Oh, right, project updates. The thing I put off a week since we had a release for Oathbreaker last week. But! For those new or forgetful, i am doing a series of project updates to hit everything I am working on, including the things that have been hidden behind the scenes for any time period. There's some fun stuff to talk about, but I'm doing this on a but of a short schedule today, so let's hit a more straightforward one.TwiceLight.
It was the tail end of 2024, and Icarue had started a creative initiative to both give work to a long time artist he works with (Angerox) and create new content for his Patreon. The idea was simple, two comic series that would alternate. One being a simple, straightforward story will silly hijinks and such. The other being a more comprehensive story. Both with their NSFW elements instilled in the concept. So were born Icarue's Succubus x Hero, and the collaboration here... TwiceLight.Interestingly, I threw some outline pitches for Succubus x Hero's story icarue's way, though those got shot down. Icarue had a committed idea in mind, and my vision for how to develop the idea didn't match his. It'll happen sometimes, but what he's made scratches the itch he wanted pretty effectively, I think.That said, we were in on the ground floor for TwiceLight. Icarue's wants? A superhero story involving exhibitionism and corruption. I stepped back at the time, and with Icarue's usual willingness to let me develop ideas we collaborate on to take place in my world, my mind landed on a concept spinning elements of superheroes, Wills, magical girls, Y2K, and a theme driven by the desire for liberation and freedom.Oh, and it's a partial prequel to Between. Sort of.
Well, at the very least, its a story that involves some recognizable characters from Between. It's a Y2K adjacent story, after all, so it takes place about 19 years before the start of Between. It also takes place in the same city that Between's prologue takes place in. The city that is home to IMEA. It'll absolutely see background elaborated on for Alder and IMEA through it, and maybe more.
As we fully developed the idea, Icarue agreed to plan on a longer comic (as he normally targets 10 chapters, this will instead go to the 20s) to allow the story enough room to breathe to tell a proper narrative. We delved into character designs, and we brought on IsekaiMeSenpai to held brainstorm ideas. With some rough concepts for the designs, we gave them to the artist (Angerox) and he developed them into finalized designs.With the foundation, Icarue and I got to work. For the full reference as to what I do on the chapter by chapter basis... I basically write up an outline. What should happen on each page. Then Icarue takes that and creates a storyboard from it.
This one takes as long as the artist needs to do each chapter of Succubus x Hero, and then going to TwiceLight. I've a rough outline for the full story, and we're developing that further as we go.It's been a fun, consistent endeavor Icarue and I have done together. Because of the split work and nature of it, it's pretty low in terms of work load for me relative to other projects.I hope everyone reading this can enjoy it. I think it's a cool thing we've created, and I look forward to each step we take to bring Victor and Nadia's story to it's finale.