Once I've got the bit between my teeth, I do tend to get a bit carried away with world-building, and that's what's happened this week with the Scuba story.
I originally planned for the Black Team divers to be nameless redshirts who'd appear once each in the opening montage, and then die summarily in the subsequent battle. Then I got a bit attached to them, and started inventing personalities from their posture and facial expressions in the training renders. Then, when I was posing the customer in the pilates gym and trying to work out what to do with his facial expression, I came up with a whole sub-plot where the mercenary boss spots that the customer is a little fixated on one of the mercenaries in particular and exploits that to get him to sign them up for the contract.
That played into a scene where she'd be sat across from him at a desk with a load of personnel profiles scattered across her table, idly pointing to the one he fancied and saying that yes, of course she'd be able to set up a meeting- if the operative was amenable to such a thing of course...
Naturally, there's probably going to be a doomed, pre-battle sex scene and everything.
Now I've spent my spare time for the last day and a half creating back-stories for the girls in the expendable first wave.
piephobia
2025-08-17 03:29:13 +0000 UTC