(EARLY ACCESS) [SEASON 3] Cherry Crush Episode 100 (I AM SO SORRY)

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Hello everynyan, happy.. cherry crush... saturday? Im so sorry for getting this to u late but as u can see it is kind of a monster of an episode.. 😭😭😭 I got home super late after thanksgiving and literally just passed out and woke up and drew for like 12 hour straight til now SO I APOLGOZIE IF IM A LITTLE NEUROTIC LOL I HAVENT EATEN SINCE I WOKE i will eat right after i write this jasfdsakj

Anywayss, this freaking episode is a crazy one and honestly its a COINDICENCW THAT ITS ALSO THE 100TH ONE, but bc of that, i wanted to make it really impactful, so I pulled out all the stops for this ep, teh special effects n everything almost bricked my csp dkfjeksk I hope you all enjoyed reading it! I had help with coloring so it wasn't a total nightmare but i swear to god my csp was on the verge of crashing every 20 minutes just bc of how huge the files were sdkjfnsdjk

Writing-wise, this episode is literally just, flashbacks, and you all know i really struggle with flashbacks, so this took like, 3 rewriting attempts and it still doesnt really look that good to me, maybe my standards are too high or maybe my skills have fallen.. T_T;; Idk, but at least it wasnt the worst episode to write (that one goes to the push push push ep sakjdfnadsj) but yeas, I'm a visual learner so I like drawing things out instead of writing them, but sometimes when a character has to yap about plot relevant stuff, you just gotta bust out those rectangle bubbles and let them yap man..

Insanely enough, this is also one of the RARE episodes that is not Cherie or Crush centric, it's COLIE centric, we had a Mashiro one, a Kang one, and now, a Colie one! She's one of my more complex characters to write, and I can never get her quite right unfortunately, but she has a lot of themes about motherhood, nature vs nurture, found family, and a mild saviour complex lol Ep 100 falling on such a unique character’s POV has put a lot of pressure on me bc i was liek “oh shit i gotta make this count now” but i always try my best every week. When I wrote this i was really nervous bc i knew half of the readers dont gaf abt colie, and i kept thinking abt how boring it is when i read abt characters i dont like’s POV 😭 so i tried to make this episode an interesting read, so even if ppl dont care for colie, they’ll maybe care about baby crush. Baby Crush’s lore is tied to the origin of the Syndicate, and i wanted to lore dump abt that but I felt like it was taking too much attention away from Crush, which is who the episode is actually about, so… I cut it down and made the motherhood and savior themes complex more prominent! This was also one of those plot moments where i was like “Cherie doesnt need to know everything” because even if he asks crush about this, he wouldnt know how to answer, these memories aren’t clear to him.. as far as Crush knows, Colie’s the only mother he’s ever had. so thats why Crush’s origin is not finished until this very episode bc Colie has to be the one to tell the audience that, and now.. you know where Crush came from! YIPPEE

The fact taht we hit 100 episode is insane to be bro...i told everyone here all the time that when I first started writing season1, I was only planning for like 60 episodes... well... I was clueless............... I had no idea how much work it is and how much I had to learn from scratch, like pacing and storyboarding and scripting and referencing and marketing and managing like .... Webtoon artists deserve the world man.. when Season 3 ends, I'm gonna do a recommended section for the afterword so everyone have something to read while they wait for season 4...

Whenever I finish the season finale of any tv shows, i found that the finales that I actually enjoy are the ones where they show major lore or major character development, bc it felt like a reward for the audience for sticking til the end of the season! So I wanted to capture that similar feeling for season 3 finale, i want everyone to basically know who Cherie and Crush are as a person firmly, because at this point, you should know them like family by now, you've spent every friday with them for the past 3 years 😭😭😭😭

Anyways, I could yap forever about episode 100 and how happy and emotional and insane i feel but right now more than anything I just feel extremely lucky that I made it this far, without your support Cherry Crush wouldn't have made it this far either, so thank you everynyan.. for spending 100 fridays straight and reading this depressing ass comic that I drew for fun... Thank you guys, have a nice weekend and i lav u!!