Any characters that didn't make it into the final product?

[plutodreaming]

for me, it's cherry davenport. she would've been a foil of sorts to angela. she specializes in cherry-based recipes, has blonde hair dyed cherry red, and actually gets good grades lol. she has a naturally sour disposition that would've contrasted with angela's more sweet temperament and created a significant source of conflict that i think Cooking is lowkey lacking in. if i were ever to do a rewrite, i think i'd introduce her as a friend of tanner's and have her wind up dating angela.
what about you? are there any characters you wish could've made it to the final draft?

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[kyupol]

He didn't make it in the more recent Brood Knight comics... but he was a comic relief in the very old geocities version

[raspberry590]

i like this topic for a thread! I just read what you have posted so far (love it!), and its interesting to read it knowing about your ideas for cherry

as for me, there's a few, but the biggest one is the MC's father. i originally planned to include him at some point, she was abandoned to the temple as a child (by doing so, she lost her name and status as citizen in the empire and became a Saintess instead, all at the age of 4. more bad things ensued, etc). I had intended to have her meet him again later and also to focus on her memories of him in a few flashbacks early on. My plan was for her father to have preexisting relationships with the people she meets as an adult in the main story. That was going to be a source of some conflict since these new people in her life were political allies (and personal friends), so she's meeting him after two decades as a political ally but with this terrible history between them.

now though, he's out of all my drafts - he just never fit, somehow, and the rest of the story just moved on without him. in the first volume (not yet uploaded but written) i have him faceless and voiceless in a single line of a dream sequence that moves on immediately lol. if he does get included, it wont be for a veryyyy long time, and my current outline of arcs/volumes 2-3 actually has him dead and gone by the time of the main story with different family members of the MC coming into play instead. All the development i had planned for the mc through her interactions with him is more complexly and meaningfully fulfilled in her relationship with a different parental/caretaker figure she grew up with, so I ended up spending more time on that instead. I wanted to explore how the good intentions and regret of someone who wronged her weren't her responsibility, and go through a whole redemption arc with a character without the obligatory forgiveness on the victim's part, and I found there's more of that to do between her and the person who actually was present throughout her life.

Who knows, maybe I'll end up revising it all again and he'll pop back in, but for now at least its bye to trash dad. narrative development aside, good riddance

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[AmysGames]

There's been a villain concept who's been floating around in my drafts for years, who I've been affectionately referring to as "the greed guy," who didn't quite end up fitting into my final draft. Maybe someday I'll throw him into a spinoff or something, lol.

[plutodreaming]

lol i always love a good comic relief character, they can breathe so much life into a story. sorry to hear he couldn't make it to Brood Knight but maybe one day he could make a cameo appearance​.

[plutodreaming]

aww, now i'm picturing him as actually calling himself the greed guy, he sounds like he'd be the perfect subject for a spinoff🥰🥰🥰

[plutodreaming]

i just saw you started reading, thank you so much! looking back on it, i do think cherry's absence may've been a mistake, but you live and learn​.
and wow, he definitely seems an interesting character, but i love that you found a way to have another character fulfill his role and the themes you're exploring while you're at it.
lol, cracking up at trash dad. if he's more trouble than it's worth, then yeah, maybe it's best he stay with the trash​.

[NickRowler]

For Frostpeak West, there were a bunch. I guess the most notable were

There were several teacher who were cut, one of which was a gym teacher. She was cut because I wanted to par down the number of teachers.

Zombra had a 6 year old son who ended up being cut. I wanted Zombra to focus on doting on Bertie and thought this other son would take away from that.

Zombra's girlfriend. She was cut because her personality was too similar to another character. I do like her design and maybe I will find another way to use her. I don't know yet.

Her dad also got cut. He was a merman who wore this tank of water on his back and walked with braces on his legs.

[stiatent]

Fred. While I don't have a drawing of this guy, he was going to be a sadistic 17-18 year old who broke out of a prison facility. He had an ability to emit energy chains in which he would use to shackle and drag civilians with him wherever he goes. He would use his captors to deflect attacks, test his other abilities on and confuse opponents.
He was meant to be a recurring rival for Evan (mc), someone who seethed with uncontrollable rage every time Evan defeats him. Now that he's scrapped, his prison theme merged with another antagonistic character that exists in series (FPS Guy).

I usually structure my writing as a plan A plan B as a fail-safe should RL throw surprises and production time changes. So if plan B occurs, many other planned characters may not make into final product.

