⚠️  Caution: I tried to put a few content warnings in place on this contents page, but be aware that in general, much of this behind the scenes content was made for a teenaged and older audience in mind, with slightly looser censoring than the rest of this universe. There may be swear words and other less appropriate material throughout (on the level of a character in a bathing suit posed suggestively; nothing here is explicitly NSFW), and some of them have dark, violent or sad situations, including a few that reference suicide. (If you like, you can tell me in the form if there's content you don't want to be exposed to, and I'll make sure you don't get any as best I can.)

Character art:

1. 🟢 Doodle of Trisha flying the F-15

2. 🔘️ Jessi underwater (inspired by "Otter 725") 💮

3. 🔘️ Callie in a different art style (based on CR 4.7) 💮

4. 🧡 Two new editions of Otter in flag-based livery

5. 🔘️ Doodle of Jenna and Tim running on the beach next to Hotel Lima (inspired by "Ready To Let It Go")

6. 💟 Drawing of Trisha as an illustration for CR 4.7

7. 🔘️ Drawing of the ghost airplane with antennas

8. ❤️ Jessi seeks crustaceans' crosswind wisdom

9. ⚫️ Drawing of Tim sitting under an airplane

10. 🧡 Ben's only friend (okay, other than Papa Echo!)

11. 🟤 What it might look like if Callie drew a picture of Trisha

12. 🔵 First draft of an illustration for CR 2.6

13. 🩷 Drawing of May wearing a sweatshirt

14. 🔘️ An attempt at drawing Trisha in a steampunk style 💮

15. 🔘️ Steampunk version of Jessi and Maurice in "Otter 725" 💮

16. 🔘️ Maurice reimagined as a samurai :) 💮

17. 🔵 Ben and Emilio as a bird couple <3

18. ❤️ And some birds that look like Cuckoo! (photos of birds that look particularly like him with sketches of Cuckoo drawn to match, inspired by a Twitter post with a similar idea)

19. 💜 Title page illustration for "Measure Of Fate" with Tim and his Beechcraft Bonanza

20. 💛 Drawing of Falcon 22 Bravo from "I Don't Need Wings Where I Am Going" in front of a blue sky

21. 💚 Drawing of the ghost airplane in Cheetah-themed livery

22. 🟣 Michiko in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform CW: Rude gesture

23. 🔘️ Preliminary sketch of Maurice with Redcoat as a sketch by hand and then a version with Adobe Illustrator. (This later appears somewhat modified in the comic "Maurice's backstory".) 💮

24. 🔘️ Doodle of Jessi with an instrument practice hood

25. ⚫️ Deepa isn't your female captain. She's your captain. (Image macro featuring Deepa) 💮

26. 🟢 First-ever FAN ART of the ghost airplane!!! <3 <3 <3

27. ❤️ Doodle of Deepa sitting in a chair

28. 🟢 What if there was nose art of Michiko?

29. 💙 The ghost airplane modeling some sectional chart-themed yukata patterns

30. 🔵 Drawing of Callie and the ghost airplane about to fly in Moe's warbird

31. ⚫️ Drawing of Trisha as Captain Marvel 💮

32. 🔘️ Doodle of Jessi with a slightly altered beach outfit (inspired by "Otter 725") -- and one for Maurice as well :)

33. 🔴 Trisha in a wet T-shirt contest (don't worry, the picture isn't revealing or NSFW in the slightest)

34. 🧡 Deepa gets married to Jake!

35. 💜 If the ghost airplane had a Pinterest board (just a collection of images that give off ghost airplane vibes)

36. 💛 Evelyn's true hair

37. 💛 The ghost airplane wearing an SR-71 Blackbird dress

38. 💚 Tim tries to exploit a loophole CW: smoking (and addiction)

39. 🟣 Drawing of a cute Cuckoo holding a cuckoo <3 <3 <3

40. 🔵 Art with the characters superimposed on a real photo!

41. 🔴 Illustration for "Ragged" featuring Deepa flying the plane when Tim has died

42. 🟠 Drawing of what Trisha might look like wearing a dress :)

43. 💙 Illustration for "Ragged" featuring Tim testing the oxygen mask

44. ⚫️ Various doodles of the characters made on a multicolored LCD drawing board 💮

45. 💚 Drawing of hypothetical photos of Cheetah and Cuckoo

46. ⚫️ I often imagine Redcoat as a human, here's what I think of her as looking like

47. 🟤 Assorted character art of the ghost airplane (in progress; I'm in the middle of compiling this and so I might have even more later!)

