#sequel stuff

Jumping ahead of myself here, but given popularity and what-not. General fun of the series so far I had these workshopped with a friend (primarily the 2nd sequel with the werewolves). Here's the hypothetical Jekyll/Hyde sequels.

Be sure to check the art I've made thus far too (no art for the sequel material.... yet).

1st sequel: "Dr Jekyll and Mx Hyde Are Back!"

Jekyll, having been fired from the college due to the confusing Hyde incident [on the record, he was fired for disruptive behavior and illegal drug making] their former boss/collegue shares the word of his work and soon is sought out for potential market use. His formula is stolen by them and replicated to varying mixed results. We see the represed ids of the other test subjects and chaos that brings. Furious of course, Jekyll brings Hyde out of retirement to enact payback on them.

2nd sequel: "Dr Jekyll/Mx Hyde Meets The Wolf-Women".

Jekyll, now re-married, has their honeymoon in Australia. The Pack, a biker gang of were-canines (Wolf, Dingo, Coyote, Dog, etc) lead by leader, Red, roll up into town for trouble. Hellbent on chaos and painting the town red. Primal parallels of Hyde. Soon catch wind of Jekyll and his transformative work and start tracking him down back to the states as to get him to make a new potion to allow bringing out their wolf sides without need of the moon and do so on whatever day or time they so please. Jekyll had by this point also been experimenting with other temporary transformative serums beyond his psychological ones aka Hyde. That includes: bat, spider, crab, fire, turtle, sloth, crow, plant and shark. Of course, The Pack gets a hold of them too and reign more chaos in the night.

3rd: "Dr Jekyll/Mx Hyde Meets Carmilla and The Invisible Man"

An old acquaintance of Jekyll, Griffin, returns into his life after a fallout (Griffin had feelings for Jekyll, but the latter didn't reciprocate and rejected him) as Griffin needs some help with his own mad science. It concerning optics and change a body's refractive index to air. Rendering the injected person invisible. Has been having trouble undoing it. Meanwhile, Jekyll is housing a foreign exchange student and his niece, Laura. Carmilla is infatuated with the meek Laura, who boosts her own confidence with her uncle's Hyde potion. Due to how little time she spent repressing, she's practically the same. A murder spree happens and it being due to the growing insane Griffin and victims of Carmilla, revealed to be a vampire. Griffin and Carmilla team up with him sneaking into places and allow Carmilla to enter. In exchange for undoing of Griffin's invisibility; as death is the cure, becoming a vampire will do just that, AND he won't be dead-dead and gets to have greater power than just invisibility.

I'll tell you more, there might actually be Hornet pov in the sequel :3

How different authors react to different stressful situations varies like snowflakes. Some authors do struggle with “sophomore slump” or “uh oh now what” if their first book was a big success. Some authors don’t. Some authors find they crave and need deadlines in order to get anything done. Some authors, conversely, feel smothered by deadlines and can only work when they know that nobody is expecting anything!

(That’s why “two book deals” and the like might be a blessing OR a curse. Blessing: I know that a second book will be published! People like my book well enough to want more before they even know what it will be about! I know what my next couple years will look like! Yay! -- Curse: OMG I don’t even know what this next book is supposed to be ABOUT! People are giving me deadlines and there's money involved and this is looming over my head and I don’t know what I’m doing and I am FREAKED OUT! Boo!)

Unfortunately it’s probably hard to know which kind of author YOU are until you are in that situation, at which point... you might be a little bit trapped in it. So here are my tips: 

* BEFORE your book is actually published -- start a new project. Get as much as you possibly can get done, done. Why? Because first of all - there’s a lot of downtime between the time that your book sells and when it comes out, so it will stop you from fretting -- and also, because by the time your book gets close to coming out, you might well be so busy, tired, distracted, or generally weirded-out between excitement / events / book promo / whatever, that you don’t have time or motivation to write. IF your next project is already well under way, you’ll be thankful that past-you did so much heavy lifting to get present-you in shape for the next hurdle.

* If you KNOW that you are a person that needs deadlines as motivation just in your day-to-day life/day job -- then build structure and deadlines into your routine, even before you are published! Get an “accountability buddy” (accountabilibuddy?) who will demand chapters from you at certain times, etc! Act like you are a pro with pressing deadlines even if that isn’t quite true yet! 

Heyyy Cupcakess!!!! The next chapter will be uploaded this Sunday!! ;D Got the feedback from my lovely beta, and managed to correct something that bothered me a little. I hope it will have been worth the long wait :)

(whoops I have no clue how long this has been in my inbox. Sorry if you had to wait long >.<)

I would say Nico had his 19th birthday in Love Dreams Blah, so their ages in TFiaDP would be: Nico - 19 (or 92, depending on how you look at it lmao)Will - 19/20? (still don’t know when his birthday is ^^’)Jason - 20 turning 21Percy - 21 turning 22