( @lygrim, for megamind to wear in the feudal high fantasy au? )
Nice
Definitely takes what I had envisioned in a new direction. It occurs to me that I’ll have to draw him a wardrobe now. Roxanne too. Love the geometrics, at first I thought they were a map of molecular structures. Love the stars and the lunar cycle on his sleeve too that’s really neat and ties in to parts of the story that hAVEN’T BEEN SHARED YET. Stop it with the improbable educated guesses and incidental parallels, Set, really.
!!! Ahhhh that’s so exciting!! I’d love to see anything you do for their wardrobes! I really love the Feudal High Fantasy AU! ❤
(Is it set in historical feudal Japan specifically, or is it like–a fantasy place/time that’s based on feudal Japan?)
Lol neither actually, and I hope you won’t be too disappointed with me.
Although now that you’ve asked the question I’m reconsidering geographical lines as they pertain to the level of diversity in my story because honestly I was stuck with the idea that most of the main characters we see in the movie are, in fact, white so I felt obligated to stick with ‘Caucasian’ spaces, but I’m realizing now that as it is a fantasy and I can do whatever the fuck I want, including adding fucking trolls and magic so why can’t I have more widely spread ethnic diversity, I can dammit and I will Goddamit so there.
so continue with the knowledge that I’ve only just reached that understanding and am looking forward to gleefully screwing my original shape of the world and building fresh.
The setting of the story is (was) more medieval European. My concept was that Megamind has been systematically moving to, living with, and learning about different regions of humanity, and he’s been through several. (So far his mountain neighboring Roxanne’s town is his least favorite.) Rather than having the cultural experience and presentation of an ‘alien’ be from only one place, I wanted to play with the idea that Megamind would want to move through them once he was indepedent, adopting and piecing together a more complete philosophy based on the premises of a species not his own and doing so by touring different populations. (And shaping his magic in the same way.)
There that is entirely more than I was wishing to share but once again you’ve clairification things for me with an idle question, so thanks for that.
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