Alex Interview

No Man’s Land is a collection of smaller countries and territories that became ravaged and fell into anarchy as a result of the three main countries quickly pulling back from war. Bandits in the area were able to get their hands on war equipment and human trafficking began in that area. Peacock and Marie are from Rommelgrad, which is a town in that collection.

Double can mimic anyone’s voice, and is capable of talking normally to appear as, for example, a nun or a stranger at a party, in order to spread rumors about the Skull Heart.

Marie’s last name is Korbel, and her birthday is April 3rd. She became the Skullgirl in late summer, and it’s been a couple months since then, as the game takes place in autumn.

Samson has lots of contacts and “friends” that he bugs to get him and Filia a place to sleep, so they’ve been bumming it out. Samson knows Yu-Wan, and he is one of these “friends”.

Parasites can greatly vary in age, some are ancient while others are relatively new. New ones can be created. They can stay alive forever as long as they have a host.

There are various side effects to synthetic parasites but no universal ones. The first successful parasite was put on a burn victim to replace her skin, and she now prefers to wear a mask.

Artificial parasites are not sentient.

Leduc can walk normally despite having goofy feat. Having a Segway style dash might be possible.

The kids in the back of Lab 8 are orphans with conditions that would have had trouble leading a regular life without Lab 8’s help. One of the reasons Lab 8 originally went renegade was to prove they could help humanity outside of making weapons. The kids are written off as test subjects in order to justify taking care of them. The same was done people like Big Band and Peacock.

Hive’s Beezle Bomb is a mix of an implanted modifier and her suit, so she could take the suit off and be more or less normal, but still have access to her powers. The triangle on her head is a reference to dorsal ocelli.

Every member of the cirque de cartes has their own reasons for joining, some of the more nefarious members like Taliesin, Beatrix, and Regina know they’re working for the mafia, while people like Hubrecht don’t. Cerebella isn’t “literally pure” but is pure in the sense that’s she’s not entirely aware of how bad the mafia is.

The climate zone of the Canopy Kingdom is based off of northern US and the norcal area specifically. It’s mostly based off of whatever looks cool.

The Canopy Kingdom’s gentlemen’s clubs all closed down after a sharp increase of girls without bras getting into street fights.

Each of the labs has a “metric bunch” of scientists. There’s no specified number.

There’s a lot of discriminations against minority groups like ferals. Parasite hosts specifically are heavily ostracized as hosting a parasite is seen as taboo.

Before Brain Drain was rebuilt as a robot, he was less shiny and more opaque.

Hive and Leduc are around 15, slightly younger than Filia.

Black Dahlia’s time in the labs drove her mad, she used to be a lot different and had a different name before becoming an assassin.

Color palette choices are based loosely around having base camp conversations about ideas or looking at fan ideas. A character’s original colors are based on choosing one central color and not branching out too far from that with lots of different colors for fear of becoming too “Original character do not steal”. They can be based on personality or what seems logical (BB’s coat being beige), or looking at what colors are not currently present in the game.

If Skullgirls was not a fighting game, the second genre choice would be a tower defense dating sim with collectable hats beat em up or RPG type game. With hats.

Of the current cast, Alex’s favorite character is Eliza. Of the potential third characters, he also like Ms. Victoria, D. Violet, or Black Dahlia. If he drew concept sketches, they’re probably his favorites.

Alex wouldn’t want to go back to change or redo old characters, but has alternate or future versions of current characters. A la Ryu/Evil Ryu, Batsu/Burning Batsu, Hayato/Black Hayato.

FIlia’s hairpin swords have not been forgotten. There may be an alternate or leveled up version of Filia could use them.

George (the dragon knight from the art book) is pretty much a design that didn’t get used because they couldn’t find a spot for him. If he does get put into the story in the future his name probably won’t be George to avoid confusion with Peacock’s bomb.

The River King will be making a splash.

There are a variety of other religions in the Skullgirls-verse, including many different denominations of the Trinity. Practitioners are called Trinitists.

Parasites and living weapons can having different effects on the people who use them. The Pazuzu whip brings out a deeper, maybe repressed side of Ms. Victoria in the form of D. Violet. Like the Hulk but with horniness instead of anger.

Painwheel developing Skullgirl powers from her blood might be implemented in a hypothetical EX version based on design and balancing. She probably won’t go around throwing skulls though.

The Great Mother is aware of Aeon and Venus’ interference in the verse. Venus is getting restless and might try and pull something.

Eliza’s been operating under her current guise for about 20 years now.

Leviathan was present for the clash between Samson’s old host, Delia, and Eliza.

Beowulf and Annie might have met and have a respect/acknowledgement of each other considering that they’re both celebrities who have a lot of kid fans.

The gender roles and stereotypes are roughly the same as they are here, so chauvinists and slimeballs still exist. The Skullgirl might be equated to a witch hunt, enforcing this sexism.

Annie has encountered a lot of skullgirls and has encountered a lot, but not the same a lot. She’s seen the cycle multiple times and seen how they become stronger each time and is looking for the underlying source now.

The Annie of the Stars show is very similar to the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with live action segments with cartoons and PSAs and commercials in between.

The server for Alex’s personal site is probably down and he should probably go transfer it to a different server. There are no plans though.

The reason why we don’t see people looking for Filia might come up in the canon story mode. People are looking for her but there’s only so much that can be shown in the character’s own story mode.

Alex thinks the Annie fan game is cool and looks forward to seeing what comes of it.

He also thinks the skulldudes are interesting, and it’s interesting how people interpret the non-human characters.
The No Evil triplets is a character design that may be used in the future if a place can be found for them.
Big Band and other managed to escape Lab 8’s assault in Peacock’s story mode. “You’ll see later.”

Gigans would cool as a boss battle. You could fight the gigan’s face.

Sagan can talk. Somehow.

The boneyard stage is set in No Man’s Land.

Eliza is older than Annie.

Boy’s can’t do much with the Skull Heart. They look at it, punch it, yell at it, polish it, show it off as a trophy, turtle wax it.

The Black Egrets are open to people from any and all walks of life.


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