In the early planning stages for DOTN, did you ever consider making the girls a different type of creature or was it always werewolf, druid, and banshee? What made you pick those 3?
Oooh good question! Well first of all the girls powers have definitely been planned from the beginning of creating them, although Siobhan and Gen came into mind a bit later while I was already writing TMD so I definitely did some plotting/panicking while writing haha. I knew I wanted three different creatures because the Donas has select abilities from three creatures and I wanted to pull from the supernatural threefold that Teen Wolf showed in season 3. As for Ariana, I hadn’t seen any other druid OCs when I first came up with the idea. And I felt like it was an area with just so much to explore, especially when I started to shape Ariana as someone with the potential to go evil and how that would affect her powers!
Genevieve was created because I wanted another OC involved whose name was already on the deadpool (her name is in the show but I do spell it a little differently) and I picked werewolf mostly because Kat McNamara would look cute af as a wolf running around but I also thought it would be fun to explore having a character who is so shy but actually carries a lot of untapped rage inside.
And Siobhan is the wild card both in the story and also in my brain haha (also minor spoilers ahead now). I actually picked her to be a banshee because I was super curious about Dr Valack in Eichen and how he’d apparently been experimenting on banshees in season 5 before he found Lydia so I decided to make Siobhan a banshee to explore that a bit! Plus I liked the idea of her having a connection to Lydia which is her worst nightmare since she booted Lydia off the social ladder and stole her popularity. I also wanted someone with a connection to death considering the sacrifice that the Donas performed involved so much death!