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Summary (Patreon)

Published:
2017-01-14 08:52:56
Imported:
2026-06

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A while back I sent my editor a summary of where Always Human was headed. Things have changed/been rearranged quite a bit, so I thought some of you might be interested in seeing what the synopsis (up till now) orginally looked like :)

(This starts after the 'First Kiss' side story as that's when I was talking to my editor about this)


After Sunati and Austen get through their first fight, Austen remains unaware that it was Sunati's birthday. As university summer holidays begin, Austen gets her exam results and while she didn't do as well as she hoped, she's determined to spend as much time as possible studying in preparation for her second year of university, so that she can complete a major in genetics. She's really passionate about studying genetics, because her dream is to find a way to prevent or cure Egan's Syndrome.

Meanwhile, Sunati finds herself fashion mod shopping with Austen's younger sibling. During this time she lets slip that she's 22, and so Austen discovers that Sunati's birthday has passed. Sunati nervously explains what happened, and Austen acknowledges that Sunati probably did the right thing by not bringing this all up in the middle of their fight, but is upset because there were plenty of other times she could have been told. Sunati promises not to keep any more secrets from Austen, and they discuss Sunati's use of fashion mods for the first time. They decide that when Sunati's current fashion mods wear off, they'll choose her new look together.

As New Year approaches, Sunati is busy at work finishing up projects before the office closes for the holidays. Sunati's boss discusses her future plans with her, and when she confirms that she wants to stay with the company, he gives her a new project: the Mars Colony has hired the company to update their virtual reality tutorials for new colonists and he's putting Sunati in charge of the environment design. Sunati is very excited about this, because she loves space.

But when she goes to share the good news with Rae, she finds out that Rae has different plans. Rae received an offer of a new job - her dream job - and will be moving overseas next month to take it up. Sunati is absolutely devastated. She's been friends with Rae for years. They went to high school together, they picked out the same university course together, they chose the same internship project together and they continued working at the same office together. Sunati pretends to be happy because she knows how important this is to Rae, but she secretly wants to beg Rae not to leave (and also feels guilty about having such selfish thoughts).

Things aren't going well for Austen either. She's been meeting with her course supervisor in order to prepare for her second year at university. But her course supervisor doesn't think she should major in genetics. Austen is told that without mods she'll never be fast enough or skilled enough to get an actual job, no lab will want to hire her. 

But she's got a knack for coding - she's been coding most of her life, trying to find ways to get computers to help her study and learn - and it's possible that even without mods she'll be able to have a successful career in software or AI development. Austen's course supervisor thinks that she should give up on her dream career of genetics, in order to pursue a career path that will give her an actual chance at success.

After discussing this with friends, family and Sunati, Austen decides that it's important to try to be happy, and she'll never be happy if she's chasing an unreachable goal, so she decides to switch her major to computer science and see how things go.

As the characters celebrate New Year's Eve together, Sunati is feeling lost. Her best friend decided to leave her family and friends behind to achieve her dreams. Her girlfriend decided to give up on her dreams in order to find a way to be successful. But Sunati feels like she doesn't have any dreams at all. She's just been coasting along, directionless. And while she has a job she likes, she doesn't have anything she's really passionate about, and she hopes that she'll find a dream to pursue in the new year.

In January, Sunati's fashion mods wear off and Sunati and Austen together decide on her new look. Sunati suggests that Austen also could try a different look - she could diet less and gain some weight. Austen's horrified by this suggestion (she can't use health mods and so it's important that she keeps her body healthy) but Sunati points out that Austen exercises a lot and she doesn't need to diet as well. Austen could gain quite a bit of weight and still be perfectly healthy.

Austen's initially resistant to this idea (after all she's surrounded by people who use mods to stay very skinny and she wants to fit in as much as possible). But she eventually decides that she's never going to look like everyone around her anyway, so she might as well relax a bit and eat foods that make her happy and not worry about her diet.

Comments

Jonas Richter

Thanks for the summary! Since you mention your editor, can you please tell a bit more about the process? You're drafting outlines of the plotlines (like the summary above), then I guess you script individual episodes (do you just start with dialogue or "script" panel contents to, at least partly?), and then you draw and write the episode until you're happy with it? At which points does your editor come in, and what sort of contributions do they make? Also, good look to your husband for his defense! Last but not least: Get well soon!

walkingnorth
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So yep, I start each arc with an outline paragraph like the above. I might divide the outline into a bullet point per episode if I'm feeling a bit confused and need a structure to work off eg. - Sunati shows Austen Enceladus model - Austen grumps about her diet - Austen meets with course supervisor - etc. Then I script out each episode as I go. I've usually got a pretty good idea of what the characters will do and say because I've been thinking about it while drawing the previous episode. Sometimes I'll script out a couple of episodes at a time, but usually I only script out the next episode when I finish drawing the previous one I find that if I try to plan things out in too much detail and too far in advance, I get very attached to ideas that don't end up working, and then I just get stuck. I think I write much better when I do it as organically as possible (and luckily Always Human has no actual plot so my loose planning all works out). Scripts are mostly dialogue and I don't stick to them particularly strictly (I also find I tend to cut out a lot of dialogue when I move from script to thumbnails, I tend to be quite verbose when writing but once I'm putting pen to paper and thinking about how the dialogue would work with images I find I need much less with it). I do thumbnails on a couple of long skinny canvases (I'd do it all on one canvas if I could - to see how it flows when scrolling - but my computer can't handle it). My thumbnails are super messy! I cut the thumbnails up into individual panels (or small groups of panels) then sketch, place speech bubbles, add sketchup backgrounds if I'm using 3D models that week, ink and colour. All the sketching is done in one go, then all all the inking etc. I find I work faster this way and it also makes the art a little more consistent. My editor doesn't really come in at all, actually. She was introduced to me as my editor, but I've been pretty much left to my own devices and was initially very surprised by the lack of editing. The only reason I typed up the above summary for her was because I asked for feedback and she said "Sure, send me a summary" and then after I sent it she said "looks good, keep on going." From what I've experienced and heard from others, LINE webtoon tends to trust creators to do whatever they want, though they reserve the right to say "nope" if they think a joke is offensive or something else is inappropriate. And thanks so much for the well wishes, I am doing much better :) (Unfortunately my husband got food poisoning this week, poor thing, so his oral defense has been rescheduled. We are having a very sickly week, though I think he's had it worse than me!)

Jonas Richter

Thanks for the extensive answer!