48. 🔴 Cute drawing of Cuckoo after he's died

49. 🟠 For an unrelated project I drew a picture of a character that accidentally came out looking kind of like Jessi. Here it is!

50. ❤️ Emilio convinces the ghost airplane to attend a pride parade (along with Kaya!)

51. 🔵 The ghost airplane drawn with an Adobe Illustrator calligraphic brush setting

52. 🩷 May & Trisha twin bookmarks

53. ❤️ Drawing of Trisha and Jessi made using the app Freeform

Character art featuring most or all of the characters together (as opposed to just one or two of them):

54. 🟤 Doodle of the main characters together

55. 🟢 The characters drawn with Google Drawings

56. 🔘️ The characters drawn in the stick figure style of the webcomic xkcd

57. 🔵 Lego minifigures of the characters! And some ideas for hypothetical Lego sets too. 🪶

58. 🧡 The characters holding up an assortment of flags that represent all the countries they come from!

59. 🟤 Doodles of the characters drawn with a set of 23 permanent markers

60. 🔘️ Pipe cleaner figurines of the characters!!! :) :) :)

61. 🟠 The (somewhat silly) results of me trying to create the characters with various character creator Scratch projects! 🪶

62. 💜 And ditto for Picrew! 🪶

63. ⚫️ D&D versions of the characters

64. 🩷 What some of the characters might look like if they wore glasses

65. 🟡 A woman's place is at the controls of her own cockpit (poster with an unintentional double entendre)

Behind the scenes notes from me:

66. 🟡 How to draw (some) of the characters by hand!

67. ⚫️ Some notes on the philosophy I've adopted as I've tried to keep in mind the responsibility I have as an author

68. 💚 What might happen if I talked with the characters about how I made the comics!

69. ⚫️ How long it takes to create a comic

70. 💟 How easy or hard it is to draw things in this universe by hand vs. with Adobe Illustrator

71. 🔘️ Some notes on character design and color schemes  💮

72. 🟡 A collection of assorted snippets of aviation wisdom from the comics

73. 🔘️ How I went about making expressions 💮

74. 🟠 Some further behind-the-scenes info on drawing faces in my art style (has some character art where Ben demonstrates them, hee hee!)

75. 🔘️ Notes on languages: which languages certain characters know, how they speak differently, etc. 🪶

76. 🔘️ Musings on what Japanese suffixes the characters would take if their names were translated into Japanese

77. 🩷 Some notes on what characters' voices sound like (especially helpful if you want to have voice actors for an animation or radio show version) 🪶

78. 🟢 The presence of the pandemic -- or rather, the lack thereof -- in the comics

79. 🔴 Characters' weights

80. 🔘️ How I came up with the characters' names. The saga is sillier and way more prosaic than you might think. ;) 💮

81. ⚫️ More specifically, the saga of how Jessi became Jessi (plus some character art)

82. 🟤 And also the saga of how Mina became Mina

83. 🟣 Some funny coincidences that have come up through the process of writing this universe where things I have imagined come true years later in real life!

84. ⚫️ In particular, I encountered a plane in real life with an issue strikingly similar to Otter from "Otter 725", several months after I had come up with what I thought was a far-fetched story!

85. ❤️ I looked up the tail numbers of the fictional Cloud Run universe planes in the FAA's database of tail numbers and found which real-life planes they correspond to! 

86. 🔘️ A quick note on the airport layout (or rather, lack thereof) 💮

87. 🔘️ Notes on/a further explanation of the characters' habit of swearing an oath on the Federal Aviation Regulations 💮

88. ⚫️ An unintentional diversity coincidence (and assorted character demographics)

89. ⚫️ Another unintentional character creation coincidence, between Tim and the ghost airplane

90. 🔴 Tips on character creation in general that I've learned over the course of making this universe, if anyone wants some for writing their own stories!

91. 🟠 An epigraph for the CR universe

92. 💛 Dedications for some of the comics in the CR universe

93. 🔴 Assorted things in this universe that occurred to me embarrassingly late in the game

94. 💚 Things that were changed from the original script of "Otter 725" in the prose version

95. ❤️ Some things that were previously present in this universe but were later omitted CW: reference to mature content and a slightly graphic medical situation

96. 🟠 An interview with the author (well, more like random answers to questions that haven't been asked yet)

97. ⚫️ Thoughts and musings on Tim's last act CW: dark/death-related in general, references suicide

98. 🔘️ What pajamas characters would have! :) 💮

99. 🔘 Trisha probably had a bunch of fellow fighter pilots and WSOs in her flight and squadron in the USAF. What call signs would they have? I imagined some!

