2. I can't keep calling it CS2, there's context needed for that, and for people not in the know there's the question of "well what's CS1 then?" I don't want to just drop it down to CS1 though, I'd rather not attach numbers to a story that's being developed in random order. I can't just call it Cold Skin either, I don't think, because it's technically not intended to be the main story, it's more backstory and context for the main story. It needs a subtitle of some sort. On Youtube it's subtitled 'Episode ☁' which I think was supposed to symbolize like. Memories or something. I don't want to use that again, I just don't like it. I don't want to fucking call it "You're in love when the angel that satan used to be" or fuckin. whatever. That's not only extremely not canon anymore, it's DISGUSTINGLY pretentious. I can't handle it. It's too much for me.

I need something short and snappy. "Cold Skin : Hollowed Heart" was a possibility but I'm not sure how I feel about it, sounds really corny tbh. I wanna ask for suggestions but I don't know how many of you have even watched CS2... It's basically the story of Kiki and Danny's friendship and how it all completely falls apart, to grossly simplify it. I don't know if that's enough context to ask for suggestions but. I'm desperate.

I'll link it here someday so we can all laugh at it but I'm not brave enough for that at the moment.

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oh i’m “problematic”? name at least three problems i’ve caused

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BAILEEEYYYY guess whoo... its that damn anon again!!!

a little birdie told me you were planning on making a faux vn for CS and i think that is SUCHH A GREAT IDEA!! i think i remember another maplestory series back then did a similar thing where it had like, scenes intercepted between maplestory animations that were adjacent to visual novel scenes. im pretty sure it was nightscape by coffeeous?? either way, its definitely possible and would be super interesting to see!!

i also read that you used to want to make an RPG maker game with kiki and ana, and i think thats really funny because thats exactly what i wanna do with my OCs, too! also, fun fact, just wanted to say that danny sort of inspired me to make one of my main characters for my main story :P theyre both assholes with shoulder-length brown hair and i only realized the similarities after i made him LMAO. i made his middle name "daniel" to commemorate it, i hope thats alright with you

anywho, super excited to hear that theres now CS stuff cooking up!! wherever you take the story, ill be sure to follow along and support it wholeheartedly!! good luck man :D

Hi anon!! It's nice to hear from you again!

It's certainly possible that I've seen Nightscape but it would have been so long ago that I don't remember it at all LMAO. I think animeworldz21 also made an episode of... The Lost Voice? I think? That mimicked a visual novel style because it was easier and less time consuming to make and like. That's so valid GDJHF. Since I've left the maplestory community though, the plan with CS vn is to draw everything! Gonna draw a million sprites and backgrounds and make way too many CGs and I can absolutely see myself burning out because I don't know how to pace myself LMAO. I'm glad there's some interest in the project though!! I'm excited to start working on it.

People take inspirations from others all the time, I'm CERTAIN I've snagged traits from other people's OCs over the years without even meaning to, so it's totally fine if your character has some similarities to Danny as long as it's not like, a complete ripoff. I'm honestly honored that my guys inspired you... The fact that his middle name is Daniel in honor of my horrible man is pretty cool to me... I'm flattered,

I'm (HOPEFULLY) gonna get my new desk and computer set up today for real so I'll have a proper work space to start cookin' up CS stuff!! I have so much I wanna do that I don't know where to start but I will for sure talk way too much about it here LMAO.

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Thinking about Danny animatic again (which I will work on once I get my desk and computer all set up!!) and REALLY debating on whether I want to do frame by frame or just tween. I know how to tween, and when I imagine the animatic I picture it being done with tweening, but there's a part of me that doesn't want to because it's like... I don't wanna say lazy per se, it still takes a lot of work, but...

I dunno. I'm not very good at fbf and I'd love to learn how to do it better but I know DAMN well that's gonna take WAY more work and I'll end up getting really frustrated with myself if it doesn't look good.

I may still try anyway. We'll see what happens.

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Heart pupils as a threat display

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I Gotta stop posting art at like 6am, I should throw it into a queue for like noon.

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Nose has been bleeding a lot lately.

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I'm so unstable today and my brain is going insane thinking about CS2 faux visual novel. I wanna start working on it. So much. I'm putting it off though, because 1) I Want My Desk Set Up, 2) I need to finish the Confession Scene writing thing and 3) this means I have to watch the original CS2, made in the years 2015-2016. Which is interesting? I thought it came out in 2015, but maybe I just thought that because it took ten months to make and most of that happened in 2015, it was finished February of 2016.

ANYWAY. Like I said before I'm highkey afraid of watching it because I KNOW how much I fumbled on certain subjects, and I do know that I showed really triggering content because I used to be REALLY irresponsible with what I portrayed in my videos back then. Like there's an active self-harm scene. I should not have done that. I should have known BETTER THAN THAT.

That's not even why I started writing this. The thought that occurred to me was. What do I do about music. In all of my videos I just used video game music but like... am I still allowed to do that?? Is that okay these days??? If I DID just use video game music I would have to be So careful with what I used, lest I get slam dunked with copyright. I Could just look around for F2U stuff on Youtube, but...

I can't imagine using anything but 'Chill and Rigor' from 999 during The Big Trauma Scene........ it just fits so well.......

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I thought so hard about this as I was falling asleep that I had a dream about working on the faux visual novel LMAOO.

Now that I'm awake and coherent, I'm deeply considering taking this route tbh. I know video editing well enough, and I think I'd have a much better time making a fake longplay than a proper kinetic visual novel. Firstly, kinetic vns aren't for everyone, it's like... What's the point of it being a game. You just click and read with no player input. It appeals to me but some would find it boring and/or pointless, which I understand. Plus, if I'm being so honest, learning ren'py sounds... complicated and hard... I feel it would take SO much more time than if I just slapped assets into sony vegas and animated them in a way I know how.

Plus, again, I feel this would make it much more accessible. If I made a game, I'd probably charge for it (not a lot, maybe a dollar or two) because of how much effort I'd put into it, but not everyone can pay, and that might restrict how many people see it. If it's a Youtube video, that makes it free! Also like, on the off chance that someone chose to make a let's play of it (I would lose my mind (positive)), it would end up on Youtube anyway.

I'm getting a little ahead of myself, I need to write out the script first before I do anything with it. This means I need to rewatch CS2 but I'm honestly kind of afraid, I know I fumbled REALLY hard with certain subjects and... Not to use this term but. I don't know if I can handle the cringe, yknow. I need the reference though. I also need a different pretentious sub name for it because.

I cannot call it this. I just can't. It's so so SO fucking pretentious and embarrassing, 18 year old Bailey REALLY thought they were cooking with this one. It doesn't even fit with the themes of the story anymore!!! I called it this when Kiki was still in love with Danny even after he started bullying her and that's just not canon anymore!! GOD IT'S JUST SO EMBARRASSING FUCKING KILL ME 😭😭

I’m mostly asleep so excuse if this is scattered or makes no sense but I’m thinking about CS visual novel and wondering if it might be easier and more accessible if I make a sort of faux visual novel instead, where I make it a video on YouTube instead? Like the vn would be a kinetic vn anyway without player input so maybe it would be more entertaining as a fake longplay kinda thing, where I recreate the style of a vn in sony vegas.

That would make it free too. If I actually learned ren’py then you fucking bet I’d charge for it, making a game sounds hard as hell. Might need to commission music from someone or find good f2u music but. Details.

Idk. Idk. I’m just thinking.