Oren's Forge PG 305 (Patreon)

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I didn’t expect to feel quite the way I did drawing Seral’s death. While I was working on this page, I kept thinking of the spring in 2015 when I was house-sitting for my mom. I was intent to use that time to revive an idea I’d started in 2013, which eventually became Oren’s Forge. I had to redesign the wolves and I can clearly remember sitting in that sunny room, listening to a particular playlist, and figuring out what color pallet each of the (at the time) nameless wolves would have. I’d have never of guessed that Seral would ever get more than a line or two of dialogue, let alone a name (and then even a name change!) I didn’t know what was in store for him then and it’s bittersweet that it’s over.  It's a reminder we never know what will become important and we don’t remember half of what we’ve lost.

Out of nostalgia, I listened to the old playlist I had in 2015 while I worked on this page. If there’s a dirge for Seral, it’s ‘Soft, Grey Rain’ by Kid Sam (which, if you wanted to hear it, it’s a hard song to find now, but it’s on bandcamp, track 9, and you can listen for free.) I think it captures the abstract sadness of killing him, mourning that loss of potential, wondering about if it had all been a little different. 

Here’s some of the very first Seral’s I ever drew, which I used as reference up until the very end.

Bye, bud.