During her
stream on the 28th of July Minna answered quite a lot of questions about the comic and miscellanious other stuff. The Questions and Answers regarding Stand Still Stay Silent are posted below.
Attention: Basis to this list is an
open google-doc --
anyone with the link to it can change it as well. I offer this as a possibility to note down information that is more important to you than to me (I left answers out regarding drawing-stuff, for example). I also only approximated the time-stamps of Minna's answers and what she said as well, because I had major troubles with the stream in general
and wanted to preserve my mental health. The stream was on Twitch - so it will be archived for two weeks. If you want to listen to it again and maybe add to
the google-doc, do it fast.
TrollsQ: Minna, how do you decide what kind of animal the trolls should resemble? do you draw any allegory between the trolls nature and the nature of the animals they resemble?
A. (1h43m): Based on what they do in the comic: If they are more creepy and stealthy, they are more spiderlike or lizardlike. The current weird-looking ones (Notoros) are based on hedgehogs.
Q.: Do you have your own names for the different types of trolls/monsters?
A. (1h46m): Not really. sometimes, when they need a name - like the Dusklings now, she thinks of one, but if the monster is just there to do stuff for a few pages she ddoes not think of a name for them.
Q.: Do trolls need food to survive?
A. (1h58m): All trolls need food to survive but how much depends on the lifestyle of that troll. If it is mobile and runs around a lot, it needs more food. If it is stable and not moving much, it needs very little and can survive perfectly well on stuff it finds in its immediate surroundings like mould, fungi, water, plants. A troll living in a closed-off room without food would starve to death eventually.
Q.: Do trolls eat other trolls?
A. (2h00m): They do, but only those that are not similar to them and if there is no other food to be had.
Q.: Is the current Handsy Moose (p. 939) the same as we saw first or a different one?
A. (1h40m): A different, more powerful one. But the same type of monster.
Q.: How does it come that some trolls look similar to each other?
A. (2h29min): It depends on several factors. If they evolve under the same conditions (lighting, food-sources, etc), or if they caught the same strain of the Rash, or if they looked similar before the rash, like when they were related.
CharactersQ.: Would Lalli eat sugar straight from the packet?
A. (2h38min): Possibly, if he gets cravings for it and would maybe do it a few times before he gets tired of it.
Q: What would Onni be willing to give to get Tuuri back?
A. (2h56min): Too much. You might be seeing some of that in the future in the comic.
Q: Will we be seeing Tuuri again in the second SSSS adventure?
A. (3h19min): Ehhhh, I’m not going to tell!
Q: In one comment you mentioned Lalli had a very unconventional upbringing and underlying neuro-issues. Can we have some details on that?
A. (3h19min): Not on the upbringing, because you gonna find out in the story in the future. and the neuro-issues I cannot say specifically, but Lalli would still be a bit strange regardless of his upbringing. He would never be completely normal, but he would definitely be less strange if he had grown up with proper socializing.
Q: Will Lalli and Emil have any sort of residual effects from their souls inhabiting the same body for that period of time?
A.(4h13min): Maybe, we’ll see.
Q: Minna, who in the crew would give the best hugs?
A.(4h15min): Mikkel. Gives bear hugs.
Q: Which character likes to give hugs the most?
A. (4h18min): I think that would be Reynir.
Q.: What are Mikkel’s, Sigrun’s and Emil’s fylgia?
A. (4h20min): Haven’t decided yet but will eventually draw them, since people keep asking about them.
Q: Tuuri’s luonto?
A. (4h23min): A hedgehog. Cute and round.
Q: What are everybody’s birthdays?
A. (4h28min): I haven’t decided yet but will try to remember to include them in the updated character-info-pages once the adventure starts.
Q: What would Emil and Lalli buy at IKEA?
A.(4h29min): Probably go to the food section and buy Swedish candy, that’s what I do, also Swedish Hotdogs because they are better than Finnish hotdogs.
Q: Will Lalli ever admit that he cares about Emil?
A. (4h29min): That’s spoilers, so I won’t tell.
WorldbuildingQ: What is the Dream Sea?
A. (4h08min): It’s somewhere between dreaming and death, basically. It’s not really limbo, because that doesn’t really exist in Nordic mythology. There are many references to shamanistic and mage-stuff happening in dreams and transitional stuff. That’s the place mages go when they are dreaming, kind of closer to death than normal people dreaming, so Emil’s dreamspace is farther away from that and closer to our world, the regular dreamworld.
Q: Would Reynir have to pay a fee for his magic? (similar to how Finnish mages have to recuperate after casting powerful spells)
A. (5h45min): Yes, he would, but he hasn’t done anything really powerful like that yet.
Q: Will we get to see Reynir learn more about his magic in the future?
A. (5h46min): Yes, we will.
Q: Will we get to see more about the academy of seiður?
A. (5h48min): Yes, we will see it at least. We will take a short stop there.
Q.: Which nation met which nation first? Did the Norwegians initiate contact with Iceland or vice versa? When did the Swedes, Danes and Finns come to the party?
A. (5h59min): The Norwegians and the Danes probably met first, because they are fishing and hunting at sea - the Baltic and the Norwegian Sea. Iceland would have stayed isolated a while longer in the north. The Swedes are up in Mora and not at sea so the Norwegians and Danes met the Icelanders first, before the Swedes and Finns joined.
Misc. information, personal stuff & widely S4-relatedQ.: Do you plan the whole story beforehand or do you create it as you go along?
A. (3h01min): The story-arc, character development, plot points etc. are all pretty much worked out beforehand. Sometimes something gets changed or thrown out as the story progresses.
Q.: Have you designed characters for the upcoming aventure?
A. (3h13min): No, she doesn’t design secondary/minor characters until they need to appear.
Q.: Can we have some spoilers for the next adventure?
A. (2h28min): Not yet, but within the next couple of months when I start creating artwork for the new layout of the website.
Q.: Will you do more worldbuilding in this arc?
A. (1h45m): Not on this arc, because it is nearly over but in the next arc, because there will be new concepts and places. She also said she would start releasing art for the next adventure later this year (2018), but demurred answering more questions about it now.
Q.: Minna, who of the SSSS characters would be your closest friend if they lived in the real world (or if you lived in the Silent World)?
A. (2h37min): I want to say none, because I’m really bad at keeping friends, so I’m saying probably Onni and Lalli because they would never call and leave me alone and I would appreciate that.
Q: Coffee or tea?
A.(5h51min): Neither, I hate both. Yuck.
Q: Which ice-cream flavour is the best one?
A. (2h32min): Vanilla. It goes well with everything.
Q.: Do you read fic? Of SSSS or other fandoms?
A. (3h28min): No, I don’t read any fanfiction of SSSS, so you all can feel at ease, I’m not going to snoop on you. I used to read a bunch of different things when I was younger, but don’t have the time anymore. Nowadays, I just listen to things when i’m drawing.
