CRiTORA: abnormal/Development

A page about the development of CRiTORA: abnormal.
==2020-2021==
===Earliest plans (Late 2020)===
The idea for a fifteenth District was planned out since Mid-Late 2020 as a lost District. It was named the Abnormal District sometime in October 2020. At the time, little was developed about it.
Sometime in Late 2020, LastyGhost designed Osmehel Solsym, who was, at the time, the Pluto CRiTORAhttps://lastyghost.fandom.com/wiki/Osmehel_Polterpolar/Osmehel_Solsym. Around the same time, Yolky was first conceptualized as a permanently infected CRiTORA, originally titled, in all lowercase letters, yolky. yolky was created by Daydreaming Birdie (then known as Flaming Bird Workshop) while her infected form was designed with help from LastyGhost. There were also plans to include Amalgams - strange CRiTORA resembling hybrids of prototype 2017-2018 CRiTORA designs. Osmehel would befriend the Amalgams that lived there, unaware the place was crumbling and needing to escape to the surface while avoiding yolky.
At some point, the concept for Amalgams was scrapped due to a lack of ideas.
===Further development (2021) ===
In June 2021, Darrell Halostorm, the X-Blast CRiTORA, and Ingrid Sprinkandle, the Abrosexual Birthday Cake Slug CRiTORA, were created to team up with Osmehel. In addition, Edna Stataplay (renamed Paratchet Stataplay in 2023) was created in August 2021 for CRiTORA: abnormal as an Abnormal District survivor. At this time, Edna was intended to be deleted by yolky.
At some point this year, yolky was renamed [ERROR SCRAMBLED NAME], which would be V-Yolky's name for the initial version of CRiTORA: abnormal. According to Daydreaming Birdie, this was, at the time, to hide the fact that Yolky was Eggy's twin sister.
==2022==
===Reveal (March 2022)===
The finalized plan of the initial version of CRiTORA: abnormal was officially revealed in Mid-March 2022, with Osmehel, Ingrid, and Darrell (in that order) revealed over time. To be finished.
During this time, several CRiTORA were created to be used for CRiTORA: abnormal, including Spud Jumbotoe, The Caveman, Mirabel Lampacei, Lancer Rotasneak, Candace Transportool, Wednesday MacAddams (later renamed to Saturday Tanglewood in 2023 due to extreme similarities to Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family), Bonkers Tootoowarrior (with a different design at the time), Gooey, and Gumdrop. However, at the time, they were not shared with the production crew. With the exception of Gooey and Gumdrop, all of these characters were used for the current version of CRiTORA: abnormal. In the initial version, all of these CRiTORA would've been slashed to deletion by [ERROR SCRAMBLED NAME]. However, there were also plans for some CRiTORA to escape the Abnormal District on their own, including Luna Bitz, Edna Stataplay, and Toolshed Brassblade (a Pip Robot CRiTORA intended to be the younger brother of Gadget Brassblade, now a Choonieverse character known as Gadget).
===Origins (April 2022)===
On April 22nd, 2022, Origins, the only finished episode of CRiTORA: abnormal's initial version, was released.
===Novelization (November 2022)===
On November 10th, 2022 (the 6th anniversary of CRiTORA), a novelization of CRiTORA: abnormal was released on Quotev, delving further into the settings and story introduced in Origins, with some alterations, such as the involvement of more characters, including Norten Groovywave (also reused for CRiTORA: abnormal's current version). Only the prologue and Chapter 1 were released.
===Cancellation (December 2022)===
In Late December 2022, Daydreaming Birdie and LastyGhost had a fallout, causing the latter to not only retire her CRiTORA designs, but cancel her plans involving them, including further development on CRiTORA: abnormal's initial version. Origins was labeled non-canon and the novelization was promptly removed from Quotev; it now remains lost media.
==2023==
During January 2023, CRiTORA: abnormal's future was uncertain, as its plot was too dark for the nature of CRiTORA and communication between Daydreaming Birdie and LastyGhost was cut.
===Revival (April 2023)===
In February 2023, Daydreaming Birdie and LastyGhost settled their differences, and the latter was notified about changes regarding the series. CRiTORA: abnormal was revived and replanned before it was teased in Late March 2023https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVohkDLFxB/https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVobsQLW7J/ and officially revealed on April 2nd, 2023 through LastyGhost Wiki's April 2023 update loghttps://lastyghost.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000315118. This updated version of the spinoff series would feature a more comedic and lighthearted approach, though its plot was unclear at the time. Kepler Solarowl, Isaac X-Beetle, and Caroline Cakepod, characters created as replacements for Osmehel, Darrell, and Ingrid respectively, were revealed on April 3rd, 2023https://www.instagram.com/p/CqloN0VuBsk/.
===Struggle (June-July 2023)===
In a failed attempt to focus on Fugitive Eagleton, which was being developed at the same time, LastyGhost put CRiTORA: abnormal on hold during May 2023. She was stuck on ideas and development for Chapter 2. On June 14th, 2023, Daydreaming Birdie offered to help with writing the story, which LastyGhost accepted. Two days later, Chapter 2 was finalized.
