Week 82! (Patreon)

This panel is from 096 - Comedic Interlude, from the fifth arc during which all the weird mind stuff gets really touched upon first. It was suggested by EmbraerERJ195.

Ugh, alright, so, Arc 5 is a pretty big mess, and I can kind of remember why: I was way too eager to get to these twists that I had planned. If you'll recall, the eventual things we learn in that arc involve "Mask" being revealed to be a manifestation of Kale's original fox form that wanted to take over his body so that he could get revenge on the people that altered him into a human, and there was a dumb sword fight and some other stuff in there, too. If in retrospect it seems like it was an awful lot to reveal all at once... yeah, it was, and I wasn't originally planning on that. In fact, the very original plan was to not reveal this stuff until at least the midway point of the comic, and the battle between Kale and Fox Kale was going to be the climax of the entire first half of the story or so. But... I was way too excited about doing dumb plot twists and swordfights, so I spilled the beans pretty much immediately, dumping all this stuff I had made for way later on before I even got to triple digits.

As for this specific instance where Kale is put into this illusion where he's a normal fox with fox parents, well, reading back you'll notice it lasts for all of 3 and a half pages. It was originally going to last a lot longer, to sort of set in the idea that maybe Kale was dreaming all that 'human' stuff and this world where he's a silver fox was the real world all along. I even had plans to have the comic slowly form cracks along the borders to gradually reveal what ends up getting revealed, that it was actually an illusion he was put in by Fox Kale while he went to try and take over the body. However, obviously it didn't happen that way, another big failing of the arc to me. I'm pretty sure it might've been me wanting to have that really big climax comic for the 100th comic milestone? Which is kinda dumb but oh well.