It WAS my original intent for Nocturna to be an adult. The idea was that she‘d be one of the biggest donors to the Gotham Orphanage and taking advantage of her access to the children to prey on them after dark like Bram Stoker’s ‘Bloofer Lady’, but the story just wasn’t gelling in the Writers Room.ngl when the first glimpses of nocturna were leaked, i totes’ expected her to be an adult who turned batman into a vampire, considering this was one of the things timm was so adamant on back then
i still wonder if they’re gonna do that actually
Eventually someone suggested making her a child herself and I immediately thought of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (and Matt Reeves’ American remake) and then somehow we ended up with the carnival setting and making all of Natalia’s orphan victims Robins and Biff-Bam-Pow, suddenly it all came together. I think it’s much better than the version we started with. I had about five seconds of hesitation when I realized it meant that I had to ditch that old abandoned BTAS model, but I got over it.