User blog:Nightmare975/Behind the scenesof Imperial Treachery: Celeste Ial

First, I want to thank Brandon Rhea for coming up with the idea of using blogs to give characters a behind the scenes section. I also want to thank him ahead of time for not killing me because I copied his idea.

Anyways, I've decided to start this behind the scenes special with the creation of Celeste Ial, who we spent most of our time with in the first chapter. In the very first draft of Imperial Treachery, the story mostly revolved around Echon and his life as an Imperial. He was to be stalked in a jungle on by an unknown Imperial soldier, this soldier was to be linked to Echon in some sort of way. I never got far enough in the draft to flesh out the character, in fact, he was never seen; he taunted Echon a few times and that was it.

After I scrapped the first draft and began work on the second, I figured that I should keep the unknown soldier. I immediately began to figure out who this person would be and how they would be connected to Echon. Around the same time, I had just finished another playthrough of Final Fantasy VI, which has some obvious nods to Star Wars, including, but not limited to: an evil empire, a rebel force and characters named Biggs and Wedge. I decided to make a nod to Final Fantasy by creating Celeste in the image of Celes; who was one of my favorite characters. Though the two look similar, I'm trying to make the two different in actions. In the end, Celeste became a childhood friend of Echon.

Fun fact: During my second draft, Celeste's last name was Morgan, being a horrible jab at Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum

Anyways, that's all for today Bothans and GungansUgh be sure to tune in next time for some more behind the scenes action, where we'll delve into poor old Celeste's psyche.

I'll see you on the dark side...

-- Nightmare 975 23:22, 19 March 2009 (UTC)