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Shelley Hennig, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano

As Family

OC Halloween Challenge Day 8: Squad Day! - The Breakfast Club

The Star Squad (Legend of Tomorrow) feat. Haven Hendrix

Ray Palmer as The Brain

@daaeleira ‘s Haven Hendrix as The Athlete

@chantelroyal ‘s Natalie Lance as The Basket Case

Olivia Allen as The Princess

AHHH YESS OF COURSE BB ILL ADD YOU!!! 

If I’m to be honest, all my OCs are hard to write. Sometimes, I’ll get in the flow for one of them, but then, I’ll lose it and it takes me awhile to get it back.

Right now, I’m still trying to write the first chapter for my bb Laurel’s story, Two Worlds. I have started it, but I haven’t finished it. I’m trying to rewatch s4 of Teen Wolf to get my muse back, so hopefully that will help me.

The OC I’m most proud of, I think, would be (this is a bit of a cheat) all of the jacksons. We’ve had them since we were in the fifth grade and they’re just continued to grow and become real characters in their own world as well as the fandoms we drop them into. Being told they’re some of the most realistic written that some writers have read, that they wished they were real, that they wished they were in canon is some of the best reception we’ve gotten of them and that’s hard to ignore.

I think the fic I’m most proud of (having since writing fic since ‘05, and technically before as there was a time I didn’t post it online) would be, I think, Flash Fire, my Flash fanfic. Now, there are hundreds of stories I have that have been long since deleted I’m forgetting, but Flash Fire is one that I feel I really go in tune with my writing and how I make sure to do my best writing without becoming obsessive about it. Lol.

(Riley answered the first question so well, I don’t need to add to it because my answer would be the same).

The fic I’m most proud of is actually two. The first: Never Again, my Big Time Rush fanfic. As a fanfic that isn’t action/adventure based, but is focused more entirely on the people interacting in the music world set in the world that the show sets up, I think it was one of the best fanfics I’ve ever done. (I say that and still think about re-writing it.) For the second: In a Flash, my first Flash fanfic. This is chosen because it’s the action/adventure genre and I think has the greatest instance of showing characterization through interpersonal relationships - something I always felt like I hadn’t done as well in the past because i would focus on one or more characters over the others.

Any time! :)

For fic titles, I try to find something thematic to the fandom, the character I’m writing about, or the plot- or sometimes just a song lyric that I think fits lol. For example, Chrysalis fits Danielle’s whole story arc and the transformation theme of the butterfly, Exceptional is a major buzzword in the episode I rewrote that advances the plot, and So In Love (with the Wrong World) is a lyric title but fits Yggdrasil’s focus on a single person, and therefore whatever world they’re part of, instead of everything she’s allegedly supposed to care about.

Thank you for asking!! I got the idea from a beach trip my family took a while ago, the one when my dad took this picture of me. I didn't know he took it until he showed me afterward. It was at my favorite beach, i'm pretty sure it was my birthday, and it was such a surreal moment. I climbed up there on the rocks and just took it all in. It honestly made me feel like such a mermaid. I've loved the idea of mermaids and adored the ocean pretty much my whole life. The closest I got to writing about it was with Sydney, a Siren, but she was confined to the world of Teen Wolf.

Sitting there, I thought about a plotline i'm sure has most likely been used before: a town in which most of the residents are either mythological or mermaids specifically. They thrive off the tourism because it's a beach town (it'd have to be, for the mermaids) and they get an up close look at what it's like to be human. Then I got home and sat on the idea for over a year. Riverdale became a big obsession for me and I really got into it, and there was something about Lili Reinhart that got me. She's got this innocent, shy, magical vibe but she talks and she's so wise. I'd found my Shelley.

The plot developed after I'd written the first couple of chapters. Shelley and her parents move into a beach house in Cape Coral (not a real town, this one is fake!) for the summer before she starts her senior year of high school. She meets these young girls who instantly adopt her into their group. In doing so, they reveal themselves to her as mermaids because they feel like they can trust her. It's a shock but explains a lot about the town. The girls work at a mermaid-owned antique shop/café by the beach with a guy named David who, for the most part, is incredibly antisocial. Though, he takes an interest in Shelley, and she him. After a couple of wild instances involving black horses, the girls explain to Shelley that there are Kelpies roaming around the town. David is exposed as being one, mostly thanks to his 'brother' Oliver, who is up to no good. The girls explain to Shelley that there's a group of sailors who call themselves the Black Anchors, and they're main goal is to rid the cape of mermaids (think the Salem witch trials). In trying to help stop the Black Anchors' mission, Shelley opens old wounds between the mermaids and the Kelpies in the area, causing the start of a mythological civil war.

There are a million subplots and I would explain more but it would spoil everything lol. I hope this answers your questions! xo