User blog comment:MightyUke416/Mozambique Q & A/@comment-4975295-20190511145342/@comment-26485526-20190511161844

Lots, surprisingly. I will post my original boot order in its own blog after the season, but here are the major changes:

Tesla: She was originally going to be eliminated pre-merge due to her illness and weakness. I kept her around over Emil because I could do so much more with her character, while Emil was quite one-dimensional.

Jimmy/Ricki: Jimmy was the main villain of the season originally and ran Makhuwa with an iron fist. To make things more cliché, Ricki was his side-kick who stepped up to avenge Jimmy’s elimination mid-merge. This all changed when I wrote Jimmy’s backstory and he became a more relatable character, so I gave him a storyline that fit him (and Ricki) much better. I guess the best comparison to Jimmy’s original character was Bradley from Ghost Island as Jimmy was always going to be a law student. Ricki would have been the Kellyn to Jimmy’s Bradley.

Tribe Switch: Tori originally stayed on Sena while Sky switched to Makhuwa. Both were eliminated pre-merge in the first draft as well.