De Giacomo twins - from 1992

Alice and Elena de Giacomo aren’t really first OCs I created, but they are for sure my most important OCs. I’m currently obsessed toward these twins and one of my obiective has always been to give them a life toward a story with a start and an end. First time i drew Alice and Elena, i was 9 years old. It was a drawing with them on stage (in a theater) and they were surrounded with several other OCs, between these Vera Zani, another character i still keep. It was in the month of March, in 1992. Unfortunately i’ve missed that drawing.
Since i have Asperger’s syndrome (and i also had a vanished twin), in that days i was obsessed toward twins. I did researces about twins, about the way they born and about different kind of twins (identical twins, conjoined twins, fraternal twins etc...), i drew several couple of twins, i wrote sevral stories about them and i watched cartoons like ‘Twins of Destiny’ (know in Italy as ‘Gemelli nel Segno del Destino’) because protagonist of this story are two twins. I liked also (but i wasn’t obsessed) paranormal activities and extraterrestrial lifeform, in fact when i drew Alice and Elena for first time i was heavily inspired by Steven Spielberg's movie ‘E.T.' where the protagonist is an extraterrestrial child, lost on Earth.
As a child i didn’t minded much about stories with a start and an end. I cared more about stories like the Smurf, Inspector Gadget, Police Academy, and i was a reader of western comics (especially italian comics, that in those day didn’t sucked) where protagonists have a different obiective for each episodes. In my old stories Alice and Elena were just little children but they fought crime on their planet, because they were princesses and they had this responsability. I seldom drew adult figures. As a child, i though adult life was boring because adults was obbligated to renounce to their dreams from something people call society (i still don’t understand the concept of society in those terms), and also i didn’t knew how to make adults act, in fact most of my adult characters were crazy scientist or paranormal guys (so i could make them act like children).
During my teenage i cared more to stories with a starting and an ending. But my main sources of inspiration were again cartoons like Sailor Moon, Miracle Girls and Slayers, stories that are hybrid between stories with a start and an ending and episodic stories.
I drew episodic stories about Alice and Elena, and i imagined that like an animated series with 50 episodes (i also created video, audio and sculpture about my comic serie).
Art school were a black period if talking about creativity. For sure it was an important phase of my life, but in those days i discovered my total lack of talent at drawing. And, the worst thing is that in my class, i was the worst artist. Also i was in a phase i wanted to grow up and to be like others. At middle school i had gained decent social skills and i was sure i wasn’t an aspie anymore, but it was just an illusion because kids from high school are totally different from kids from middle school and i used skills i learned from middle school. I decided to forget about paranormal, aliens and super children and i started to create boring stories about kids in their teenage. Protagonist were again Alice and Elena, with a new look. No more blue hair, no more antennas, Alice and Elena were two ordinary foreign girls.
Only when i discovered Dragonball i re-discovered things i liked a lot, like aliens paranormal, astronomy and science. And i recovered the ‘ancient’ concept with Alice and Elena as alien on Earth. I wrote a long story, inspired to Dragon Ball, named ‘Mitiche Gemelle Spaziali’. That story wasn’t great at all ad i had no idea about how to write every single chapter. I wasn’t even interested to tell some parts and i wasn’t satisfacted about this story. But i didn’t knew how to write a story. I believed a story needed deep characters, but my characters wasn’t deep at all. Two years ago, i discovered an italian site about how to write a story. It was a well made site, and even if it is pretty dull to read, is very well explained and you don’t even need clarifications. It has been enough to make my writing skills improving dramatically (i’m still far from write like a professional writer, but i’m working on it). So i put order in my story. I put away useless characters, i trashed Mitiche Gemelle Spaziali and i rewrote several version of a new story about ‘two twins with antennas between humans, in search of their origin, theme of this story is difference’. My character now are deeper (they’re far to be OK, but the story is work in progress), the story is clearer, it has a start and an end like how i wished when i was little, and now it has also a new title, ‘Remembering the Yellow Sky’. Alice and Elena now have different personalities, different behaviour and they’re reconizable even if physically identical (or at least i know their differences). When i will finish to write the plot of ‘Remembering the Yellow Sky’, i will write accurately every single chapter and after i will start the comic. It seems it will have at least 30 or 40 chapter. Once i liked the idea with Alice and Elena as protagonists of a long story, but now i just like the idea of Alice and Elena as protagonist of a well written story. I will do my best.