100. 🟣 A translation of the arcane econ-ese of May's phone conversations in the comic "Mayhem" :)

101. 💙 A list of the ghost airplane's gestures in airplane form and their human equivalents

102. 🟤 Some tips I have on how to draw hands (and feathers too)

103. 🟡 A real-life story featuring my flight instructor that inspired the Great Spin Debacle of CR and probably more stuff in this universe too

104. 🔵 In addition to the Red Baron, I often consider adding in additional real historical figures and writing a story about the ghost airplane interacting with them. Here's an idea I had for Curtis LeMay. (!)

105. 🟡 Sometimes I think photos of real planes look like they could be of the ghost airplane; here are some examples!

106. 🟤 A note on grawlixes and why I use them in this universe

107. ⚫️ A confession of faith and perhaps over-reliance on Wikipedia

108. 🟡 How Tim died (and a humorous quandary as to what he died of) CW: sad and dark and death-related in general

109. 💚 The tale of Emilio's job

110. 💟  The tale of how Jenna and Tim met!

111. ⚫️ Who is the most powerful character? The way I figured it, it's actually most likely not the first one that comes to mind!

112. 💜 A note on prophecy in the Cloud Run universe

113. ⚫️ Here are the answers I got for some of the characters when I took a personality quiz for them about what your fatal flaw would be (and then got sucked down a wonderful rabbit hole of personality quizzes and did way more). :D

114. ⚫️ How the ghost airplane's assertion that nothing is ever 100% good can be turned into a party game.

115. 🔘️ The personality quiz website I used to figure out the characters' personality types had a bunch of bonus fun stuff itself…  💮

116. 🔴 If you ever need a refresher on the relationships in this universe, here they are in silly Romeo & Juliet terms.

117. 🟡 You might have noticed that the Morse code shown in some of the panels in "Otter 725" is slightly different from what the characters are shown to be saying. Here's a translation of it and an explanation of why I think they would be doing that.

118. 🟡 Since CR 4.4 can also be read as an educational find-it game about hypoxia, I made an answer key for it.

119. 💚 A real-life encounter with the ghost airplane! (Okay, not actually, but it seems like this might be something it would do.)

Behind the scenes pictures:

120. 🔘️ More about Trisha's military decorations! 💮

121. 🔘️ Gallery of flight helmets 💮

122. 💙 Three unused sunsets from "I Don't Need Wings Where I Am Going"

123. 💛 Doodles of illustrations for "Measure Of Fate"

124. 🟠 Key to the ghost airplane's symbols

125. 💚 Business card hall of fame

126. 🔘️ What Deepa, Jessi, Callie, and Moe's full outfits are (kind of character art as well) v

127. ❤️ I tried drawing some of the characters by hand from memory, without reference pictures! (kind of character art as well) CW: depicts smoking and a hypothetical perilous scene with a gun

128. 🔘️ Bonus panel from CR that was used behind the scenes to make "One Minute" 💮

129. 🟣 Map of some hypothetical routes Mr. Hardell's airline might fly to

130. 💚 What if Maurice and Tim were combined into one character?

131. 🔵 In case you're curious, here's Moe without his mustache!

132. 🩷 Curious as to why "Otter 725" has a drastically different art style than the rest of the comics? Here's why -- and how I made it!

133. 🔘️ Here are some of the reference pictures I used while creating this universe, next to the thing they were a reference for!

134. 🟠 What I imagined some of the characters' parents as looking like (kind of character art as well)

135. 💚 A real-life photo of Tim (okay, of someone who looks very much like him)

136. 🔘 Does the airline that Tio Luis and Mr. Hardell work at only have Otter as their sole plane? Probably not! I bet they've got a bunch of other planes. Here's what I was thinking.

137. 🩷 Idea about what Maurice's home is like

138. 🔘️ Graph comparing the speeds of all the aircraft featured in the comics 💮

139. 🔵 Ideas for movie posters for the Cloud Run universe!

140. 🟡 Two possible ideas for Jessi living in San Francisco, based on an optionally canon possibility from her character entry

141. 🟢 An art-related Easter egg regarding Ellie's hair

142. 🔵 An interesting art coincidence with a picture from the Internet

143. 🟡 What an earlier version of Bonanza 236's tail used to look like!

144. 🔘️ All the characters (well, many of them) -- the view of my Adobe Illustrator sketches 💮

145. 🔵 I did some cosplay of Callie and the ghost airplane!!! :D :D :D

146. 🔘️ Assorted miscellaneous pictures and notes from behind the scenes, including snapshots of comics in progress, bloopers and mistakes along the way, and other stuff like that! 💮

147. ❤️ Some of the panels in the comics were made by being copied and pasted from other comics that came before them, followed by drastic or not-so-drastic modification. I made a (dynamic) collection of some of the panels that originally came from other panels from other comics so you can see the 'before and after', as it were!

