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Fiachra's Future
13 years ago
As I've mentioned a couple of times before, I've been working on a sort of a sequel to Oseille. I've got it mostly finished now, save for a final polish, and while it's rather shorter than either of my other books, if I can call something that's only 86 pages long a book, I'm quite pleased with it.
As with Oseille, the main focus of the story is on Ciara and what she does. But it let me flesh Fiachra's character out a bit more, too, and that, combined with some of the other ideas I've had about him, has caused me to rethink what I'm doing with him.
I've got a few more commissions coming in, and after they're done I'm going to restrict Fiachra to clean art for a while and work on trying to get his story told. I don't have anything too definite in mind yet, except that I want to get some more art done of him and Niamh as children, and finally get their mother and grandmother drawn as well. I'm also thinking very seriously about giving him a daughter. I'd originally thought to give him a child with Kara, but I got selfish and I decided I wanted his child to be a purebred rabbit. Because I certainly don't have enough rabbit characters, goodness knows!
As with Oseille, the main focus of the story is on Ciara and what she does. But it let me flesh Fiachra's character out a bit more, too, and that, combined with some of the other ideas I've had about him, has caused me to rethink what I'm doing with him.
I've got a few more commissions coming in, and after they're done I'm going to restrict Fiachra to clean art for a while and work on trying to get his story told. I don't have anything too definite in mind yet, except that I want to get some more art done of him and Niamh as children, and finally get their mother and grandmother drawn as well. I'm also thinking very seriously about giving him a daughter. I'd originally thought to give him a child with Kara, but I got selfish and I decided I wanted his child to be a purebred rabbit. Because I certainly don't have enough rabbit characters, goodness knows!
Yes! You DO need another rabbit or two. Poor girl.
There can never been enough rabbits. Never.
Truer words have never been spoken!
towith him.As for keeping the art clean, it's mostly to motivate myself to actually work on his story, and to kick him out of the rut he's fallen into. I'm not going to put a permanent end to naughty art with him, and I know there are a few people who may want to borrow him. But he's a much more interesting character, I think, than he's been shown to be so far and I don't want to see him go to waste.
As for giving him a child, that's something I've intended to do pretty much since I created him. That story line may have to be put a bit further forward into his future to do what I want with it. He's only 25 in the story I'm working on at present, and any child he might have would be a bit young to do much with. But I think it could let me do some pretty interesting things with him. I hope.