Thread:Jeffrey Penguin/@comment-31764595-20191028221818/@comment-27881268-20191030024606

Truth is... yes, I've pretty much abandoned it. But of course, I have reasons.

As you know, in general, I take my stories and all very seriously. And I consider it a challenge, honestly, because as you know I usually don't like being the most serious kind of guy. Yes I'll put down the hammer in rightful situations and act up when "bad" things happen, but at the core I am pure comedy... sort of, bad reference- Either way, yes, I consider serious writings a challenge, and, you guessed it, I ain't gonna lose.

The stories that I write are meant to be grounded. Characters are fleshed out to be real people, thier personalities are set, their motivations (for the most part-) make sense and could work in the real world. Characters that all behave differently, some still waiting to be shown. For a mind that doesn't want to be serious, it takes all the extra effort to craft them to feel like someone you could meet right now. And there's so much to do still, still that consumes most of my writing time. And while UM is the only universe I'm focusing on, there are still at least two more, which are almost more complicated than UM because it doesn't have FNaF elements as an excuse for plot (although I don't do that with UM, I'm better than that).

With all these ideas running around inside me ol' coconut (do people still use that lingo?), I don't want to push myself too far with another series that I, bear with me, see as just fun. I mean, remember the characters we're dealing with here: they're cartoons. And when I think about the things they get into, that's all I see it as, pure unbridled fun.

Now I'm not saying you can't take goofy characters and put them into real world scenarios, that's what DDLC did, and that's what one of my other two universes is doing. But the other universe? Well, it's extra icing, because it is my wiki story. But honestly if I handed the idea over to anyone on the wiki, nobody would know it's a wiki story. Because this version feels more natural, it fits the kind of things I create. It's a realistic setting with realistic characters in a (somewhat) realistic scenario. The two ideas blend together with this one.

When I created my FNaF cartoon series, one that literally is of stick figure characters, it wasn't made to be one to be taken seriously. It was a ridiculous story with ridiculous characters and barely any real plot. It allowed room for fun ideas, where I wasn't limited to real scenarios. The closest you'd ever get in it aside from the bonds between the characters is a commentary on abusive love, struggling to pursue one's desire to get money, and stuff about organ transplants (though granted that was a school project). And even then they (and other things I don't feel like recalling) were done in such an over-the-top way that I didn't contradict the tone of the comics. They were a joke, and they knew it... seriously they did, they broke the fourth wall on a weekly basis-

When you have a universe with characters that are literally a smiling grey dragon and a tiger with sunglasses, it doesn't stick with me to make them battle depression and bipolar disorders. They're set up to be something to laugh at, but then you find yourself down a rabbit hole. Is it a bad idea to make them have problems, oh certainly not. But when you're a joker and already have three serious worlds spread out in front of you, you're going to need an escape room. And with a concept that's literally drawn around cartoons, it would feel natural to make it more lighthearted for a change. But even then, there's so much to do still that it doesn't allow time for those changes to be made.

Wow that was way too complicated for an answer that simple, sorry for going on a bit of a rant haha.