kenisu3000

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You know what that means? Commissions are OPEN, baby! [2022 EDIT: NOT CURRENTLY! COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!]

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I've been playing Link's Awakening DX on my 3DS Virtual Console. A little while ago, after getting through the first six or seven dungeons, I realized I missed the Kanalet Castle photo op. You have to approach the drawbridge while it's still raised to trigger the photo. I had forgotten all about that, and gone right into the castle and pressed the switch to lower the drawbridge.

So, naturally, me being me, I started up a new file with the intention to 100% the thing this time. (And if you're wondering about the THIEF photo op since that one changes how NPCs address you, and makes you unable to enter the shop ever again under threat of a Game Over, I figured I could leave that one for just before going into the Wind Fish's Egg, and get it whenever I want to without saving.)

THEN, playing Picross 2 for Game Boy (a Japanese release), after getting through all ten Mario areas and the first three Wario areas, I realized I had failed to meet the requirements for activating the tenth puzzles in the first three Marios, and for some dumb reason the programmers didn't put in a fail-safe where you could go back and retry the first nine puzzles to meet the requirements.

So, naturally, me being me, I started up a new file with the intention to 100% the thing this time.

Why do I have to be such an insufferable perfectionist...?

My MOTHER comic: It's not dead, and I refuse to kill it. I've had an idea, for some time, on how to get to where I can start working on my pet project (the PETTEST of my projects) again, but just didn't have the guts to bring it up until recently, when I began to think maybe it is a legit course of action. (I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this, but humor me.)



For any newcomers to my profile who don't know, eleven years ago I started illustrating a webcomic based on the first MOTHER game, and submitted each new page to Starmen.net's Fan Comics section. I found that the bare-bones plot, and all the little things in the game that were never explained, were fantastic breeding grounds for creative writing, and soon I was pounding out the prologue with a fleshed-out take on the abduction of George and Maria, giving Ninten a richer family history, and generally seeing what I could do to bring out the indescribable feeling MOTHER produces. After a while my productivity petered out, and outrageously long hiatuses started to happen. As of this writing my latest page was uploaded five and a half years ago (g'uhh...!). It was page 86, just as Ninten had finally reached Mothersday Town and was about to enter Wally's house, concerned for the farmer's family as he had confessed, after Ninten snapped him back to being himself, to having gotten a little... scary with them.



I can't count how many people have come out of the woodwork since then to request I pick this comic back up again and finish it, and each time I've had to give the same answer: "I plan on getting back to it again someday". I hate having to say that. The longer this hiatus goes on, the more wishy-washy that answer sounds, even if it's true.

So here's the facts: This comic is extremely important to me, even if it doesn't look like it is at this point in time. It's stayed in my head since 2006, I think about it probably every day, and even when life or other interests (*cough*DuckTales*cough*) haven't allowed for me to constantly dwell on it, it's at least been there in the back of my mind. I can't bear the thought of abandoning it, of never finishing it. But I haven't completely been idle: During this absurd hiatus, I've been brainstorming and jotting down lots and lots of notes about additions to the plot and how to make things interesting and exciting and tie it all together for a good, tight narrative.

Now to the point: The sad fact is, I’m just not in a spot where I can do it as a mere side hobby anymore. I need money. Lately, I’ve been thinking about starting up a Patreon with the main intent of finishing my comic - but I don’t know if that violates some copyright law or rule of ethics or what, considering the heart of the whole thing is not my property (no matter how much of my own interpretation I add to it). In addition to that, the other makers of MOTHER series fan comics, who do theirs for free, might not see it as fair to them. Does anybody with a knowledge of legalities/loopholes know if there's anything wrong with this idea?



So there you have it. I really, really want to get back to creating. You may have noticed how, for the past several years, I haven't been very active online, apart from the random "oh, hi there", like the art for the MOTHER soundtrack vinyl's booklet, or that news about Ninten's mom's name... but I always slink back into my hobbit hole soon after these anomalies. I'm starting to think that producing the comic wasn't just what kept me productive, it also kept me talkative and outgoing - at least as outgoing as someone like me could possibly be.

I've translated the game manual for MOTHER's original Famicom release and discovered that Ninten's mom happens to be named Carol! Who'da thunk?

Read the full translation here:

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