Character charts (wherein I plot the characters along silly sets of axes as a character development exercise to get a sense of where they lie, or have them all answer the same hypothetical silly question)

148. 🔘️ Cinnamon roll character chart (how intimidating they look plotted against how ruthless they actually are) CW: imagining of violence in jest 🪶

149. 🟡 Rap battle character chart (how good a singing voice each character has vs. how well each character would fare in a rap battle)

150. 🔘️ Silly things the characters would do if they all went to a home improvement store 🪶

151. 🟠 It would be a better world if… character chart (how much better/worse the world would be if each character became a therapist plotted against how much better the world would be if each character saw a therapist) CW: imagining characters as having worryingly poor mental health, references murder and suicide 🪶

152. 🟤 What Hogwarts houses I think characters might belong to (this behind the scenes entry is pretty much official) 🪶

153. 💟 Stats the characters would have if they were Dungeons and Dragons characters 🪶

154. ⚫️ What political leanings I think the characters might have

155. ❤️ Numbers character chart CW: contains a reference to something suggestive

156. 🧡 Problem solving character chart CW: imagining of violence and other such activities in jest

157. 💟 Senior superlatives the characters might have been given in their high school yearbook 🪶

158. 💟 One quote from the musical Hamilton that fits each character

159. 💟 What pets the characters would have 🪶

160. ❤️ How much money each character might have in their bank account

161. 💟 What call signs the characters would have, if they all had to have one 🪶

162. 🔵 Assortment of miscellaneous character charts found off the Internet CW: a tiny bit of swearing as well as general inappropriateness, chaos and mayhem throughout 🪶

163. 💟 Assortment of miscellaneous additional unfinished tables of "What _______ each character would have/be" (Patronuses from Harry Potter, Beatles song, ancient Greek god, historical figure in a past life, alternate job if there was no such thing as airplanes, reason why they would or wouldn't last long in the military, inspirational quote they would share, how they start and finish letters, etc.) 🪶

164. 🔘️ I imagined which existing characters the characters would correspond to if they aligned with characters from the existing franchises of Star Wars, Law & Order, Wings of Fire, Star Trek, Harry Potter, the webcomic Handbook of Heroes, and more. 💮

Incorrect quotes (collected random short personality development scripts that aren't official canon)

165. 🔵 Incorrect quotes pt. 1, taken from a website CW: swearing, violence and irreverent attitudes thereto, romance and suggestive content, mental health issues, characters manipulating/disregarding each others' safety, and general gleeful chaotic mayhem

166. 🧡 Incorrect quotes pt. 2, from a different website CW: ditto as Part 1

167. ❤️ Yet more miscellaneous incorrect quotes, from no one source in particular CW: ditto as Parts 1 & 2

168. 💛 Incorrect quotes based on quotes I heard in real life from flying CW: swearing

169. 🩷 Incorrect quotes taken from the comic strip Garfield

170. 💚 Incorrect quotes (and a couple of cartoons) taken from aviation comics by Bob Stevens CW: swearing, equivalent of driving under the influence

Additional scripts and stories and other bonus stuff I imagined, of varying levels of completeness and illustration:

171. 🔘️ The ghost airplane in the F-15 (story with an illustration/character art)

172. 🔘 Jessi and the ghost airplane mess with Adobe Illustrator and break the fourth wall :) :) :) 💮

173. 🔘️ Ellie visits Trisha in the USAF :) :) :) <3 (story with an illustration/character art) 💮

174. 💚 Doodle in which Emilio meets Ben at the airport after work (wordless comic)

175. ⚫️ A public service announcement from Michiko (character art)

176. ⚫️ I like to think Jessi wants to go scuba diving after "Otter 725", hee hee! (illustrated story idea)

177. 🔴 (Another scuba diving-themed story) Silver Moon: Another Jessi and Maurice (mis)adventure, in script format with pencil illustrations (also has some character art)

178. 🔘️ May, Trisha, and Ellie's report cards circa 2005

179. 🔘️ Script with Trisha in the car with Ellie 💮

180. ⚫️ An interview with the ghost airplane, conducted by Callie

181. 🟠 Script in which Tim convinces the ghost airplane to do face painting, and the gleeful chaos that results ;) CW: contains a reference to something suggestive

182. 💜 How Otter gets paid for after the events of "Otter 725"

183. 🔴 Comic with May and Trisha about whether or not it's a good idea to invest in cryptocurrency

184. 🟢 Hand-drawn comic imagining what would happen if the ghost airplane was a student in Maurice's ground school class

185. 🔘 An idea and script for one of Trisha's merry USAF (mis)adventures CW: contains inappropriate/suggestive puns/jokes, etc. 💮

186. 🔘 Do you like fun silly scripts for character development? I sure do! The depths of the Internet have some good ones that I stole.

