Blue Blood Heroes - True Blue Filler: The Stars Decide It

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Comic 1164 - True Blue Filler: The Stars Decide It

24th May 2022, 11:00 PM in True Blue Filler

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Adam C. 24th May 2022, 11:00 PM edit delete

Heh. Again, humor dictates that we pick someone whose personality would most brush up against Valerie's, and someone into new-age nonsense felt like the perfect pick. Valerie is established having trouble grasping ACTUAL magic in her universe, she's probably being driven crazy at something like this which is based on nothing.

Martin handled a ton of the weight on this one. He came up with the new character's name, pulled up several workable options for her appearance, pitched the idea of her being slightly over than Valerie, wrote the dialog, and put together Valerie pre-colored just because I was at work all day and a little strapped for time.

Speaking of work, the idea to do this probably came from all the people who come in wanting tarot decks at my job. Admittedly, it's nowhere near as much here in West Virginia as in Louisiana. There it was pretty constant.

Martin F. 25th May 2022, 3:29 AM edit delete

Yeah, this felt like a pretty natural direction to take for giving Val a new roommate, someone who would grate on her by being into a lot of woo. Going a bit older also felt like an interesting direction to take since it put her in a bit of an off-position; it's a bit of a head-canon that before Acacia here Heather was probably the oldest person in the school, but she and Val are about 12 so that's not quite as drastic as skewing a little older than that with the new one.

One thing that we also kind of had to weigh in coming up with these was powers that would be safe to pair up with Valerie and Heather, given the whole reason they were paired to begin with was due to the nature of their powers making them both potentially dangerous to others but not as much specifically to each other. Given that felt like it made sense to give Heather a roommate who could nullify her while Val has one who could quickly get away from her.

Will say I did kind of try to walk a bit of a line in throwing this together, wanted Val to be clearly irritated but also not coming off super abrasive. Kind of more just trying to cut through the nonsense while keeping a relatively level head compared to how Nicky is more strongly capable of pushing her buttons.