Surprised By Design: All about Lynn

There's nothing too special to report this week, though the formatted script has grown to 23,287 to 26,036 words, which is always quite good. So for some filler content, let's talk about Lynn's design. Lynn was actually a character who was sort of made up on the spot: we wanted to have a fourth heroine, but the writer for that heroine ended up in the hospital, so after about a week of brainstorming a general plot and working with PFM to make my ideas less bad, Lynn was made, but she lacked any art. That's where Eyedrop came in.

Originally, Lynn was just Chinese, but Eyedrop loves his KPOP and K-On!!s and suggested some pictures, like the one above, for how he was thinking Lynn should look. After some quick discussion, we came to a conclusion on what she would look like, more or less.

This is one of Eyedrop's earliest quick concept pieces on what Lynn might look like, or it might have been his first, I don't remember which. After a few more sketches, we began to refine more and more what worked based off of aesthetic design and personality in the still developing script.

Although Lynn had very little writing when we began designing her, what was important was to make her distinct from the rest of the cast: Nikhila was Indian/South Eastern, perky, financially secure, and impulsive; Laura was tsuntsun, rebellious,  abrasive, well off, and ginger; Jennifer was a bit of a hodgepodge of Central and Eastern European things, controlling, rich, and patronizing. Lynn was then to be more of a counterpart to Jennifer, and in particular from the other two women, much less well off.

Another big reason for her character though was that I didn't want to write for another office worker, which we had two of already, and Jennifer was already one of Walter's bosses.

We agreed that Lynn needed short hair, but how exactly it would look wasn't too clear. This was us dabbling around between how her hair looks during work like the teenage girls we are. It is all very important when writing Office Space 2: Noir Boogaloo.

Eyedrop wouldn't stop hitting me until I  put up this true version of the topless Lynn. 

And finally, we figured out how her breasts would look. Again, we we're going for something more distinct: Jennifer has nice legs/hips/chest; Nikhila gets a solid B or B+ in everything (and I would argue she has the best hair); Laura is DFC with a nice ass; and Lynn is just sort of skinny with average breasts. We probably would have made Lynn the DFC if Laura wasn't made first, but it still gives variety since you can go with Lynn if you want to date a Chinese woman or Laura if you want to date a Chinese boy.

Either we'll bring up another character next week or talk about CG. Thanks for reading!