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Extended Thoughts on: Chase Gramen/Chiasa Koneko
8 years ago
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I'm not sure if this will be a regular thing, but I wanna write something, and I'm out of ideas, so this will have to do. Here I'll write some behind the scenes about my most recent character, in this case, Chase Gramen, aka Chiasa Koneko. I'd of course recommend you play the character before reading this, but it's up to you. I won't tell you how to live your life.
I might have talked about this already (come to think of it, I'm certain I did), but I find it very hard to start writing a character, but once I do, I find it equally hard to stop. This was the same for Chase. I think I had 3 writing sessions for him, and the most passages written was in the third. What I took from this is to just write, and you'll get into a groove. You can always go over your first drafts later.
The character of Chiasa Koneko has an element that I was at first completely unfamiliar with: lolita fashion. Before writing, the only experience I had with lolita is that Gothita evolutionary tree in Pokemon. Being a guy with little to no idea on my own gender's clothing, let alone girls', didn't help matters. But I was for some reason so enamoured with the idea of a catgirl lolita that I just ran with it, reading blogpost after blogpost on different styles, the names of clothes, what not to do, etc. I got very worried when I read posts talking about how cat ears on lolita is Ita (painful looking), but calmed down when others clarified that if the dress fits the ears, go ahead.
Trivia:
- Gramen is Latin for "grass" or "weeds", and Koneko is Japanese for "kitten". Yeah, I'm pretty subtle with names.
- I chose Chiasa as a name at first only for how it looked, before realising that the character's name is Chase. Weird how things work out.
- Chiasa says "Huh? What's happening?" during mind stage 6. At least, I think that's what she says. I originally had pasted the kanji, but the game sorta freaked out when I did that.
- I'm probably too proud of how I explained in-universe why Chiasa was referred to as Chase.
- I still don't know why petticoats aren't actually coats, and to be honest, I'm pretty angry about it.
I always feel the need to ask a question with these journals, so here it is: was there any drawings/stories you made that forced you to do research into a topic you were very unfamiliar with? What was the topic?
Osaki ni,
-yoshielder
I might have talked about this already (come to think of it, I'm certain I did), but I find it very hard to start writing a character, but once I do, I find it equally hard to stop. This was the same for Chase. I think I had 3 writing sessions for him, and the most passages written was in the third. What I took from this is to just write, and you'll get into a groove. You can always go over your first drafts later.
The character of Chiasa Koneko has an element that I was at first completely unfamiliar with: lolita fashion. Before writing, the only experience I had with lolita is that Gothita evolutionary tree in Pokemon. Being a guy with little to no idea on my own gender's clothing, let alone girls', didn't help matters. But I was for some reason so enamoured with the idea of a catgirl lolita that I just ran with it, reading blogpost after blogpost on different styles, the names of clothes, what not to do, etc. I got very worried when I read posts talking about how cat ears on lolita is Ita (painful looking), but calmed down when others clarified that if the dress fits the ears, go ahead.
Trivia:
- Gramen is Latin for "grass" or "weeds", and Koneko is Japanese for "kitten". Yeah, I'm pretty subtle with names.
- I chose Chiasa as a name at first only for how it looked, before realising that the character's name is Chase. Weird how things work out.
- Chiasa says "Huh? What's happening?" during mind stage 6. At least, I think that's what she says. I originally had pasted the kanji, but the game sorta freaked out when I did that.
- I'm probably too proud of how I explained in-universe why Chiasa was referred to as Chase.
- I still don't know why petticoats aren't actually coats, and to be honest, I'm pretty angry about it.
I always feel the need to ask a question with these journals, so here it is: was there any drawings/stories you made that forced you to do research into a topic you were very unfamiliar with? What was the topic?
Osaki ni,
-yoshielder
