#also unfriendly reminder that Bens parents SUCKED

[iridescentmidnights]

About your Jen 10 AU; do Jen and Gwen have a less… “argumentative” dynamic with each other?

Yeah, I plan for them to kind of have a not great relationship that gets worse before it gets better for quite a bit. Since I plan on splitting up the events of the OG series into 3 separate summers and adding in world building from later series into these adventures I actually want to develop their relationship and dynamic.

Idk if many fans ever think about it but it makes so much sense that Ben and Gwen don’t like each other in the OG. Gwen wasn’t supposed to be on the trip, they never ever planned for her to be there and suddenly there she is with no warning. Her plans are canceled and ruined with no explanation and nothing she would want to do is accounted for, there’s just what Ben and Max wanted. Both Ben and Gwen don’t want Gwen to be there. So Ben gets blindsided and Gwen is mean to Ben then Ben is mean right back. There’s more to it but that’s the inciting incident.

I’m playing around with a similar premise. But once the hostilities are aired they don’t show back up and they become very close. Also I’m not dragging out their issues either. It’ll be addressed in summer 1 and resolved in summer 1.

#ask me anything #Ben 10 #Jen 10 #Jen 10 au #also unfriendly reminder that Bens parents SUCKED #that’s a huge factor here #and I will explicitly state why Gwen is on the trip with them last second #their summer at 10 will be 2010 btw #for 10 themed reasons