Outdated Art
Art and characters that were at one point a huge part of the WoOO story. But as years went on and things changed, these ideas and people slowly became obsolete. One of my main influences back in the early days was a manga/anime called Durarara!! where throughout the story you see most of the cast anonymously communicate in a chatroom and come together in mass at some point towards the end. And I thought that was such a cool idea that I tried to implement something similar in my own story. Cosmo a couple close friends would have made an online chatroom that dealth with discussing mental health during a time where that was still not taken very seriously, and throughout the story Cosmo would have found themselves logging on and chatting with friends online (maybe even unknowingly talking to some familiar faces in New York). That little plot point is gone now but maybe I'll find a way to bring it back someday.
Two unrelated goobers I drew in highschool that I would later recycle into Cosmo and Reuben. Cosmo used to be named "Ella" and was a lolz random skater girl, while Reuben was a guy with bad hair named "Ethan". I had a small idea for a story named "E Squared" that dealt with the misadventures of Ella and Ethan but decided to give up on it and focus on other things. It wasn't until years later that when I started on the first draft of WoOO, that I decided to take these forgotten characters and give them a facelift.
This was Locke, a friend and ex-boyfriend of Cosmo. Kind of a confident goofball who liked to play soccer. Before Cosmo moved out to New York, they were just two bi dudes who had no one else to talk about their sexuality with and ended up falling hard for each other. Their relationship was a long distance one and eventually that distance puts an end to things, but two stayed good friends. Not based on anyone but the long distance romance was based on a previous relationship I was in at the time, so when things went south poor Locke got cut due to obvious reasons.
A mysterious guy who went by the username "Peacekeeper" and was often called "Harlequin Jim" by Cosmo. A chatty fellow who was a phycology professor in a school during the day and a fiction writer at night. Back in the day, Cosmo had an interest in psychology and Jim was the one who awakened it. The two would do a lot of talking and Cosmo often joked that Jim was their therapist due to how often they went to him for advice. He'd wear a mask whenever he did a video call with anyone. This guy was actually based off of a friend I made on Neopets who would write little horror stories for the Neopian Times. Haven't heard from them in ages, I often wonder how they're doing.
One of Cosmo's childhood friends before he moved away to France for school, only for the two to bump into each other again years later in New York. His name was Lesley Beckham, although he preferred to be called "Beck" because he hated how girly his name sounded. He was a rich kid who acted kind of snotty to everyone except Cosmo. There would have been some puppy love crushes going on between these two throughout the story along with some issues involving Beck's insistence to solve all of Cosmo's financial problems with his own money, which just didn't sit right with the guitarist. Beck's personality and the budding romance was based off of one of my exes, so...yeah...his removal from the story is obvious...