Trivia / A Shadow of the Titans

• What Could Have Been:
  • The author's original collaborator wanted the Jade/Cyborg age swap chapter to involve Cyborg being a Jerkass to Jade beforehand (thus making the swap karmic), and also wanted some of the chapter to be from mini-Cyborg's POV. However, the author didn't like either of those ideas, so ditched them, using Jade's Dream Walker experiences to pad out the remainder of the chapter.
  • Slade's entry into the story was pushed back a chapter for pacing purposes.
  • The author wanted to do a horror-themed chapter, with Jade and Titans encountering Shadow Children from Japan. But after the process dragged on for months, the author ultimately realized that he couldn't do horror, so he scrapped the chapter, taking the few bits that worked (Blood's encounter with Tarakudo in Jade's mind, and Slade's twin cameos) and combining them with the Super Jinx chapter.
  • The original collaborator wanted the Star Chan situation to be a mini-arc several chapters long. The author couldn't make this work, so compressed it all down into a single chapter.
  • The original collaborator also originally wanted Jade to immediately be able to summon her own Shadowkhan after her Emergency Transformation, and use them to commit robberies during her time in Gotham, while renting out a luxury villain lair bunker. However, the author felt that that wouldn't fit the story's flow, so Jade getting her own Shadowkhan was pushed back, she ended up having to make a living on her own thievery skills, and she ended up living in Buried Bricks instead.
• Word of God:
  • According to the author, Jade is hightly resistant to Blood's mental control. Firstly, because of her nature as a higher Shadowkhan rendering her resistant to mental powers. Secondly, because of her strong will. The third factor he won't identify.
  • The author also states that Asuka-Tammy's ability to reincarnate eaten victims' souls as her drider-offspring (which was in itself confirmed by the author; see her character folder for details), is derived from the Eldritch Spider in Asuka-Tammy's Backstory. Said Eldritch Spider could eat evil people and then rebirth them as demonic spiders with all their worst traits amplified and virtues erased, though the ability is mutated in Asuka-Tammy so that her converted offspring are innocent (if still aggressive) and amnesiac.