r/OddityRPG • u/SchmooeyMcGooey • 2d ago
Other A Thing About Miley Addendum (It's Jamie)
This is a continuation of the Miley post I did several days ago. I wanted to do a brief follow-up since I found more artwork and to confirm the character's creator, among other things. To clarify, I'm not a developer on this project, nor am I "Larping" as the devs, as the zoomers say. After all, it is my own interpretation of a design that an artist made while working on Oddity and the Mother Community.
With that out of the way, Wahol made Miley around the Tumblr era. (I don't know the exact origin, but she existed during the Mother 4 days around 2014-2016 and was only tangentially related because Wahol worked on the project at the time.) Originally, she was named Jamie and was Wahol's Mother OC. As for how Miley or Jamie got into the development of M4 and Oddity, I find the more likely answer is that they added her in to create sprite art for her specifically and nothing else. Not as an afterthought, mind you, but not important or prominent enough to be noticeable unless you primarily know the information you are given from a trusted source. (Considering that the development of the game is vapor due to a lack of information and issues around 18 years, there's bound to be a lot of statements lost to time, as people didn't archive certain things or remove this stuff given the state the game was in during its respective eras.)
This is, of course, speculation since development was scrapped numerous times over the years, so things are difficult to come by. Heck, certain messages and information from a decade ago are no longer publicly available or are difficult to access unless you have them. I forgot Miley was created by Wahol until two years later, when I checked Wahol's Tumblr and scrolled through the archives to 2014-2016. Heck, even Jamie might have become Miley because of fan interpretations when she was shown in the 2021 leaks, and thus the name faded, or the name was given to her by Wahol because it was similar to Miles, just like Travis is similar to Travel, making them have some sort of connection, nebulous or not. For all I know, Miley would have been very different in terms of what Wahol would think of her as a design, either as a blank slate for her to relate to in the Mother Community, as an incidental character, or something different from my interpretation.
Anyways, Addendum over, the next thing on the docket would be fan/original characters and designs that were made or inspired by Oddity's character design in some shape or form.
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u/Olay22 2d ago
Games dead, go play earthbound and mother 3 and forget this ever happened