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BEHIND THE SCENES

Like most Deviations, this has a long and rigorous story between the original concept, and the final piece. However, the story in particular is a lot more difficult than usual:

For quite some time now, I wanted to draw a bit of fan art involving a character dusting their paws off muttering (coincidently the tile of the artwork) “All in a day’s work”. Time and ever-changing schedules meant that I couldn’t finish the idea, let alone choose a character to focus on.

Skip ahead a week, and with a free slot (at last), I could tell a quick story involving a character I’d usually not focus on. They had to be female, heroic, and cunning. Optional quotes at the end of their victory gave an extra side to them. I remembered the original concept of the hero dusting their paws, put two and two together, thus what were meant to be two artworks, became one!

Really, there was only one character that fitted the necessary cunning and guile attitude my story needed. The only choice (and indeed most logical) was Princess Sally Acorn.

Right, that’s the hero’s position covered. Now, what about the antagonist?

First and foremost, I wanted Nack. He already showed a strong hatred for Sally, so this story doubled as an encounter to settle old scores. Like life itself, things don’t go according to plan, and Nack had to be dropped due to a lack of resource material available to me at the time. Had I a reference to go by, the final product would have indeed been a fight for revenge.

With Nack out of the picture (and if you imagine Nack in the story, it really does make more sense), I needed a villain. Luckily, I still had a few rough sketches of Snively (what became the previous Deviation) on my person, so he was chosen instead.

The plot was re-amended to allocate his character. Rather than lure her out into the open to settle old business (which was the original idea with Nack), he lured her out into the open to easily capture and torture for information (the city’s structure of Nanites is questionable at best. Since they’re copied from A.D.A.M.’s collection, wouldn’t NICOLE upgrade any possible weaknesses that Eggman might have known?).
After re-reading the final product, I’m actually quite happy that Snively was chosen.

Researching fan art, I have noticed that some fans like to pair him and Sally into romantic (and extremely illogical) relationships. This is something of a reversed homage (although the second panel without words could be mistaken for the opposite) to the pairing.

And so, that’s how 2 original ideas were tossed and re-tossed into one.
Thanks for reading.

Description
BEHIND THE SCENES

Like most Deviations, this has a long and rigorous story between the original concept, and the final piece. However, the story in particular is a lot more difficult than usual:

For quite some time now, I wanted to draw a bit of fan art involving a character dusting their paws off muttering (coincidently the tile of the artwork) “All in a day’s work”. Time and ever-changing schedules meant that I couldn’t finish the idea, let alone choose a character to focus on.

Skip ahead a week, and with a free slot (at last), I could tell a quick story involving a character I’d usually not focus on. They had to be female, heroic, and cunning. Optional quotes at the end of their victory gave an extra side to them. I remembered the original concept of the hero dusting their paws, put two and two together, thus what were meant to be two artworks, became one!

Really, there was only one character that fitted the necessary cunning and guile attitude my story needed. The only choice (and indeed most logical) was Princess Sally Acorn.

Right, that’s the hero’s position covered. Now, what about the antagonist?

First and foremost, I wanted Nack. He already showed a strong hatred for Sally, so this story doubled as an encounter to settle old scores. Like life itself, things don’t go according to plan, and Nack had to be dropped due to a lack of resource material available to me at the time. Had I a reference to go by, the final product would have indeed been a fight for revenge.

With Nack out of the picture (and if you imagine Nack in the story, it really does make more sense), I needed a villain. Luckily, I still had a few rough sketches of Snively (what became the previous Deviation) on my person, so he was chosen instead.

The plot was re-amended to allocate his character. Rather than lure her out into the open to settle old business (which was the original idea with Nack), he lured her out into the open to easily capture and torture for information (the city’s structure of Nanites is questionable at best. Since they’re copied from A.D.A.M.’s collection, wouldn’t NICOLE upgrade any possible weaknesses that Eggman might have known?).
After re-reading the final product, I’m actually quite happy that Snively was chosen.

Researching fan art, I have noticed that some fans like to pair him and Sally into romantic (and extremely illogical) relationships. This is something of a reversed homage (although the second panel without words could be mistaken for the opposite) to the pairing.

And so, that’s how 2 original ideas were tossed and re-tossed into one.
Thanks for reading.