1863-project-art:OC-tober: Day 26Steph Bases Some Of Her Characters On Double Acts: Tobias Frogenhal

1863-project-art:OC-tober: Day 26Steph Bases Some Of Her Characters On Double Acts: Tobias Frogenhall and Godfrey Byrde, The World Turned Upside DownBelieve it or not, Toby and Godfrey were actually the first characters I came up with for this project because I thought it would be funny if there were these two guys and one of them was really good at coming up with weird names on the spot and made fake Puritan hortatory names because if anyone has ever seen Would I Lie To You? they probably know just how good Bob Mortimer is at naming things. (Seriously, you should also see him name cats.) Like a lot of the rest of the inspirations for the cast of this project, Vic and Bob got their comedic start in the 1980s, although they were at the tail end of the decade, when the core of the alternative movement was well established already. They were also different from traditional comedy in that the stuff they did was just plain bizarre a lot of the time, and it worked. Seriously, just go and watch an episode of Shooting Stars if you’ve never seen the show and see if you know what’s going on. The odds are that you won’t understand everything if you go in blind, but you’ll still find what you’re seeing really funny. (Especially that Peanuts song Matt Lucas did, oh my God. That’s legitimately the funniest he’s ever been to me.) The entire thing just flat-out expanded from silly Puritan names, really. I also realized it would be amusing to have a couple of zany weirdos running around at the same time as a bunch of stodgy zealots, and then I found out that the stodgy zealots weren’t all stodgy zealots and some of them were actually really progressive and trying to advocate for social change and the whole project snowballed from there. But that new information didn’t mean there wasn’t a place for Toby and Godfrey at all - in fact, they slotted in nicely with everyone else just fine, keeping Aibhilin safe after she stumbled into them in York in 1644 and following along with the Lords of Misrule in 1647. They’re the perfect distractions because they’re just so much weirder than the general populace and can easily draw people’s attention away from what the others are doing. They also have a penchant for borrowing Edmund’s frying pans and using them for pretty much everything except actually frying anything, usually as bludgeons or shields. (Edmund doesn’t mind too much, but he’s not thrilled that they have dents in them from bullets and reminds them regularly that they owe him replacements.) So yeah, I was worried for a bit but it turns out they’re just fine where they are, and it’s great. -- source link

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