[Q&A] MORTIS RANDOM QUESTION HOUR [mature edition]

[skinstealer]

did you ever consider featuring more members of the smiles system(think that's the name for Chelsea and company)? why is Bucket named Bucket? What was mr bad dog trying to do with all that dream maniuplation nonsense?

so this comic actually went through three goddamn drafts and in the first one, lina, amber and the system snakes were actually supposed to show up as well- they got cut for time because it was just Too Many Characters. we actually have outfits for them! these outfits are generally used as their Default Looks™ now, but they were originally designed with the special in mind. 



as for bucket's name- meta reason is that como asked me for a dog name and i said "uhhhh, bucket", and he actually fucking used it. in universe reason, unexplained and probably never will be. 

re: dream manipulation nonsense...

matthias is a nosy bastard and is the kind of person who emotionally gets off on making people suffer, especially when he can dig into people secrets (which he effectively can through dreams, see: using peoples' deadnames and names of system members directly) and use them to make people squirm in public conversations. the deeper he can dig and twist people up, the more glee he gets out of it, and the more you fight back against him, the harder he's going to want to go against you and really mess you up. part of being a spit cultist means delighting in that pain and really relishing giving into those impulses to hurt, and matthias does so with no remorse. tldr, he's a fucking asshole who wanted to see bucket + the smiles suffer, and when challenged on it, he wanted to see how far he could push things. that, and he wants the smiles' job as spit's demon real bad, and by digging in and finding out about bucket and chelsea's Sordid Relationship™, he had a potential in on getting her and bucket in trouble and in his eyes, getting that job. whether this actually would have worked out for him, who knows, but he might have gotten away with it if he had actually kept his fucking mouth shut about knowing about it.