{"id":43,"date":"2009-05-23T22:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T06:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-06-23T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T00:47:27","slug":"its-happened-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s happened to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sitting there reading an interview with Stephenie Meyer about The Host<\/em>, and I got to, “Did any of the characters surprise you while writing?”<\/p>\n

And she said the usual, “I am constantly surprised by my characters when I write\u2014it\u2019s really one of my favorite parts. When a character refuses to do what I had planned for him or her, that\u2019s when I know that character is really alive. There were several characters who caught me off guard with The Host.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And I was sitting there going, “Oh please, Smeyer, whatever, don’t give me that crap, you can write your characters to be whatever you want,” when I read the next sentence.<\/p>\n

“One in particular was slated for a bit part as the wingman to the villain. Somehow, he knew he was more than that, and I couldn\u2019t stop him from morphing into a main love interest.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And then I went, “OH MY GOD. ORION. IAN IS ORION. HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE?”<\/p>\n

Orion is a character from my Atlantis<\/em> fanfic, The Dark Ones<\/a>*. He’s an original character that I originally intended to just be a wingman to the villain, but then all of a sudden he just morphed into this really important character. He also happens to be the most popular character in my A:TLE fanfic universe. I have had people send me fanart<\/em> of this character. I love Orion to bits and I laugh about how originally he was supposed to be this little toadie and OMFG I AM SMEYER. I AM SMEYER!!!!<\/p>\n

And I love Ian so. I can’t imagine how that book would have been without Ian…or Orion. *facepalm*<\/p>\n

*(Okay, shut up, I was 15 when I came up with that title)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was sitting there reading an interview with Stephenie Meyer about The Host, and I got to, “Did any of the characters surprise you while writing?” And she said the usual, “I am constantly surprised by my characters when I write\u2014it\u2019s really one of my favorite parts. When a character refuses to do what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanfiction.noble-scarlet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}