Louise Deladiva is an 11-year-old Hursian girl. Unlike Cassandra, she is a pure city girl who was born in Nievicila and has always lived there. The only daughter of a middle-class Hursian couple, she has a complex about being slightly overweight and about her “ugly” appearance. It was her complexes around the notion of beauty that prompted her, at the age of 10, to dye her hair pink.
Louise and Cassandra meet on back-to-school day, and turn out to be roommates at the secondary school boarding school. The two Hursian girls hit it off quite quickly, and eventually Louise becomes Cassandra’s first friend at Nievicila, while from Louise’s point of view, Cassandra is her first friend… at all! Before that, Louise had never been able to make friends. There are many reasons for this, but her shyness and low self-esteem have a lot to do with it.
Although Louise has the flaw of being slightly clingy when she gets attached to someone, she is nonetheless a profoundly kind and caring Hursian, and will play a major role in Cassandra’s integration into her new urban environment, notably by introducing her to other students, but also by comforting her during the difficult times Cassandra will go through. Because Louise, as her roommate, is by far the person Cassandra will see most often!
No weekly drawing this week, and for good reasons (plural please): firstly, we’re both busy spring-cleaning our own home and preparing for the double anniversary we’ll be celebrating this weekend 🙂 and secondly, as you may have noticed, the Nimatek website has been completely revamped in preparation for the launch of its English-language version! I’ve been working on a new version for a while now, but it’s still not 100% complete at the time of writing!
Nuibie 715
So, because a week wouldn’t be complete for Nimatek without publishing an illustration, this is an opportunity to reveal an illustration from a distant prototype of Nuibie College, dating from the year of our Lord 2020! May 5, 2020, to be precise!
Yes, as indicated in the abridged history of the Nuibie universe that accompanied the previous weekly drawing, the Nuibie universe underwent a number of changes between 2019 and 2021. This drawing dates back to the time when the comic should have been called “Nuibie 715”, and had not one, but five main characters, no less! It wasn’t until the following summer that I decided to focus mainly on Cassandra (here in the center, and yes that’s her, and if you look closely, she has a similar outfit to “Cadet Girl” from “Spinaco Macalita”, see drawing “Cassandra la télévore”).
Cassandra la télévore
But all the characters to Cassandra’s left in the “Nuibie 715” drawing have already appeared in comics published in Nimatek. The one just to Cassandra’s left is Basile aka “Zile”, who was checking out the newcomers to the secondary school on page 11 of “Nuibie College: Welcome to Nievicila!”, a hursian easily recognizable with the starry patch over his left eye! As for the little fellow with the angular ears, he’s an oryani whose name hasn’t been shown, but the character himself did appear on page 4 of “One day like that on Nuibie”, and his absence as an active character is only a temporary one! 😉
Coming back to “Nuibie 715”, this formula, which was supposed to be in the same vein as my comic featuring Masane that I mentioned last week (i.e. a formula with heroes who right wrongs), was finally abandoned in favor of a more “school” and slightly dystopian formula when it was decided, at the very end of 2020, to make the characters younger. The rest, you know if you follow us, is “One day like that on Nuibie” and then “Nuibie College” (which, for the record, was almost called “Nuibie X”, long before Twitter became 𝕏, and this is a real anecdote!).
So, introductions are in order! Before becoming a universe of comics and drawings, the Nuibie universe had previously been created for a video game project, Astral Masane, centered on the character of the same name! The project, led by my friend Blady and myself, was very loosely based on another game we’d both made, “Super Thomas Galaxy”, where we replaced the first three bosses, who totally infringed copyright, with 100% original creations: Colola Coke, a character from my very old comics that I’d drawn in felt-tip pen as a kid, Panteuy, a “mecha” led by a hursian, and Carelle Scandiberrie, who was incidentally the very first female antagonist I’d created. These three new characters are joined by the “survivors” of Super Thomas Galaxy, albeit destined to be redesigned: Christophane of Shitty colours (Christophane le Merdicolore in French), a parody of “Saruman of Many colours” from The Lord of the Rings, creator of all the monsters in the game, who is the loyal right-hand man of the story’s great villain, The Great Baste (Le Grand Baste in French), a parody of the “Pope” from the Saint Seiya manga. Both Christophane and The Great Baste are also caricatures of old YouTubers, so it’s safe to say, at some point, there were humans in the Nuibie universe! 😛 And finally, the (yellow) icing on the cake, there’s Astral Masane, who’s the hero of this completely delirious space adventure.
As I said, Astral Masane was a “project”, and never got beyond that stage. It underwent laborious development from 2013 to 2016, several resets, including one in 2015 that resulted in drastically shortening the game, removing the last two worlds, which de facto removed Christophane and The Great Baste. 🙁 At the same time, Blady and I were both smitten with the universe we’d created around the game, so we started dreaming up little stories around these characters, some of which we’ve kept scripts for to this day! There was, for example, a story about Masane’s birthday party, or another about Basile (yes, I’m talking about the same Basile/Zile who’s in Nuibie College) being kidnapped by Carelle, with a Stockholm syndrome to boot. In short, our characters were inspiring to us. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop the split from happening in 2016. Blady announced that he wanted to abandon the game, the universe and the characters. Unable to continue the game without him, and in any case more at ease creating stories than making a game, the Astral Masane game project died at that point.
Some of you already know the rest: after a first short story published on DeviantArt, followed by an unfinished comic strip featuring Masane as the hero, I finally abandoned the Masane character to refocus on the rest of the Nuibie universe. After hesitating for a long time about the new central character, I decided, on the advice of a fleeting contact during the year of our Lord 2020, to focus on a hitherto secondary character, Cassandra, who was developed considerably for the occasion. After which, the characters were rejuvenated to the pre-adolescent stage, and the result is Nuibie College ! Masane, meanwhile, is set for a second life in the near future, as Blady has returned to video game development, and intends to reconnect Masane with what it was created for in the first place: video games!
Anyway, for this eleventh anniversary, then, I did a daring drawing, taking over the protagonist and all the antagonists from the original Astral Masane project, but with my current drawing style. And frankly, as it stands, I couldn’t have done a better job of celebrating Masane’s eleventh birthday, which is also the eleventh birthday of the Nuibie universe! 🙂
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