#yeah the expanse fundamentally changed me when it came to the number of pov characters I was willing to write

[void-botanist]

‼️"what has stayed consistent across all drafts?"

💻"what perspectives do you write in?"

For whichever WIP is on your mind lately

I always have all the wips on my mind to be honest. But I think Nicea is interesting from a multiple draft perspective, given there have been multiple iterations of Spinder and Isabel especially:

Isabel has always been a trans lady, even when I had some weird worldbuilding around that. She's also always been a musician and tended toward being a domme.

Though his exact look has changed Spinder has always been a congenital arm amputee with a facial birthmark. And he's always been a fancy dresser and the mechanic guy.

Rodney's always been the "innocent" sibling, at least compared to Isabel, but he's had the most design changes of anyone. He and Isabel have always been from "somewhere else", except that somewhere else used to be earth/the united states.

Fay and Lou have always had F and L names. I gave them their original names and then renamed them something similar like five times.

Declan always loses Cady, except in past versions Cady was actually dead. Cady and Spinder have always been bros which has always led Spinder to have some kind of weirdly close yet distant relationship with Declan after Cady's death.

Cady has always had red hair and glasses and been obsessed with his bike and also Declan.

Martin has always been there and been tall about it.

Michael and Spinder have always hated each other's guts, and Fabian and Spinder have always had some kind of doomed attraction (and to be honest Fabian and Michael have had almost zero design changes since Old Canon like a decade ago).

As for perspectives, I pretty much write in third person limited, but my POV characters went from being Spinder (Old Canon) -> Spinder, Isabel, and Rodney (Middle Canon) -> Spinder, Isabel, Rodney, Declan, Tristan, and Cady (Nicea/New Canon).

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#yeah the expanse fundamentally changed me when it came to the number of pov characters I was willing to write #Tristan didn't come into existence until Nicea. but the name comes from Rodney's Middle Canon name which was Tristram #there's a lot of family dynamics that I just kind of remodeled straight from Old Canon #I also think in terms of raw numbers everyone got aged down except Mick who got 5 years older #wip: nicea #behind the scenes ask game