Were/are there any ideas you had for your story that just didn't make the cut? I know I've had to cut a lot from my stuff, wanna make sure I'm not alone lol. If so, please elaborate. (Or don't, don't feel pressured to answer.)
initially this fic was going to be a lott more of Grace tryna figure out wtf Simon/AT-Red is under Ava's orders, but the more i wrote the more i realized it didnt make much sense for Simon to be this on board with js kinda. sticking around---so there's a lotta little dialogue tidbits and stuff for that that never rlly made it onto paper lol
Other than that the biggest scrapped thing I had for this fic was that the conversation in chapter 12 was supposed to happen bc Simon finds the Don't Go Crazy room while Ryland is getting stuff together, turns it on, and looks at some Earth forests. It mostly didnt make the cut bc it didnt make sense for the Hail Mary to have power and bc I didnt realize how many ppl beat me to the idea 😭
The rest of the cut content is spoilers unforch