Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-14800267-20130812040221

Because I hate writing replies to my own questions in the topic box, I'll move down here.

I initially decided to make an EAH character for a number of rather odd reasons. Firstly, I loved the concept of the series. My best friend of sixteen years now is a Storyteller. She writes her own traditional tales and perfroms them- not in the reading from a story book to ickle children way, in the stands up in her patchwork coat and tells tales of death, darkness and warnings, all the things traditional fairy tales were before the Disney of the day- the Grimm's Brothers, mutilated them to make them misogynistic, "happily ever after" and safe for children (of the time. They may seem dark now, but pre Grimm's, they were far far worse. Red riding hood ate her grandmother's flesh and drank her blood. There was no huntsman to save her, for example), and she was keen on the idea of the series, and of seeing where I, character creator, would take it.

Secondly is the aformention character creator. I have been building them since I was very small, and it's become something of a habit. I recently had to axe SEVEN comic series ideas, all furnished with characters, because I am only one lady and can't possibly do them all in one lifetime.

It was hard

I hadn't created a fan OC in years and years, since the advent of the internet, actually, so it was something of a novelty.

Third, the one thing I love almost as much as creating characters is designing outfits... Sold!

Why Jane Hook though? The aformentioned best friend is an avid collector of Peter Pan. She has all manner of different versions on DVD, has versions of the play, novel and JM Barrie's lectures. She's a huge fan of Hook, one of the few villains ever really treated with sympathy and dignity (In the novel, little else takes this stance) We've often had long discussions about the character, and it was on her suggestion I started putting her together. I knew the canon well and I love the bejeezus out of the pirate trope and villains, so it wasn't terribly hard to create her, though I usually struggle with female characters.

Jane is accpoanied by Esmee because she needed a narrator and someone to make up for her missing hand. Hook was always waited on by his "dogs" so Esmee was created to be Jane's explainor, warning system, comic relief and dog's body.