At first, my intent was to completely exaggerate myself and create this over the top "goth" kid who would be my exact opposite. I've always enjoyed creating characters and stories around them, and this was an opportunity to do the just that, but in a more conceptual manner. However, what I forgot before I really got started on this project was how much my own personality was naturally going to get transplanted into the character.

When I started out, my intentions with everything I created and attributed to Allucious Fellar were comical and kind of condescending in nature. Allucious was just an annoying, self-important kid from a boring suburb who elevated his own sense of self to feel justified in claiming superiority over everything around him. But, as I spent time writing entries in his journal and crafting pieces of the poetry that he held so dear, I found myself beginning to empathise with him. Yeah, I know it's kind of weird to talk about a character that I myself created like that, but it's the only way I can really describe how my perspective on the assignment shifted somewhat over the course of it's creation. As I was putting words in his mouth, I kept thinking "Well, my perspective isn't quite that extreme, but I do kind of agree with him", and I realised that I too was once a pissed-off ass kid from a boring suburb desperate to get out. At that point, I didn't feel "right" playing Allucious purely for laughs. While I think that there's still a definite comedic element to the site, I think I was able to transform the comedy from "Wow, this kid is a freak" funny to "Hey, I was stupid like this when I was that kid's age too" self-reflecting humor. Yeah, I realise that, as the cretaor of this piece, I'm surely reading way more into this project than what anybody else would, but that's my self-inflated analysis and I'm sticking to it!