Wow! Awesome to see you posting again, and extra awesome 'cus it's Stivik!
I guess this would be from back when he was still a scout? It's cool. I like it. Hope it gets finished, but you have a rather valid reason for not having time (unlike myself).
Actually I recently got into TD again, just the other day I was really in the mood for it. I started rereading it from the beginning (there are bits of part one, especially the prologue, that make me cringe at how bad it is).
Actually I started reading the Rupture Farms chapters, but then I decided to go back and read the bit in Dion and Stivik's part where Stivik remembers a misadventure where one of his pack got hurt. And that made me want to read the beginning, so I've decided to read it all the way through. I might get round to installing AE on my laptop soon, and have a go at that, too. Might restore my interest in Oddworld.
If I do get back into it, and I'd really like to, I'll probably delete all the chapters of the latest 'part' and start that bit afresh; I really don't like them, and if I was really in the mood for writing I know I could do better.
You've complained about me over-analysing my own writing before, but in part one... There was an atmosphere of... well, sligs in the wild, industrials out of industrialism... brotherhood and survival... something I wish I'd spent more time working to capture when I was writing part one, but there are so few really significant moments for Stivik in that time, apart from Stack's death and Tilic's betrayal, which was why only they got written in any detail. It's why I grabbed the opportunity to mention one of his jobs later on when he was watching over Dionysia. I wish he was open enough to discuss them more with her, so we could have heard of more
But then he wouldn't be who he is.
Thanks for this art. I still want to tell the stories of these four, so I hope I get the chance. I could tell you right now some major events in Stivik's life after he leaves Rupture Farms, but... well, I'd rather tell the story as it should be told. Hopefully I'll get into it again soon, and work out how things should go.
It's hard working out how the Arnie of the story would react to the rebellious Dionysia, and there's a slig, Gappiqu, who I had trouble forming a personality for (his player was rather nooby at first, but he's so important to the story). But I think I'm getting there on both issues. The other thing is the short time Stivik and Dionysia have in Rupture Farms. How short can I make it, and yet keep it relevant (needs to be longer than just a day), and how will they react in that time?
Stivik's such a coward... Dionysia...