Big new Lust Unleashed backstory! (Patreon)

Time for a big text-heavy post! I think I get to do one after just finishing an image set containing 160 renders ;) We're gonna be talking about STORY! But not just story, also the way in which you guys want that story delivered. We're gonna go over some of the rough outline of a character origin story I've been writing, and also the ways in which I can turn that into content for you guys. So, let's get started.

Why I've been working on this

I've had an ache to turn LU into a proper narrative for years. Every now and again I'd sit down and try to hash out a way in which I could do this world justice with an erotic novel, but I could never find the right tone. You'll have seen me post snippets of writing here on patreon over the years but never anything that quite materialised into a larger, coherent thing. Well, that finally changed! Over the last few weeks I've spent a little bit of time every day working out small details until a larger picture began to emerge. And now I think I have something that's worth sharing.

We're going to keep a lot that we already know about Lust Unleashed. The core of what it is, ie Kayla and her company, the Zenith treatment, Mari and Marcella and how they're based off Tatiana's DNA, Yelena being a queen, Breanna a bratty slut from the DC area and the daughter of a sitting senator, all of that is staying in place. I'm actually changing surprisingly little. But I've managed to fill out a lot of the how and why, and I think it's safe to say that we finally have a real setting with depth here. So I'm gonna show you parts of it without spoiling anything story essential.

The timeline

It always used to be the case that I had the setting take place at some nondescript point in the near future. I figured it was somewhere in the 2040's, maybe 2050's, who knows. For the image sets, I never saw a huge need to define specifically a year they took place in.

However, there is now a birthday for Kayla Carter! She is born on March 9th, 2027. And this means the setting automatically has a timeline because it's always been my thinking that she's probably 35 years old in the image sets I'm currently releasing. Give or take a year, I have some room to maneuver here.

Yelena is two years older than Kayla, born on July 14th, 2025.

Tatiana is three years older than Yelena, born on October 28th, 2022.

Why does this matter? Because beside just giving us a timeline, it also gives the setting some space to have stuff happen. The world of Lust Unleashed isn't entirely the same as the one we live in today. Before I'm going into that, if at any point you wonder "how the fuck does this matter to a porn story", it's because I've always had the goal of writing porn on top of writing a good story that makes actual sense. I've always believed that erotica can be both.

The world of Lust Unleashed

Two big things happened in the year 2030: the San Andreas fault ruptured in California, and Russia underwent a revolution. Kayla and Yelena both benefited from this, because the San Andreas rupture created a sort of reset effect in San Francisco and allowed for the rise of Carter Industries, while in Russia it was Yelena's father that carved out a little slice of heaven on the Black Sea Coast and managed to create a brand new microstate sort of like Monaco and Singapore combined, called Sokolsk.

This solves a few problems for me. First, the change that San Francisco underwent goes into Kayla's character development. We're talking about a person who fundamentally believes in changing fates, in creating the kind of world you want to live in, in altering the old to make way for the new. She believes this because this is the world she grew up in. More on that later.

For Yelena it means that I no longer have to concern myself with how she's apparently the Tsarina of Russia. Let's be real, this was always silly. There was a time where I thought Lust Unleashed could be silly, but I just enjoy serious stories more. Yes, even when they involve bimbo dickgirls.

But in order to create tension in the story and give Yelena something to worry about, I needed Sokolsk to also not just be a fictional nation that's always been there, like how for example Marvel or DC like to create fictional countries to get around real world politics. It needs to have grounded challenges that Yelena needs to solve, so I wanted to root it in some believable events that lead to its creation.

So let's talk about both these things. We're starting with Yelena because it's things happening in Sokolsk that end up influencing the lives of everyone in the Lust Unleashed universe.

The Principality of Sokolsk

The idea behind this country is for there to be a realistic location where beautiful women all gather in one place. Where the economy is beauty. That doesn't make sense if it's a giant country with all the concerns a giant country has. Can we really see all of Russia somehow being enthralled by its nymphomaniac empress whose main interest is in making women gorgeous? Sure, if we want LU to be silly. But like mentioned above, I don't.

