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The Many Forms of Naga Sake

Naga sake    25 October, 2023
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The Many Forms of Naga Sake

HEAVY SPOILER WARNING: Kill all boneheads issue 4 has taken a while, more than any other issue, and I wont lie not much has been done, at least not anything I can post on my site. It's alot of out-of-order writing sporadically bouncing around the story, but alot of it is also working on character rigs and planing. There's alot of intersecting stories going on in issue 4, and alot i want to get acrossed in character development. Hearts reflect their owner's beliefs and personality and how a person changes can change how their heart manifests (even if the core is always the same). For someone like Julian that comes more gradually as he has himself pretty much figured out, he just has the rough edges he needs to sand off, but for someone like Naga, as volatile as he is, It's alot wonkier, and the forms his heart takes seem almost unrelated to someone who doesn't understand him. While Julian may only change by, say, using his aura as a protective layer around allies( continued in comments)


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25/10/2023 Edited   El_Ceviche El_Ceviche
I understand the need to do a LOT of prep work. Mine usually happens with backgrounds and space ships etc.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
Also to be noted, the grey skinned form (and the BDSM gear form) is alot more human than his base third eye blind form; which has robotic eyes and armor, lacking even a mouth. But the grey form has visible human eyes, and teeth, and just a loincloth. This was purposefully done.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
Also less weighty thing, I considered having the grey skinned form without the hat, but I have no idea what his head looks like in his transformed state without the hat XD

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
It's gonna be a long time until any of these 'big ideas' come to fruition. And maybe I'm just blowing hot air. Enjoy the cool designs I suppose.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
Sorry I'm just sort of thinking outloud for what ammounts to a big nothing-burger for y'all. I tend to do alot of deep thinking about a story that does not reflect that deep thinking. This comic absolutely does not reflect the depth of my thoughts into it and the ideas I wish to communicate. It feel very surface level sadly.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
Julian and Wendy found their true purpose and must strive to hone it, while Naga at least *believes* he has found his true purpose, but as we can see that is not entirely true, but his soul is powerful enough to evoke the powers even if the form is misunderstood.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
And of course a line can be drawn between Naga's black tentacles and those of the pisces twins, make of the specifics as you will. Ultimately I am unsure of exactly how many forms Naga's heart will take as he changes rapidly as an individual, and the progression between forms is not linier, much as one's development as a person is not linier. I worry that this will make the magic system seem incredibly loose and come down to "the characters can do whatever the writer feels like at that moment", and I do want to emphasize the difference between people like Julian and Wendy, and someone like Naga, but it's something I haven't necessarily explained before.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
Sex and porn addiction is rarely tackled in the same way or with the same weight as drug addiction, and as someone who's never been a drug addict I cannot say, but I know it is a struggle. This grey-skinned form of naga extends from a scrapped page where I was going to metaphorically show him as a tribal chasing down and killing an animal before eating it to represent the experience. This form is monstrous and base, barely a human, a hunger and a drive, almost if not *as* bad as Max.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
but honestly, Naga's a self insert, and I am going through some shit that it also makes sense for this character to go through. Naga's already going through what I jokingly call his "gooner arc" and I'm sticking with that. He's not just gonna feel terrible at the loss of max an have that destructive inner struggle, he's gonna try to cope. He wants to feel good, and that's it. He's already so low that little else matters.

25/10/2023 Edited   Naga sake Naga sake
While Julian may only change by, say, using his aura as a protective layer around allies( continued in comments), Naga's heart is going to (and has, as seen in his black tentacles of his current heart form) change quite a bit. I originally only had three forms in mind; Third eye Blind, Latch on Venom, and Bathed in black. Representing his hedonistic basic self, the struggle of grappling with loss and the knowledge there are some things you simply cannot have, and a synthesis of the two to game the system emphasizing self-discipline.