~The Story and Other Information~

*some information in this post may be outdated*

 ~The Story~

Brooklet Avenue follows Penny Brown, Brielle Brown, and Benjamin Brown, three siblings who have been living with their aunt, Sadie Brown, in a River Town for five years. They have been with their aunt ever since mysterious creatures, known as the “Infected,” began appearing all over the world, causing the Brown siblings to have to leave their previous home. Their aunt is a polite, but kind of strange woman who runs a flower shop, known as Brooklet Avenue Floristry, she has an interest in botany, and enjoys pairing the townspeople with specific flowers based on their personalities, even changing her surname to be “Foxglove.” Over the years, the people of The River Town have found ways to adapt to their new world, but some have a harder time accepting their new reality than others, some even try to ignore it, and find themselves living in a world of escapism.

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~The Concept~

I made Brooklet Avenue because I wanted a story that both displayed my enjoyment of flower language and floristry (The Florist Shop), but also was a story about a cute little town (Aesthetic), with a slight apocalyptic twist (Plot). Don’t ask me why but apparently I was in the mood to create a story with zombies and flowers.

~Inspirations~

The idea was originally sparked when I was looking at things for Little Nightmares, and I pulled some inspiration from Amphibia too, but later on I would be inspired by things like Over The Garden Wall, and the 90s version of Moomin Valley. In other words, it’s a big mix of things I was (and still am) enjoying :)

~The Name~

The idea of the name of the story kind of came out of nowhere, one day I just thought: “What if there was a place with rivers and streams instead of pathways, and instead of riding little bicycles and stuff they had little boats?” I liked the idea of the little boats because then they could have different items and decorations depending on the character (however I seem to like the idea more than the drawing process…). Despite it being a small town, I thought “Brooklet Avenue” sounded better than “River Town,” so that’s why it’s called that, despite not really being an “Avenue” per say. I still use the term “The River Town” however, because the other places outside of the forest is just called things like “The Ocean Town” or “The Lake Town,” etc. The focal point of the story however, is Sadie Foxglove’s Flower shop, also called “Brooklet Avenue Floristry,” which sits alongside a river, together with the flower shop, a bakery, and some undecided shops I’m still thinking of, it forms Brooklet Avenue, hence the name of the story.

~World Building~

Brooklet Avenue is strictly a fictional story, in a fictional world, just like all my other stories, for my own sanity because I can’t stand the idea of getting things wrong when they’re in certain time periods. However it is loosely based on 1870s America, also known as the Gilded Age (when I say loosely based, I mean it, for example my characters fashion is not based on 1870s fashion). This is because the 1870s was the time when railroads and steamboats were the preferred method of transportation, and technology was just being introduced through telephone poles, phonographs, and the lightbulb. Among other reasons.

However this story focuses on Brooklet Avenue and the forest surrounding it, so you may not see most of the other towns or cities unless I want to draw a scene with them.

~Story Telling~

This story isn’t a book, or a comic, as I’ve always imagined it simply taking the form of illustrations, however whether I ever make any of those illustrations or not is unknown, as my ambition does not often align with my motivation.

With that said, I very much may still draw sketches and doodles of the characters, or maybe even do some storyboards, however storyboards are more unlikely than the illustrations.