I was just going through some old papers and character profiles from now-defunct stories, and I found something from a few years ago that's immensely amusing now: an Acid Queen! She was a butterfly girl who spat poison. I hadn't ever heard the Who song--indeed, I didn't know diddly shit about Tommy--but now, looking back, it amuses me that I ever had a character named for someone I didn't know existed. XP

She was a part of this group that's a big part of my baby, Carpe Noctem. The Wonderland Circus, full of demons and specters that feed off of happiness and daydreams. The Acid Queen was originally the acrobat and the girl who guided people through the House of Mirrors, but that role was given to another bug-girl, Arachne (obviously, a spider).

There were various reasons for scrapping The Acid Queen. One: Her character design! I usually draw out a couple of comic pages to get an idea of where I'd like to go with my folks, and I sincerely wonder what acid I was on to want to draw her the way she was. She was too damn hard to draw. Arachne, though, is easy--white skin, red eyes, black braids, short black dress, blue cloth belt, striped tights, no shoes. Simple! Two: The Wonderland Circus actually took a turn from "cheerful circus not knowing they're doing wrong" to "disturbing bunch of spooks who trap people inside and suck their souls out." Acid Queen was too cheery.

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Bah! I hate Friday nights. There's never anything on TV and never anybody to talk to.