AhhhHHHhhh, thank you so much for this really lovely comment!! And I'm so happy that you're enjoying the game so far!! Especially the comment about the art as honestly most of the time I feel super self-conscious about it LOL
And gah, thank you! It's something I'd really love to see more of, too. It feels like such unexplored territory, even though sometimes even I have to admit it feels weird to explore it in a horror game like this hahaha. But I just love making horror, so in the end, this was somehow born out of the abyss lol. (As to your question, tbh, I don't quite remember exactly, mostly because Iggy's original design came about like 4 years ago. Though considering how much Alice in Wonderland (and Alice in Wonderland derivative works) inspired my original ideas for this, I don't doubt that that was tumbling around in my mind as I was designing him whether I realized it or not lol.)
Thank you again for playing, and I hope you'll like the next arc when it's released!! <3