This one still sort of exists - in universe, but not in main story:
Mr. Patchez was the original main character with Evan being his sidekick, now is now replaced by Owen (Evan's 12 year old brother) as I thought it was a better fit to emphasize the horror elements.
To pay homage to him, he's instead a popular wrestler and Owen is a fan of him. He is seen across posters in Owens bedroom etc. Wanted to keep him in series and decided in a future season he's a legendary hero connected to events before the series occurs.

Version 1 as the MC

Actual comic, as a poster in Owen's bedroom

[ShidoDraws]

The character that didn't make it to the story is Ruth, she is actually part of an early conceptual theme of my comic. I'm not even going to get into her background story since that is the very reason why she didn't make it to the final phase, plus it might spoil the story.

Anyway, Ruth is actually a quiet and reserved character that doesn't socialize, she was taken care of by the ruler of the human kingdom. The king fed her lies and because she was already powerful, he trained her into being a killing machine. Later in the story, what seems like an attempt to assassinate the main character, Nina, they both turned out to connect with each other in a way that causes Ruth to question everything she's known up until now. This was going to be the shift in the story where Nina and Ruth could be friends, but they were torn between, not what they stood for but what they were already a part of.

A little fun fact, the skull on Ruth's head is actually a human skull cut out to be a mask. When she's on a mission she wears this mask to keep her identity hidden. Symbolically, having the mask around was a reminder that her late best friend would always be with her. Ruth's outfit in the drawing was actually made during an even earlier drafting phase of my story so it doesn't mean much anymore. Haha!

Out of most the actual characters that made it to the publishing phase, I liked Ruth the most. However, I had to let her go because the story had changed so much over the years of development. Ruth will always be in my heart.

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[mohdadeebace]

This girl, her name is Miko Fernando.
I wanted her to be more in my story, she has the potential to be the female lead of the story (as per the beta readers of the story), But I guess sometimes thing don't go as you plan

Find out what happened to her In -

Ch13 - Mistake
Ch14 - Restart
Ch15 - It always goes, same as before

Of

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[plutodreaming]

loving your artstyle and these characters! the zombie and a mermaid couple look so unique and seem to say a lot just from their designs. i understand that not everything makes it to the final draft, but it's always cool seeing stories in their earlier versions​.

[plutodreaming]

lmao he literally uses human shields, he sounds like he'd be an amazing antagonist​️️️. even if he didn't make it to the final draft, it's nice knowing he still exists in the form of another character. it's like evolution or something.
hey, that sounds like a really nice structure, good thinking ahead!
wow, a different mc, that's massive​. making him owen's hero sounds like a fun way to still keep him a part of the story, esp with the role he plays before the start of the series. also, so cool seeing the change in artstyles!

[plutodreaming]

wow, it sounds like you put a lot of thought into ruth! the human skull mask sounds so morbid yet so sweet since he keeps her close to her best friend. ruth seems like somewhat that's been through a lot and her almost friendship with nina sounds like it would've been just the right amount of tragic. maybe one day she could feature in another story, but if not, it was a delight to read about her here🥰🥰🥰.

[plutodreaming]

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[Tursastheeternal]

The town scene from this episode was originally supposed to have a sort of a "mean girl" who bullies Freja. I ended up nixing her when I wrote the flashback arc. It kind of came out of nowhere and didn't lead anywhere.

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[mohdadeebace]

then why don't you give it a try...

[eldritchtroubadour]

The entire original cast of the story hahahahahaha.

I'm not even joking. The original idea for The Ascendant's Path was going to be a mixture of SSS-Rank Suicide Hunter and Solo Leveling with Persona elements. Classic LItRPG stuff, with people climbing a tower while they gain levels. Heck, the protagonist was going to be far closer to the generic MC for Isekais and the like, only with a bit more personality.

Over time, however, I began to question it, since it didn't feel that unique. I've always liked the idea of a man grieving the loss of his wife, so I began to work from that. And thus Caelan, the new protagonist, came to be. Only he was an actual old man before, not a special forces soldier from an apocalyptic Earth, but still.

I reworked some traits of the old cast into the new one, but overall the story has been fully reworked. Even the name was supposed to be The Emperor's Path and only became the current one a few weeks before I released the first chapters.

If that sparked your interest, come give it a read

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[ShidoDraws]

I've thought about that. In the future Ruth might be included in a different story, if not, I plan on writing an anthology of all the characters that didn't make it to my works and characters that were only shown in a panel or two. The chapters are probably not going to be short stories but instead really long stories. Haha! Well, it depends on how much details their story has and how much I want to say about them.

[kyupol]

He'll be much older in AngHell Dela Blackpill if I cameo appearance him lol