187. 🟡 Story idea where Ben is too selfless for his own good yet again and adorably puts Emilio's oxygen mask on him first and neglects his own in the event of a decompression (mainly character art) CW: temporary mortal peril, both fictional and in real life

188. 💙 Ben is too nice for his own good and sacrifices himself in the process yet again while fueling a Boeing 737 (the kerosene story)

189. 💜 Yet another story about Ben at work featuring Ben sharing a hotel room with Thomas and Thomas teaching him the most important checklist of all

190. 💙 Stories from the Cloud Run universe summed up in a single line from the story in question (inspired by Sparknotes) 🪶

191. 💛 Captions on existing panels in the style of TV Tropes 🪶

192. 🔘 One day I asked my flight instructor a question and his innocent answer reminded me of the sort of warnings the ghost airplane is fond of giving. It inspired a short script.

193. 💛 The ghost airplane runs a bubble bath for Tim (the hydrogen peroxide story)

194. 🟤 The characters ask the ghost airplane what it would have been like to live in the 1910s and it brings up historical considerations that they forgot about, hee hee CW: references homophobia and racism of the 1910s

195. 🔵 The main Cloud Run story and other comics from this universe re-imagined as told through texts CW: touches on intense and mature themes raised in the comics including suicide and murder; also contains romance, manipulation, and swearing 🪶

196. 🟤 Conversations the characters would have with the Sorting Hat from Hogwarts (from the Harry Potter series) if they were to meet it!

197. 🟠 What lightsaber colors (from Star Wars) I'm guessing the characters might have!

198. 🔘 The ghost airplane vs. Air America in the Vietnam War/Secret War (also has some character art)

199. 🔘 What if Trisha and the ghost airplane were to meet earlier while the former was younger and still fighting in Afghanistan? I imagined the ghost airplane having a conversation with Trisha while she's fighting in Afghanistan (and duly making her question what she took for granted)

200. 🔘 The characters vs. the DSM-IV (has story ideas and misc. behind the scenes stuff, but also notes, kind of) CW: discussion of addiction and mental health/lack thereof

201. 🟠 What I think would happen if the characters were to try live-action role playing! :) (Story ideas and some notes from me with character art)

202. 💟 Ellie knits a scarf for Trisha

203. 🔘 Story idea for the ghost airplane getting a taste of its own medicine (mostly character art) 💮

204. 🔘 Script for a fill-in-the-blank recurring joke idea with Callie and Trisha 💮

205. 🔘 Another script for a fill-in-the-blank recurring joke idea with Trisha 💮

206. 🔵 A poem written from the perspective of Trisha coming home from the USAF talking to Ellie

207. ​​🔘 Two ideas for silly costumes the characters wear for Halloween! CW: one instance of swearing

208. ❤️ And if you want more Halloween costumes, here's an idea for what the characters might all wear if everyone had a Halloween costume that they wore to a party at the FBO or something (also has some character art!) CW: one instance of swearing; some of the grown-up characters deliberately wear costumes that are meant to be sexy/adult (don't worry, nothing is NSFW in the slightest)

209. 🟡 Trisha demonstrates the difference between intelligence and wisdom ;) (character art and notes from me)

210. 🧡 Photos of assorted planes with silly captions reimagining them as if they were from this universe

211. 💙 Script version of the prose edition of "Otter 725" chapters 1-5 written in the style of the abridged parody movie scripts from the website The Editing Room

212. 🟡 Ideas for a set of novelty coffee mugs with ATC-themed witticisms Michiko might have!

213. 🔵 What if the ghost airplane was Maurice's checkride examiner? (Story idea with illustrations; references the book Fate Is the Hunter) CW: some violence and manipulation

214. 🔵 The webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has these bonus panels for every comic that are done in a distinctive style. I made some of my own bonus panels for the comics in the same style!

215. 💜 And here are some lines taken from assorted comics presented without context to make them sound more intriguing and funny, a la the webcomic Dinosaur Comics!

