History Trivia / HereticalEdge

* IKnewIt: Some details get picked up well ahead of time by fans. For instance, [[spoiler: it was deduced that Manakel was possessing Risa Kokahu over a year before it was revealed in-story.]]

* FanNickname: Amaroks are Doomwolves, the no-sleep power Flick got from one is Doomwolf Never Sleeps, [[spoiler: working together with a possessing Seosten is dual thread mode]], the monsters from the Dimension of Awesome are Abyssals and the fusion of [[spoiler: Grandfather's evil half]] and [[spoiler: Zadkiel]] is Godfather.

* FanNickname: Amaroks are Doomwolves, the no-sleep power Flick got from one is Doomwolf Never Sleeps, [[spoiler: working together with a possessing Seosten is dual thread mode]], the monsters from the Dimension of Awesome are Abyssals and the fusion of [[Grandfather's evil half]] and [[Zadkiel]] is Godfather.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Deliberately averted. A certain character had such a major secret about them that Cerulean used different character tags for her before and after TheReveal so that people clicking on the before tag wouldn't see all of her future major appearances. It helps that she'd initially been treated like someone who wouldn't return for quite a while before TheReveal, so the fact that she was only tagged in one chapter wouldn't be out of place. It's completely understandable why he went to such lengths to ensure people wouldn't be spoiled; [[spoiler:Tabby the orphan from the Atherby Clan actually being a Seosten and being responsible for Flick's immunity to possession by possessing her first]] is one of the absolute biggest reveals in the series.

** In the original plans, Roxa Pittman was a Bystander and Flick's best friend in Wyoming [[spoiler: before being turned into a werewolf, which would have been the catalyst for showing Flick how screwed up Crossroads is]]. At some point, Cerulean decided to make it so she was a Bystander recruited Crossroads student from California that had no history with Flick, which led him to create Miranda. [[spoiler: Roxa still becomes a werewolf in the actual story though.]]

* TeasingCreator: Cerulean likes teasing readers with little details, or giving non-answers to spoilery questions. The joke tags at that come at the end of the chapters (starting towards the end of arc 6) occasionally dip into TrollingCreator levels.

* WordOfGod: Cerulean is very open with answering fan questions in the comment sections of chapters as well as the [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/heretical-edge-discussion-thread.358588/ Space Battles]] and [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/heretical-edge.22824/ Sufficient Velocity]] discussion threads.

** A poster on the SpaceBattles thread at one point randomly asked how much money he would have to donate to get a "mini-interlude" to see an off-screen conversation between two characters. [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/heretical-edge-discussion-thread.358588/page-44#post-22443668 Cerulean promptly considered the possibility]] ('''warning: spoilers for up to Arc 10 in link''') and within a week, [[https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/mini-interlude-1-shiori-and-columbus/ Mini-Interlude 1- Shiori and Columbus]] was released. [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/heretical-edge-discussion-thread.358588/page-45#post-22504584 A second mini-interlude]] was commissioned hours later.

* ThrowItIn: The chemistry and LesYay between Flick and Shiori starting in arc 8 took the author by surprise. He let it build from there and started intentionally writing it by arc 9 (although he isn't set on making it an actual romance).

** In the original plans, Roxa Pittman was a Bystander and Flick's best friend in Wyoming [[spoiler: before being turned into a werewolf, which would have been the catalyst for showing Flick how screwed up Crossroads is]]. At some point, he decided to make it so she was a Crossroads student that didn't know Flick, which led him to create Miranda. [[spoiler: Roxa still becomes a werewolf in the actual story though.]]

*** One of these edits had Liam [[spoiler: mind-wiping and de-aging Larissa so she would be a kid in 1986, then taking advantage of the situation to [[WifeHusbandry restart their relationship]]]]. After concerns were raised about this over-complicating the backstory, raising too many questions, and making Liam too evil, Cerulean agreed and changed the backstory to its final state, with Larissa being born in 1975.

** In the original plans, Roxa Pittman was a Bystander and Flick's best friend in Wyoming [[spoiler before being turned into a werewolf, which would have been the catalyst for showing Flick how screwed up Crossroads is]]. At some point, he decided to make it so she was a Crossroads student that didn't know Flick, which led him to create Miranda. [[spoiler: Roxa still becomes a werewolf in the actual story though.]]

