Side Characters For The Win

Well, I got fourteen hours of sleep last night, and now I feel much better. Yay for sleep!

This week, when I've not been all FINALS FINALS OH MY GOD FINALS (an admittedly short amount of time, all told), I've been working on Jake and Shane. I mean, not working on in the sense of writing anything at all whatsoever, but just fleshing out and thinking of new stuff. Especially SIDE CHARACTERS. For a novel that started out as a character study, it sure has a lot more world-building connected to it than anything else I've been working on. So as of now, Jake and Shane have a TEAM. BEHOLD.

Names, Brief Descriptions, and Sex Lives of the Team of Justice (to be named later, y'all):

1. Shane - the powerhouse, and the Fearless Leader. No one knows anything about his sex life, or indeed if he has one, because while he is the Nice Guy Extraordinare, he is not so much with the talking to people.
2. Jake - the back-up/support, the cynical wise-ass, and the leader when Shane is not around. Wants you to put up or shut up. His sex life consists of awkward one-night stands and all the sex he is not having with Shane.
3. Mara - the second powerhouse, and the resident angry bitch who occasionally loses control. Will fuck you up. Is Not a D-cup, thank you. Makes a habit of picking up anonymous guys in clubs for sex and then sending them on their way.
4. Jamie - the defense, and the team mascot, because he is young and tiny and innocent and adorkable. Stronger than he looks. Is a bisexual virgin - has had several extremely earnest and completely chaste relationships with both boys and girls. I love him so much.
5. Ethan - the strategist, the confidant, the guy with the mind whammy. He is engaged, but his fiancee does not know about the mind-whammy. This may pose problems. No one knows why he is Jake's best friend, but he is.

I want to write some team dynamic drabbles, but meh, too tired. ALSO: is it just me, or it really weird that I already have FANON for MY OWN NOVEL? I mean, I know Shane has to die because, well, that's how it goes, but there's a big part of me that's spent the last several years writing fanfiction that is going "no, no, Shane, it's okay, she didn't really kill you, you are fine I swear LA LA LA CANON IS LYING YOU AND JAKE ARE IN YOUR CUTE MARRIED COUPLE APARTMENT HAVING SEX RIGHT NOW" even though this will never happen in the Jake and Shane novel. WEIRD.