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Btw I am writing New Blood again so hopefully chapter 2 will be done either this week or next week. This one is a fun one for me overall and I love what I’ve done so far. Writing Diana, Freddy and Fallon is very fun and finding the balance of showing Diana’s powers but not making her op is challenging but I think I’ve figured it out.

I actually love the view version of this story so much. I liked the original in concept, but I hated writing so much of it. The new version works so much better for what I set out to do with this story, which is make a satisfying sequel to Grimm itself but also expand on certain things and wrap up plotpoints the original show didn’t have time to while also doing what I would want to do with this world and characters.

Chapter 3 will focus on Selene and Tim mainly. Unfortunately we’re not quite at the point they start becoming friends and it will be two fairly seperate plotlines in the chapter, but at least then I’m 1 step closer to that. Chapter 4 I haven’t got the most solid idea for but I’m thinking of having all 3 Burkhardt siblings have perspectives, and then chapter 5 has a big plot thing which I am excited for.

Honestly the chapter I am most excited to write is chapter 17 but that is a long way off lol. Honestly I kinda underestimated how long this story is going to be compared to the original but you know what, oh well.

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Someone else has made a sequel fic named Grimm: New Blood and I find that really funny. I saw it and for a breif moment was baffled because I was like that’s not how I tagged my fic and then saw it was written by someone else.

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I’m not making any promises and idk if I’d ever do/be able to do this, but I would love to do videos about Grimm. This show has such a special place in my heart and I’d love to just talk about it. I’d also love to talk about the mythology behind the wesen and stuff like that.

Also as I get further into New Blood, I would love to talk about plot choices I’ve made and I could honestly talk for hours about why I decided to make New Blood in the first place.

There’s so much I love about this show, and there are so many things about it I would love to talk about. I don’t know much about video making or editing so it would probably be more long form without much of a script and not super edited.

Again, I’m not making promises, and I also can’t promise there would be consistent uploads due to my focus being terrible (and I do apologise for that btw but autism/potential ADHD means I don’t get a choice in it either), but I’d be interested to know if anyone is interested in something like this.

I love finding lore videos and deep dives when I’m hyper focusing on something and there is noth like that for Grimm. Like the only videos on it are a few reactions/reviews and a video going over why it ended, along with the clip uploads by both the official YouTube channel and a few others.

I could also review the books and comcis potentially as I do want to read them.

But yeah, what do y’all think?

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Watching grimm and sending an ask bc i have no one else to talk to abt it lol, am i hallucinating or djd they fully retcon nick being 3 when he lost his parents?? Watching the episode where his mom helps adelaide and her newborn and the flashback where hes literally like 8 or nine was so jarring like YOU GUYS SAID 3 !!!!!

I am so sorry I completely forgot to respond to this!

When did they say he was 3? I do not remember that for whatever reason lol.

He is definitely older in the flashback though. Honestly Grimm does not always have the best continuity though.

Again, sorry for not responding for almost a month!

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Something that is really fun to write is how much wesen species effects personality. Grimm itself leans towards species meaning people are more likely to have certain traits, but can go against their “nature” which is sort of what I’m doing in New Blood accept as I don’t need to rely on murder of the week, I get to play around with it more.

I like to write it more as wesen species effects more primal instsincts (eg Blutbaden and other predatory wesen having a prey drive or seelenguter, mauzhertz etc being much more likely to run away from a fight) and that some wesen give into the more primal side of themselves, they actively fight against it or they work with it. I don’t like the concept of every wesen from a certain species being evil, but I do like the concept of people being effected differently based on what wesen they are. I always wished the show went more into wesen that broke the stereotypes of their species as it’s interesting and fun.

This is something that I start to really go into in chapter 2 with Fallon, but it also ties into plans I have for the triplets, and honestly a bunch of other characters in the story.

Anyway, I could go way more into this but I am tired lol. Maybe I’ll do a more in depth post on this once I post chapter 2 as it ties in well.

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Sometimes I make wesen that have lore behind them and that are inspired by cool myths, sometimes I make wesen simply because I like an animal and think it would make a great wesen.

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I’ve kinda started drawing again, so I drew Diana. I’m trying to have more fun with my art so it’s not the best but I wanted to share it. I’ll probably draw some more of the New Blood cast at somepoint too, and maybe even the new wesen species I’ve made.

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I have a theory that grimms, biests and the royals are all connected to Zerstörer in some way. I know the grimms hid the stick but I feel like there’s a connection beyond that. Biests are weird wesen anyway and aesthetically they are very similar, and then the royals are just not really explained. Like I’m pretty sure they aren’t grimms or wesen, but it doesn’t really feel right for them to be normal humans either, especially since there is a blood test to specifically check if someone is a royal.

