NOT A CHAPTER
Hi guys. I'm alive! I know it's been soo long since I updated but life gets crazy ya'know? First I started a business with my aunt that has gone downhill since day 1. Then my computer went and updated itself or something and didn't do it correctly and lost lots of my files. Namely my Oriana files, and a couple of other fanfics I was working on (Walking Dead and Vampire Diaries ones). I was pretty annoyed because I was like halfway through season 2 with Oriana so…yeah. So I kinda lost the will to write for a while. But a couple of weeks ago my brother showed some interest in the awesomeness that is Teen Wolf and so I started watching with him and kind of got re-inspired I guess. Plus all of the support and reviews I've gotten got me excited to write again.
Okay so I wanted to thank everyone who has reviewed and followed this story so far and to all those who are going to continue to read my story but I just wanted to address some things about Oriana's personality. Someone said that she seems inconsistent and I just wanted to explain it a bit but it's a pretty long explanation so I'll be posting chapter 7 separately.
Okay so, I got a review a few weeks back, now whoever it was didn't leave a name but titled the review 'OOC'. I just wanted to say thankyou so much! I love detailed questions and responses and sometimes what I'm thinking and plotting seems to be clear and obvious in my head but gets blurred when I start typing and wording things, so I like when someone can read what I've written and tell me if it doesn't make sense.
Anyway this review basically said that there was some inconsistencies in this fic, mainly with Oriana's personality and character. Like when I said that she doesn't get some phrases and sarcasm and 'teen' things, but then she goes and bees all sarcastic and wordy and all 'no glove no love', right? Well here it is, my reasoning for this is, from what you know of Oriana's past SO FAR, she lived with her drunk mom and was basically neglected and sometimes physically abused by her mom and her boyfriends, aswell as being basically uneducated up until she was nine years old. The only interaction she had was with her mom and her mom's friends so while she was uneducated and a child she obviously learned more 'adult' language and ways of speech when she was developing.
At nine years old she'd dumped with the Hales, for reasons that will be made clear later on, and suddenly she's surrounded by a big family with a big age range. She's got snarky and playful cousins, and she's suddenly around people closer to her age and she's not quite sure how to take their banter, and defiantly not sure of their positive attitudes and friendly demeanours. As you can imagine she's a bit confused.
And then after a year of 'normalcy' and family and basic education she experienced a traumatic event where she's with her family as they all die in a house fire. She runs away and gets put into foster care. I know not all foster homes are bad but Oriana has bad luck. She's, once again, unwanted, unloved and alone. She ditches school a lot because kids are cruel and she's just not as smart as them. Her home life is terrible on top of that so she starts getting into trouble and acting out and getting major anger issues.
At 13/14 she runs away and lives on the streets. More will be revealed later but let's just say she trusts the wrong people and gets further hurt and damaged. At the age of 15ish Derek and Laura find her and take her in. She lives with them for about a year until Laura goes missing.
Got it? So to quickly re-cap, she has very limited social skills with people of her own age, much less positive experiences, so she is more mature in ways, yet more innocent in others because she never did really grow up. She has picked up on 'adult' terminology and references from her foster parents, parents, etc plus from people on the streets. That's how she knows references to so with sex and drugs and whatnot. And due to these more 'adult' environments sex isn't such a big thing to her because she skipped the wholeromanticizedaspect of it, so yes she has had sex but not a 'boyfriend'. Also the in-between bits with the Hales, they all tried to teach her as much as possible but then again they're not really 'normal' either.
Also I'd like to say that I've based some of Oriana's character traits on my little brother who has autism. He is so mature sometimes and so innocent at the same time. He doesn't understand metaphors and while he can out sarcasm a grown man he doesn't always get it in return. Oriana doesn't have autism, I'd like to clear that up, but it makes sense to me that she would have these kinds of personality traits with her background.
Anyway I have gone back and edited the first few chapters a bit, just little things that will ultimately make more sense and look more consistent. Hopefully. I hope this helped a bit when it comes to understanding Oriana and her weird traits that make sense to me, but if it didn't, hey you got an extra 5 minutes of reading done today, so well done ")