968: Aranis the Caretaker 16: No Options

Sameth on March 13, 2015

Yeah, kinda pointless to pull someone out of an asylum to send them to prison.

So, before I figured out the order the last arc, this arc, and the next arc go in (since it's kind of a trilogy) this arc was by itself. Jix was, in the original plans (I hadn't actually written it at that point), one of the Ambis that goes off bounty hunting with Aranis. When the big reveal happens in the original version, Jix switches to Lamerix as soon as they enter the office.

I can't honestly say that would've been better, but I figured with Jix in the asylum, this was a good way to go with the story. The reason I didn't keep the original version is because I wasn't sure, when I was doing the planning, whether or not Remula gets completely cured. Placing it here and leaving the last arc open gave me more breathing room, which is why I wrote them as a trilogy.

The last arc of the trilogy has a conditional part of the story along the same lines, which is why it got lumped in with the first and second.