Broad Character Rewrites In MV In Quick Bulleted List Form:-Michael, Taylor, Ostin, Hatch, Sharon (Michael's

Broad character rewrites in MV in quick bulleted list form: -Michael, Taylor, Ostin, Hatch, Sharon (Michael's mom), Zeus, McKenna: Broadly fine as they are, but willing to play by ear for taste

-Jack: The plan was to rewrite his introduction to come from the opposite angle where instead of a bully, he has a reputation of the school 'fixer' who can get you what you want if you pay the price, he has more of a criminal-y vibe early on but it turns out he's really not bad and he waives the fee for the drive to California upon hearing it's to rescue Michael's mom. He still has a military big bro who he learned a lot from but make it less of a 'man, the Marines are so cool!' thing just because I don't like US imperialism

-Wade: Backport most of his RotE/BotA characterization of being slightly more cowardly into PoC25's events, make it clear he's got a gay crush on Jack that he keeps to himself until the blog is revealed in BotA

-Quentin: More early screen time (have him tag along with Tara when she's giving Taylor the tour? Make their relationship shockingly healthy despite the whole sitch?), ongoing subplot, maybe explain why he's the leader of the group more/earlier

-Tara: Play down her earlier sadism, make it clearer that her might-makes-right worldview is something she's adopted to make Hatch happy/like her

-Nichelle: Also downplay the sadism a hair, though don't erase it because I still want it to be there when she joins the Electroclan later for a 'well I'm glad she's on our side now' moment-possibly give her some occasional check-ins at the taco job we find her working at during HfJD? So she comes less out of nowhere. Maybe introduce RESAT tech in development during PoC25 that makes her nervous about being tossed aside so that explains why Hatch dumps her so quickly. -Tanner, Grace: They're probably mostly fine, Tanner has an interesting little arc as The One With A Conscience even if he's not used much, and Grace is Fine as a flat character, not everyone can be fleshed out.

-Bryan, Kylie: Just give them a bit more than 'the dumb one' and 'the materialistic one'. -Ian: He really needs more to do. I mean, he does a lot, a lot of spotting and info-giving, but he has the least personality of the Dungeon Trio. I'd honestly play up his role of the pessimist of the trio to balance out McKenna's optimism and Abi's hesitancy.

-Abi: I do like her role as the nervous one who doesn't like fighting but i feel like that sidelines her into the Shy Healer (kind of) archetype. Maybe play her up as the moral core of the group a bit, make her more able to stand up for her beliefs?

-Torstyn: Absolutely make him less of a maniac so his heel-face turn goes down smoother, give him a few mentions as being Away during PoC25 for foreshadowing purposes (Tessa and Cassie, I need to swirl around in my head a bit more. and I do have random other thoughts, this is just like, basic stuff 2 me)

I love that angle for jack! It would make me much more sympathetic to his character and make him much more interesting overall. I think he would be a nice guy but kinda fall into somewhat shady stuff out of necessity.

Wade needs more character and his death would affect me much more if he did. 

I genuinely didn’t feel like Tara had a redemption arc it was like she joined them and everyone just forgot how sadistic she acted. 

I love Nichelle and any more characterization would be awesome!

Ian desperately needs more character! I love him and there’s so much missed potential! He would tell dark jokes and be pessimistic but I imagine he would be generally pretty chill in serious situations. 

Abi would work well as a moral center I feel like that kind of character was desperately needed. The story would have been much more balanced that way.

Noo his homie left him all alone in a bathroom 😔wtf

Idly, do you have any strong feelings about Ian's whole semi-Daredevil deal of "I'm blind but my superpowers make up for that"? Because I know some people find that trope annoying but I know other people don't mind it. I find it interesting from the in-universe science angle-I remember Ian was born blind genetically, it wasn't an accident, so it came about interestingly. I have similar thoughts on Tara and Taylor's powers being similar, but not identical, and them being identical twins. But I wanted a second opinion.

I get how people would be annoyed with the whole “yea I’m blind but actually not really” I’ve never minded. I’ve kind of enjoyed the trope at times. I think it ads to the characters “sight” related powers because it emphasizes just how differently they see the world.

I kind of like how Tara and Taylor’s powers are different. One because identical twins still aren’t completely the same and 2 it could have something to do with how they were raised/trained.

All of this makes me start to think about why each kids powers are different and what influenced the differences.

IS THE BMC FANDOM STILL ALIVE IM BEGGING FOR MEDIA

You know how sometimes books, movies, TV shows etc. are named after the main character? How do fandoms differentiate from posts about that specific character and posts within that fandom using it as a way to tag the fandom as a whole? Do you just have to wade through other things to find fanart and stuff for that character specifically? It seems so inconvenient.

My one idea with Cassie was instead of just randomly making her a threat to Michael and Taylor's relationship for cheap love triangle points just leaning into the slightly playful nature she has (see, her explanation of her powers in her intro where it's clear she's having a bit of fun explaining that she's got a nonlethal and lethal setting between the muscle paralysis and stopping lungs/hearts) and just make her, like, an attempted homewrecker because she thinks it's funny to flirt with people to get a rise out of them. Make her flirt with Ostin or Jack to get rises out of McKenna and Abi, too. Heck, make her bi and have her flip from flirting with Michael to Taylor when she protests just to throw them off. I thought it might be fun.

Oh my god yes! That would be so funny! She had so much potential and I hate that she was reduced to a love triangle.