216. 🟢 What I think would result if the ghost airplane made an encyclopedia-style entry on humans

217. 🟣 Drawing of a hypothetical scene where Tim is sitting with Jessi in a quiet corner of the FBO one late afternoon and they're talking and just sitting CW: A little bit dark/bittersweet/death-related

218. 🟣 An idea I had for how Tim tells Moe he has cancer CW: Sad/bittersweet/death-related

219. 🔵 An idea for how it is that Tim came to be friends with the ghost airplane (full story with some notes from me)

220. 🟡 Callie and Trisha go to one of those places where you get to experience a simulated decompression and subsequent hypoxia for educational purposes (mainly character art) CW: Briefly references the equivalent of recreational drug use in jest

221. 🟠 What I think the characters might choose as the name of their Wi-Fi network and their password

222. 🟣 Hypothetical story where Cuckoo and Cheetah (and Allstar and Wizard and Vulture) intercept Tim CW: swearing, references multiple characters' deaths, references suicide

223. 🩷 Ideas for episodes if Mr. Hardell's airline were to have a TV show (references the book Fate Is the Hunter, among other stories both real and fictional) CW: Death and mortal peril

224. 🔵 Idea for a version of the game Mafia with the ghost airplane as a role

225. 🧡 It Seemed So Real (hand-drawn comic featuring Ben based on a real-life aviation incident)

226. 🟢 Ironic cartoon of Tim teaching Deepa inspired by "Blanket Of Wispy Gray" (character art with some notes from me) CW: Addiction, smoking

227. 🧡 What if Callie joins the Civil Air Patrol when she grows up?

228. 🔵 Funny captions for characters' profile pictures (you can find the entire collection of profile pictures listed on the bonus material tab of this website!)

229. 💚 The B-17 crossing the Atlantic at nighttime story

230. 🟣 The ghost airplane loses a game of hide and seek despite being invisible :D (mostly character art)

231. 🟣 Idea for a poem Tim might write about how he feels about deciding to just go through the end of his life all by himself without anything else CW: Dark/death-related/bittersweet

232. 🔵 What if some of the planes had nose art? CW: Some of the characters are posed and/or dressed suggestively (nothing overly revealing or NSFW)

233. ❤️ What Latin names characters would have, if they for whatever reason had to have names in Latin (just imagined this as a fun thing while learning Latin)

234. 🟠 Assorted scripts for what it might look like if the characters were texting each other CW: swearing throughout, some instances of suggestive content, some instances that are death-related/bittersweet

235. 🟠 Script idea about using the operating procedures as a bedtime book CW: references a pair of real-life deadly plane crashes

236. 🔘 I like imagining a Tim & the ghost airplane ship, but I don't want to make it official, so I just put ideas for it here. (also has some character art/a story illustration) CW: imagines a romantic and sexual relationship (don't worry, neither the text nor the illustration is explicitly NSFW)

237. 🔵 I like to imagine there's a group photo of all the characters on the cloud run that everyone signs, and everyone is in it because the ghost airplane was the one who took the photo.

238. 🟣 Story idea for what some of the characters (Tim, Michiko, and the ghost airplane) might do if they were to go to Japan and were each given a set amount of money by Jenna to spend while they were there CW: manipulation, swearing, smoking, bittersweet reference to a real-life tragedy/death

239. Some funny fill-in-the-blanks apology forms filled out from one character to another! (What I have so far: an apology form from Jessi to Maurice for spinning the plane in the main CR story 🔘,  an apology form from the ghost airplane to Callie for suffocating her flight instructor Trisha in the main CR story (note that it doesn't apologize to Trisha, ha!) 🔘, an 'airing of grievance' form from Michiko to Tim regarding his general shenanigans 💟,  an apology in response from Tim to Michiko 🩷, and a 'passive-aggressive note' from the ghost airplane to pretty much everyone 🩷.)

240. 💛 If Curtis LeMay spoke Latin (again continuing with the Latin and imagining fun stuff with Curtis LeMay -- not really related to anything else in this universe but in the same art style)

241. 💛 Mina and Trisha 'fix' a road sign

242. 🟣 A stream of consciousness/monologue/one-sided conversation from Trisha's perspective CW: discusses mental health, addiction, and war

243. 🔵 What if the characters had a movie night? (also has some character art)

244. ❤️ The story of "Mayhem" rewritten in the style of the Bible

245. 🔵  The story of CR 2.3 rewritten in the style of Shakespeare

246. 🩷 Idea for a running joke where Redcoat deliberately misinterprets Maurice's innocent words as being a reference to something inappropriate

247. 🟠 I imagined what might result if the characters in the Cloud Run universe left book reviews of several famous aviation books and shared their thoughts and recommendations with each other

