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Original Ending
8 years ago
The original ending to Space Pawdyssey had Etzel being shot and killed. The ambassador and Connor are meeting with Avians when the attack happens and the ambassador dies. Murphy pins the blame on the Space Pawdyssey gang and Felix is implicatd in Etzel'a death. They are force to escape the Alliance and ene up on the run. In that same script during the first confrontation with Murphy, Felix gets into an argument with Rowan and states something along the lines that she thinks she's his mother. Rowan gets understandably pissed after and refuses to speak to Felix.
In the end, Felix alienates one friend, loses a other and is on the run from the very organization he admired. He loses everything.
A bit of a bummer ending and I didn't like how dark it got.
Also in an early draft Connor dies. At one point I had a script where Toby dies. The goal with each death was to act as a catalyst to Felix and Lex's development. Neither on stuck around long.
The "Etzel dies and Felix get the blame" was the real ending for a long time.
In the end, Felix alienates one friend, loses a other and is on the run from the very organization he admired. He loses everything.
A bit of a bummer ending and I didn't like how dark it got.
Also in an early draft Connor dies. At one point I had a script where Toby dies. The goal with each death was to act as a catalyst to Felix and Lex's development. Neither on stuck around long.
The "Etzel dies and Felix get the blame" was the real ending for a long time.
That being said, it would have really changed the tone of the comic entirely. So changing the original ending was probably better depending on the type of person you wanted to market the comic to.
The biggest challenge was that it pushed Felix into a dark place too quickly and it would have been a long time before I could pull him back from that. It felt like it could be more limiting.
There will be some darker stories here or there if we get to them.