Wanted to write this 'cuz INKWELL IS BACK! Well, now that the site is all set up for more detailed blog posts and stuff, felt like it'd be a waste to not use it to shamelessly promote my new shit. Also, this site isn't currently built for webcomic hosting, so until something better appears, if I ever put out a webcomic that shit's going in ComicFury and MANGA-NO. Also, celebrating the new years somewhat.
But Olivia, what even is INKWELL?
This is INKWELL's theme song, by the way:
INKWELL is the fuckass idea I had while working the most boring ass shift at the job I was nepotism'd into. (Don't worry, I quit about a year ago.)
It's about a little asshole cyborg named Inkwell (not all caps), and his journey to find anything to make life enjoyable. He has a particularly nasty ability he calls "bunny-hopping" which is basically just body-hopping. It works by launching his brain (only organic part he has left) in the head of the enemy and uses some gross biotechnology he personally developed to liquify a body's brain and take its place, essentially switching bodies with it.
One day, while ransacking the lair of a local gang, he has to bunny-hop to a zombie crow-beast's body (exactly what it says on the tin). What he didn't expect was that:
- The brain of the crow-beast was already liquified.
- The parasite keeping the crow-beast's body was also keeping it sentient somehow.
Through a combination of the thousands of safeguards Inkwell designed to not fry himself when bunny-hopping, and the unknown methods the parasite infecting the beast was using to control it, it somehow managed to both connect Inkwell's and the crow‑beast's (which I will be calling Crow from now on, since it's also what Inkwell calls him) consciousness, and also override the parasite's control over Crow's body completely.
But, since this was a very weird edge case he didn't account for, he can't bunny-hop to another body without risking infecting his own brain with the parasite, so the safest option for him would be to let Crow's body die naturally, and let the parasite die along with it.
Which, by Inkwell's calculations, would take exactly 3 months 7 days, 8 hours and 20 minutes, give or take some seconds.
This meant he was stuck with Crow, and Crow was stuck with him.
It's a very gritty premise, but I plan on it being somewhat lighthearted (up until the last chapters.)
I hope you're as excited to read it as I am to write it! Happy new years and peace out.