Question & Answer 2023 ENGLISH VERSION (Patreon)

German: Für die Deutsche Version geht es HIER entlang

How long do you think Remembering Gale will take to finish? We knew before starting how the story was going to end and we had planned with around 10 volumes. Right now where we‘ve reached „half-time“ though, we‘re starting to think it might be done in a few less, so maybe 8-9 is more realistic? If the question was more about how long we‘ll take to finish those next volumes, we can‘t really tell as it‘s often out of our hands. Our personal goal would be to get a new volume out every 1-2 years, while we aim to keep steadily updating Patreon without any bigger break!

Do you have a next Project in the Pipeline after Remembering Gale?

We actually do have a few bigger and smaller stories in the pipeline for after Remembering Gale. We‘re always debating which one will be the next, but we think we‘ll definitely have to wait until it gets to it to know for sure! Most of them though are definitely more in the fantasy genre, even though they all remain queer! 

To mo: Is he interested in guys after all? (After the special chapter with Lorn)

Mo: What? INTERESTED? I...have no idea what you‘re talking about...

How did you come up with the idea for Remembering Gale, did you know from the start where you wanted the story to go, or did it start with an idea you let develop?

It‘s always a little embarassing to explain how Remembering Gale came to be, since it was actually a RPG back then. And not only any kind of RPG, but a „fun Alternative Universe“ in which we had dumped all our other Ocs from DIFFERENT RPGs because we wanted to have them in the tropey „fighting Schoolgangs“ setting. Once the RPG was „done“ though, we realized how surprisingly well and coherent the story had turned out, so we changed it to fit the comic medium. Of course a lot of things changed from the original RGP to the comic version and we still keep changing things here and there if we feel like they benefit the overall story! <3 (Fun fact: Mo and Lorn were originally from two very different universes and RPGs and only got to interact with each other for the first time in the RPG that turned into Remembering Gale!)

What is particularly important to you about the story (i.e., content)?

There isn‘t a lot that‘s NOT important to us. We try to put in a lot of care into making the characters feel „real“ and relatable, even if most of them don‘t have a very normal everyday life. We want for people to be able to feel for them, even if they are not personally affected by the themes we talk about. One of the biggest struggles is trying to juggle all the different storylines throughout the volumes. Because while some of them are naturally more important and impactful for the plot, we want to tell each and everyones story to a satisfactory end! Because of that we also mercilessly cut out some things completely, even if it hurt at that moment (the first „draft“ had even more character storylines in it… ) .

Were there any real life inspirations for some of your characters?

Their looks are not really based on anything specific (minus maybe Lorn), other than we tried keeping them close to their original OC designs from before. But a few of their characters definitely changed and deviated a lot during the RPG, so that you wouldn‘t really be able to compare them to their originals! The inspiration of the setting though had a clear origin: Mim had just read a „Crows Zero“ doujinshi from Yoneda Kou that reminded her a lot of a very old J-Drama she once watched called „Rookies“, which had exactly the same trope we started our „fun AU“ with. =D Additionally it‘s (maybe) also kind of normal, that you‘d consciously or unconsciously implement traits from yourself or other people you know into your characters. We are definitely sure though, that if it happened in Remembering Gale, it was definitely more unconsciously done!

Will we get to see more Bajar and Keita?But of course! Everyone gets their story and we hope that you‘ll keep enjoying it! <3

To Lorn: how does he *really* feel about Noah's nickname for him (Täubchen) and also does Noah have any more nicknames for him bc I think it's cute ?

Lorn: I don’t know. I can’t shake the feeling it’s incredibly embarassing and I’m kind of upset I haven’t been able to find out what it actually means. I mean...what does he even say? What kind of language is German? Is that supposed to sound cute? It sounded like he had to sneeze…

(For everyone who wants to know how it is pronounced you can just check here and klick the audio icon) 

I know that you've mentioned making the story into physical books in the past-- has there been any progress on this?

Ahh...we’re ashamed! But yes! There’s been progress and we wanted to be done with it a lot earlier. Sadly there’s been a lot of other „normal“ work coming up so things have been delayed a lot. Also having the launch and pre-production of the new Volume 6 pages hit the same time period isn‘t something we were planning for but is now...here. xD

BUT, we’re reaching the last stretch and we‘ll open preorders on the 8th birthday of Remembering Gale, July 29th!! We‘ll inform you before the launch with details here on patreon (so basically next week xD)

There is still work to do though:

Our amazing beta reader is nearly done with the volumes and we’re going over the cover illustrations again, test prints and goodies for bundles have to be prepared. But it took us long enough so it is now or never!