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Sylum 10th Anniversary: Q&A

Sylum 10th Anniversary: Q&A

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Q: Has there ever been an idea that you’ve fallen in love with but just didn’t work (either because it didn’t work in the story line or you had massive writer’s block on it)?

A: Many many ideas.  Did I mention many?  I’ll mention a few of them.

When Timothy was working on Demons and Angels and I on Roads Untraveled, one of the main things that we were trying to work out was if we should Mate Ernesto with Patrick.  *leaves that there for a few moments for everyone to absorb*  We went round and round and round, discussed what was already written, what was coming up in future storylines, and in the end it just didn’t work.  Though it’s still something we both would have loved to do.

When Sylum was started it was based on a small selection of character choices.  So some pairings, ideas developed from that concept.  Some of these I never liked or wanted.  Which is why in the re-writes your seeing changes in variety of pairings and characters.  Thomas now Mated with Brass.  The de-Mating of Greg and Gil.  The switch of the Rays for Benton.  Riddick’s Twins being re-worked and re-casted.

One idea that popped up that hasn’t left us alone is Nico Mated with Ezio.   Unless we wanted to literally toss everything out, we had to come up with how to work it into major story structure we already had – including dealing with Warrick.   We could never get it to work.   And believe me we’re good at making things work for us *cough* Its him but not him *cough* *shifty look* – so that bunny still sits in its corner, staring.   That doesn’t mean we didn’t work in some good  history and story with these two characters *smirks evilly*.

6 Comments

  1. William Brandt

    I’m confused by what you mean by the switch of the Rays for Benton. Is he know mated to Ray V or Ray K or both? Because I thought he was with Ray K in the latest one?

    1. Nicolaus Meridius

      He was with Ray K … now mated to Ray V.

      The story that was associated with ended up going non-canon a long time ago due to major changes to Benton’s history.

      While doing the re-works and building the wiki it was realized that Ray K wasn’t going to work for this new history.

  2. One of the things I love about Sylum is that it’s so organic. Things change, the stories grow and evolve but the heart of it never does. It’s a celebration of characters that we love 🙂

    Hah, interesting all that will be changing with the 10th Anniversary tho! I’m looking forward to seeing all the changes. It’ll be fun 😀 (and probably the result of a lot of loss sleep)

    Ok I’m a huge Nick/Warrick shipper thanks to you and just a huge Altair/Ezio shipper but Nick/Ezio? That would have been cool. A secret triad amongst Nick/Warrick/Ezio would have been cool too. Ugh all of combinations are great!! Thank God you people are more decisive than me or that would have never gotten done *g*

  3. Nicole

    I think I would cry if Nick and Warrick weren’t together, or if someone intruded on their bond. Especially after everything with Warren.

    I kind of love Ernesto/Patrick though Hmmm…

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