[did you ever intend for chance to be, well, chance? did you ever intend to let her come back good, or was that something you decided to do after seeing how much the objects and stitch cared about her? im just genuinely curious about this and it hasnt left my brain since i started thinking about it a few days ago.]
-[mod lily]
Great question!
I never intended the nightmare to be redeemable, I’ll be the first to tell ya. I also never intended for her to have much depth that wasn’t directly a ramification of her being the personification of mental illness/angst.
The idea of Chance showed up maybe a third of the way through the dungeon. It was a “I would never!” Until it was a “mmmaybe”
and then stitch tried to befriend nightmare. Without that, I never would’ve humanized her. By the final two rooms, I’d fleshed out and pretty much fully planned/characterized Chance, down to the Caine sequence.