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EMPOWERED story notes, pt.6
🕑 Added 2019-06-29 18:19:49 +0000 UTCOooh, weekend service here on the ol' Patreon! (In the interests of long-term sustainability, I'm mainly sticking to weekdaily-oriented posting, but what the heck.)
More Empowered story notes from very early on in the series; been a while since the last one of these, alas. And now, some quick annotations.
Left-hand column:
*While a fair bit of Empowered really is personal in derivation, I'm careful to disperse such material across the entire cast, as I'm almost phobic about avoiding anything resembling an "authorial self-insertion" character. This wasn't an intentional aspect of the older "supervill mentor" fella (no, really!), but I nonetheless never featured him in the story because of said intense aversion.
*Never did roll with the overt clinical depression bit for Ninjette, but I clearly was considering it early on in the series.
*We do, however, see the first mention of the American ninja riffs for her that blossom in vol.3. (No sign of New Jersey yet, though.)
*The comparisons between manga and ninjutsu as performed by Westerners never went anywhere because, TBH, by this point I didn't really care about such criticism in my own work, whether or not overenthusiastic young "weebs" were doing the boundary-patrolling or not, (To be clear, that last paragraph was referring to tensions among younger manga-influenced creators over the whole "Original English Language (OEL) manga" thing; I rarely faced much friction along those lines.)
Right-hand column:
*Behold, the "sigh" story notes that directly inspired the first "floppy" one-shot, Empowered: The Wench with a Million Sighs.
*Next, a scene that appears during a vol. 3 Thugboy flashback to his Witless Minions days.
*For the uninitiated, Michael Dudikoff was the star of the 1985 Cannon Films flick American Ninja, which I saw in the theater(!) during my teenage phase of "see a movie every g-d weekend, whether or not anything's actually worth seeing."
*And we close out with a Thugboy anecdote setting up vol.2's butt-centric story "Schrodinger's Catgirl."
Comments
KranberriJam
I love how complex all your characters are. While you didn't go with the clinical depression for 'Jette, she definitely suffers from it (I just want to hug and comfort her so much). Really excited to see more of her character development. Side note, I still enjoy the "Schrodinger's Catgirl" story (Emp's behind in jeans is a work of art).
