Personal Update

Hello! First of all, I'd like to say thank you to all my supporters. Again, the updates are starting to become sparse, and I'd like to apologize for that. I've sat around at my computer staring at this draft page for a while now wondering if I should post this, but I figure the people who support my work should have some sort of explanation for why this update is taking so long.

I've got a large overhaul and a new character with a new set of costumes just waiting to be released, and then radio silence. I had a death in my family, my brother. I can't speak for how other people might feel in a situation like mine, but in my case it hit particularly hard. When my younger brother and I were in our early teens, we were passengers in a car wreck that left him hospitalized in a coma for months, and while he eventually woke, it left him with a traumatic brain injury which would affect him for the rest of his life.

He was not just a sibling, but someone I had just started to live with in order to facilitate his care in the event of my fathers passing, although he was high functioning, his brain injury necessarily impaired his judgement and required someone nearby to ensure that he didn't get into trouble, as well as having a nearby resource to drive him to doctors appointments, get him groceries, etc.. I think it's hard to describe this, but he was kind of like an adult child due to his brain injury. As a result of which he was always a large part of mine and my parents lives.

His death was sudden and has left my family and I shocked with grief. With all of that said, I still have obligations that must be filled, but I ask that you please be patient. All this may be odd to read on a page for something like this, and in truth it does feel silly, but many of you have supported me for a long time, and I'd be remiss to say nothing. The truth is that sometimes I just wake up and cry. I expected that the rest of my life would be shaped around caring for my adult brother, and now I'm in an additional dwelling unit next to an empty house that used to accommodate my brother.

It seems like it was only months ago I described how I was having health issues. When it rains it pours I guess. I don't mean to unload a sob story as a means to guilt anyone, and more than anything I want to assure you that this isn't some announcement that the project is ending or whatever, just that I am taking a break. I'm just deeply, profoundly sad and I've been looking for any excuse to not work on anything.