For Fanfic Friday: is there anything you had to cut from the Beacon-verse so far you were particularly fond of/wished you could keep in?
I think I'm generally satisfied with what has ended up in the fic, since the planned moments I really liked were either altered to fit what was written or is being saved for a later arc.
Two plot ideas that I liked in concept but didn't align with the final fic:
Beacon of Hope: Holland wanders away from castle (maybe a child asked for his help or something), gets into an altercation, he isn't injured but it kickstarts labour early; nixed because it felt hard to justify Holland taking that kind of risk that late in the pregnancy. There was also a variation where there was an assassination attempt on Vortalis that Holland got in the way of, with the same result; nixed for melodrama and logistics.
Katabasis: There were multiple versions of Holland's dream about Vortalis. Ex: Vor's ghost encouraging him to wake up and live, the dream including their dead allies and the kids (and that being what clues him into it being false), the dream slowly altering as the reality of Black London seeps in, Osaron blatantly attempting to possess him. Some of this Osaron fuckery (one of my new favorite phrases) will be saved for next arc. ;)