I don’t really have a proper theory as to how they’re tied together, it’s mostly just vibes but it feels right to me.

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I think I’ve solved a problem I was having writing this chapter?

Basically I have been desperate to write some proper injury related angst and this chapter was not really giving me that so I kept getting stuck but I’m hyperfocusing on 2 fandoms rn (Grimm and another one) and so I started writing little angst fics for the other fandom and I think it worked?

This chapter is angsty and does get violent at points but I’m not really at that point at the moment. I haven’t written more than a sentence on this chapter for the past couple of days but hopefully that will change.

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This chapter is actually really helping me learn how to write Diana. In the original story the reason why I kinda avoided writing from her perspective and having her in the story too much was because writing characters with her level of power is hard. I tend to have quite strict rules when I write superpowered characters, so Diana’s abilities being so vague was hard for me. The thing is when I start rewriting I wanted to spread out the povs more than before. I had a better idea of what I wanted Diana’s role to be this time around, and it also helped that I’ve rewatched s5 and s6 of the show, so it was easier to figure out how to write her.

I have given a small limit on what Diana can do, but her biggest limit is her own morality. I go more into this in the chapter, so I won’t say too much, but working out where her line was has been incredibly helpful and will definitely mean I include her more in the future.

Also I can have a lot of fun with her emotions. She ends up with a kind of rivalry with Fallon and I am going to have so much fun with that in the future.

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The other reason I am very excited to write this chapter is that I get to write a bit of true character angst and that’s my favourite thing to write. Chapter 1 was basically just to introduce y’all to everybody a bit and start the basis of Tim and Percy’s plot, chapter 2 is where things start to actually happen with the main plot of this part. Well, technically there are 2 main plots just one is more in the background until we get closer to the end of this part, but this is the part of the plot that is the cause for a lot of the future chapters.

Both Diana and Freddy get some angst in this one and that’s fun for me.

Also, for anyone who read the original chapter 2, Eloise’s name has changed because I always disliked calling her that I just didn’t have any better ideas. I changed her name to Fallon. It suits her better. Honestly her personality has not changed at all really. Maybe she’s a little more violent and cult leadery, but other than that she hasn’t changed.

The beginnings curse strikes again as writing the first section has been kinda rough but I’m almost past it and then I think I can get this done quite fast since it’s a bunch of things I love to write.

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Okay I’ve been researching the Fourth Crusade and it’s really interesting. I love medieval military tactics, some of the stuff that happens is wild. Constantinople got set on fire 3 seperate times and from semi unrelated incidents. I swear the crusaders just forgot they were meant to be retaking Jerusalem because they got so sidetracked. Constantinople was not supposed to be sacked that was the result of a bunch of other events.

I love history. So many major historical events were just side quests.

Anyway, this does complicate things for me slightly when it comes to my plans for the 7 grimm knights since there is very little of anything to do with royalty for this crusade really. I initially intended to have them potentially tied to specific families kinda but that’s gone out the window. I have a back up plan, I just found it interesting.

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I…I accidentally solved a problem with the story? I wasn’t even trying too lol this is great.

There was always a slight problem with the plot as the main plot was more of a background thing, but as I’ve been planning chapter 2 (which with any luck I’ll finish that today so I can start writing it properly) I realised the ripple effects this plot can have and now that plot can show up through most of the other chapters.

Idk if I explained that well but I just thought it was funny because it wasn’t intentional.

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I love how the more the show progresses the more crimes Nick is willing to commit it’s so funny. Like he goes from not wanting to know where Rosalee was going to get fake IDs to being willing to murder and I love that.

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The more I plan for this fic the more I realise how underdeveloped some of the worldbuilding for this show was, specifically when it comes to the Resistance and the other royal families. The Resistance were actually useless and the other royal houses just never show up.

Listen I love worldbuilding but when you have to worldbuilding within a canon it can be a bit challenging as you’re trying to not contradict canon whilst trying to add to it if that makes sense.

This does mean I get to make a ton of lore for the seven grimm knights though. These guys have their own story and I love them. They won’t really be relevant until part 3 of this fic (I think. Unless my very rough plan for part 2 changes idk yet) so I won’t be able to give much detail on them for a while but I do love them they are very fun and tragic.

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Working on New Blood again y’all! Chapter 2 was the only chapter from the original fic that I truly liked so I can actually reuse some of my writing from it which is great for me. This is a Diana and Freddy focused chapter which is also fun.

Everytime I go back to this fic I’m reminded just how excited I am to share this story. I have plans lol.

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This fandom has like 5 active people but it is alive, just about.

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