My story started as a fan fiction. I'd been playing this French online point-and-click "dating" roleplaying game for a while, "Amour Sucré", and while I didn't care much for the game - the story and the characters were empty, flat, childish and very stereotypical - I made a habit of lurking on the boards, particularly the fan fiction section.
A lot of the fan fictions were badly written and without interest, mostly young girls projecting themselves into the game, dreaming of love stories with fictional characters. I did, however, find a few good, sometimes inspiring stories.
Ever since I was a child, I've liked imagining stories - usually, I'll admit, featuring myself as the main character of fantastic adventures in my favourite universes. I'd sometimes roleplay with my friends or my brothers, and while I can't attest of the quality of our ideas, it was always a great experience. I'm the kind of person who enjoys video games because of their universes and stories, not because of the gameplay. I've dreamt of traveling to Middle-Earth since I was 5 years old and have always pretended I was a Sith master. I have a hard time building worlds, but I will always be the biggest fan of whatever universe you offer me.
This story, which still needs a lot of words and a title, started as a fan fiction in October 2013. For some reason, I had just entered a "Western" period - to be honest, what drives me to the Old West is mostly the visual settings, canyons and orange deserts. I was browsing my music folder and had found the soundtrack of a great video game, Red Dead Revolver, that came out on the original Xbox in 2004. I was very excited and listened to it after years, and I realized most tracks were, in fact, music from Western movies (the main theme being Lo Chiamavano King, by Luis Bacalov, that was reused in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained). I didn't know most of them and, I'll admit, I didn't have the curiosity to watch them. I just listened to their soundtracks.
All that put me in an "old west" mood and, for some reason, I decided it would be funny to put the characters from the game Amour Sucré in this setting - not in a "Back to the Future" kind of perspective ; more like "what would they be if they lived at that time". I started drawing sketches, mostly trying to find what kind of outfits they would wear, which led me to actually thinking about a story behind all this and trying to figure out what could happen.
I can't really recount my process at that moment since I have literally no set progression and basically thought of everything at the same time - story, visuals, characters... I mixed everything up and it evolved a bit more every time I sat in front of my computer thinking about it.
I can just say it involved Photoshop, YouTube, Pinterest, a lot of Wikipedia, some Tumblr, shower thoughts and a great deal of laziness and procrastination.
A lot of the fan fictions were badly written and without interest, mostly young girls projecting themselves into the game, dreaming of love stories with fictional characters. I did, however, find a few good, sometimes inspiring stories.
Ever since I was a child, I've liked imagining stories - usually, I'll admit, featuring myself as the main character of fantastic adventures in my favourite universes. I'd sometimes roleplay with my friends or my brothers, and while I can't attest of the quality of our ideas, it was always a great experience. I'm the kind of person who enjoys video games because of their universes and stories, not because of the gameplay. I've dreamt of traveling to Middle-Earth since I was 5 years old and have always pretended I was a Sith master. I have a hard time building worlds, but I will always be the biggest fan of whatever universe you offer me.
This story, which still needs a lot of words and a title, started as a fan fiction in October 2013. For some reason, I had just entered a "Western" period - to be honest, what drives me to the Old West is mostly the visual settings, canyons and orange deserts. I was browsing my music folder and had found the soundtrack of a great video game, Red Dead Revolver, that came out on the original Xbox in 2004. I was very excited and listened to it after years, and I realized most tracks were, in fact, music from Western movies (the main theme being Lo Chiamavano King, by Luis Bacalov, that was reused in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained). I didn't know most of them and, I'll admit, I didn't have the curiosity to watch them. I just listened to their soundtracks.
All that put me in an "old west" mood and, for some reason, I decided it would be funny to put the characters from the game Amour Sucré in this setting - not in a "Back to the Future" kind of perspective ; more like "what would they be if they lived at that time". I started drawing sketches, mostly trying to find what kind of outfits they would wear, which led me to actually thinking about a story behind all this and trying to figure out what could happen.
I can't really recount my process at that moment since I have literally no set progression and basically thought of everything at the same time - story, visuals, characters... I mixed everything up and it evolved a bit more every time I sat in front of my computer thinking about it.
I can just say it involved Photoshop, YouTube, Pinterest, a lot of Wikipedia, some Tumblr, shower thoughts and a great deal of laziness and procrastination.
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