Angel "Inqy" Yates died on the 7th of July 2009. On the 9th of September, I discovered this when, wondering why her webcomic, Wicked Alchemy wasn't updating, I went to her Deviant art . I was shocked.
When I was very new to the internet, I discovered her site, then called mutedfaith (it looked like this). It had a profound effect on my life. When I read Wicked Alchemy, I thought "I might be able to do something like that" and created my first comic, Pnemonia (yes, I always misspelled it). If I hadn't come across her work, I probably wouldn't have gotten into webcomics so soon, if at all, and I doubt I would have become an artist.
Mutedfaith became a small, but very important part of my life. I became attached to the comic characters, I adored her artwork and her sense of humor was very different to anything I'd been exposed to before. It was my favorite website for ages. When she said she was moving onto Inqy.in I sent her an e-mail saying I'd miss the site that taught me the internet could be fun and inspired me, and she sent an encouraging reply.
It was the one time I ever talked to her.
I was planning to draw a fanart, with my Glas characters, cosplaying as some of Wicked Alchemy's for years, I was just waiting for enough of my planned characters to be introduced. In the next chapter, I will introduce the last of those characters, but it's too late. My webcomic updated too slowly.
I know this may sound a bit... shallow? Spoiled? But the worst thing for me is that I won't see her WA characters be happy again in the context of the story.
At least they can be happy in this image.
Rest in peace, Angel Yates. You deserved your name.
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