User blog comment:JayBaee/LoT Q&A Blog Thing/@comment-8483090-20131227031840/@comment-27376543-20131227105344

I'd like to just thank you for reading, man! It means more to me then you know :D

1.) I came up with LoT during an issue of Morts where I wanted to add in a group of five chars, (Ike, Olivia, Jake, Amanda, Paul), just to see how other survivors are doing elsewhere.  They would've been really minor chars though, so, I just the ideas I had with them and ran for it.

2.) My favorite 5.... oof, that's a hard one. I'm gonna go with Kelly (obviously), Ike & Paul (those 2 character arcs were my favs to write), Ryker (<3), & Amanda.

3.) Least fav... that's a hard one.  I guess I did introduce some minor chars that I had plans for, but I looked back at them and said "Fuck that.".  That would be Drew Radke, Vince Dallas, & Tyler Blake.

4.) My fav arc was probably the last arc... not sure why tho, but, it is definitely my fav.  My least fav, however, was probably the first arc before the apocalypse.  I kinda wish I did more with that, tbh.

5.) I don't have any regrets :D

6.) My favorite character death was Paul's.  He also goes with character arc too, along with Ike.  Paul went from a kind, caring, confident human being to a psycho!  It shows what the world can do to u... while Ike, he did the exact opposite.  From being a racist d-bag, he quickly turned into a caring and helpful person (although he was misunderstood at most times).  My fav char introduction.... Drew's group.  Again, I had a lot bigger plans for those three that fell short with the Police Station storyline, but, their introduction in the gun fight, I thought was pretty cool.

7.) That was left open for interpretation :P.  I left off their scene with Eli expressing guilt over it, but, you won't know for sure if they told them or not, it's all a matter of how u look on the situation.

8.) Ryker, because, he was a nice boy... he was the innocence of the group, and like most people, he lost his innocence with the death of Julia, and that was his downspiral.  Plus, I'd bring him back just cause he wasn't supposed to die in the originial ending.

9.) It is not, sadly.  As much as I'd love to do a small crossover, all of that went down hill with the use of actors Aaron Yoo, Emily Kinney, Hemsworth, who were also used in Morts.

10.)  Five stories? Pfft, that shit be easy!  Endangered, Dead Legacy, Eden Rising, Beyond My Choices, A Long Road To Fortune.

Bonus.) There were actually three different endings, and the fourth being the final one.  The first one was that Kelly & Ike lived happily ever after in the Smith-Franchise, but, they would never see Ryker/Olivia/Jake/Julia again (in the originial, Jake & Julia survived too, and they went with Ry & Olivia).  The second one, again, Julia & Jake lived too, and they fled into the woods.  Pretty much, the groups would've been Julia & Jake, Kelly & Ike, and Ryker & Olivia, but we would've never seen JJ again.  It would've been a happy ending, and at the dinner, since Julia never died, Ryker could've lived happily thinking he'd see her again.  The last one though, Ryker would've lost memory of everything and everyone, not just the past moments.  Olivia would've convinced him she was his sister, and whent hey reuinted with Kelly/Ike, the four would've lived happily ever after.