#im pretty sure it was mentioned that paul ardent wrote the orphanage section

[thedeafprophet]

Geniuenly I wanna know the writing process so damn bad. Who came up with this plot in the first place ajdkfkgkh

My honest theory is I feel like early light fingers was a collection of concepts and scenes (ie. The Orphanage) and then it was worked backwards to piece it together lmao

I do know from an interview with FBG staff, they said that for the second half of LFs, Harry Tuffs basically came in, read through what was there of Lfs already, and then came up with how to piece it all together.

Can you imagine being the writer set to task with early light fingers? Like wow

positing a slight out of universe theory of no real meaningful impact: I think Stones was originally supposed to have a role in Light Fingers.

Evidence:

The Affair Of The Box is heavily connected with Light Fingers. That whole thing comes down to the issues of the misers and the moon milk, and that fighting between Fires and Stones

Clara directly references Mr Stones by name during the beth part of the early ambition (the direct line feels like fairly damning evidence imo)

The whole thing with a diamond seems very Stones coded

This pertains only to the early text, and I view this as yet another loose thread the early light fingers writing threw out, that was later reorganized in the second half of the story. In this, this particular thread was not continued.

I do wonder what the original intentions of the Light Fingers story was before Tuffs took it over (it was mentioned in a youtube video that he basically read through and came up with a way to connect things)