Cutting Room Floor

Numerous ideas and concepts for Poke Madhouse were made at every stage in the story. Many of these ideas were reworked or otherwise discarded for various reasons. Listed below is several examples of these discarded ideas.

## Characters

### G

G was a vastly different character originally. Violent, hateful, arrogant and borderline sociopathic. She treated Lily like a servant at the best of times, often weaponizing her greater power over her. The concept for Gardevoir across the board would originally have them as territorial and violent to highlight how ridiculous the notion of them being submissive would be.

This iteration of G was scrapped along with that theme to instead portray Pokemon abuse as an epidemic and how it's normalization and memetic status had instilled in G a feeling of self-hatred over any behavior that might be considered conforming to those stereotypes, despite the fact that those stereotypes aren't her responsiblity to begin with. G was also made considerably more sympathetic and her relationship with Lily a lot softer and more supportive.

This characterization for G was later repurposed for Universe 2-82, though in a far less overt fashion.

### Butterfree

Early comics showed Butterfree having a romantic interest in G, which G seemed to reciprocate. She had been portrayed as a ditzy character, however one reader pointed out to Orchard that Butterfree seemed rather child-coded in practice and that made their budding relationship questionable. Upon further inspection, Orchard agreed and this entire thread for Butterfree was scrapped entirely. Butterfree's childlike qualities were then ramped up to make her a cute and light-hearted character.

### Bonnie

Bonnie's creation was originally going to be a true accident, with G resenting her very existence due to what she represented and the way Lily so quickly took to her. This would have led to numerous outbursts from G and causing a rift between her and Lily. It was scrapped due to readers rejecting the concept when shared, saying it was needlessly combative.

Instead it was rewritten to have G purposefully engineer Bonnie's creation to give Lily the baby she always wanted and show neutral disinterest in seeing her as her own child.

## Stories

### Lilligant

Lilligant was originally going to be another Gardevoir who had been very obviously abused, which would lead to a confrontation with her trainer. Elements of this idea were repurposed for Cala, though no confrontation took place.

### Violate

The specifics of how G formed the mating bond were originally going to be left ambiguous to add a sense of horror at the idea of G rooting around in Lily's brain. However, this was scrapped while the comic was being released due to many people percieving it as G having raped Lily in her sleep and so Orchard opted to hastily write out the details to ease people nervousness about it.

### Honesty

G was originally going to be understanding of Lily's rejection and the two would be okay. This was scrapped in favor of her having a much-deserved emotional reaction to having her heart broken. This change was made to facilitate Lily's guilt over hurting her and desire to help her move on when Marah moved in.