schneekugel der rosen

 

hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears ♡

so, today will only be discussing about my project 

schneekugel der rosen

what it's about, my progress on it, and also some 

fun little history too~

i am, incredibly nervous, but excited to finally speak more on 

this project after such a long time..

because while i have brought it up a few times, mainly back 

in my instagram stories over the years- 

i never really explained much about what it was, 

who the characters were, or anything like that besides 

the occassional snippet and concept sketches

꒰ ྀི◞͈ ˔ ◟͈ ྀི꒱

the reason i got so quiet about it is actually, various reasons:

besides lack of confidence in my own work,

the biggest reason is simply that the story just kept changing 

so much. characters names kept changing, 

the plot kept evolving and devolving and going all over 

the place because honestly, at that point i did not know what i 

wanted for this project at that point;;

i'll get into all of this a little more later- 

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so, what is schneekugel der rosen?

schneekugel der rosen is a fairytale storybook collection 

that is told through illustrations, letters, diaries, & short stories. 

it is about the daily life and experiances of the living dolls 

that populate isolated kingdom, 

notably dolle rosenheart who has been documenting 

it's observations before it's next death

although there is a plot weaved throughout the project, 

this isn't really a typical fairytale about heros and villians..

it's about the trials of life itself;

learning to romanticise the small moments in life, 

recovering from trauma, the cycle of death & rebirth, 
and most importantly love in all forms

this is intended to be published neatly together into an art book, 

in english & german once the project is finialised 

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progress on schneekugel der rosen

back in febuary i began working on the first outline 

for schneekugel der rosen, collecting together all my concepts 

and worldbuilding from the past nearly 4 years.. 

and am happy to announce that this draft is nearly complete!

the worldbuilding journal is finished, 

so all that is left for this draft is the actual character stories 

which are still all strewn about in older sketchbooks, 
text documents, chatrooms....  ꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ ก꒱ྀི

i was originally hoping to have this completed by now but, 

my health really hadn't permitted it
and once i recovered got distracted by playing Project Zomboid

so my goal is to get it completed by the end of april now..

progress has started, so hopefully i'll be able to get everything 

bundled together in place soon enough

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a little history on schneekugel der rosen

and finally, the first of the

bite-sized history on schneekugel der rosen~

with each specific update post intend to share 
the ways the story used to be, 

as i personally enjoy learning the history of my 

favourite stories so want to do the same with mine 

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schneekugel der rosen was originally concepted back when i was 

14 years old back in 2014, though it's original title is long forgotten
i thankfully still had pieces of its plot mixed in old scraps and concepts

i had created later in 2015

so, this is what remains from way back then;

the original concept was about the main character Ami*, 

who was experiancing two different realities at once.

in one reality, the "mundane" reality-

Ami was just an outcast middle schooler that spent most 

time alone in their room when not at school with their friends..

in the other reality, the "dream" reality- 

Ami is an angelic doll priestess that lives in an abadoned castle, 

on the run from the corrupt Emperor Thanatos* and his son Darius* who seek 

to claim the power which Ami holds.

And one day, as Ami seeks to return to the "mundane" reality 

to escape their pursuit finds they are unable to return and are 

captured, learning that what they thought was real and fake 

weren't what they seemed..

*Ami is the original name of Dolle
*Thanatos was the original name of Heinrich 
*Darius was the original name of Rosaire

Heinrich and Rosaire are no longer related in more recent versions of the project

and that is the best way for me to summarise how it was!

schneekugel der rosen has changed significantly 
from it's earliest days, but the essence of it remains to it 

to this day through the relationship of the three mentioned 
characters, as well as the normal & dream realities 

still playing a role in the project..

at the time the plot of the story was also much more 

apparent as this was originally supposed to be 

a manga/graphic novel project

it never got to get that far though at the time.. 

during 2014-15 i became incredibily unconfident in my 

works and was unable to really commit to this story

i knew i wanted to make it,

there was a story i wanted to tell but, 

it clearly wasn't time

so i dropped it, expecting to forget about it but 

after a few months, i just couldn't let it go 

which leads to the 2016 version of the project

but that's a story for another day 

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thank you for joining me today for this exciting update, 

i hope you visit again sometime..

have a goodnight my dears, 

♡𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎𝒹𝓸𝓁𝓁𝓮♡