Thinking of making fics rewriting a book series I used to love and still do hold close to my heart
The School for Good and Evil
I always had a few gripes with the series and it felt like Soman pulled a few things out of his ass not to mention the LGBTQ representation was pretty bad
Some things I'd change
* The romanticization of Sophie and Rafal's relationship. Despite the fact that it was written they weren't good it didn't quite touch upon the pedophilia parts and honestly kinda romanticized them.
* Agatha and Sophie being sisters, always felt random, instead their mothers would've both been from the SGE world and been best friends similar to them. Agatha's mom having been born to evil yet being an incredibly kind woman and Sophie's mom born to good but being a horrible person. Yet they still became friends and ran to the world of the readers wanting to escape their destiny's maybe having been supposed to be enemies. Agatha's mom having fallen in love with a man who did actually die shortly after Agatha's birth and Sophie's mom using her magic on Stefan to have a child with him like in canon so he'd be with her. So similar to og lore hut different in a way that I think works better.
* Ships, Agatha x Tedros, Sophie x Hort, Hester x Anadil, Jaric, Keian, Tristan/Yara with some sort of male character as it was stated they actually liked guys and I'd like to explore that, William x Bogden, and Dot x Kiko, I think those are all the ones I'll write. And I'd like some arospec and aspec characters. I mean, I hc Hester and Anadil to be somewhere there and same with Aric, Tristan/Yara, and Agatha but yknow, still. I'd like to have a bit of variety and that'd include sex and romance repulsed aspec people.
* With William and Bogden I'd like to make their whole thing less of a joke relationship obviously just made as a crack type thing for laughs they'd be a more serious thing. They'd still like jokes and having fun and all of that but less of a "Haha, funny gays. Don't you like the comic relief? I made them queer. Laugh at them. This is such good representation, right? Of course if it is!"
* Some sort of trans Tristan/Yara, not sure what to exactly do for them whether make them use they/them pronouns and some sort of gender neutral name similar to Yara, trans woman Yara using she/her, or maybe she/he genderfluid where she goes by both names and he just lets people use whatever but prefers she/her just a tad more
* More trans rep, thinking trans fem Dot because I think her body struggles could've been not just with her weight but appearing more feminine and maybe whatever male character I create for Tristan/Yara could be trans masc? I'd like to include a trans masc character in here somewhere, I'll figure it out.
* I kinda hated the old villains coming back as zombies. I liked the prospect of the whole "Old and New" thing but I think it could've been done better. I'll think up of something.
* I like a lot of the Japeth and Rhian stuff but it still wasn't written too great so I gotta figure out how I'm gonna fix that but tbh i really need to reread the books so I can figure that out
* With the younger students brought in I don't remember much about them as I haven't read in a while so I'll have to figure out
I know I had some more ideas but I can't remember them all right now, I'll figure it out later, this isn't my final ideas anyhow
Once I reread the books I'll have a better idea about this all
