"The Jamaa Mist"

I've been thinking it over for a few weeks now.

Why the blog is named "The Jamaa Mist". When I barely play Animal Jam, a game centered in a world called Jamaa.

I'm keeping this blog, the name of this blog, everything. The name, "The Jamaa Mist", has evolved its meaning several times. Why I changed this blog to focus on writings, drawings, advise, and (hopefully from now on) the occasional vent/rant has to do with it.

You see, it all connects. To what?

This idea that started small in the beginning of 2014. That grew bigger and bigger as each month passed.

First, "The Jamaa Mist" was only a more creative title than just "Animal Jam _______". First, this blog started as a blog for the game, Animal Jam.
Just like with Twinkle's Story. Just like "The Jamaa Mist", it's sole purpose was to be centered around Animal Jam but in a more creative way than the usual approach. Come on now, there is no AJ-related story that is even close to be similar to Twinkle's Story.. and I do mean before the changes.

Then, several months later, I had discovered a flaw. That if I kept things as is, Twinkle's Story will fall to that sad fate of turning into another cliche AJ/Jamaa-related story.

And boy, did I despise that idea. Falling into the pit of repeated AJ-related stories told by fans of the game was not what I wanted. I didn't go all this way for nothing. So you know what I did? I changed.

Changed what? Basically everything related to Twinkle's Story and the blog.

As I focused more on the story, I focused less on AJ. As doing so, I separated the uncreative ideas I used from AJ for the story from my own thoughts, my own individual writing.

But since I already started all those months ago and planned it to take place in Jamaa, AJ's world, I couldn't change that. I also had inserted Mira and Zios, as gods of Jamaa, into the story.

So I decided to be creative with Mira and Zios. Make them different than one might expect. Make them related to the two protagonists in Twinkle's Story and go on from there.

So then I thought of incorporating "The Jamaa Mist" as something important in Twinkle's Story. At first, I was incorporating the blog title into the story as it states, Jamaa mist. More specifically the mist that covers up Jamaa like a cursed veil after disaster strikes due to the doings of the protagonist character, Duke.

But then later on, I realized that is also a cliche. Making it so obvious, so easy to figure out like that.

Why yes, "The Jamaa Mist", is still related in an important way to Twinkle's Story just not in one single way. In other words, there is more than one "Mist" that is a key factor towards the end of the story and the end of Jamaa.

And what that is, is something I'll never explain. Not as things are at least.

During all this, my viewpoints and ideas for Twinkle's Story changed significantly.

Instead of making it easy and straightforward, I changed it to be the entire opposite.

Twinkle's Story is like a ride that starts as a kiddie ride but then suddenly switches gears to turn into a wild ride.

It is so easy to fall into the trap of being confused about what's real and what's fake. What's a lie and what's a fact. Just about everything that's straightforward and easy in the beginning turn out to be nothing but lies. Nothing about it is straightforward and easy.

In simpler words, I'll say an example of what I mean.

Their lives are lies. Every character who has a POV. I lied about their lives, their pasts, their identities. That'll mainly go into effect after Twinkle's Story ends, but there's one obvious example you should all know.

And of course it relates to the character I talk the most about, Duke. Duke, he's the perfect example to use to explain this. So in the beginning of Twinkle's Story, we all come to realize that Duke is the single child his parents, mother Calliah and father Eternal. And that there's no reason why he connects with fire and darkness so easily.

But later on, I changed it all around so it isn't as easy as that. That Duke is strongly related to a character that originally lived around a hundred years before Duke. And obviously I mean Fierdan by this. By that, I changed the reason behind Duke connecting with fire and evil (darkness) to my own version of Zios. And just like that, Duke is related to Fierdan because their real father is Zios and not Eternal or anyone else. Which then in turn means Calliah might as well not be his mother either.

Well, that's just one example. Oh and no, I won't go into any other examples. Nobody deserves to know them, except me.

All in all, as Twinkle's Story/The Extraordinary Others series evolves, so does the meaning behind the title of the blog, "The Jamaa Mist".

But even when that time comes when all is explained, there will always be that hint of mystery. The mystery of the true meaning of "The Jamaa Mist".

But I'll just keep all those answers to myself.