(This is my first intro so feedback is well received)
ava ☆ 16 ☆ aquarius ☆ she/her ☆ INTP-A ☆ proud latina ☆ no label
theater kid (in spirit, no talent). ao3 addict. history romanticizer. raised on superheroes and sunday race days (marvel & f1). swimmer. runner. football player. i don’t have hobbies — i have hyperfixations.
book reader. cabin 13. ravenclaw. strong opinions. stronger love for music. hopeless romantic & professional man hater. overthinker. walking chaos.
☆ main obsessions
the naturals. the hunger games. riordanverse (the holy trinity for me).
six of crows. agggtm. five survive. red queen. dance of thieves. the inheritance games. marauders. hp next gen. hadestown. hamilton. little women. heartstopper. red, white & royal blue.
dystopia, mystery, thriller & fantasy in general.
☆ favorite movies
10 things i hate about you. perks of being a wallflower. little women (2019). enola holmes. scream. Thunderbolts
this is @sloanetavishsno1's concept but this is just random ideas!! i had like no time to make this though so its not very thorough
i made a whole version with the naturals and then i realized that the characters are the suspects so i changed it...
@thenaturalshq - june 8th: games
description ☆
you've just been inducted into the naturals program! before you know it, you're thrown into a new game of serial killers, dangerous weapons, and prying places. somehow, a previous perpetrator has returned to the prowl, but this time, from inside the house. catch the culprit of a murder by identifying who did it, with what, and where.
suspects ☆
agt. locke
she grew up in an abusive household and turned to revenge when her sister left her with their abuser. after her sister "died", she turned to terrorizing her sister's daughter. what feelings of contempt does she still hold?
mr. redding
he found solace in capturing, torturing, and murdering women on his own property. he then began training his preteen son in his infamous image. what future plans does he still intend to carry out?
mr. clarkson
he was torn apart by his coexisting obsession and hatred for a fellow classmate in college. because of this, he was led to join a multi-member murder scheme led by mr. redding. what does he still have to prove?
mr. simms
he began training under mr. redding through his manic mother. he went on to order his mother's death when she became useless to his mentor. what does he plan to do with his now-independent lifestyle?
mr. webber
he was rejected from the police academy, so he became a lowly prison guard. after meeting mr. redding in prison, he decided to find a new way to gain power through killing. what authority does he still crave in the real world?
mr. donovan
he was abandoned by a cult as a child and built his life from the ground up. to prove his worth, he followed in his cult's footsteps and committed a mathematical series of murders. what does he think he can achieve with more time?
Shane and Ilya would both get book deals, I think. But Shane's would be part practical hockey guidebook, part motivational self-help book. He and Yuna write it together. He just wants there to be a book that new professional hockey players can read that will give them an idea of what to expect. Especially players moving to North America from overseas who are having to enter a whole new world not just in their career, but their whole life. And even though it's aimed at pro hockey players, it has wider appeal from hockey fans who like to dream about what it might have been like to be a pro player. It's also just super fucking funny. Like genuinely worth the read just for the humour and wit alone.
Ilya's is a memoir called something like "This Boy Pucks" or "Big Stick Energy". It turns out to be surprisingly poignant and emotional because he's super honest about what happened to his mom, growing up in an abusive home, his own struggles with his mental health, and what it's been like being one of the first two MLH players to ever marry each other. It's funny of course, but also gut-wrenchingly beautiful.
And, of course, they each dedicate the book to the other. Because the story wouldn't be the same without him.
( i ) celine should’ve there from the beginning. i hate how jlb only introduced her in the last book. she would’ve been SO entertaining and fun to read about. her natural skill is arguably the most interesting imo
( ii ) everyday i kneel at the foot of my bed weeping over the fact that we couldve gotten a morally gray / complex lacey locke :( i mourn the character she could’ve been. jlb had the opportunity to make locke one of the most interesting characters in jlb history (bonus points if she was written to be a lesbian)
( iii ) more kane darby page time. why did we get nothing. he only had appeared for about 3 seconds yet still managed to be dada of the year like ? i wanted to see him form a bond with cassie & become an actual dad to her unlike cassie’s bio dad
( iv ) this might purely be selfish on my part BUT making the books way longer and detailed. like the way jlb did with tig. i want more physical descriptions and just have more detail about the characters. why do we only have 1 canon birthday im irritated
( v ) the books being scarier and more psychologically horrific. sorry sorry sorry but not really FUCK the amount of stuff we could’ve gotten but didnt
( vi ) this might be a little unpopular but the cases felt a bit too straightforward for me. i wanted them to be more puzzle like with multiple layers & clues that connect in the most bonker of ways!!!! i mean we got a little bit of that yes,,, but not enough for me to really sink my teeth into #sorry
( vii ) seeing the naturals interact with more new people wouldve been very pleasing 2read. idc whether they became friends or rivals or forking enemies, i think it would’ve added some kewl dynamics & made the world feel a little bigger. it felt a little small to me just a teeny tiny bit. i get that they were in the middle of buttfuck quantico but i don’t care jlb could’ve written a few more teens that were in the same neighbourhood or meeting some teens in vegas or like even the frickin mall cassie and dean went to in book 1 like IDK ANYTHING.
