This is one of those Asks where I knew the answer right away when reading the question. I toyed with having them fucking while answering, just ’cause we haven’t seen that yet, but I ultimately decided it wasn’t a good fit for the tone of their answer. This still gets to be Faith’s first time appearing nude on camera, though, so there’s that!
I know some people were interested in seeing a bit more of Mr. and Mrs. Park, and while this isn’t exactly how i pictured their first non-bio pic, I think it’s a fun one. Max is, of course, the same type of guy as Nanami in a lot of ways, so Faith arranged a fun little meat-up, I mean meet-up.
My original plan for this Scenario was for them to just be having some kind of dry business talk, but nothing I was coming up with sounded like real business talk and also just… didn’t click. I decided to find a different thing for them to talk about instead.
There was a bigger gap than I’d originally expected, but here’s Max Park’s better half and Corey’s mother, Faith. I had this vague idea of what Corey’s mom would be like from early on, but I don’t really have any plans for her so she never showed up in anything until now. I’d like to use these Bios to flesh out more tertiary Applebridge characters in the future, though I don’t know for sure when.
For those who don’t remember, Tia Coy and Mia Mezzenga are the mothers of my OCs Jackie Coy and Mace Mezzenga. They haven’t appeared much, in fact this is their first time appearing nude in my work, and that was (at least originally) by design. Initially I was hoping to hold off either of them showing skin until it happened in the Mace and Jackie series, but that series has been dead in the water for a long time now and I just don’t know if my original plans will ever actually come around. While I don’t see them being romantically entwined, I decided to use one of my old ideas for their answer here. The “relaxing by the pool” idea was going to be the opening to a comic involving them and their sons eventually, with them watching the boys play in the pool at Mia’s home. Since that comic will likely never happen, I figured I’d use the idea here for this Ask instead.
So with these pages we finally conclude the first chapter of “For Whom the Bells Toll.” I believe I’ve mentioned before that my original plan was to tell this story through the Applebridge Snapshots series, and if that’s what I had done then this chapter would’ve been told in one page like the rest of that series. I think it’s not hard to imagine what the Snapshot version of this would’ve looked like, but I think telling it this way will work better for what I have planned long-term. The next chapter will cover what would’ve been the second Snapshot page, but it might be a while before I get to it. I have a lot of other projects to work on, but I do intend to get to it sometime in 2025.
This is a little something I cooked up with two new Applebridge characters, Brandon Johnson and Xavier Williams. They’re both members of Applebridge High’s basketball team (alongside Cal Foster, if y’all remember him). They both have their own backstories that I’ll get into whenever I do their Bio pages, but for now all that matters is that they have a very… spirited rivalry, as this comic explores.