Stuff featuring the cute little ghost airplane in WWI (and a little beyond too):

248. 🔘️ I imagined the ghost airplane with a satchel in WWI, here's what's in it CW: a little violence/gore 💮

249. 🔘️ Script featuring the cute little ghost airplane in WWI (the rain story) CW: kind of dark but also sweet/bittersweet 💮

250. 🟣 An illustrated scene from the ghost airplane's youth in WWI (the rat and bayonet story) CW: the general brutal reality of war

251. 🩷 Yet another illustrated cute little ghost airplane scene from WWI (the you can have it story)

252. 🔴 Doodle of the cute little ghost airplane as a child being angry at but then falling prey to capitalism/materialism in the form of the Sears catalog

253. 🔘️ Drawing of the ghost airplane tipsy

254. 🟣 Another illustrated WWI young ghost airplane story in which the ghost airplane becomes both a killer and a preserver of life (the pheasant story) CW: violence, sadness and a reference to suicide

255. 🟢 Doodle of the ghost airplane crying

256. ❤️ Another delightful ghost airplane helping dying people in a war story (I promise this one's got a happy ending!) CW: the general brutal reality of war/associated medical issues and diseases resulting from said wartime conditions

257. 💛 A similarly themed doodle featuring the ghost airplane helping an injured WWI soldier and anachronistically wishing modern medicine was more advanced (the salbutamol drawing) 🪶

258. 🔘️ Notes on the ghost airplane's complicated and somewhat disturbing relationship with intoxication CW: references assisted suicide, murder, and the equivalent of recreational drug use

259. 🔵 A poem written from the point of view of the ghost airplane in which it reminisces on its role and childhood CW: the general sadness and brutal reality of war

Song-related stuff:

260. 🔘 What songs characters might have on playlists for themselves and what songs might appear on playlists that capture the mood of particular comics

261. 🟤 Character art inspired by song lyrics - "Midnight Sky" by Miley Cyrus

262. 🟣 Character art inspired by song lyrics - "Marjorie" by Taylor Swift

263. 🟢 Parodies of existing songs with the lyrics redone to be about the characters (so far, I've made parodies of "Party In The USA" by Miley Cyrus, "Under The Sea" from The Little Mermaid, "no body, no crime" by Taylor Swift, "Africa" by Toto, and "Piece Of Me" by Britney Spears)

264. 🟢 Unfinished/partial/incomplete/in progress song parodies

265. 🔘️ I imagined Deepa and Ben putting on an industrial musical together… It's very cringy, but I will share it anyway with pride. :) (Also has some character art! :D) 💮

266. 🔘️ A rap song I wrote (some of it original, some of it parodies of existing songs) about the characters/from the characters' POVs CW: has some swear words in it

267. 🔵 Another original rap song I wrote about the characters/from the characters' POVs CW: has some swear words in it

268. 💚 The ghost airplane sings a parody version of the song "Zombie T-Rex" by MC Lars that's redone to be autobiographical about itself and also breaks the fourth wall describing the origins of the Cloud Run universe CW: has a single swear word in it and briefly alludes to suicide

Notes and resources for fanfiction/fan art creators:

269. ⚫️ I've collected all the conventions I follow when creating these comics in a style guide, in case you're curious. Feel free to use for fanfiction and fan art!

270. 💟 And I've got an Adobe Illustrator file with all the color schemes each of the characters has! 🪶

271. 🔘 Some possible ships I thought of sorted by Hogwarts house CW: hypothetical imaginings of romantic/sexual relationships 💮

272. 🟣 A guide for how prudish/modest each of the characters are and how inclined or disinclined they would be to have romantic/sexual/NSFW fanfiction and/or fan art made about them CW: hypothetical imaginings of romantic/sexual relationships 🪶

Crossover fanfiction/fan art in which the Cloud Run characters enter other existing fictional universes:

273. 🔘 The movie Avatar (character art, story ideas, notes from me) 💮

274. 🔘 The movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick (story ideas and a completed story or two, with a couple of illustrations) CW: swearing and some sad/death-related elements (on the same level as the actual Top Gun movies)

275. 🟡 The movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (story ideas, one illustrated)

276. 🔘 The comic strip Chicken Wings (story ideas and notes from me) 💮

277. 🔘 The book Station Eleven (kinda complete story) CW: kind of dark/death-related/sad/heavy just in general (on the same level as the book Station Eleven)

278. ⚫️ The movie Captain Marvel (story ideas and notes from me)

