Hey! Looks like you finished reading!
I write this, while I'm in the middle of editing the story, which according to my good internet friend PenName099, you're not supposed to do. But what the heck, I wanna' get this uploaded already.
When I first set about creating a story that centered around Collette, I was immediately hit by a massive roadblock: 'What in the world is this going to be about?'. Much like her sisters in the second movie, Collette has a very, shall we say, 'basic' personality. The 'prissy, stuck-up' character. To that extent Essansee (the mega mind behind the entire LATT: New Adventures saga) certainly helped quite a bit with both parts of Journey and the initial chapters of Friends in Fog. Those are two stories that really helped differentiate the sisters. Alas I was still getting no where, the only real progress that I made at that point was deciding that it should be set during Valentine's Day. Time ticked on, until I finally came up with a major fulcrum in the story. Stormé.
Stormé, and I can't understate this, was an integral part in the development of this story. It was in creating her, that I made some real progress. Everything from the themes to the villain would never have come about without her creation.
The inspiration behind the character was largely American singer, 'the butch lesbian', Stormé DeLarverie. I won't go into detail about everything she did, but I will say that it was her strong personality and profound opinions that drove forward a lot of what she ultimately ended up as.
One of the biggest elements behind the story is the relationship that Collette has with Stormé. They meet under very unfortunate circumstances and they just drift together slowly. The banter between the two was definitely something that took a lot of my focus.
You probably want to get to sleep now, (or do literally anything else.) so I won't keep you for much longer. All I really wanted to say was thank you to 'PenName099' and another 'internet person' who asked not to be named. I know you guys are reading and I just really appreciate the fact that you went out of your way to read the earliest version of this story that existed and gave me feedback. You two are legends in my eyes.
That's all for me for now. Thanks again for reading!
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Note: All characters, apart from my (and Essansee's) own OC's belong to Disney, I don't profit off of this in anyway at all.