( viii ) more descriptions of the big ahh house and the neighbourhood / surrounding area would’ve been nice 🤬. i wanted a much better sense of what their day to day environment looked like. & i still need answers about the other teens in quantico because there’s no way they were the only ones there 😭 i litcherally googled whether teenagers live in quantico and the answer was yes...... so where were they? what happened to them? what’s the excuse now? why why why
( ix ) i also wanted more naturals bonding moments that had nothing to do with a case. they’re teenagers living together and we only got like… 4? 5? fun scenes. i wanted to see them sneak out to a gas station, hang out at a park, go to a party (TOGETHER!!) i just need itttt
( x ) cassie and michael never being a thing & there no love triangle. instead it was cassie and dean and michael and lia from the start. SORRY. the love triangle just didn’t really work for me, & knowing that jlb changed her mind about the endgame after the first book makes some of the relationship development feel a bit inconsistent in hindsight. plus i hated the way lia was just tossed off to the side because michael couldn’t keep it in his pants
( xi ) sloane having a cat and michael having a dog
( xii ) we see more of judd and him disciplining the naturals like a dad 🥲 also wish we saw judd punch someone. like the directer maybe
( xiii ) i want to see full on fight scenes. doesn’t matter the context i just wanna see someone beating the living shit out of someone else. wether it be a terrible situation or a self defence situation
( xiv ) i wish sterling & briggs had felt a lot closer to the naturals on page, because even though we got some things, they still came across as kind of distant from the group (to me). obviously i get that they were being profesh and shi but like 💔 idc ur honor 💔 maybe there was a warmer relationship that existed off page, but we never really got to see it properly, and i would’ve loved more moments like : a mom/dad hug (!!!), banter, pep talks etc etc
( xv ) we get a lot more detail about cassie and dean’s lives back home, to the point where it feels like we know almost everything about them, but i wish we’d had that same depth for the others too. i wanted more insight into lia, sloane, & michaels lives outside the program, because they felt a bit less fully fleshed out in comparison, and getting that would’ve made the group feel even more rounded and complete
( xvi ) sterling and laurel bonding moments like das big sis and lil sis. i get that the book was basically over when we found out ronnie & laurel were related so this can be excused. im still upset about it tho
( xvii ) we know more about scarlett and her hypotheticals 🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🥲🥲🥲🥲
( xviii ) aaron shaw and tori don’t die 💔 and they form a relationship with sloane and all the naturals. i feel so strongly about aaron & tori and we barely got any scenes with themmmmmm :( WDYM THEY BOTH DIE😭😭😭 doomed yuri if it was straight
( xix ) we know more about michael’s mom 😒😒😒😒 where is she dafuq. we know she travels alot and works with docters without boarders but thats it,,, where was she when michael was getting his ass beat? does she even care lmao
( xx ) grayson shaw and thatcher townsend dying brutal deaths
Yes to them all!!! I feel like jlb didn’t used the storyline to its whole potential. I believe that the naturals could have been a better series to continue than tig, there was many things that needed to be explored and she could have written about thousands of cases that didn’t even needed to be related to the naturals. Many characters could have more depth and there was plenty of chance to introduce new ones.
@mindrisa ‘s new post just gave me an amazing idea. What about a SotR x The Naturals AU. Of course a lot of changes would have to happen for the characters personality and background to make sense but the dynamics fits well. I imagine it being a Crimson Rivers type of fic with most things being rewritten and mostly the essence persisting.
Dean being Haymitch and Lía Maysilee (2 stuck up beautiful queens) their siblings dynamic would fit super good. Cassie could be Leonor Dove (I hc her knowing how to play guitar and sing really well also a slight possibility of Cassielia/Maydove would be great). Sloane could be Wyatt, the odds maker or Louella (bc of the way they all protect her), I have no idea about who Michael or Celine could be.
I haven’t thought this through well enough but the idea is there. If anyone got suggestion that would help
it is actually so tragic that the naturals didn't get the level of popularity that the inheritance games got because its premise allows for a basically episodic format where you could drop like 5 new books rn and it wouldn't feel dragged. not every case they solve has to be personal but actually they can still be personal without being literally personal (see lia with the cult in bad blood) and after bad blood we were still left with an insane amount of character arc potential. 5 new books is just 5 new cases this is literally their job and we can put each of them in so so so many situations. in tig however these are rich kids from texas there's only so many situations you can put them in and puzzles you can make them solve before it gets too contrived since all of their "villains" have to be personal for the story to make sense. do you get what i mean. the inheritance games is a short netflix mystery show. the naturals is a 2000s procedural with 17 seasons. their fates getting inverted is one of the great tragedies of modern literature. to me.
the way heartstopper talks about mental health is so so important to me. "love can't cure mental illness". charlie having to write down how he's feeling so he can talk about it. the pain of struggling & also the pain of loving someone who's struggling. having to wait so long to get in to see a doctor. the anger & shutting down.
i have so much love for the kindness & directness with which this show showcases mental health.
actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.
