Numbers 2 and 9 for your fanfic ask game please?? And specifically the Casebook of Sloan Larson!!
Hey! :D
2: Oh gosh, it was so long ago...If I remember right, the first scene I did when I officially started was a version of when they all first met at the Spice Shop. I hadn't figured out if I was going to start with a canon episode or an original, but I knew I wanted her to start out very combative and dislking everyone so I kept playing around with trying to kill them, getting caught and tied up, beating Nick, beating up Monroe and Rosalee...I didn't want her to be completely unlikable though so I pulled it back to Nick getting her to stop reluctantly. I figured her introduction would be a good way to get a handle on her character too. The pride I gave her reminded me of the Valiant Little Tailor, so that then inspired the rest of the first chapter (and wanting an actual GIANT wesen because I kinda like body horror sometimes...)
9: Oh yes XD I fully admit, Nick was not my very first choice as a love interest when I came up with Sloane as an OC--this was actually back when the show first premiered and she went through a few names and backstories then. And at first, like many, I really, really enjoyed Monroe and thought a Grimm/Blutbad love affair would be fun and dramatic and potential for a lot of angst. It was going to be a rocky romance focused fic, very Shakespearean tragedy but with a happy ending. Sloane probably would've been a bit different as well and started to learn from Monroe how to control a lot of anger she had and start working through her own trauma and them standing up to both sides.
HOWEVER, when Rosalee and Monroe's relationship started developing, it was hard to picture anyone else with him, they were such a cute couple with great chemistry. Conversely, while I thought Juliette had potential, I had a hard time feeling the chemistry between her and Nick (I blame the writing because the actors are actually together irl) and found her more interesting when she was away from Nick, and when she got her hexenbiest powers and was corrupted by them instead of her being somehow immune. And while I ended up liking Adalind towards the end and kind of liked her and Nick's chemistry, how they got around to it always kind of felt...off. Like it felt like we just kind of waved a hand at what she did to Nick because she also got pregnant because of it and they had to get together. Other things in the last season also didn't sit right, though I heard they thought they would at least have one more and had to wrap up quick. So I decided "Y'know what? It might be a little self-indulgent, but I think I could do something different and more satisfying, including with Nick's love-life." I started developing Sloane more as both her own character, but a potential match for him and it went from there. (Originally she was also going to be from a group of Viking-like Grimm but I pulled back on that in favor of making her Jewish).
Also, each chapter goes through a lot of potential rewrites. Sometimes I even start over completely if I can't get the right feel. I really enjoy doing ones based off of fairy tales and fables, and I fluctuate between wanting to be really obvious and wanting it to be more roughly based.
