RE: Not sure if this is doable, but...
04-22-2026, 12:13 PM (This post was last modified: 04-22-2026, 12:26 PM by Annie-nee.)
04-22-2026, 12:13 PM (This post was last modified: 04-22-2026, 12:26 PM by Annie-nee.)
I've been thinking through where the characters will be down the line, things that would occur a few months after the story starts. One thing stuck in my head is having Hikari getting a bunch of ear piercings, dying her hair bright purple with pink streaks, cute-perky-goth witty shirts and torn jeans, a leather duster coat (think Mal from Firefly), and the clunkiest boots imaginable. Kana changing her hair to a pixie-cut and a white t-shirt, jeans with a wallet chain and a Leatherman-type multitool on her belt, and socks + Birks. Reki starts carrying a sketchbook everywhere, and art supplies, and I mean everywhere. I have to fight the idea to have Nemu actually being fully colorblind and being a walking visual nightmare due to her trainwreck-level clashing outfits. "Rakka will be Rakka to the very end." like Reki said in ep.13.
My one question is, how truly out-of-place are halos and itty-bitty wings in this universe? I don't intend to start on the absolute start date, but a few months (maybe 6, possibly 8) after that.
The idea of having them trying not to be kidnapped by The Government(TM
) and dissected etc. like in every single aliens are found on Earth movie (ET for example) is just too hard for me to do, and too cliche, as is the idea of them trying to walk down the street with a throng of on-lookers following them like little kids and a soccer ball. Will they turn heads, yes, of course, but they are in NYC, specifically they're living in the East Village (MIB had it right. "Travel only at night, but if you have to travel in the day, stay in the East Village" I think is the line).
They have the idea of wing covers (my SI apartment manager will make them for them) and hats are an easy thing. But having them always wearing wing covers and hats (like in summer...) defeats the purpose (and I can't just have scene after scene with a wing cover or hat "wardrobe malfunction").
So, having them as a curiosity absolutely, that's the whole point. Will people accidentally see a wing or a halo, sure. I intend to focus on getting them used to a world where there isn't a Day of Flight, where they're there for good, and they have to learn our world, dealing with unresolved issues from when they were in Glie/Guri/however you pronounce it, etc., not having them constantly paranoid.
But I don't know where in the timeline to start so they're not always the center of attention for everyone in Manhattan they see?
My one question is, how truly out-of-place are halos and itty-bitty wings in this universe? I don't intend to start on the absolute start date, but a few months (maybe 6, possibly 8) after that.
The idea of having them trying not to be kidnapped by The Government(TM
) and dissected etc. like in every single aliens are found on Earth movie (ET for example) is just too hard for me to do, and too cliche, as is the idea of them trying to walk down the street with a throng of on-lookers following them like little kids and a soccer ball. Will they turn heads, yes, of course, but they are in NYC, specifically they're living in the East Village (MIB had it right. "Travel only at night, but if you have to travel in the day, stay in the East Village" I think is the line).They have the idea of wing covers (my SI apartment manager will make them for them) and hats are an easy thing. But having them always wearing wing covers and hats (like in summer...) defeats the purpose (and I can't just have scene after scene with a wing cover or hat "wardrobe malfunction").
So, having them as a curiosity absolutely, that's the whole point. Will people accidentally see a wing or a halo, sure. I intend to focus on getting them used to a world where there isn't a Day of Flight, where they're there for good, and they have to learn our world, dealing with unresolved issues from when they were in Glie/Guri/however you pronounce it, etc., not having them constantly paranoid.
But I don't know where in the timeline to start so they're not always the center of attention for everyone in Manhattan they see?