Trivia / Eleutherophobia

• What Could Have Been:
  • Sol briefly considered focusing the series around Eva or Alloran, but chose to resurrect Tom instead because he was more intimately connected to the family lives of the Animorphs, which she wanted to explore.
  • There was originally going to be a scene where Marco asks Tobias how to tell the difference between an ex-host and a nothlit, but Sol removed it because she thought it made Marco come across as too mean.
  • The fight between Tom and Margaret in Ghost in the Shell was originally going to take place during the day, but Sol had trouble coming up with a justification for a golden eagle (Tom's raptor morph) losing a fight, until her beta-reader suggested setting the scene at night and having him morph an owl instead.
  • Chapter 6 of How I Live Now was originally going to begin with the Animorphs reluctantly explaining the Chee to Tom and Eva, but Sol cut it because it killed the pacing.
• Write Who You Know: Akira mentions of a teenage boy with a nosebleed coughing into a paper cup; Sol said on Tumblr that this was a cameo of her brother.

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