Teen Helpline [#1 of the Helpline Trilogy]

FUN FACTS

In celebration of getting one million views (which is still insane to me, I don't even understand), I decide to put up some fun facts about Teen Helpline that you might not even know.

1. Eva and Damien (or Mr. Fanceh as you all know him) wasn't actually inspired from Percabeth. I actually didn't base their characters on Percy and Annabeth initially and I just wrote whatever came out of my subconscious, fleshing their personalities on random without any intention to make it connected to Percy and Annabeth. I mean, I have read the PJO books before; I just didn't think it correlates until one of my the readers point it out in the comments and I realize just then how similar their characters and the character descriptions were, which caused me to base the epilogue on a PJO meme I saw.  [PIC ABOVE]

2. This book was a total YOLO decision. Like half the shit written here was not intended beforehand- I just stared at a page and came up with what I did best. [I'm professional guys] I mean, I got inspired to write a dialogue book by Pizzeria Boy, which was written by stereoactive but it was literally just meant for good fun at the start. When I first began, I didn't even have a cohesive plot and intended to scrap it...but then I saw the reaction it has gotten out of people and realized I needed to actually put some work into it so I decided to brainstorm and poop the rest out...so now you know how most of my creative plot bunnies come out. I don't plan for shit. XD So if you never brainstorm or draft your essays for school, don't worry. Sometimes, some good can come out of just letting nature take it's course. [DO NOT TAKE THIS ADVICE. PLAN YOUR ESSAYS.]

3. Eva is based on a person I actually know in real life. She's one of my friends and she's an exaggerated version of her but the essence of Eva still lay within her. [THERE YOU GOT YOUR CREDIT. HAPPY?]

4. I wrote this under four months.

5. Damien was someone inspired by the movie Men, Women and Children. And it's oh mi gosh the best movie ever because usually when movies cover suicide, it's not done...well. It's never done tastefully. Men, Women, and Children is a movie that is so subtle in the way it handles the theme of suicide. 

It comes at you like a creeping mold and it grows on you and it continues to grow and sure, you can cut it down and clean it up but it never really goes away, which to me, is how I perceive suicide. The sadness and depression never completely fades away. We just choose to ignore it and some of us ignore it better than others. Or on the other side of the coin, sometimes it's the only thing people can notice and it's what encourages people to take their own lives. Life sucks. The world sucks. But we can try our best to make a good thing out of a bad situation, we can try our best to look at the bright side- as stupidly, foolishly optimistic and unrealistic as it sounds because we are hopeless, foolish humans who hope and try. We'll never get there but the thing is that we keep trying and keep trying and that's what beautiful about humankind. It's painful to be alive but we'll keep trying because sometimes, it's the best we can do. 

[As I write this, my mother's blasting this Chinese soap opera at the loudest volume possible.]