CRiTORA: abnormal/Development

A page about the development of CRiTORA: abnormal.

## 2020-2021: Conceptualization

### 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 CRiTORA. 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 about including **Amalgams** - strange CRiTORA resembling hybrids of prototype 2017-2018 CRiTORA designs. Osmehel would befriend the Amalgams that lived there, unaware the place is crippling and needing to escape to the surface while avoiding yolky.

At some point, the concept for Amalgams were 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 to **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 the name for V-Yolky 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: The initial version

### 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) getting revealed overtime. *To be finished.*

During this time, several CRiTORA were created to be used for CRiTORA; abnormal at the time, including **Spud Jumbotoe**, **The Caveman**, **Mirabel Lampacei**, **Lancer Rotasneak**, **Candace Transportool**, **Wednesday MacAddams** (later renamed to **Saturday Tanglewood** in 2023 due to an extreme resemblance 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 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 the initial version of CRiTORA: abnormal, was released.

### Novelization (November 2022)

On November 10th, 2022 (6th anniversary of CRiTORA), a novelized adaption of CRiTORA: Abnormal was released, giving further detail about the settings in Origins, with some alterations, like the involvement of more characters. 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 progress in the novelization was removed from Quotev. The original novelization was not preserved and remains lost media.

## 2023: The updated version

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.

### Re-reveal (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 retaken and replanned before it was teased in Late March 2023 and officially revealed on April 2nd, 2023 through LastyGhost Wiki's April 2023 update log. 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, 2023.

### Struggle (June-July 2023)

In a failed attempt to focus on *Fugitive Eagleton*, which was being developed along with it, LastyGhost put *CRiTORA: Abnormal* on hold during May. She had been stuck with ideas and development for Chapter 2. On June 14th, 2023, Daydreaming Birdie asked if he could help with the story, to which LastyGhost granted authorization; two days later, Chapter 2 was finalized.

LastyGhost rendered mostly unavailable to work on *CRiTORA: abnormal* during July, both due to focus on Art Fight 2023 and due to her being away in Italy at the time. Daydreaming Birdie worked on the chapter planning on the meantime and once finished, he begun work on Chapter 3. Once returning from her trip, LastyGhost was quick to fix details and finish Chapter 3 to release it on August 1st, 2023. After Chapter 3's publishing, LastyGhost asked Daydreaming Birdie to sign up to Quotev to properly credit him as an author, which he did, though it took a while for him to accept her request to be credited. On the other hand, the beginning of August was a slow month when it came to work on *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, Daydreaming Birdie further contributed to the writing process, causing both chapters to be finished immediately after the finalization of Chapter 4, though such was not published until August 16th, 2023, and Chapters 5 and 6 were scheduled for September 9th, 2023. However, as LastyGhost and Daydreaming Birdie were fast on finishing Chapters 7 and 8 during the end of August, their scheduled release was pulled from October 2023 to the same date Chapters 5 and 6 were scheduled at.

On September 12th, 2023, VS 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".

On October 20th, 2023, it was announced *CRiTORA: abnormal* was officially completed. The animatics of Isaac and Kepler's segments in the animated adaptation of the Prologue and Chapter 1, and updated versions of Osmehel, Darrell, and Ingrid, were published during the following days. Infected versions of the CRiTORA found in the story continue to be 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, on 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 illustrations by her on her Instagram page. Two days before the release, V-Galileo was revealed. On November 10th, not only did Chapter 10 release, but also the story's Epilogue and *CRiTORA: abnormal*'s medley, Birds (Neo).

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, named Requiem, launched on the announced date, officially concluding development of *CRiTORA: abnormal*'s novelized edition.

On December 19th, 2023, an Encyclopedia/Art Book featuring the Mighty Trio and information about the locations launched on Daydreaming Birdie's Wattpad.

## 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.

## References & Notes

1. ↑ https://lastyghost.fandom.com/wiki/Osmehel\_Polterpolar/Osmehel\_Solsym
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVohkDLFxB/
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVobsQLW7J/
4. ↑ https://lastyghost.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000315118
5. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CqloN0VuBsk/
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CyionQhO0vN/
7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CyobYKzufXl/
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmhHASEl60E
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc8e0UKkIgc
10. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyo8toCLsQm/