Where I Draw Abby Inspiration Directly

I am getting a feel for the laptop. One of the buttons has a peculiarity but nothing has broken or acts broken, so I've decided to keep it for now. It's like part of the soft pad/cushion under it is missing. Cans of air oddly help.

Windows 10 has shown it is indeed Windows still at its heart, random stuff and all. 

But enough about technical kinks. I wanted to talk about where I drew the breadth of my inspiration for each Abby story. 

Abby 1 - Doctor Moo, this is a bit of a joke thing where they have cows dressed as the Doctor. Abby as she talks early on was meant to faintly evoke the 10th Doctor saying a rambly piece with "well, no, well, but" and the second fuzziest shirt is obviously lifted from Monkey Island. Most readers considered early Abby like an quirky, eccentric inventor. Otherwise, I wanted to present Abby with some typical zappy situations. I also vaguely thought of Kelly/Arisu from Mecchen House for the flaming underwear. The Rift was an idea mentioned to me and I liked toying with it. It was meant to be like a natural force of transformation. Like chaotic currents. As I reflected on it, I wanted more and more to figure out where and how something like that might arise.

Abby 2 - I wanted to and still want to make a game with Donna which is about an endless library where people live and work. It was going to be about curators who enter old, troublesome books and tame the wild, feral universes that spring up in them. From there, I wanted to follow Chrono Trigger with how characters get added to the party from different books instead of eras. A floating pair of panties was to be one of the playable characters. Then, what I had vague heard about Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead came into play. I refused to watch it formally until my work was done so as to forestall cross-pollenation. Other than that, the steampunk library assistants were lifted from the game idea. Gridlock from Doctor Who also gave a little inspiration as well. 

Abby 3 - Santa Barbara with a little Mediterranean flavor added and old world style inspired the setting of Alashir. Random factoid, the university there has a Ward Memorial Blvd right beside it. Didn't learn that till long after certain things occurred. Otherwise, I didn't have a particular story in mind for my inspiration. I just wanted to further the idea of antithesis character's to Abby and Vivian was the first. I wanted to do a Dark or Alternate Reality Abby, just one other Abby...like in The One or Sliders a bit. I figured I would never get to use this idea that was percolating in my brain though.

Abby 4 - A lot taken from serialized ensemble pieces. Each part garnered a new character affected by something or someone seemingly not bound by time. Tim Shortblossom was from 's On the Phantom Investigation, I think was the name. Young Vivian was a blast to write. I wondered if people might sympathize with Vivian to some degree. At the very least, I wanted to give her more depth. Otherwise, the Dark Forest was taken slightly from the TNG's Crystalline Entity but as a broken, strange forest. The killer orbs young Abby encounters are similar to the Daleks. Dark City has some pieces in there too. 

Abby 5 - Planet of the Dead from Doctor Who. Then a good bit of mythology. When Abby leaves behind her blue scanner I didn't even notice for a while and being in Abby's mind I felt it fitting to play with that. May be a moment replayed eventually. Glass house is taken from Dr. Manhattan's on Mars in Watchmen a little. Stolen Earth/Journey's End for epicness. There must be other inspirations too but they don't occur to me.

Abby 6 - Groundhog Day, which is now a musical. Abby regenerating sorta is also Whovian. The Doctor Who movie a little as well. From this point to varying degrees - The End of Time (more Doctor Who). Doomsday. Day of the Moon. A Christmas Carol (the Dickens one). And, as suggested by a friend, The Bible.

And I actually know my inspirations for the second series.

Memories of the Last Word (Abby 7) - Human Nature/Family of Blood (DW). Chain of Command (TNG). And a lot of other things.

The Fabric of A Universe (Abby 8) - The Girl Who Waited, The Girl In the Fireplace, and certain characters (DW). Age of Ultron from Marvel. The Little People (TW).

Another Abby draws a little from Face the Raven with Doctor Who again along with a little bit of Hide. 

A bounty of Doctor Who in there sifting into my thoughts. Sadly, I have not seen anything from the new series yet.