I invented a new colour. It's going to kill a lot of people... (Story Notes)

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A couple of things about this particular story. The beginning of it was inspired by an article I read about a painter who makes his own colours. Like OP in the story, he's famous for a super dark shade of black he created called Vanta Black (that's what the article was about) but he had also created different shades of bright pink, etc.

I took this idea and twisted it so that OP created a very new colour completely different to any we had seen before….

But perhaps it was left hidden for a reason….

The problem was I couldn't figure out how to finish it. I got stuck after OP started seeing things and actually posted what I had to a subreddit called r/finishmynosleep and put up my hands more or less, saying, "I can't finish this one, if anybody else wants to take a crack at it, go for it!"

A reader who goes by u/the1truepickaxe saw it there and came up with the idea for the Charon twist. The idea fit the story perfectly in my mind and they told me to use the idea if desired to finish the tale.

The green and purple representation of life and death was also their idea, so I wish to thank them for their suggestions! They had a bunch of great lines to be spoken by the monster too but I didn't want to copy them directly so I made up my own more or less (but theirs were actually probably better lol).

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• Jordan Grupe

Edit: Okay I mixed up some of the details in that article so here it is in case anyone wants to read it. It's actually pretty interesting stuff. The artist I was thinking of was Stuart Semple.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stuart-semple-blackest-black-anish-kapoor-1452259/amp-page