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September 17, 2019 |
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Commentary for September 17, 2019: Carole’s Diner is something I am quite proud of. I originally created it for the very final story arc of Eon’s Comic, but as I don’t intend to remake that story for Eon’s World Vol. 1, that diner set I made entirely from scratch risked going to waste. I had originally intended that CJ and Sally would meet at Luigi’s, the regular social hangout spot of Eon’s World, but then I remembered these assets I’d made, as well as Silky having mentioned a place that does excellent waffles. Boom! We have our legendary waffle house. It was based on Dot’s Diner, of course. Not the Dot’s Diner from ReBoot, mind you, but the Dot’s Diners scattered around the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3, which I had been playing a lot at around the time I made that final story arc in early 2011. I named it Carole’s Diner after an aunt who, tragically, had died shortly before then. Anyway, something a lot of fiction -- especially this type of fiction -- doesn’t tend to focus on is trauma. In the Sonic comics, there are reasons why. Sega has a lot of restrictions on how official media portrays Sonic characters, after all, and they really don’t like it when the comics, for instance, have characters dealing with negative emotions. But so much of what characters in these scenarios go through would likely cause at least some of them lasting trauma, if not outright PTSD. CJ was kidnapped by a mad scientist working for a band of religious extremists, and experimented on. They considered him to be and treated him as less than a person because of his species and were content to let him suffer and die for their nefarious purposes, and he had to bust himself out of their captivity. That’s got to be an upsetting experience, to put it mildly. And even if CJ hasn’t been permanently traumatised by it, checking in with him to see how he’s doing is the kind of thing a good friend like Sally does. Because that’s what friends do when someone they care about is having a hard time or had a recent bad experience. I’m going to try to do more of this going forwards, too, rather than just shrugging off all trauma and moving on. Mental health is important after all -- just as important as physical health, and more fiction needs to acknowledge it. Finally, I decided to zoom in on CJ and Sally as they sit at the table because it’s the kind of more intimate interaction that warrants a close up like this. Yeah, I expect there’ll be more of that. |
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