So it suddenly makes a lot more sense if Yelena's in charge of a microstate that's essentially a luxury resort for the world's hyper wealthy. And if Yelena's dad decided it was a monarchy when he founded it, then by the time she comes to inherit it, that makes her a queen. Technically since it's a principality she'd just be a princess, but of course that doesn't keep her from calling herself a tsarina ;)

Sokolsk is the name that Yelena gave it. The country is based around what is currently Sochi with its adjoining town of Adler where all the big formula 1 tracks and olympic stadiums etc are located, so it's not wild to imagine that some decades from now it's even more developed, with beautiful boulevards, palaces, and all other sorts of shiny nouveau riche shit. If it's a microstate full of casinos and banks there's probably lots of foreign wealth coming in, right?

Since Adler means eagle in German, Yelena thought that was far too imperial sounding, and because Sochi starts with "So" anyway, the Russian word for her favourite bird was a far better choice. Beautiful, slender, agile, what better inspiration?

There's a few really fun locations inside this area that I can use for future storytelling as well, but I don't wanna give too much away already. One thing I'll say is that I really look forward to shaping the evolution of this area in the story, from how Yelena inherits it from her father and how she gradually transforms it into a haven of hedonism and indulgence.

Kayla Carter and Carter Industries

But in the same year where Yelena's father carved out the country that would come to define his daughter's life, Kayla lost her own father. Richard Carter died when Kayla was just three years old, lost in the mayhem of the San Andreas fault rupture. He had always intended for the company to be inherited by her when she turned 21, but in his absence it fell into the hands of his close business partner John Erskine.

Neither him nor John had any idea just how much Carter Industries would boom in the post-earthquake world, and John turns it into a global leader in biotech. Kayla is faithfully offered her inheritance by John by the time she comes of age, but Kayla has zero interest in running a biotech firm and is far more interested in living it up and finding her own destiny.

By the time we meet Kayla in this story, she's an interior designer living together with Taylor. And whether she's particularly good at her job, I'll leave that to you guys to determine, but this is the phase in her life that sets her up to start exploring not just who she really wants to be, but also where she really comes from. Again, don't want to give too much away quite yet, but Kayla's obsession with beauty is not an accident!

If you're concerned by the mention of some male names so far, rest assured. Lust Unleashed is a female-only setting and will continue to be. There will be some small male roles in the story but of course zero male sex scenes.

The rest of the cast

This story is also going to introduce everyone else we already know; Breanna's got an important part to play, we're going to discover Tatiana's origins and how she met Yelena, we're going to even meet Valeria as well as develop a brand new reason for Jordan to exist. Mari and Marcella are not going to be part of this since they can't exist until Kayla's got Zenith up and running, and how that came to be is really what this story is about.

The only question is format

I think I've got all the basics for a really cool novel here, and as you guys know I'm not averse to writing. I quite enjoy it. I can make something that's brimming with both a really good story, multiple points of view, and a LOT of amazing sex scenes. But writing a novel is just one way of going about it.

The other way is to do this visually. That means comics. It also means this is all going to take a LOT more time to produce. Another route to go here is to simply do neither and to instead create reference material for all of this. That'd take the shape of biographies, interviews, brochures, the kind of stuff I used to make a lot of. I think it'd be the most efficient way of setting up all this backstory but it'd also be the least narratively complex. You'd essentially just get a series of notes that tell you who these people are, delivered in pretty magazine type styling.

I didn't turn this part into a poll because with a poll it if the majority of you guys vote for something it kinda ends the conversation because I just gotta do the way most people want it. Rather I'd prefer it to be a discussion in the comments. A novel has my own preference. It'd be something I could publish as well. Another way to draw attention to the setting. But if some folks are like "nah I really couldn't care less about a novel" then we can explore whether to maybe ALSO use another one of the options outlined above, rather than just one.

Anyway, long ass wall of text, so I'm curious to see what you guys all have to say about this.