Pequina may have won first place in 2021, but this story all starts much further back than that. To those who read it, High School Death Party was not an idea I came up with in recent times. It dates back several years and was largely a dead project until until 2013. What happened in 2013? Well somehow during my Halloween Countdown that year I realized midway that I had miscounted and only had 30 characters set and not 31. I had to come up with something on the fly and as the theme of that year was hero's of dark settings or benevolent monsters, my mind eventually drifted back to that long abandoned project. So, as little more then a joke to myself I whipped up something. Now mind you, at the time, HSDP was not what it was today. It was drastically different and that goes for the character designs as well. That said, this was the end result: https://www.deviantart.com/theflamingalberto/art/Tender...
I know what you're thinking. Quinten sure has changed!
What started as just a quick joke and a way to fill a slot for the year turned into something more though. It got myself thinking about that old project, how much fun it used to be and maybe, just maybe I could breath some new life into it. That very next year, High School Death Party was created as we know it! Truly, if it were not for this random happenstance, HSDP would not exist today so I wanted to pay homage to that by recreating the same picture, but with the character designs as we know them now-(with a little mix of that garish childhood Halloween aesthetic and 80's horror vibe, which were the two main feelings I want HSDP to exude at all times)-Maybe it's bending the rules to the point of breaking, adding in characters that never took first place but it's my countdown, I can do what I want. Also, as this year is all about past reflection, I figure this was the perfect opportunity to do something like this and I'm glad I did. Really shows how far I've come and I'm so glad I took the chance to turn HSDP into something fully realized. Even if it's small potatoes, it's a labor of love that I feel empty without.
