#wordweavers 06/04/2024 Does your MC feel understood? Why/why not?
Esther feels totally misunderstood by nearly everyone, her family, her doctors who can’t find what she suffers of. Everyone except Erie.
Excerpt from the Page 7 of the issue #1: Esther came to seek help from her father. It felt short.
[Edit: add context for the excerpt]
#wordweavers 08/04/2024 MC POV: Are you happy? Why/why not?
“No, I’m not. Between my family under the control of an abusive father, my boring life after forced marriage to a very old man, and finally, my infection by an evil plague during the event of The Chamberlain’s seminary, I don’t have much reason to be happy.
#wordweavers 10/04/2024 How much power does your MC have?
Initially Esther has no power because she fights the evil thing in her. Then after an event that will leave her helpless, she will abandon herself to the evil thing, gaining lots of power: she can connect & control other people perverted like her, but the infection being only partial thanks to Erie’s intervention, they can’t do the same. The evil can cure her from most injuries: in a fight her forearms will be cut, but they will regrow.
#wordweavers 11/04/2024 How much power does your antagonist have?
Lady d’Arcy has access to different powers:
⁃ By her marriage with Sir James, she’s been introduced to the aristocracy. Sir James was also wealthy.
⁃ Being a sociopath, she uses their position and their money to gain more power, by manipulating, bribing and blackmailing.
⁃ Smart and without any moral limits, she developed in interest into dark magic and science, mixing the twos to gain even more power.
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#wordweavers 13/04/2024 What are some of the tropes typical in your genre? Do you use them?
Tropes of the old fashioned horror stories from the 19th like Island of Dr Moreau, Dracula, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde
⁃ The MC is a male ⛔️
⁃ The antagonist is a male ⛔️
⁃ The women are absent or mostly useless ⛔️
⁃ The story is about the good/morality vs bad/immorality ⛔️
That’s said Carmillia doesn’t respect those tropes too
#wordweavers 15/04/2024 What would be your antagonist's favorite movie?
Lady D’Arcy: “I hesitate between American Psycho, The Talented Mister Ripley and Dangerous Liaisons, so many nicely twisted characters, without this stupid moral compass and ready to do anything required to achieve their goals. Why did I have to choose?”
#wordweavers 17/04/2024 What personal expertise of yours makes it into your books?
Hopefully I put my abilities in required sectors to do a comic book like anatomy, storyboard, etc. But if the question is about university graduations or professional skills, I don’t think I put any.
I’m currently finishing the interior pages for Esther and Erie with nightmares double pages. Here’s one of Esther awakening after a nightmare, Erie rushing to help her.
#wordweavers 18/04/2024 Do you write primarily in the same genre you read as a child?
I’ve been raised with the Claremont run on the X-men, learning to read with Days of Future Past.
Esther and Erie is quite different (not the same era, duo vs team, galaxy scale action vs human beings level) but it’s still about the question of differences & how to accept them. From C. Claremont, I also kept the taste for strong female characters, & artists like J Byrne, P Smith or A Davis influenced me a lot
#wordweavers 19/04/2024 Do you tend to connect with your MCs or antagonists more?
I am not a narcissistic sociopath (at least I hope, but how to be sure 🙀), so even if I like the twisted Lady d’Arcy, I feel more connections with Esther
Illustration: my latest custom art for an artbook. Theme was Esther and Erie at universal exposition
#wordweavers 21/04/2024 If your MC's main skill evaporated, would they survive the story?
At the beginning of the story, Esther main skill is to be the perfect lady to marry, in order to help her father raising in the society: beautiful, well dressed and some education to have interesting conversation. If we remove that, she wouldn’t be in the story.
Illlustration: Inktober 2019 Day 1, the very first beginning of Esther story: she has been married for bad reasons and all the bad things to come
#wordweavers 22/04/2024 What two senses are the most natural for you to include in your description?
Since I am a comic artist, I don’t really do descriptions. In addition to visual art, I can add sounds effects. I would like to include smells as well since it’s important for Erie but I still have to figure out how
#wordweavers 23/04/2024 How much of an age range do you have with your MCS?
In the main story Esther is 19. At least she was an adult when she has been married to her husband.
In Inktober 2023, the dream sequence gets her back to her 12.
[Illustration: Young Esther introduction, showing her look for inktober 2023]
#wordweavers 24/04/2024 Do you include characters from all socioeconomic classes in your story?
Oh yes, from the maid to the count and countess, and the middle class in between, I cover all the socioeconomic classes.
[Illustrations: Stickers of Érié the leonine maid, the decadent aristocrat Countess Chamberlain, the (upper) middle class Esther] #art#sticker#mastoart#fediart#creativetoots
#wordweavers 28/04/2024 Do you have an irrepressibly good-humored character? How do others react to them?
Not really. The most good humored character is Sir James. As long as he is with Lady d’Arcy, he’s happy, but not the point to be annoying. He’s still an aristocrat after all.
#wordweavers 29/04/2024 Who's feeling shame in your story? Is it justified?
Esther’s father and it’s totally justified: his obsession for social recognition leads to his son’s suicide and to do too risky investments. Ruined, he has no choice but to marry his daughter in exchange for a cancellation of his debts.
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