User blog:ElderCrowbot/Old Design vs New Design: Jay R



So this dude.

I've had my dude Jay for 4-5 years, actually. It's funnier in hindsight because he was originally supposed to be a TF2 fan character.



He was admittedly a pretty "meh" character with my whimsical imagination pasting wings and crap onto

him, as well as giving him a hyper-intelligent fox (oof).

When I wanted to get into developing Jay as a character, I took off most of his decorative aspects, although I kept his wings because why not. I took the fan character tag off of him and set him in a loosely-made science fiction world where he was genetically engineered to have wings. Why he had wings I didn't answer in his backstory (except for the reason that wings are pretty).

Later on, I also took off his wings, not only because they were a hassle to draw everytime, but also because I saw that part of him as a mere decoration (also I finished the Maximum Ride series back then, even though I didn't like the books). I'm not saying that decorations on a character are bad, it was just my personal preferences changing over the years. I gave him more character traits, so he went from a quiet, understanding "lone wolf" to a more cynical character in response to his world.

I also started to experiment with an "alter-ego" idea for Jay to make things more interesting. This sort of concept actually existed from his "angel" phase, and I remember coming up with it when I was super interested in werewolves this one weekend, but I didn't want to put another animalistic aspect on top of his wings.

When his wings were taken off, I toyed around with his "other side" taking on a more psychological tone rather than a "raahahahahah im madd dd d" persona. I'm still playing around with it, though, and that underlying message doesn't really appear in the PARP (yet).



–ElderCrowbot