LastyGhost was mostly unavailable to work on CRiTORA: abnormal during July, both due to her choosing to focus on Art Fight 2023 and her being away in Italy at the time. In the meantime, Daydreaming Birdie worked on planning future chapters and, once finished, began work on Chapter 3. Upon returning from her trip, LastyGhost was quick to fix details and finish Chapter 3 in time for its release on August 1st, 2023. After Chapter 3 was published, LastyGhost asked Daydreaming Birdie to sign up to Quotev in order to properly credit him as an author, which he did (although it took a while for him to accept her request). Contrasting with July's burst of activity, however, the beginning of August was a slow month for development of CRiTORA: abnormal.
===Comeback (August-September 2023)===
LastyGhost had progressed with the prologues of Chapters 5 and 6 before finishing Chapter 4. As they had been planned out beforehand, Daydreaming Birdie further contributed to writing them, causing both chapters to be finished immediately after the finalization of Chapter 4. However, the fourth chapter was not published until August 16th, 2023, and Chapters 5 and 6 were scheduled for September 9th, 2023. As LastyGhost and Daydreaming Birdie were fast on finishing Chapters 7 and 8 throughout the end of August, their scheduled release in October 2023 was abruptly changed to the same date as Chapters 5 and 6's release.
On September 12th, 2023, VS, the primary antagonist of the series, was revealed.
===The final weeks (October 2023)===
Work on CRiTORA: abnormal resumed after LastyGhost's birthday on October 11th, 2023. On October 17th, 2023, CRiTORA: abnormal's ninth chapter was teased through a grid post on Daydreaming Birdie's Instagram. One day later, an image featuring infected versions of Lancer, Suk-ban, Sweetpop, and Cuckoo was published, announcing that Chapter 9 will be "extremely wild".https://www.instagram.com/p/CyionQhO0vN/
On October 20th, 2023, it was announced CRiTORA: abnormal was officially complete.https://www.instagram.com/p/CyobYKzufXl/ The animatics of Caroline's, Isaac'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmhHASEl60E, and Kepler'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc8e0UKkIgc segments of the animated versions of the Prologue and Chapter 1, as well as updated versions of Osmehel, Darrell, and Ingridhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cyo8toCLsQm/, were published during the following days. Infected versions of more CRiTORA featured in the story were gradually revealed. On October 27th, the release dates for Chapter 9 and 10 were revealed: Chapter 9 would release on October 30th and Chapter 10 on November 10th, CRiTORA's 7th anniversary. In addition, infected versions of the Caveman and Slimy were revealed. On October 28th, the infected versions of Kepler, Isaac, and Caroline were revealed.
=== Release & post-launch content (November 2023) ===
As the release date of Chapter 10 drew near, LastyGhost shared countdown images featuring her illustrations of the main cast on her Instagram page. Two days before the release, V-Galileo was revealed. On November 10th, Chapter 10 was released, as well as the story's epilogue and Birds (Neo), a medley composed by LastyGhost to commemorate the serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEGEYKk7cY.
On November 17th, 2023, it was teased "something" would launch on December 8th, 2023. On November 30th, as part of LastyGhost Wiki's Winter 2023 update log, it was revealed the "something" was an extra chapter for CRiTORA: abnormal. The extra chapter, entitled Requiem, launched on the aforementioned date, officially concluding development of CRiTORA: abnormal's novelization
On December 19th, 2023, an Encyclopedia/Art Book featuring the Mighty Trio and information about the story's settings, characters and development launched on Daydreaming Birdie's Wattpad. More information about the characters and early concepts of CRiTORA: abnormal were added over the week.
== 2024 ==
On March 11, 2024, the first episode of the animated version of CRiTORA: abnormal was released, adapting both the prologue and first chapter of the novelization. The second episode was released on April 17, 2024. The third episode was released on June 5, 2024.
On July 24, 2024, DDB announced that the animated adaptation would have 14 episodes as opposed to 11, as some of the chapters were too large to fit into a single episode. He later elaborated on this by stating that Chapter 5 would be split between Episodes 5 and 6. On August 8, 2024, the fourth episode was released.
== Chronology ==
*2021: Project created and prototyped.
*February 2022: Initial version announced.
*April 22nd, 2022: Origins, only finished episode of the initial version, released.
*November 10th, 2022: Novel based on the initial version announced and released.
*December 29th, 2022: Initial version cancelled.
*March 28th, 2023: Reboot teased.
*April 2nd, 2023: Reboot announced.
*April 9th, 2023: Prologue and Chapter 1 released, making the story public on Quotev.
*June 16th, 2023: Chapter 2 released.
*August 1st, 2023: Chapter 3 released.
*August 16th, 2023: Chapter 4 released.
*August 30th, 2023: Release date of Chapters 5 and 6 announced.
*September 4th, 2023: Announced that Chapters 7 and 8 would release along with Chapters 5 and 6.
*September 9th, 2023: Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 released.
*September 9th, 2023: Finalized cover artwork revealed.
*October 20th, 2023: Announcement of project's completion.
*October 26th, 2023: Project released on Wattpad.
*October 27th, 2023: Project released on DeviantArt.
*October 30th, 2023: Chapter 9 released.
*November 10th, 2023: Chapter 10 and Epilogue released.
*November 17th, 2023: Requiem teased.
*November 30th, 2023: Requiem confirmed.
*December 8th, 2023: Requiem released on Wattpad and Quotev, concluding CRiTORA: abnormal's novelization's development.
*December 19th, 2023: Encyclopedia released.
*March 11, 2024: Episode 1 of the animated adaptation released.
*April 17, 2024: Episode 2 released.
*June 5, 2024: Episode 3 released.
*August 8, 2024: Episode 4 released.
==References & Notes==
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