John Allison posted a PDF of the abandoned roughs for the second part of NEMS on his Patreon a while back. Recently he made that post public for anyone to view.
I have to admit, I couldn’t figure out what was going on in half of it. But apparently Esther fixed everything. Yay!
We don’t see a lot of it in Bad Machinery, though if you pay close attention, it’s apparent that the part of town Shauna lives in is not as nice as, for example, Lottie’s neighborhood. There was a bit back in “Team Spirit” where Shauna was walking home through the bad part of town, and some in flashback in this case, but mostly it’s not something that’s real obvious unless you read Scary Go Round.
Shauna (and Darren and Ella) first appeared towards the end of Scary Go Round, in the story “The Estate”, in which Desmond Fishman wandered down onto the Swarbrick and got accosted by the gang of thugs Darren was hanging out with, and we got a pretty thorough introduction to the upbringing Shauna’s talking about here. There was a point where Sarah commented that Lottie was the only thing standing between Shauna and motherhood at 14.
But things really turned around for them after Dan came into their lives (and, frankly, after Darren went into “fashion”), which happened in the three-year gap between the end of Scary Go Round and the beginning of Bad Machinery. He brought a solid blue-collar professional income into the family, which is letting them pull themselves out of the pit of poverty they were mired in.
Note that the bit we saw of Shauna’s home life in the dark timeline in “Forked Road” suggests that, however poorly it may have gone for Amy and Ryan, the Wickles were actually a lot better off, financially, in that timeline. But the girls don’t seem to have noticed that Shauna’s circumstances had changed. Probably they were too distracted by the temporal anomaly she was dating.
Sonny has the force and current axes swapped.
There was a guy in some of my electrical engineering classes who was born with only one hand. He could do generators, but not motors.