>>71884>>71902>>71919>>71964Actually, there is a real reason Cindy and Tessa look so similar. Cindy was originally designed to fill Tessa's role in the university comic in addition to her role in Full Night Nanny, but as FNN progressed Kip decided to change her personality so the planned dynamic w/ her and the other university characters wouldn't have worked anymore. So, Kip created Tessa to fill the role that Cindy originally would've had, presumably basing her off Cindy's design as well.
Here's Kip's post about it if you wanna read what they said word-for-word:
"About Cindy: Cindy was actually designed for the University comic, she was supposed to be a character there and she was going to be a lot bitchier which might be apparent from her design. I was thinking about early 2000's fashion when it was really common to wear very unflattering clothes that exposed a lot of midriff and cleavage, so it always ended up looking really trashy on chubby girls. There's a certain design element about that time period that I absolutely adore though so I really wanted to go ham with it. Which I'm glad I did, Cindy's style is entirely based on that aesthetic. I decided to do the babysitting comic on a very short notice (because nolunchtakeout ended and the next comic script was way unfinished) so I just used Cindy there as a character. I imagined that I could just reuse her for the university but I had NO idea people would like her this much, still don't quite understand how she is so well liked, part of me still thinks it's just because she has big jugs...
Anyway, Cindy quickly grew up to be an entirely different character than I thought she would be, mostly because I just kind of let the characters in the comic interact with each other as felt natural to them. It's crazy how fast they defined into their own personalities. This meant though that the dynamic for the University comic would not work with Cindy anymore and I had to completely redo the cast for that story. Story stayed mostly the same but it became an entirely different interaction for the main characters. Also the setting changed from a fictional early 2000's to modern day. "