Branches: Visitation
Jan. 22nd, 2023 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skylarkrogersNot going to go into all of the deviations quite yet, since some things got shuffled forward in the final draft and aren't plot points we've hit yet, but a couple of notes of how things were before the big edit:
Marco, Michelle and Jenna didn't even appear until after Thairn and Illa had been captured and Mickey stabbed. It was like "well, shit, I've got all my main characters tied up, time to see what their students can do." So they got invented on the spot.
Marco's and Jenna's creation also involved rolling some story dice. Marco got a flame, and Jenna got a question mark. There was also an additional student character who rolled a bee--she was trimmed out/fused with Marco.
It wasn't until the edit that Marco, Michelle and Jenna got their arcs earlier in the story.
Originally, Jenna never got hit with the mind-control potion, and /she/ was the one searching for info about Michelle, who had been physically captured as part of Lucia's plot. It's not something the readers get to see, but I think it's really cute that no matter which one of the pair runs into trouble, the other risks everything to rescue her. So just know that if the shoe were on the other foot, Jenna would also brave fae and wizards to save Michelle.
In some nonsense well-trimmed, Greta broke her oath to Magdalena right before Magdalena's death and no longer has the Sight by the time Mickey visits her prison. Removing this so that Greta keeps her Sight has had an echoing effect throughout the series when it comes to how close she and Mickey are. Though I do miss the lightning-fueled rampage she went on through the building, downing Lucia loyalists.
None of the guards were suborned pre-edit, so Thairn's horror-comedy encounter with Brant never happened, and slaying the unnamed guard was how Thairn originally escaped.
There's a cut scene where Thairn, Illa, Marco and Jenna take shelter in Mickey's room, and that very fact, combined with some of the slips Thairn makes while subject to the chainmail veil, gives the kids enough info that they could reasonably put together Thairn and Mickey's magical connection.
Marco, Michelle and Jenna didn't even appear until after Thairn and Illa had been captured and Mickey stabbed. It was like "well, shit, I've got all my main characters tied up, time to see what their students can do." So they got invented on the spot.
Marco's and Jenna's creation also involved rolling some story dice. Marco got a flame, and Jenna got a question mark. There was also an additional student character who rolled a bee--she was trimmed out/fused with Marco.
It wasn't until the edit that Marco, Michelle and Jenna got their arcs earlier in the story.
Originally, Jenna never got hit with the mind-control potion, and /she/ was the one searching for info about Michelle, who had been physically captured as part of Lucia's plot. It's not something the readers get to see, but I think it's really cute that no matter which one of the pair runs into trouble, the other risks everything to rescue her. So just know that if the shoe were on the other foot, Jenna would also brave fae and wizards to save Michelle.
In some nonsense well-trimmed, Greta broke her oath to Magdalena right before Magdalena's death and no longer has the Sight by the time Mickey visits her prison. Removing this so that Greta keeps her Sight has had an echoing effect throughout the series when it comes to how close she and Mickey are. Though I do miss the lightning-fueled rampage she went on through the building, downing Lucia loyalists.
None of the guards were suborned pre-edit, so Thairn's horror-comedy encounter with Brant never happened, and slaying the unnamed guard was how Thairn originally escaped.
There's a cut scene where Thairn, Illa, Marco and Jenna take shelter in Mickey's room, and that very fact, combined with some of the slips Thairn makes while subject to the chainmail veil, gives the kids enough info that they could reasonably put together Thairn and Mickey's magical connection.
