bbsucks says:

Well… I usually like to let people say their peace on a custom that I ordered before chiming in and giving some background (in case my intent/thought process ruins anything for anyone), but it seems like there’s not much action around these parts at the moment.

My thought process on this one. My last custom with Westenra was about the character Amare. But in the last video, I had written most of the script as a Supergirl story before I decided it’d be fun to change the costume up a little and make a unique character. The costume came first with the little heart logo, followed by the name “Amare” and then finally the little tagline “Love prevails” was just kind of added as an afterthought. All very accidental, but fun enough.

All that to say, the actual story in the video didn’t match the theme of the character beyond a few little lines I threw in after the fact. But I ended up really liking the concept of the character along with Alicia’s portrayal of her, despite there only being a couple of lines that leaned into it.

So the purpose of this custom was to write an actual plotline that keyed in on the “love prevails” themed character. So Hateweaver came first… which seems a bit like an obvious choice in some ways. Obviously the arch villain of a heroine based on love would be all about hate. And I’m always looking for an excuse to throw vampires into shit. So boom. She vampire bites people and turns them into everything they hate.

Taking the porn element out of this whole thing, and you could almost see that working as a believable heroine/villain combo. And I like that. I don’t like it as much when movies in this genre are just a collection of fetish scenes or when the heroine is just someone in a costume. I think it’s more fun when there’s a reason for the superheroine to be defeated and it’d almost be as dramatic without any sexual peril (but then there’s sexual peril).

So that’s always what I’m trying to do when I come up with an idea (whether successful or not). I thought this one was pretty fun. Heroine and mentor have an overtly wholesome relationship. Hate-based villain turns the mentor into the opposite of what he values. Then there’s an epic betrayal which leads the heroine getting defeated spectacularly which is almost more emotionally devastating than it is physically. Then the heroine is reduced to the opposite of what she values which is basically a whore who uses her body for pleasure with no tenderness or love involved in it at all. A pretty harsh and dastardly outcome.

I don’t know. I thought it was a fun plot and a fun world to spend some time in. Hopefully more folks will find their way to it and get some enjoyment out of it.

As always, I had a great time working with the Westenra crew on this. They punched up some of the dialog to breathe a bit more life in the character which I really appreciated. I originally wrote Hateweaver as a male villain but from talking to Lucy, eventually switched that to Ariana, which I thought was very fun in the end. And hopefully a bit of female on female will appeal to some of you (although admittedly, the main action is between Amare and her mentor, so it may not be enough for some folks). All in all, a good time!

If anyone does check it out, I’d love to hear what worked for them and what didn’t work.