The story title can be voted on some other time, so we'll skip that entirely.

"An ice cream parlor is going out of business. It's like a Toy Story adventure..."

So, why are they failing? Health hazards, overpricing, loss of profit, bad location? Poor quality service or product?

What can the characters do about this? Who are they to the story (now, some suggestions were made about this earlier, but I'll come back to that later)?

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How much time does our cast have to fix the problem? And how long will our comic be? It would be good to swirl our viewers' minds with some twists in the story, too.

In-depth character roles should be developed, like the relationships between friends or relatives, rivalries, villans, which ones are primary characters, etc.

Should toppings be sidekicks? Or, maybe just minor characters? Like, 'the citizens of the village' type that watches the hero save the day and rejoces with them :y

Flavor list for inspiration:

Hokey Pokey
Blue Moon
Rocky Road
Butter Pecan
Apple
Pistachio
Crab
Spumoni
Blueberry Sorbet
Cheesecake
Apricot
Rainbow Sherbert (or any sherbert, for the matter)
Belgian Dark Chocolate

there should be a sassy chocolate cone who is like black but an icecream.

& awesomesauce to the joint acc thing :D what do u suggest we name it & whatever?

we could combine our names...? xD

like vixen means fox

so maybe holeybreadfox

x'D

Wait Catbagel. Remember my sorbet people? What can they do? #sorbae

Sorbet is sort of like ice cream, but it's not. So maybe they're rivals or friends (or even enemies) of the ice cream. Then again, I'm just coming up with whatever comes to mind. If you want them to be something different, or you have other ideas, go ahead and share 'em! :3

foxcatta sounds cool :D

We need some cotton candy ice cream

@Lyonov: @Gnawing created a cotton candy ice cream flavored character for the story, actually.

this sounds wonderful! if you guys keep up with this planning, then you'll surely be my golden team for a few months!

Re: Well, if you still want a keinu, I could very well make you one of your own owo

im not sure actually...

lol cool c: some other ppl wanna join, do u think we should just make a big as.s account? xD

okie guys, luving this so far, here is a list of things i would like to be in the story (if we got probs we can talk it out, also if you need to know if im able to draw something you want in the comic please ask!)

-plot twist (character death, good guy is bad guy, etc.)

-good relationships b/w characters

-i want it to be a comedic and tear-jerker comic

of course i will also help write, but im not very good, so thats why we are working together!!

also i have an idea for the ice cream charas that arent very human-like, i could put them in the comics like easter eggs in brands, posters, toys, etc through out the comic

I was hopping that my character was able to play the comedy relief( sorry i'm tardy to the party) but i kinda made her for that purpose.

So, everyone should have their say as to what they want incorporated into the story...

Kersius can draft it all, and I'll help finalize it and share what we end up with before the comic is made. Once we've agreed on that, we can start on the comic.

That brings up another question.
How will we draw the comic? Will it be just a single artist, or several? Even more Q's, but I'll save them for when we're nearly ready to start the comic.

Yeah, the only thing I'm wondering is...With all these various styles of drawing, will it be just one style for every character to make them seem like they fit in the same universe? Or will it be all in their respective original styles?

It's easier on any artist for them to use their own art style, but the characters will retain their designs...

Suggested Comic Possibilities:

Collab comic: The artists who want to draw the comic will draw, taking turns with each chapter or page... this depends on how long the comic will be and how many people want to do it.

Single artist: A lone artist draws the comic. We have to worry about the layout as well, btw.

Layout: I was thinking we can have someone draw a cover for the comic and/or each chapter. We need to decide how long each chapter would be, and how many parts are in the total comic.

@Cat i think we should take turns with each page! I would love to :-0

yeah i think that would be cool if we all worked together! i need you guys to help me think about how the story is gonna be bc i suckkk at writing ; n ;

I thought we could start with the characters peeking outside of their respected containers in the store to make sure it's alright for them to wander about. Can the customers/employees even see them? Well, maybe only children are capable of seeing them, or the charas are visible to everyone.

So they do the 'lookout' thing and check on how the store is. The characters have taken note of how slow/declining business has been lately. Maybe they check outside to see if it's summer (boy, that would be a funny thing to draw lol). It is summer! But where are all of the customers? Is there a trendy new place nearby that's stealing them away? Are there giant UNDEAD ZOMBIE RATS running around the store?!? ...Whatever the reason, they need to take action. Thus, a crew is formed. A few flavors (the main characters) team up to save the day.

I'm just throwin' out stuff, wondering if anyone will decide if they want this to be how the story goes or not. Like, you know... "They should be visible" or someone confirming, agreeing, or disagreeing with these ideas.

Screw the store, what about ice cream rights!? We're getting out of here!..............ahem, sorry...

Story idea I just thought of:
Team Ice Cream and Team Cake had a Sugar War. Team Ice Cream wanted Sugar for food and Team Cake was too greedy to share any of it, using the sugar to build a bigger army from their bakery than Team Ice Cream. Team Ice Cream's Bakery becomes devasted from the army Team Cake, and they are clinging to threads of their sugar supply. The new Team Ice Cream(us) gang is now on the hunt for more Sugar in a modern bakery.

pt.2
Team Cake is now secretly kidnapping Ice Cream People and turning them into Cake People by shoving them into an egg bath and putting them into a Hypnotizing Oven that makes them forget about their time of being Ice Cream People and makes them think they are a Cake Person. They do this so that the whole team can become an enormous multilayered Cake hive mind.

Can I join this it sounds awesome.