The Book of the Shadows

When I first started this project, the concept was as simple as the original title – Red Euphemia. At that time, this project was set to be done before I got around to the Euphemia Alter one. It was as simple as Alter’s – Euphie in Nero’s dress, that’s all. But once I latched on to the Euphie Alter project and started the R3 Alter story alongside it, this one took a backseat. By the time I came back around to it, my theories for how to manage her color scheme shifted. I wanted to so something a little more, a little different.

There are some times when I look back on the stories I’ve created and I can know exactly what I was thinking about and what kind of story I was planning to tell. I then look back at the progress I made in developing that story and can’t see where I was going. Sometimes I look back and have no idea what the impetus was, but can see very clearly where I was planning to take it. Third Star Saga is a lot like that.

To paraphrase an old quote, Halloween is the one day of the year where we all get to dress and and for that one day pretend we're someone we're not. Actually, the quote is from "It's A Wonderful Life" and was talking about people being nicer to others for Christmas, but I think my version works too. Except if you're a cosplayer... or you spend a lot of time in Las Vegas or Akihabara.