A bit of intro
The original plan with these spin-off chapters was to have them divided by species and time.
Something more or less like this:
- Present
- Brillantis
- Crystals
- Felpas
- Metalcolds
- Intelligus
- Past
- Humans
- Monsters
- Future
This idea is no longer considered currently, but a few elements of that division remain.
Just like the cover for the Brillantis chapters had the main five brillantis, I thought of including the main Crystals (besides members of the Legion like Filo) in it.
The drawing with all the crystals is one of my old drawings that I don’t like at all, so I feel obligated to remake it when I have time to.
I just dislike it that much
Happy Monkey’s Notes
I got your head!
The idea that Crystals can identify others through touching their head is still canon!
I introduced this to justify an event on TMBD in which a Crystal touches the head of the protagonist to identify whether he was a Crystal or not.
It isn’t used in canon as Margot now knows more about the Brillanti Project’s origins and that a Brillanti can never truly be a Crystal.
I also removed Gretel’s “joke”, as I no longer find it funny.
No link with tragic backstory
Although I always had in mind that Margot’s parents were dead by this point, I did not have an idea on how she learned about the Brillanti Project.
Having her father being the link between the Crystal allies and Ganen just made things easier, and also gave a personal reason for her to assist the Brilantis in their fight. I still want to explore this more in the future.
Arlonz
He is just Alonse Ascetos now.
When I first created Alonse around 2011, he was named “Alonse” because I thought that was the english version of the spanish name “Alonso”. In reality, Alonse isn’t even a real name as far as I am aware, but I really liked how it sounded, and “Alphonse” didn’t feel right for him.
“Arlonz” was a made up name to keep it similar to Alonse, but trying to make it sound unique. In then end, I didn’t like it and decided that Alonse was just right.
Arlonz Lucciosa
I wanted the Lucciosa to be a family of many siblings, as I imagine the once proud Crystals having big families in an attempt to indoctrinate their many children into taking over the world once again.
Gretel and Margot were first pictured as Brillanti sisters; later, I divided them into Brillantis having the more physical powers, and a new speicies keeping the more spiritual and supernatural ones, the Crystals. At some point, Alonse was just another Brillanti too.
When I decided Alonse was better fit for the Crystals, I though it made sense for Alonse to be one of the Lucciosas, but I never pictured Alonse with a family before, and I wanted him to be similar to Aang from ATLA: a prodigy kid that is powerful beyond reach, but also wants to be kind and easy-going.
Also, I didn’t feel it made sense for someone with white hair being in a family where I pictured everyone to be black-haired. Sorry if that sounded rude.
Then, I realized that I had Baltazar.
Baltazar had many versions from when I first created him, the one that stuck with me the most was that of an old crystal friend of Gretel, but I never thought of him as a Lucciosa.
It made sense in my head that the few Lucciosa left, tried to find other Crystals to protect each other from the Dark Legion, and with the plans I have for Alonse and Baltazar, making them brothers sounded far more interesting than having Baltazar as the sole non-Lucciosa Brillanti of the group.
Telepathy
I was never too sure of what Alonse’s powers should be, just that he had to be too powerful and deal with the souls or minds of others and himself, and that fire powers worked for him too.
When I decided that the soul would be represented as a fire, I decided to give him soul manipulation powers. It was then that I saw the opportunity to implement Functional, Inverse and Asymptote technique with him, so these concepts could be introduced earlier in the story.
Alonse isn’t the first character I implemented this concept with. The original comic of TMBD had a character developing these powers, with a teacher who already had developed an Inverse.
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