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A/N: This is going to be a trivia chapter about everything I changed within the original. Enjoy!
Fun Fact #1: The counterpart of Rachel is called Ruby Bell, and she lives in a fictious, British town called Gormsey. Her dad is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident at a lake, her mother works at a bakery. Other than Rachel, she wants to get into Oxford, an Elite University in Great Britain. I changed it into Lima instead of Gormsey, and I changed Oxford into NYADA and Harvard.
Fun Fact #2: Finn's counterpart is called James Beaufort, and a lot of things remained unchanged from the original. I portrayed Finn a little bit more naïve than James in the original though.
Fun Fact #3: Kurt's counterpart is James twin sister. I really needed to change a lot of things because not only Lydia is a girl, but also because she got pregnant. I changed the pregnancy problem to homophobia and Kurt's depression. The counterpart of Blaine is Graham, also a teacher of the kids. Concerning his character, I didn't need to change that much
Fun Fact #4: It's kind of complicated with Mercedes' counterpart. In the original, Ruby (Rachel) has a younger sister called Ember. Mercedes got Ember's storyline, but she also got the storyline of Ruby's friend at school called Lin, a girl whose parents went bankrupt. I made Mercedes a scholarship holder as well. Read FF #6 to learn more about Samcedes
Fun Fact #5: James' bros are called Wren, Alistair, Keshav and Cyril. There are no fixed counterparts for everyone, I just mixed it up among Sam, Artie, Mike and Puck. Cyril is Chandler's counterpart, but I planned to give Cyril's role to Sam at first (which I did. That explained Sam's douchey behavior at the beginning). Cyril is in love with Lydia (Kurt) for years, but also had an affair with Lin (Mercedes?) for years, so that meant that I had to make Sam gay or bisexual which I would find weird. Besides, there wouldn't be Samcedes in the end. So I quickly wrote Chandler into the story in the first part.
Fun Fact #6: Since Mercedes had two counterparts, I had to decide which lovestory to choose: Ember (Ruby's little sister) starts something with bad boy Wren, Lin has a dirty affair with Cyril. It took me long to take the right decision, but I decided on Ember's and Wren's love story. This way, I could turn Sam into Wren and give Chandler the role of Cyril.
Fun Fact #7: At the beginning, Alistair had been Puck's counterpart because they acted in the same way, and Keshav Artie's. Alistair is gay (out and proud), and Keshav is bisexual (not so out). They also had a love story, so I decided to give those roles to Brittany and Santana. Since Alistair is also a royal, I made Santana a princess. I also found it amusing to give the role of a princess to her since she acts the least ladylike in the series as well.
Fun Fact #8: Quinn got the role of Elaine Ellington, Alistair's older sister, and a total bitch. I didn't make her that bitchy in the High school society series because I actually like Quinn. Elaine is based on Elaine Hummel, Finn's and Kurt's grandmother.
Fun Fact #9: Actually, James' and Lydia's dad was the douche and antagonist in the original story. But I just couldn't make Finn's and Kurt's parents so douchey, so James Hudson and Elaine Hummel were born. I also let it escalate with the entire criminal scheming (send a killer to Burt an Carole, he threatening Kurt, Finn and Mildred with a gun), in the book, Mortimer Beaufort (James Hudson) was not that criminal, he didn't even have a weapon. I was a little bit disappointed, so I invented the criminal storyline
Fun Fact #10: As the original story took place in Great Britian, I also had to change a lot of cultural things. Lacrosse turned to football, English dishes to American ones, Oxford turned to Harvard, London to Columbus etc.
Fun Fact#11: I generally shortened the story because some chapters were just superfluous, boring or not important for the story.
Fun Fact #12: Mildred and Andy got together in the end. In the original, the chauffeur called Percy didn't get together with Ophelia (Mildred), that was also my idea.
Fun Fact #13: Tina got the role of Jessalyn, one of the members of the event management club, Kitty got Camille's role (creepy how perfect she was for the role). In the end, we learn that Ryder and Tina would take over the event management club, also something I added.
Fun Fact #14: There were sooo many detailed sex scenes, like really detailed. I extremely shortened them because wtf, I'm not reading a porn, right? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a prude, but I will never ever write about sex like that, maybe hot make out scenes, but that's all. What happens behind closed doors, stays behind closed doors.
Fun Fact #15: To be honest, I didn't want this story to feature Finchel as a main pairing at first. I considered Samcedes or Klaine. But as you have noticed, I don't like working with too many OCs. So I started thinking: With which constellation would I need as few OCs as possible? Which had been Rachel as Ruby and Finn as James. This way, the story as we know it today has been born.
That's it, fellas! It's officially over now *sob* Thank you so much for having read this until the very end! Your views made me keep writing, and so did your nice comments. If you still have open questions concerning this story (plotholes etc.), let me know, and maybe I will make a Q&A chapter or something
Goodbye for now…
XOXO your princess