** Flick's friend and former babysitter Scott Utell was intended to be an Alter rather than an ordinary human being. [[spoiler: He was supposed to be a Pooka that had been sent to Laramie Falls by Gabriel Prosser to watch over Joselyn and later Flick in the original plan, which would have allowed him to resurrect after being murdered by Fossor and Ammon.]]
*** The original version of 19-03 [[TheReveal revealed this]], but a number of readers felt it was an {{Asspull}} due to inadequate foreshadowing, the contrivance of yet another person from Flick's civilian life turning out to be an Alter, [[spoiler: and the convenience of the abrupt resurrection robbing Scott's death of its emotional impact after the rest of the chapter was spent dealing with Flick's grief]]. The concerns were pervasive and convincing enough that Cerulean edited the chapter to leave Scott as a human.

** Flick's friend and former babysitter Scott Utell was intended to be a pooka rather than an ordinary human being. [[spoiler: He had been sent to Laramie Falls by Gabriel Prosser to watch over Joselyn and later Flick in the original plan, and being a pooka would have allowed him to resurrect after being murdered by Fossor and Ammon.]]
*** The original version of 19-03 [[TheReveal revealed this]], but a number of readers felt it was an {{Asspull}} due to inadequate foreshadowing, the contrivance of yet another person from Flick's civilian life turning out to be an Alter, [[spoiler: and the convenience of the abrupt resurrection robbing Scott's death of its emotional impact after the rest of the chapter was spent dealing with Flick's grief]]. The concerns were pervasive and convincing enough that Cerulean edited the chapter to leave Scott as human.

** Flick's friend and former babysitter Scott Utell was intended to be a pooka rather than an ordinary human being. [[spoiler: He had been sent to Laramie Falls by Gabriel Prosser to protect Joselyn and later Flick in the original plan, and being a pooka would have allowed him to resurrect after being murdered by Fossor and Ammon.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Larissa Mason, Sands and Scout's mom, was intended to be older [[spoiler: and be the reason why her husband Liam betrayed Joselyn and Deveron]]. But Cerulean forgot about this when writing her first appearance in Sariel's Interlude, which took place in 1986, and then forgot about that when other characters referred to what happened in the spoiler tags. When readers pointed out the discrepancy, the scene went through a few edits until it matched Larissa's age as it was originally presented in Sariel's Interlude.
** One of these edits had Liam [[spoiler: mind-wiping and de-aging Larissa so she would be a kid in 1986, then taking advantage of the situation to [[WifeHusbandry restart their relationship]]]]. After concerns were raised about this over-complicating the backstory and raising too many questions (among other things). Cerulean agreed and changed the backstory to its final state, with Larissa being born in 1975.

** One of these edits had Liam [[spoiler: mind-wiping and de-aging Larissa so she would be a kid in 1986, then taking advantage of the situation to [[WifeHusbandry restart their relationship]]]]. After concerns were raised about this over-complicating the backstory and raising too many questions (among other things). Cerulean agreed and changed the backstory to its final state, where Larissa being born in 1975.

** One of these edits had Liam [[spoiler: mind-wiping and de-aging Larissa so she would be a kid in 1986, then taking advantage of the situation to [[WifeHusbandry restart their relationship]]]]. After concerns were raised about this (among other things) over-complicating the backstory and raising too many questions. Cerulean agreed matched the backstory to its final state, with Larissa being born in 1975.

** A poster on the SpaceBattles thread at one point randomly asked how much money he would have to donate to get a "mini-interlude" to see an off-screen conversation between two characters. [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/heretical-edge-discussion-thread.358588/page-44#post-22443668 Cerulean promptly considered the possibility]] ('''warning: spoilers for up to Arc 10 in link'''), and within a week, [[https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/mini-interlude-1-shiori-and-columbus/ Mini-Interlude 1- Shiori and Columbus]] was released. [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/heretical-edge-discussion-thread.358588/page-45#post-22504584 A second mini-interlude]] was commissioned within hours of the release of the first.

* ThrowItIn: The chemistry and LesYay between Flick and Shiori starting in arc 8 took the author by surprise. He let it build from there and started intentionally writing it by arc 9.