Keeping things simple
Added 2023-01-15 07:26:58 +0000 UTCSo I had a whole epic battle planned for Kaylee 21. The sisters, who were now vulnerable, were going to be fighting for their lives. Battered and bloody (with their own blood for once!) they had to team up and fight together. Kaylee gets blinded by a barrage of artillery. Kaylee, who took the brunt of the nuclear blast, can barely move, leaving Kayla to reluctantly save her sister. Then, for reasons that would at least kind of make sense, Kaylee gets glowing eyes, becomes like a beast, shoots laser beams with her eyes, and grows uncontrollably.*
In another comic, I think all of that could have been really epic! But I also think it would have just been too much for Kaylee, and would have felt out of place, not to mention that it would take a chapter or two to flesh out without feeling rushed... and on top of that, I had a creeping suspicion that it just wouldn't have worked. At all. When I planned it out, they were supposed to be way, way smaller than the size the sisters are now. How do you show an aerial battle, when the planes and explosions are both too small to see?
So there were two options. Either I shrink them down to a much smaller size (which I also didn't want to do,) or I had them fighting against planes that were too small to see, hitting them with explosions the size of a gnat. What barely worked when they were 3 miles tall becomes unworkable when they're 20 times that size. I was dreading the idea of spending dozens of hours rendering big, complicated battle scenes, only to realize that it just didn't work because the characters are too damn big.
So... I'm simplifying things. Instead of the sisters fighting, they're immobilized. With their powers temporarily stripped away by the blast, the sisters are lying on the ground, unable to move under their own massive weight. Unbeknownst to them, another nuke is one the way, and they're unlikely to survive another blast. That's it.
This way, I don't need more than a couple of short scenes to flesh out what's happening with them. I can spend 90% of the chapter with Krystal, and I can finish up the climax this chapter. Not that this will be the end of the series... but any future chapters will be 100% gratuitous giga-giantess growth and destruction! I think that's a better way to do it, and honestly it's a huge relief to know that I don't have to figure out how to make that unwieldy battle scene work.
*Those ideas might seem pretty out of left-field for Kaylee, but they had been planned from early on. If some of those seem a little bit familiar, it might not surprise anime fans that I re-watched Akira when I was working on the early chapters of Kaylee. The outline of Kaylee's finale had a lot of inspiration from Akira, although the only thing I can think of that made it into the final version was Kaylee's cape. At one point there was going to be a space laser, but that got replaced by a nuke!
Comments
Would have loved to see Kaylee with laser eyes! But I totally understand your decision to keep things simple and that it might have felt out of place in this comic. Maybe you'll be able to fit these ideas into another story eventually. Keep up the good work! Cheers!
2023-02-02 01:29:03 +0000 UTCI had thought about doing something similar before (in the mouth/stomach, not the lungs) but I keep coming back to the same problem: her sheer size makes it very hard to make those scenes look good
Redfiredog
2023-01-16 22:16:58 +0000 UTCIf you wanted something a little spectacular and left field, you could have the mini-guys go inside Kaylee (perhaps into her lungs?) and detonate a nuke in there, in the hopes of killing her outright. That could then go down whatever path you wanted; unforseen consequences or not. The benefit of the idea is it allows us to see how utterly tiny normal people are next to her, which is something we miss out on at these scales. Though your current plan also works well!
2023-01-16 21:58:00 +0000 UTCI love the gratuitous giga-giantess growth and destruction plans!
2023-01-15 21:16:21 +0000 UTCI'd love to see them shrinking down to a more controllable size. I don't like the idea of getting evn bigger. They are big enough already...
matemate
2023-01-15 20:00:51 +0000 UTCI like this angle! But maybe instead have like a switchero last minute with Kaylee realizing what those military guys on top of her were looking for when she was sleeping at the start of issue 14? Then she slowly comes to understand the radiation is just making her and Kayla larger and more powerful, but much like a hangover they just drank in too much of it at the one time and that's why they're finding it difficult to move?
Hew Draper
2023-01-15 19:12:24 +0000 UTCInstead of them actually being weakened, why not have them overwhelmed by the surge of power so they are struggling to move from it? It’s causing an overloading of their senses. Makes them appear weak, but as the effect wears off, they start to grow again. This means that they think they have them beat, but unknowingly are super charging them more when they get nuked yet again
GodLiquid Z
2023-01-15 17:32:55 +0000 UTCIt's actually a bit scary how the sisters are vulnerable as they are. To My knowledge, I don't think there's ever been a time where any of the giantesses were in such a weakened state that they might actually die, especially one who is the main character of the series. This really has be on the edge of my metaphorical seat, wondering how all of this will end.
Demdiesel83
2023-01-15 14:56:13 +0000 UTCYou had me at gratuitous giga giantess growth!
Hew Draper
2023-01-15 09:39:17 +0000 UTCTrue, up until this point it's either been the standard guns, missiles, bomb runs, etc. Since we're near the end, it would be jarring to introduce other alternative weapons or strategies since a nuclear bomb is widely considered the strongest weapon humanity has. If there was another way, they probably would've used it, lol.
Brendon Marcelin
2023-01-15 08:40:06 +0000 UTCYeeeaaahhh I honestly respect the decision you made to keep things simple. While I admire and am honestly blown away by the creativity, it would have been mind breaking for you to wrap up. I think that if a second nuke is the kill shot then all three of Kaylee, Kayla, and Krystal should either team up to finish the world cuz I can't imagine the world letting them live if they shrink back down.
Brendon Marcelin
2023-01-15 08:30:38 +0000 UTCIf they get hit by it
Redfiredog
2023-01-15 07:54:44 +0000 UTCDoes this mean that they die with the second nuke?
Union
2023-01-15 07:48:49 +0000 UTCYeah, but the bigger issue is that I realize now the whole sequence was unnecessary. It did nothing but over-complicate the story, and it wasn't a sequence I thought was interesting or sexy to render. It's an idea that could work in a different comic but it doesn't fit Kaylee
Redfiredog
2023-01-15 07:40:35 +0000 UTCPerhaps, but to make things slightly easy for you rather then setting it in the immediate present try for near future settings. So you have flexibility with tech without being unrealistic.
Union
2023-01-15 07:36:49 +0000 UTCthat doesn't help simplify things! I respect your inventiveness but I don't want to introduce giant airships in chapter 21 of a giantess comic, in a chapter that's mostly focused on Krystal anyway. The original plan was too complicated, and while I might try to use aspects of it for a future comic, I think it would have felt too out-of-place in the series
Redfiredog
2023-01-15 07:31:24 +0000 UTCPerhaps invent larger then normal air megaships. Or aircrafts with say fusion missiles or anti matter missiles. I guess it would be best to study a military campaign in modern warfade perhaps. Anti matter artillery shells. Or naval ships with railguns they go super far so they could be a large distances away from them.
Union
2023-01-15 07:29:49 +0000 UTC