279. 🔵 Parody of a particular Chicken Wings comic in which Mr. Hardell, Tio Luis, and the unnamed mechanic from "Otter 725" stand in for Hans, Chuck, and Julio respectively

280. 💚 The comic series Watchmen (story ideas) CW: making light of violence and murder (no more so than the actual comic series Watchmen)

281. 🔘 The musical Mean Girls (song parody ideas)

282. 🟤 The movie Encanto (song parody ideas)

283. 🔘 The movie Air America (story ideas) 💮

284. 🧡 The book Falling (complete story) CW: violence, peril and perceived murder (no more so than the actual book Falling)

285. 🔘 The Harry Potter series (story ideas) CW: kind of dark/death-focused (no more so than the actual Harry Potter series)

286. 🟢 The movie Twelve Angry Men (character art)

287. 🔘 The webcomic Daughter of the Lilies (notes from me)

288. 🔘 The graphic novel Logicomix (notes from me)

289. 💟 The story "Rosie" from the graphic novel This Place: 150 Years Retold (full comic)

290. 🔘 Parody of a particular episode of the TV show Family Guy CW: implied romantic/sexual encounters (no more so than the actual TV show Family Guy) 💮

291. 🟣 The movie Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (character art and notes from me)

292. 🟡 Characters drawn in the distinctive anthropomorphic bird art style of the comic strip Chicken Wings

293. 🟤 The TV show Scooby-Doo (character art)

294. 🟠 The movie Kill Bill (character art and notes from me) CW: stylized violence/murder (no more so than the actual Kill Bill movie/movies)

295. 🔘 The movie Eternals (character art and notes from me)

296. ❤️ The comic book series Ghost (character art)

297. 🔘 The book The Little Prince (character art and notes from me)

298. 💚 The comic strip universe Crane & Sword (story ideas) 🪶

299. 💜 The website SCP Foundation (SCP entry)

300. 💜 The website SCP Foundation (full crossover story)

301. 💙 Crossover fan art of Princess Mononoke

302. 🔘 The TV show The Sopranos (story idea) CW: implied violence and murder (no more so than the actual TV show The Sopranos) 💮

303. 🔘 The musical Hamilton (song parodies)

304. 🟤 The play Angels in America (character art)

305. 💟 The movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (character art and notes from me)

306. 🔘 A list of particular comics curated from the webcomics Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, xkcd, and Handbook of Heroes in which I imagine replacing the respective characters in the original comic with characters from the Cloud Run universe 💮 🪶

307. 🔘 The same sort of thing in which Trisha and Ellie replace Calvin and Hobbes respectively in a particular Calvin and Hobbes comic

308. 💛 Parody of the duck and the grapes story, starring Tim and the recurring unnamed mechanic character

309. 💜 Playable mini-game made with Scratch starring the ghost airplane (and featuring Trisha) as a parody/fanfiction of the character Flowey from the video game Undertale CW: contains extremely disturbing content including (attempted) murder; is meant to be the most unsettling work in this entire universe

Other:

310. 🟤 Some discussion questions about the CR universe CW: touches on intense and mature themes raised in some of the comics and in some cases hypothetically expands them 🪶

311. 🔘 Unfinished story ideas CW: the ideas range extremely wildly, and some mention murder, suicide, romance, characters going through extreme mental health crises, and things of that nature 💮

312. 🟣 A tie-in video game! (A fully playable Cloud Run-themed mini-game made with Scratch, inspired by similar mini-games from the Duck Life video game series)

313. 💙 Another tie-in video game/interactive story, where you choose the dialogue of both Cheetah and the ghost airplane (An interactive version of Chapter 4 of the main Cloud Run story made with Scratch, inspired by the interactive story/video game Adventures with Anxiety by Nicky Case)

314. 🔵 Silent video (and code) of a project I made in Python that was an interactive clickable version of the short character blurbs, made for people to interact with when I presented the Cloud Run universe at my high school in April 2023

315. 🟣 Notes on the tie-in stickers!!! Yay! :D :D :D (You can find the stickers on the merchandise tab of this website!)

316. 💙 A Cloud Run-themed color palette featuring 70 colors taken from the characters and planes  (available in multiple formats, including Adobe Illustrator)

317. 💚 A list of TV Tropes from the eponymous website that apply to the CR universe 🪶 (additionally there's also the following TV tropes 'pages' for the CR universe: a drinking game page,  Fridge Logic/Horror page,  Laconic page 🪶,  meme page, and a Playing With page)

318. 💙 New comics made up of existing panels rearranged!

319. ❤️ The ghost airplane breaks the fourth wall and fills out the contact form of this website!