Development Timeline

## The Development of TBLTB

This page holds the complete history of the creation TBLTB. This includes conceptualization, designs, and ideas.

For a timeline of the in-world story, look here.

## 2015

### **December:**

* Erin Griffiths is created.
	+ *By this time, I was deeply inspired by Five Nights and Freddy's - my intrigue being reanimated with the franchise after the second game's release. Erin was heavily inspired by the animatronics, however he was not made for the game but rather for personal use, almost like a fursona (despite my lacking knowledge about furries at this time). Later, I started to pull from Disney's Princess and the Frog and my own interest in making puppets until Erin was redefined as a "Living Voodoo Doll", or just a puppet.*

## 2016

### **June:**

* Sylvester Phoeniths is created.
	+ *There was many ideas that came about with attempting to figure out a dynamic between Sylvester and Erin. Originally they were going to be long-lost brothers, with Sylvester being vengeful in his return. Then, by October, it was revised into Sylvester hunting Erin down for his mutiny against Maxwell. Now, the dynamic is ambiguously romantic.*

### **October:**

* The Creator is created.
	+ *Probably from having a negative first impression of furries, I decided I wanted to make a new persona of sorts for the story that would be human. His design was intentionally made to somewhat resemble myself; what with me being the creator of the puppets... Hence his name being The Creator. The logical reasoning at the time was, "If I have made Erin and Sylvester, then I will make them again."*

### **December:**

* The Creator is named Maxwell Fitzgarry.

## 2017

*By this point, the terms Fantoccini and Poppenspeler are coined. A lot of attention is placed onto the development of Fantoccini culture. I had become less finicky about having a minimal amount of characters, and started playing around more with character development - worldbuilding started becoming prevalent by 2019.*

## 2o18

### **January:**

* Anton Afremov is created, then renamed to Misha Afremov.
	+ *I wanted a rival to go against Maxwell, and so he was the second Puppeteer character to be invented. This idea was eventually changed during Misha's development, when he started seeming "too cute" to fit the standards of being a nemesis - to anyone. So, the name "Anton" felt too antagonistic to be continued for him, and he was named Misha instead.*

### **April:**

* Anton Afremov is created.
	+ *Anton was later created to fill in the role of being Maxwell's enemy, but was still designed to look similar to Misha as to make them relatives.*

## 2019

### **September:**

* Miles Vance is added to the project.
	+ In the form of a roleplay with him encountering Erin and his Wirwar, Miles has since been regarded as part of the canonical storyline ever since, and will play an important role in the second book and onwards.
* Dmitri van Wyk is created.
	+ *Primarily in theory, Dmitri was going to play the role of a tertiary antagonist between Maxwell and Anton responsible for sparking up active aggression between them. He would express a deceptive demeanour due to as a serpentine puppeteer (albeit we was never really sketched out until a few months later). This villainous original concept of Dmitri compared to his later development when he was reinstated as the Head Connoisseur has resulted in a long-running, "Evil Dmitri" joke ever since.*

### **October:**

* This wiki is created and called the Fantoccinism Wiki.

## 2020

### **January:**

* Stuck With You, an open-ended seven-page comic, is started.
* Mordecai Faux is created.
	+ *He was made by accident when I was learning how to use my drawing tablet that I had been given in December. Only later was he inserted into TBLTB, but used to just be called "The Tarantula Man" and wasn't initially going to be kept.*

### **June:**

* An official name for the project is decided: The Blind Lead the Blind.
* The Wiki is renamed to The Blind Lead The Blind.

### **December:**

* Athena Cohen is created.
* Maddox Nightmare is created.
	+ In lore, it is decided that Maddox is the first-ever appearance of "Nightmare models" for Fants.
* Ode Daydream is created.