FIGHT Cast

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Page 06 - Chase

mlai

on Aug. 24, 2008

This "comic" will detail the characters in the comics FIGHT and FIGHT_2. Art by Mlai, cg colors by JustNoPoint.

Chase is pretty much the reason I created F2. At first I scripted only a side-story chapter for her in F1, but it soon ballooned into a story all its own.

Did I ever mention that I'm a big King Arthur nut? I had an entire bookshelf devoted to books on the historical King Arthur and Roman Britain. I didn't used to pay much attention to the legendary King Arthur, but in order to flesh out the character better (for the comic), I read the entire 900+ pages of Le Morte D'Arthur. Reading it taught me how to write in Middle English as well.

So, here's my hero King Arthur… but packaged in the form of a cute girl! And the story she came from is a masterpiece. This character was tailor-made for meeeeeee. The danger with such a character is, of course, a story that devolves into fan-wank. If you ever wondered why everyone else seemed to have more screentime than Chase, it's because I worked hard to remain objective.

(The wound-treatment chapter wasn't fan-wank I swear. I really felt it was good/cool scripting.)

The biography is a mix of Arthurian legend and Roman Britain history, based on my (ahem) extensive knowledge of both.