How long have your OCs and the idea of this AU been with you?
To be honest, this is a very interesting question.
Speaking of OCs, I'm usually not a fan of creating original characters (whether it's based on a fandom or a completely orig characters), and if I do, then depending on my attachment to them, I can develop them within this fandom, and if it doesn't work out, I make them original and they cease to be characters based on fandom.
Speaking of the Unikitty fandom, that's exactly what I had. However....I had two "serious" fanchilds for Unikitty – Charlie and Jay, which were created by the crack ships Unibee and Hawkofrown. But I didn't get anything with an adequate plot, and therefore I decided to abandon them, restarting for one joint AU with another artist (at the moment this artist is not active for family reasons, but I warned you).
Their old design (now they look different and are the children of other couples):
Damn, how embarrassing it is to share my ancient babies.
Like those of my old OCs on this fandom (which now COMPLETELY belong to my original Universe), those two fankids were created in 2019 and, frankly, I feel like a cringe.
So technically, I have a bunch of AU (almost no one knows many of them), but I couldn't create AU with fanchilds for a long time.
And I later became less active in the Unikitty fandom because of other fandoms, but if it wasn't for one of them, I would then stop being more active in the Unikitty fandom in terms of content (because I will never leave it!). That's how I got my very first (as I remember) and my most thoughtful Frock fanchild in November 2020 – Jacob.
His first design:
It's cringy agan
Previously, his full name was Jacob Alan Frown, he wore one of Papa Brock's sweaters, and also at that time he did not have the current age, so I used to draw him at different ages, as if he had not changed at all from the word for many years.
It's terrible how skinny Alan is on the first art. And yes, the second and third pictures are parts of an old AU idea related to the intervention of Master Doom to Jacob, which I now hate because of unreasonable selfharm, and Jacob at that time was not fully registered as a person, not to mention other fanchilds
Well, by the summer-autumn of 2021, I redesigned Jacob, giving him a specific age and by that time inventing a design for Princess Cornelia (Unibee fanchild) and Leroy (Eaglecreeper fanchild, whom I subsequently redesigned together with his sis). And now you know Jacob with this particular design, not that Spanish shame.
The new design is much better than the old one, isn't it?)
But in addition to Jacob and other children, there will also be oniginal characters, among which will be Dr. Bunny (she will differ in appearance from the original), her sister Bonnibel, her own versions of the parents of other characters, other Frowntown children and many others.
And yes, I don't remember exactly when I came up with the idea to create an AU with Jacob and other children, but I think I created the beginning of his plot almost immediately with Jacob (and I then told this epic and humorous story to my friend and he liked it) and then I I started actively sawing content on it, which I do not regret exactly as about character redesigns or changes in the plot.
And also initially my AU might not exist in the Lego version (if you want to know why, ask questions, maybe I'll answer this question somehow)^^
Thank you very much for the question, it was not easy to answer it, because I was afraid of losing the context, but I hope you understood me) I'm waiting for more questions! See you soon!
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Papa III was happy (compared to Papa II) Part I
For this first part, I wanted to do a (hopefully) quick comparison of the album covers for the EPs released by Papa II and Papa III to get some insight into their personalities before going more in depth with Popestar.
First up is the EP, If You Have Ghost, by Papa Emeritus II (the song by song interpretation done previously).
The album art is based on the 1922 silent film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, which itself was inspired by Bram Stoker's book, Dracula. The cover features Papa as "Count Orlok" on a ship. In the movie, in far off Transylvania, Orlok wishes to buy a house across the street of beautiful young Ellen. He summons her husband to do the transaction. The husband realizes Orlok may be a vampire and sees him packing his coffin to meet his love interest, Ellen.
He is a sad and lonely figure with a tragic ending. He lives in a castle avoided by the locals. Plague follows him wherever he goes. And he drinks human blood. After finally meeting Ellen in person, he stays too long feeding on her. The sun rises and Orlok is turned to dust.
The band Ghost has used horror movie imagery before, this could be just another instance of that. But, by contrasting with Papa III's EP,
Next up is the EP Popestar, by Papa Emeritus III.
In this cover art, two anthropomorphic buildings across the street from each other are playing chess, a strategy game that involved moving pieces originally representing parts of a military with goal of capturing the King. The building on the left with the black chessmen sports horns and vertical pupil eyes, possibly representing the devil. The building on the right with the white pieces has a crown, potentially representing "god" and pupiless eyes that watches one of it's pawns get captured. Hmmm. Papa III himself stands atop a golden pillar in-between the buildings in his casual outfit a la Sweden's King Gustav III. His right hand is raised and holding a bright object, possibly the sun, with 5-pointed stars appearing to circle around it.
Overall, Papa III appears as the centerpiece of the cover art. He literally holds up the light overseeing a figurative battle of dark (evil/Satan) and light (god). This suggest he thinks rather highly of himself.
Additionally, the title of the EP, Popestar, is a play on the words "pop star" or a person "regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era". Thus, Papa is the arbiter of this battle between good and evil with a confidence and self esteem that contrasts what we saw with Papa II's EP cover art. Is it possible this is a facade and Papa III is also sad? Sure. But as we look into the EP itself, I believe the evidence will not support that idea.
Well, that was much longer than I expected it to be. Join me next time as I delve into why Popestar indicates Papa III was a happy person (and possibly the happiest Papa?).
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