Trivia / Asleep

• Author's Saving Throw: Comments made in-story by the Future Children, as well as one Author's Note, suggested that several of the canonical Children had been Adapted Out (specifically Yarne, Nah and Kjelle), particularly since Mal didn't mention them among the ones he was still to find (the others were part of his crew by then). When this came to the Author's attention, he admitted the mistake in a later Author's Note (as well as showing confusion at forgetting about them since he's got plans for them), and he salvaged the situation by having Mal mention that they "still had to find them" (suggesting that they hadn't been found earlier, and rather than being forgotten or non-existent they were probably not at their in-game locations yet).
  • After coming to regret killing off Anna and Flavia for how he wrote it (describing it as unintentional fridging), the author started taking corrective measures in regards to it.
• Creator Backlash: In November 2015, the author reread his work and had a major case of this concerning the execution of certain story elements. Among them, he felt that he had Anna and Flavia Stuffed in the Fridge despite it not being his intention, and that the Cameron/Cynthia relationship wasn't set up as well as it should have been. G2G has said he intends to do what he can to improve on these aspects and others in the later story.
• Reality Subtext: Around late 2013 and early 2014, the fanfic started to get rather dark tonally. Around this time, the author started to experience depression and attempted suicide at least two times, only not going through with it because his friends helped support him - this is echoed by Cameron (in the story) developing some Death Seeker elements as a result of losing Anna due to the war intensifying, and being unjustly blamed by his son Mal for it. Luckily outside of the fic, fellow fanfic writer lambentLodestar convinced Gone2GroundEX not to go through with it.
  • Word of God says this was always planned; it just had really convenient timing.