So what's the deal with WTP anyways?

Hi. My name's Paulina and I'm the writer of "The Will To Power". Essentially what that means is that if anyone finds the story offensive they should come after me as opposed to my thoroughly innocent partner who only draws what I tell her and has no mind of her own. Ha! This is my introduction and there's nothing you can do about it Maral!

In case you're wondering, shock value wasn't the main reason we put this comic together. What I have always abhorred in art or literature were instances where the author would commit herself to a setting and a circumstance, then stop short of realism for fear of...oh, I don't know, offending the audience? Telling people things they didn't want to know? Overstepping the boundaries of good taste? Forget thou not the Uffizi sculptures with grape leaves plastered over their miniscule penises.

This is not to say that "The Will To Power" is the epitome of realism. Elves are an inherently melodramatic race and there is only so much one can do with them where realism is concerned. I've tried my best, however, to make both the circumstance and the characters as real and believable as possible. That's a dangerous thing to do, because once a character becmes real one can no longer take full responsibility for his or her actions. It is conceivable, for example, that the plot may require Ikhara (the main character) to break into tears and beg for help at some point in the story. When I think of what she'd do to me if I tried writing anything of the sort, however, it occurs to me that plot integrity may not be so important after all.

I am a person who is constantly inventing "what if?" scenarios in my head. What if we had everything we could ever want and no way to get away from it? What if there was nothing we really wanted? What if our temperaments are something we are born with, not something we are taught? The main rule of the "what if?" game is that once you begin you can't stop until all the consequences have played themselves out logically.

So here it is. "The Will To Power" is undoubtedly a fantasy comic with serious overtones of romanticism here and there (I was sixteen when I wrote it, for Goddess' sakes). It is also a "what if?" scenario, meaning that within the abovementioned boundaries, it is as real a world as any, and all actions in it have consequences which can't be deflected with a magic spell, covered up with pretty shadows or classified as just punishment.