There was this reporter character named Olive Greenfield and she was going to narrate the newspaper side of Elsie.
I always wanted a character with a plant based name but she got cut in the original draft.
Guess she just evolved into the character Dr. Oliver Greenwood
Originally Roy’s character was meant to be an Indian Prince or something and Elsie was going to be a little older and be a professor transferred to a steampunk version of India.
Queen Victoria was also in it regardless whether I had it set in the 1870s (my original thought) or the 1890s. But she got cut.
Elsie went through a lot of exact Victorian decades. It was originally going to be in the 1860s or 70s but I decided on the 1890s to the turn of the century.
Ernest was going to be a lot older in his earliest iterations about in his 40s or 50s. He was always going to be an amputee. He was originally going to be the main villain of the entire thing.
Rosie hasn’t really changed all that much. I always pictured her as Elsie’s closest friend who wears pink. But she didn’t get super strength until later.
Originally the character Olive Greenfield (the reporter girl) was going to get super powers instead.
And Doctor Scarborough he was supposed to be a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kind of character. But I cut it for simplicity sake. Although the split personality would fascinate me nonetheless. I’m really into psychology and stuff like that. I knew that I wanted a mad scientist type character and Scarborough is a mush of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Dr. Moreau and a hint of Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes’s arch nemesis)
