#I also like books!!! a lot!!!! demian and the stranger stuck with me and I may have unconsciously imprinted their impact onto cstm

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hey out of curiosity! what inspired you to create casa tidemouth? any inspirations/concepts that motivated you? :0

way too much buddy. first it was ttte. that's the source material! next, houseki no kuni (been a fan for 5 years atp) is what helped me in writing lady's character in casa tidmouth -- a nonhuman character becoming more and more human, realizing the weight of their careless actions and how they have messed up the lives of many people, learning more complicated emotions (humans hurt the people they love, hate their own family, cry when happy, etc) and morality and juggling between their selfish desires and others' needs... it's so on the nail. that's lady! I applaud myself whenever I think too hard about her in casa tidmouth

another major one is chainsaw man. I took out bits of makima and stitched them to lady. again, same reasoning. though it's the wacky, fast paced setting of csm that inspired me to do the same to cstm. "what if these engine drivers do fuck all and get into the craziest shit which got them into accidents. and this is considered a normal occurrence on sodor because of gold dust shenanigans"

I also like various tv shows too. black lagoon inspired how I write the gritty, harsh environment of fortezza bigg city where criminals are around the corners. the finale of moral orel season 2 became the basis of duck's backstory. many of the mountain goats' songs remind me of cstm. there's more I could mention but those two shows are what I remember the most

ALSO I got really into limbus company around last year when this blog is less than a year old and then I checked out lobcorp and library of ruina too. I wouldn't say casa tidmouth is heavily inspired by them but the themes of the games do influence my writing and helped me in some parts of the story and character writing. the themes about risking your life for your loved ones, perpetuating the cycle of tragedy or breaking free from it, accepting your role as a cog in the machine either with hope or despondency ETC ETC I LOVE YOU PROJMOON.

I have many more medias I could mention here but we'll be here all day <3