Thread:Airbenderfreak/@comment-27115455-20171210073147/@comment-30559258-20171212034925

I hope so!

I'm so glad you like Cait's concept! Her page is coming along nicely and should be up soon! Typically when developing an EAH character's personality I'll go one of two directions; make them completely different from how their destiny requires them to be, or match up rather closely with their story's portrayal, with a few exaggerated/added traits. For Cait, it was the latter, and it works really well for her! I love cats and having a near-sterotypical feline OC is like my dream, and the fact that she's Ozian with a cool design is just a bonus! And I'm also developing the previous Bungle (who likely still uses that name for the stage), so look foward to that as well! I saw there's a next gen tab on the Ozsquad page, which makes me excited for anything that might happen!

Hmm, I'm thinking she could be adopted, and her mother was a famous actress who had a child before her career. AU Cait would therefore be a foster sister to AU Angie, which is fine by me! It's also rather accurate, as the Glass Cat does precede the Patchwork Girl in creation.

I think Plumly's Oz stories are terribly underrated! They may not be Baum's originals (I hear he considers the Patchwork Girl book his best Oz book), but they do a damn fine job of continuing the legacy and introducing fitting characters. I was actually hesitant to create successors to Plumly's characters as I wasn't sure they would be accepted by the wiki, but they are part of the Famous Forty, and those are officially canon and don't really contradict anything of Baum, so why not? Apparently, Scraps becomes a Quilt Queen or something, which is pretty cool! I love the idea of a princess Angie! I really wanted an American Oz character, as Dorothy is one of my favorite fairytale/literary characters ever, but I also wanted all my Ozians to join the Ozsquad and Damon exists, so that was a no. I considered the other Americans of Baum's books, but none of them were protagonists like Dorothy and they honestly weren't very interesting. But then I broadened my search and found Peter Brown, who was very comparable to Dorothy, being a protagonist of not one, but three books, and unlike Dorothy, who's overrused in the fandom, I've yet to find a single Peter Brown child. He's also a much more developed character compared to naive and fragile little Dorothy. I also read that Plumly tended to favor male heroes, contrary to Baum's usual females (Dorothy, Betsy, Trot). And although Dorothy is overrused, IMO, I love Damon and would love for them to be acquainted! Even though Peyton is jealous of Dorothy and her successor, as everyone regards them as the stars of Oz despite there being other Americans. She'd probably try to steal his destiny or at least spoil it for him, lol. But I genuinley love Damon and the other Ozian Americans, so I'll definitely be putting Peyton foward as an acquaintance for them!