Annotated Leif & Thorn AU
As I write these back in 2021, I’m trying to avoid any “present-day” statements about Leif & Thorn. Sure, my plan is to have it still running a long ways into The Future — but if I take that for granted in my writing, you just know that’s gonna jinx it.
That said, even here in The Past, the strips for Volume 5 are almost completely drawn! Barring any huge unforeseen problems, it should be launching on Kickstarter next month.
(Knock wood.)
(ETA, from Present Erin: There was a huge unforeseen problem! Not with Leif & Thorn — the comic is still trucking along just fine — but a problem with Kickstarter. Never should’ve jinxed us like that.)
So it seems like a good time to cross-promote with the annotated Crossover Art.
As of writing, about half these BICP characters have turned up in Leif & Thorn:
- Katya (Kara Lynn): Embassy servant, turned out to be a pretty major character
- Pine (Poe): recast as a minor miner, alongside Patrik (Patrick)
- Briony (Bianca): still a Presidential archivist
- Camellia and Lily: appeared among the Kolpovision contestants, along with cameos of Kaguya, Ilsa, Freyda, and a bunch of others
I’d like to use Ana Wagner at some point. Also, Strawberry and Morinda, though they’d have to be redesigned — right now, their outfits are “variations on Holly’s magical girl outfit,” instead of “unique homages to different magical girl series.” (Morinda is perfect for a Princess Tutu homage…)
Original character concepts:
Strawberry and Morinda: Both identified young as having serious magical potential. Strawberry is friendliest with earth spirits; Morinda has a strong affinity with water. They argue a lot about which spell techniques are most practical, most effective, and/or most morally acceptable.
Pine: Morinda’s patient and loving boyfriend. Totally normal human in this universe. Works at a wildlife center, rehabilitating injured birds.
Ana Wagner: Trade mogul from Leif’s home country. Always wearing classy furs. Has some lucrative business partnerships with vampires.
Katya: Embassy servant, same position as Leif, though she has different specialties. Taller than he is.
Briony: Works at the highest level with the Ceannic government’s technomagical databases. (They have computer-esque technology, it just all runs on giant crystals.)
Reseda and Lily: Separate characters! Twins, but not hard to tell apart. Reseda is the outspoken fighter; Lily is the mild-mannered dreamer.
Camellia (Torvald): Openly lives the bigender life, because this society doesn’t understand transness as something controversial. Work buddies with Reseda; met Lily in a literature class. You can imagine the rom-com mistaken-identity shenanigans.
Thank you for the comment about keeping it consistent with the prior posting. I was momentarily feeling rather confused.
Don’t worry, past Erin! Your comic continues apace!
I read Erins blog about kick starter. I was already convinced that block chain is bad. This makes it really clear that the kick starter mystery protical call was made by an exc who never used kickstarter.
My theory is in 2008 bit coin watched the crash and thought ‘I want to destory the econemy and get rich selling sub-prime investments like banks too!”. and in 2009 bit coin is born.
I’ve heard the relation to bit coin and banks is a bit tighter than that. Like some of the people responsible for the 2008 crash thought, “Ok, that ended, what’s the next scheme?” Then they talked with some computer people they knew, and so forth.