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What do you think all the differences are between preboot and reboot uni?

to be honest, i think the biggest difference between the two of them is the fact that reboot uni actually has depth and a genuine personality. preboot uni was so bland and surface level, just a typical gamer bro who talked in that way, but when i rebooted the comic i actually gave him depth. i gave him actual backstory, feelings, more personality traits and made him generally a well-rounded character and also gave him an impactful interesting dynamic with barry instead of just shoehorning him in for ship purposes (because the second they met the ship was established, instead, in the reboot, their romantic interactions dont come until a bit later. they dont even really have feelings for each other at this point in the comic aside from uni thinking hes generally attractive lol)

the only real things that carried on from the preboot are the way he talks, his interest in video games, and his sense of humor, and this might be a little shocking... but the way he lost his eyes was the same as in the preboot. it was an "attempt" at giving preboot uni some more depth but honestly literally nothing in the preboot really had any value or purpose aside from being needlessly shocking and weird. i was a terrible writer back then because i focused a lot on making it shocking intentionally instead of giving reason and message and meaning. i've said before that the preboot was me literally making fun of my trauma and that was so unhealthy for me. the nihilism was such an unhealthy mindset. i was not in a good place when i made the preboot, and when i decided to reboot a big intention behind the writing was coping in a better way and helping myself heal and projecting trauma in a way that isn't making fun of it or hurting me.

i've said before that a lot of stuff seen in the reboot is based on actual experiences i've had (being hospitalized/abused, the denial of my experience from people who i believed i could trust, ableism from people i believed i could trust, losing my bear at the hospital, developing bad coping mechanisms like the chunklings, and even the main plot of volume 3 also comes from an experience i had when i was a lot younger BEFORE i went to the hospital. even the overarching plot and the ending comes from some real experiences).

preboot uni, when i made him, i did intend on using him as a coping mechanism. i made him a gamer type person because the kind of person he was had been something i associated with a bad person in my life, so i wanted to make a comfort character that gave me a good association with someone with that personality. we didn't actually get far in enough but uni actually was GOING to end up being an emotional support for barry and i projected what i needed personally onto this character (so i guess you could say i've been barry kin since the beginning) and gave myself that comfort that way. barruni just made me really happy-- even before their relationship had any huge value, it had value to me. even so, preboot uni still was nowhere near the complexity that current uni is, and current uni is more comforting to me than anything else i've ever made in my entire life in all honesty. the fact people like him so much means everything to me because he means everything to me too. the same applies to doom, who people also really like a lot-- he also means everything to me.

sorry for the mile long post, i had a lot to say about this djkrgbjbgbfj