u/IceMosquito073

I think I'm in love with a female friend, but:

Firstly (1st) I don’t know if she's interested, as most of the time I text her it's me initiating (though that's the case with most of my friends as they all have jobs, college, and activities while I mainly just/only have a 9-5, but what she thinks of me beyond "good friend" is an open question) and I don’t want to ask he out without being certain and make her feel uncomfortable or pressured.

Second (2nd), part of me likes the way things are right now as being strictly platonic. We talk about anime, Manga, fanfics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, movies, novels, and music—I like and enjoy writing, so I send her some drafts of both original fiction and fan fiction that I write and she reads it over and gives genuine feedback like likes, dislikes, and suggestions, and I send her screenshot-ed excerpts that I find funny/were meant to be comedic and she laughs at them. I'm scared/uncertain about changing that. I’ve never done good with wanting or seeking out change in most cases where I can tolerate something. And whether it be if she says yes and the dynamic changes, or if she says no and our relationship after might feel weird from then on.

And third (3rd), I like her, but I'm aware most people's first romantic relationships never end up being the one you actually keep until marriage and then decades upon decades and you both die in your 90s type of thing. So IDK if I want to make someone as good as her my "first romance".

We’re both on the Autism and ADHD spectrum and in both of our mid 20s, and IDK if she'd dated anyone before, but I've never went dates or asked anyone out before, if those tid-bits also matters.

What should I do? How should I feel/navigate these three above feelings?

I want to take a lot of inspiration from Quinton Tarantino, particularly Inglorious Basterds, Specifically/particularly in that instead of everyone somehow knows how to speak English with some sprinkles of foreign languages (I want to deconstruct that part of comics a little bit), but full-blown Germans speaking German, Russians speaking Russian, French speaking French, and British and Americans speaking English, all with lingua Francas when they communicate with each other.

But for writing in graphic novels, there are a few problems with a number of ways I can do this, all of which get repetitive and takes up WAY too much pannel space. There is one way I thought of where speech bubbles are in the intended language and a smaller attached square bubble has the English translation. But that will inevitably take up A LOT of pannel space. And if I wrote the test in English and had asterisks and a blurb saying "said in German" or "said in French", then it gets annoying, especially when entire chapters at a time are not intended to be in English at all.

What should I do for the graphic novel dialogue?

So far, I have a Chaos Space Marine warband based on the Millennium Battalion from Hellsing, the same way you base chapters on historical cultures or fictional organizations/cultures.

I wasn’t gong for them being a rogue warband of Blood angel successors, but I'm kitbashing my Chaos Space Marines with the same techniques as as you kitbash Raptors, and they're war-obsessed schemers (not all Khorne followers, but they love war for Khornate, Tzeentchian, Nurglite, and Slaaneshi reasons combined, and pursue endless war with all of the above methods), and are mercenaries who take up jobs.

I have a few kitbashing ideas, like using some squat first-born kits to make the Chaos Lord like the Major, and using a Thousand Sons Sorcerer with Horus Heresy Death Guard scythes as a Zorin stand in. Or a World Eater Master of Executions.

As for everything else, I'm in a creative desert and don't know what to do with the lore, where they started, who it's members are, etc.,

I wanted to ask fir thoughts and suggestions that could jog my mind.

I'm not going for an Aerial focused chapter, but more of a standard mrchanised infantry chapter with a "tactical knights but ramshackle yet still prestigious" theme, if that makes sense(?)

with lots of scrapped off Aquilas with ammo/bullet straps and lots of Horus Heresy bits like helmets, swords, pistols, Assault-Marine Chainaxes, and some chaos bits like my 2nd Company Captain having the Ammo-strap + Tilt-shield I took from the Red Corsairs Raiders kit. But still keeping the knightly and fantastical elements like capes, backpack banners, helmet plumes, and some aquilas still on their chests.

As for lineage, it's official listed Unknown but heavily implied to be Dark Angels.

I came up with the name for the chapter a LONG time ago (2019 when I first got into 40k) when I wrote about my first Homebrew, but I abandoned the name when I learned about the gunship. 7 years later, I was thinking of picking the name back up.

From both an In-universe and out-of-universe perspective, should I go with the name?

Was outlining and making up characters for a Super-hero story set during WWII, combining elements from DC and Marvel with most characters meant to be spooff of DC and Marvel characters set during WWII (e.g., a Captain America super-soldier spoof, a Demi-goddess half-God Wonder Woman spoof, a Doctor Fate Spoof, Wolverine Spoof, Black Canary spoof, etc.,)

And I say mostly cause I'm making alternate takes on a few characters who weren’t in WWII or who even weren’t in any Super-hero media.

One such character was a planned KGBeast spoof.

So, Soviet assassin who was gonna have one arm and a prosthetic weapons arm, and who did black-ops on the eastern front.

Then, for a name, I thought to riff off of KGBeast. KGBeast follows a "Acronym for intelligence agency with the last letter starting a name/word"—so then I thought, huh, so what was the intelligence wing of the USSR in wwii? The NKVD? What's a fun antagonizing nickname that starts with "D" and the start of the word sounds out "D"? ... OH! DEMON! I'll name my character NKVDemon! I'm a genius!

Only to google KGBeast looking for further inspiration only to see a piece of art with another character already named NKVDemon, and I was like, oh God damn it!

Anyone else here accidentally come up with a name for an already existing published character?

Hey, so I was outlining and planning to do a Super-hero graphic novel (might be a few years out cause I still have to teach myself how to draw) based on World War Two. I already posted earlier questions here and also here.

Generally, I'm trying to make spoof/my own version of Marvel and DC characters who canonically served in WWII, reimagine them, and yada yada. For the character based on Captain America, I had a design element that I wanted to include.

I like the idea of the Character featuring some form of trunks, like the old X-Men cartoon's depiction of Cap', or the new James Gunn's Superman. I like the rationale that the actor David Corenswet gave, with the trunks intentionally looking ridiculous to make Superman look friendly and approachable. So that's the in-universe rationality for why my Captain America spoof wears the trunks, with him wanting to appear friendly, approachable, and like he doesn’t take himself seriously to get civilians in Europe to be not afraid of the 6'2 roided up super-human Genetically modified super-soldier.

My problem with it not "working" is that I also wanted to take a page from DC's Wonder Woman and making the trunks blue with stars on it.

I say it doesn't feel like it "works" because it's blue trunks, which means that the costume (at least around the area, such as waist or upper legs) have to be something other than blue. But, trying to imagine/visualize that costume doesn't really "feel" right to me.

On the one hand, I could go with white pants, but that feels too clean and too "weird" for someone leading in the trenches to wear. And if I go with red pants, it feels too Soviet-coded, and I don’t want to go there cause I already have a predominantly red-coloured Soviet super-soldier.

I feel like the only real way to make an "American flag themed costume" work is to make it predominantly blue, like Captain America or Star And Sripe (MHA). But then, I can’t really do "blue trunks with stars" without it looking weird by being indistinguishable from the pants underneath save the stars on them.

Thoughts and suggestions?