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Olivia Chamberlain's sibling went missing a few months ago. She'd been desperate in her search, that much she knows; the cops have been useless, and she's risking her own life going to the house they disappeared into to look for them herself. Though, before she can even finish the trek up the hill, they appear before her- the building collapsing behind them and sheer evil leaking from it's crumbled walls. A few friends and many foes can be seen making their escape as well.
As she loops her sibling's arm around her shoulder, she supposes now there are more pressing matters to worry about.
Self-described genres: Paranormal/supernatural horror-comedy. Warnings include body horror, somewhat explicit language, dark humour (in the horror sense of the phrase), and general discussions of death and what comes after.
Lanston Hollow is a fictional small town in the United States state of Ohio. It's near a forest and walking distance from a river, and is the hometown of weird people and even weirder stories. There's an abandoned lab hidden underground, near the train station, and there used to be a haunted house up on the hill just outside of town that nobody would ever return from. Otherwise, beyond that and some other surface-level rumours, the town appears relatively normal to those who don't live there.
The town is a hotspot for hauntings and the undead, which is at least broadly understood by the townsfolk. The undead are humans missing one of the three fundamental aspects of living Beings: the mind, the body, and the soul. Zombies lack a mind, ghosts lack a body, and ghouls lack a soul. It is in theory possible to be undead while not fitting into any of these categories, but it has never been seen before.
The Chamberlains, a family renowned for seemingly being cursed, live here and haven't left for generations. The Treeroot Paranormal Investigation Bureau (TPIB) is established here, mostly due to aforementioned haunting-prone qualities of the town; you can tell someone is a member by how well-informed they are about the topic. The neigbouring Babylonica Woods is very spooky, but doesn't have any real non-forest-typical danger to it. It is said to be haunted, but what isn't?
Hi! I'm Cyril. I write and draw the comic about the death and dying and stuff, but you could probably already guess that. I use he/him and it/its pronouns, and you can find me on Tumblr @nonbinarymissingno, or in the case of the comic, @lanston-hollow. The art programs I most commonly use are Ibis Paint X and FireAlpaca.
I'm Canadian, specifically MetÃs (mixed Indigenous and settler), I'm in highschool, and I don't have a job yet. My schedule can be defined like this: "I draw whatever I want whenever I want and you cannot stop me." Which is to say, there is no schedule. I like Pokemon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, horror of any variety (given I'm watching someone else go through it), especially the works of Akuma Kira/KIRA LLC (which is the one most evident in this work), pictures of bugs...
I've had this story in the works since I want to say early 2022? My memory's not fantastic. The point is, Dead (and/or) Alive (DA/OA for short) has progressed from something I occasionally think about to a genuine passion project. It's been through a series of concept phases: a Tumblr askblog in a connected universe, a collection of short stories vaguely within the same universe, a failed attempt at a novel, at some point the Tumblr blog was created- and now we're here. I'm making a webcomic.
Would you believe me if I said this was my first go at CSS coding ever? I made this entire thing by hand, with the helpful assistance of W3School's HTML Tutorial and CSS Tutorial. And as previously mentioned, I did ALL the art. Logo? I made that. The little talksprite of my fursona above this section? I made that. Favicon? I made that. All of it is me. So that's cool. (Anything that's not me I try to credit at the bottom of the page, save for the stock photos I got off the internet.)