Week 216! (Patreon)

And a third script page update for the month since there were technically 5 Saturdays (even if one of them was literally just the first of September, although it's not like I did an update last month for that week or anything, so whatever). This one's page 428.

Now we start to move onto the actual date of this arc that's probably still going to be called something like "Campy and Connor's Amazing Date". I've got the date outlined to have five parts to it: a short and small bit to begin with (which this page shows), three main big locations, and then the finale. Each bit will have its own problems that "ruin" them, in order for the tension and emotions to ramp up until the eventual breakdown of both characters in the final bit. Generally the rule of three in writing works naturally in a situation like this, but I felt like having the final part separate from the three and including a segue from the school to the date would work better than just having only three bits. It also allows for more things to go wrong, which helps to justify the aforementioned breakdowns more later on.

So, for this small introduction/segue into the date proper, I picked a pretty small problem that could be done easily as Campy and Connor left the school: Connor accidentally buying Campy something he already owned. Not really a big deal, especially since it can just be returned for a refund without a problem, but it still comes off as embarrassing and disappointing. The feeling of having gone out of your way to try and do/get something nice for someone, only to be met with the fact it was objectively pointless due to the thing having already been done/gotten, can feel like you've failed that person in some way or another, out of ignorance or out of inadequacy. Again, not a big deal, and probably not even an actual problem on its own, but it's a small step to reach the bigger steps.

Also yeah I wrote "It's <video game name>!" in there and left it in there for the moment because, well, I need to figure out what kind of games Campy's actually into (I probably can't just fall back on City of WarQuest or whatever else like I can with Bruce), and then create a parody version of it to have its own box art, and, well, plenty of time to do that small detail before I need to actually get to drawing this specific page. :B