timeline
Just for the heck of it, and also my own ease of reference.
- oldest of them all: doodle demon
- “them all” does not include imaginary friends and other characters from childhood series
- pre-2011: Nightpath; first reference posted January this year
- I know she preceded Slade but don’t have a date on it :T
- 2010 September/October: various Furry-Paws “characters” who got like one picture and were never touched again, but who I remember vaguely anyway
- 2010 December: Slade Auctor
- iirc I joined ’Souls and immediately went on vacation lmao, I associate him more with 2011. might not have had a Design™ until later anyway? ref was posted in October 2011
- 2012: disaster duo via poké-protags Alex/Nate/Nathan and Ivy (name never changed)
- Hugh and his sister also got some crumbs of development
- 2012 August: Zero
- 2013: earliest sparks of what would eventually become The Firebird Effect, including the faintest outlines of Flynn & Ren (then nameless Flare grunts A and B; there was probably a C but that one didn’t stick around story-development-wise)
There was a big “creative hiatus” for the next couple years or so, where I drew mostly fanart and didn’t write much (to memory, anyway). It’s probably no coincidence that, meanwhile, I was really into tumblr (social media! always a timesuck), was slogging through highschool (A Struggle), and other irl shit was going down too.
At some point I picked up TFE again, possibly around 2015-ish? It got redeveloped quite a bit before I started publishing the comic in mid-2016.
- 2016: earliest recorded appearances of “sawface”
- “named” on the spot for ArtFight 2021
- 2017–8: revisited disaster duo (and Hugh/Tara & sister/Vexus)
- 2018 January: RP species
- 2018 April: “sika” (initial concept, sketches happened later)
- late 2018: 404 (then-untitled; offshoot of Doki Doki Literature Club! obesssion that started earlier in the year)
- 2018 December: permission granted to OC-ify Zero
- 2020 October: cringetober
- late 2020: earliest ideas for You’re gonna be the death of me (no title til wayyyy later)
- 2021: ENA phase; duck-rabbit in March, then “sona” in April
- 2021 September: hellrabbit (first sketches, concept existed prior)
- 2021 December: wolf-skull (first posted sketches, existed prior)
- 2022 June: “new hell” (assorted concepts)
- 2023 May: brame (pre-2026 concepts)
In 2023–2025 I dove right back to the fandom mines, first with fanart then with 90% RP-writing. Something something suppressed quarter-life crisis. Concepts for an original TFE revival have been thrown around since late 2024, though as of writing (2026 June) they have yet to take shape proper. The “new hell” characters also continue to linger and float about, as does the odd disaster crew thought. All are increasingly removed from their original concepts.