The Way You Do Montage

Happy Father's Day!

I've been blending lately and have a few songs I'm using in fan videos. Here's one I finished today. The song is "The Way You Do" by 98 Degrees, and the song clip at the end is "Crashed" by Daughtry (remixed by Decoy). And once again, it features Rihanna and Shane West, the celebrities I personally envision as Max and Terry in the story. There's also some fanart in there by me. :)

Do enjoy! (Sorry for the slightly poor quality. It always looks and sounds different on Blogger than in Windows Media Player.)

Terry and Chelsea

What do we see predominately on fanfic.net? Terry/Dana, Terry/Max, Terry/Melanie and Terry/Original Character or other Batman franchise villain (Catwoman, descendants of Catwoman, etc.). While those are all well and good, and I believe that anything written well and with passion can involve predictable Terry pairings and pull it off, I think one main character in particular from the show has been overlooked. I've been following BB fanfiction since the show was still on the air with new episodes. The trend seemed to be Terry/Dana making up a good amount of the original romance fanfics, and then along came some Terry/Max and Terry/"Ten" (Melanie). And this was before the site added search by characters feature, too. But that was pretty much all you got on fanfic, and it still is. I like that there are more Terry/Dana stories up now, as the Terry/Max ones were getting pretty numerous (and this is coming from a mainly Terry/Max writer lol). But my point is, I recall only a couple of Terry/Chelsea stories. And they were usually one-shots, I think.

So my best friend and I were noticing this a few months ago while discussing BB fanfiction, and she decided to write a Terry/Chelsea pairing. GA involves Chelsea pretty heavily, and she plays a bigger role than Dana, even. Why? Well, I just think Chelsea's shway. But as I was writing scenes with Terry and Chelsea in them, I was also realizing how amazingly awesome they would be together. The chemistry was undeniable, and all the two needed was a good plot to make it happen.

Enter Butterfly Wings...

So my friend (co-author to this blog) has been writing a fanfiction called Butterfly Wings: A Chelsea Story. What I love about it is the depth she's added to Chelsea's character. She also wrote a deeper and even darker Max in She Only Steals Diamonds, which involved a new Catwoman. In Butterfly Wings, she took the original storyline of Terry/Dana relationship drama and made the switch with Chelsea. Instead of it focusing as usual on Terry or Dana's take of their relationship falling apart, it focuses on Chelsea at first just trying to help her friend Dana and ending up further befriending Terry and falling for him.

Also, she gave Chelsea's character more personality than the show wrote for her, which is something I also tried to do with GA. I didn't want to leave Max as ONLY a brainy person who was actually pretty annoying in her quest to become Batman's assistant. I took what I was given and added some other personality sparks and investigated her past. In Butterfly Wings, Chelsea's not just a popular girl at school with a rich, distant father - and Dana's best friend. She's creative, a closet fashion designer, and she has her own world in her passion of which no one knows (from the beginning, at least). And I think that Butterfly Wings takes the beautiful process of blossoming and captures each stage in snapshots. Not just the blossoming of a friendship and romance, but a blossoming of the individual heart and opening of oneself - like a flower, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

And then, of course, there's that undeniable chemistry between Terry and Chelsea... ;)

We need more of Chelsea and Terry together. We need more of this digging deeper into the characters. When you google "Terry McGinnis Chelsea Cunningham," Butterfly Wings is the 9th result - the 3rd result when you google "Terry McGinnis Chelsea." Speaks volumes, doesn't it?

You can read Butterfly Wings: A Chelsea Story here at FanFiction.net.

~ Deserted Mirage

Scooped

I was searching Batman Beyond fanart on deviantart, and behold! I found this one by the author of Guardian Angel herself! Turned out it was the only good one in my opinion, so I had to upload it here. Enjoy something she would have never shown you herself. (And we've got to get her to reveal the rest of her fanart! It's AWESOME!!!!!)

"Wild Horses" Songfic

Song: “Wild Horses” Natasha Bedingfield

Story: Guardian Angel, Part One

Characters: Maxine Gibson and Terry McGinnis

Listen to the song while reading, on playlist.com or youtube.

I feel these four walls closing in

Face up against the glass

I'm looking out, mmm

Is this my life I'm wondering

It happened so fast

How do I turn this thing around

Is this the bed I chose to make

There's greener pastures I'm thinking about, mmm

Wide open spaces far away

She wasn’t a fool, whatever everyone else thought. She knew her own feelings. She didn’t tell anyone about them, but that didn’t mean that she didn’t feel. She felt every time she looked into his icy blue eyes. But she was best friends with both of them, and though he tried to break in and free her, she chose not to let him.

All I want is the wind in my hair

To face the fear but not feel scared

Thought it was what she wanted. To be able to stop hiding the feelings she knew so well… To have them returned like she knew he was willing to. Somehow, it was harder knowing that her imprisonment was her own making.

Wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

I wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses, oh

There was more that she wanted, too. It wasn’t just Terry. It was a whole life…a whole life that was different from hers. And that life looked a lot like Terry’s, though he complained about it so much. She fantasized about the wind ruffling her short hair as she flew over the cityscape. She wouln’t be afraid of the heights, or of the danger, she knew she wouldn’t be. Nothing could be scarier than this silence.

I see the girl I wanna be

Riding bareback, carefree

Along the shore

If only that someone was me

Jumping head first, head-long

Without a thought

To act and damn the consequence

How I wish it could be that easy

But fear surrounds me like a fence

I wanna break free

Living an adventure… That would be enough for her, if she could not have him. She could always run off somewhere, oh how she wished for a change. An alternate identity. To not be known, and at the same time, to be known more than she was known now, as herself.

All I want is the wind in my hair

To face the fear, but not feel scared

Yet he DID know her now. And that was what was so scary.

Oooh, wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

Wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses, oh

She felt she was wrong with whichever choice she made. To accept him or to continue to reject him. All she could do was to push it from her mind: to ignore it.

I wanna run too

Oooh oh oh oh

Recklessly abandoning myself before you

I wanna open up my heart

Tell him how I feel

It was childish, but she could forget it when she dreamed of escape, somehow…

Oooh, wild horses I wanna be like you

Throwing caution to the wind, I'll run free too

Wish I could recklessly love like I'm longing to

I wanna run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses

Run with the wild horses

Maxine gently set down her lipstick on the bathroom counter and looked at herself in the mirror for a long time.

Whoah ooohh ooh ooh ye-yeah yeah oohh

I wanna run with the wild horses, ooooh