Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35447933-20180627105853/@comment-26018514-20180627192400

Jgamer2486 wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote:

1. Actually, the Maidens were developed by  Monty Oum, shortly after Volume 2, not the crew. Literally the  only  reason they went ahead and included the Maidens is because the person who thought of them was  Monty, the creator of the show,  and he was super excited about it. After he passed away, Miles and Kerry felt that they couldn't just leave the idea he was excited about out of the show, so they added it.

2. Can you give me examples of the retcons?... 1 - Around volume 3 doesn't have to mean during or after that volume, it can also refer to before. I wasn't sure on the exact time they were developed, so I used a general term. Thank you for that clarifications. And technically isn't the creator still a part of the crew, just at the top of hierachy?

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By the verb definition, Cinder's character was a retcon. In her early appearances was not a maiden, rather she used dust like everyone else. After the creation of the Maidens, she became the fall maiden, rather than create a new character for it...

1. Said creator is dead, no-one else has taken it upon themselves to replace him in that role, the "writers" co-created the day to day stuff as necessary, but they've said they aren't touching key story points where they can help it.

2. That's a rather fair point... except that again that is the maidens change Monty wanted, and Cinder already had a unique type of dust use written into her character(that it was infused into her clothing) after the retcon the only difference is that Cinder was using that as a cover for her maiden powers.

(the reason we warn against Soarel's ideas of retcons is that they believed Cinder was replaced as the big bad when Salem was always supposed to be her boss as evidenced by the intro to episode 1. She wasn't a named character at that point, but the crew had stated they were making one for the VA used in that intro at the time.)