Driftwood

[pembie]

Maybe Oscar and Maddy should get back together I can take Callie and her smelly feet off Oscar's hands if he likes.. 

Aden seems to be on Matt and Roo's side so that's good..

[Ludub]

36 minutes ago, pembie said:

Maybe Oscar and Maddy should get back together I can take Callie and her smelly feet off Oscar's hands if he likes.. 

Aden seems to be on Matt and Roo's side so that's good..

Haha! I'll get you Callie's number  Didn't know stinky feet was your thing! 

Yeah, Aden was always a good egg in my view. I don't think he'd be there to do anything cruel and underhanded.

[Inactive User]

Great chapter 

Liked the conversation between Oscar and Maddy

And loved how you brought Aden back into this fanfiction. He and Belle were my favourite couple on the show

Update soon please xx

 

[pembie]

3 hours ago, Ludub said:

Haha! I'll get you Callie's number  Didn't know stinky feet was your thing! 

Can't say stinky feet is my number one turn ons But not at all fussy these days Yeah her number would be great ta

[KittCatt]

Great chapter!

Really loved Oscar being there for Maddy. Just loved all of it, especially the mention of Callie's smelly feet  Poor Maddy though  

Aden! Loved that you managed to bring him into this story. Matt is still finding it hard to cope. 

Really liked the boys together at the end. Andy's burnt cooking and Brody's new idea. Loved it!

I look forward to more!  

[Red Ranger 1]

Loved the Oscar and Maddy scene, and I'm glad it stayed platonic given that he's got a girlfriend, and was instead just about the bond between two old friends.I'd be inclined to be slightly wary of Aden despite his supportive appearance, but if he's your favourite then I guess he's not going to do anything bad!

[Ludub]

21 hours ago, ~JarlieFanEver~ said:

Liked the conversation between Oscar and Maddy

 

8 hours ago, KittCatt said:

Really loved Oscar being there for Maddy. Just loved all of it, especially the mention of Callie's smelly feet  Poor Maddy though  

 

1 hour ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

Loved the Oscar and Maddy scene, and I'm glad it stayed platonic given that he's got a girlfriend, and was instead just about the bond between too old friends

Thanks everyone! I'm so glad you all liked this scene! I really wanted to capture the close friendship that these two had. I know that the vast majority of people on the site here liked them as a couple but I always saw them as incredibly close friends who loved each other, but who weren't necessarily 'in love' with each other. I think Oscar was a very good friend to Maddy no matter how badly she treated him or how badly she behaved, and I think if he hadn't died he'd have been picking up the pieces for Maddy for the rest of their lives. I don't actually mean that as a criticism. A lot of relationships are like that. She would most certainly have turned to him when she lost her arm. I wish they hadn't had her leave the bay but from a character perspective I guess it sort of made sense. She'd lost the one person who could have persuaded her to stick around. I spent a lot of time on that scene, trying to get it right, so I'm really pleased that you all liked it.

1 hour ago, Red Ranger 1 said:

I'd be inclined to be slightly wary of Aden despite his supportive appearance, but if he's your favourite then I guess he's not going to do anything bad!

Yeah, Aden has always held a special place in my heart  so you can assume that he'll be acting with positive intent in this story. I know I'm probably opening a can of worms here (much like some of the discussions we've had about Josh) but I'll say it anyway, haha  Aden did make a LOT of mistakes but I honestly don't think he was a bad person (and I know you're going to tell me otherwise, lol!). He did bully Geoff and he did act like a total tosser when he was first introduced but (unlike someone like Hunter) they did at least provide a plausible explanation for his behavior. Once the sexual abuse storyline came out, they quickly established him as someone with generally good moral values who'd just had a bad run in life (and yes, I know that he did things like punch a photographer and break his camera, but solving problems with your fists has never been unusual behaviour for male characters in Summer Bay). The hostage situation with his dad and Rachel was shown as a true mental breakdown so I'm willing to forgive him for that. I don't think he ever really did anything out of malice. He wasn't a cruel person, so I couldn't imagine 'future Aden' coming back to the Bay just to screw Matt and Roo over. I'd originally intended just having a generic lawyer but then I got the idea to make him Aden and the story has evolved a bit. As I said, I love Aden so I hope I can write him at least half convincingly. Fingers crossed!

[hward]

Yes!  That's exactly how I've always seen Aden - someone a bit messed up, been a bit of a twat at times, but had his reasons and ultimately a good person underneath it all. It's a shame characters nowadays generally aren't as layered and interesting.

[Suzza101]

Awesome Chapter!!!!!

Yay a chapter with Brody and Kyle just hanging out!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love how they were just spending time with each other away from the restaurant and the sense of humour they have with each other, I love it!!!

Aden being a lawyer is cool. 

Liked the conversation between oscar and maddy. 

Please update soon.  

[Red Ranger 1]

5 hours ago, Ludub said:

I know I'm probably opening a can of worms here (much like some of the discussions we've had about Josh) but I'll say it anyway, haha  Aden did make a LOT of mistakes but I honestly don't think he was a bad person (and I know you're going to tell me otherwise, lol!). He did bully Geoff and he did act like a total tosser when he was first introduced but (unlike someone like Hunter) they did at least provide a plausible explanation for his behavior. Once the sexual abuse storyline came out, they quickly established him as someone with generally good moral values who'd just had a bad run in life (and yes, I know that he did things like punch a photographer and break his camera, but solving problems with your fists has never been unusual behaviour for male characters in Summer Bay). The hostage situation with his dad and Rachel was shown as a true mental breakdown so I'm willing to forgive him for that. I don't think he ever really did anything out of malice. He wasn't a cruel person, so I couldn't imagine 'future Aden' coming back to the Bay just to screw Matt and Roo over. I'd originally intended just having a generic lawyer but then I got the idea to make him Aden and the story has evolved a bit. As I said, I love Aden so I hope I can write him at least half convincingly. Fingers crossed!

Oh gosh, flashbacks to the days I had, ahem, "intense" debates with Aden fans.Because to me he was the Hunter of his day, someone who did truly reprehensible things and got away with it all because he was now a regular and so we were supposed to be on his side.Yes, we got an explanation and I had hope for him, but then he just acted as he always had done except someone had flicked a switch, much as they did with Hunter, and the other characters (who, unlike us, didn't know about his abuse) just stopped caring and started treating him like a good old boy when he wasn't...hence the non-reaction to him putting a 17-year-old boy in hospital, something that was completely wrong whatever Axel had done, yet to this day I imagine Aden thinks it's something to be proud of, and hence a girl that rightly despised him five minutes earlier suddenly becoming his instant soul mate and glossing over all the bad things he did.The "mental breakdown" thing was a farce: He should have been locked up, either in a psychiatric hospital or jail, but instead he's back to being his usual self (ie an a***shole) by the next episode and it all gets brushed under the carpet with an absurdly light sentence and him back on the streets treating Belle badly while she always runs back to him (except when she's behaving badly and you wonder why he still wants her).Basically, the show wanted to have its cake and eat it: They wanted the shock of Aden doing something bad without any consequences, legal or psychological, yet the very fact he stands trial indicates that he was mentally capable and responsible.Then he just carries on getting involved in illegal activity (match fixing, poaching, car theft) without any consequence.And worst of all...his attitude towards his dad, supposedly the result of a "breakdown", never changes.He never forgives him, never stops hating him, never shows compassion for someone who was as much a victim as Aden himself and just had the bad luck to kill someone with his self-destructive behaviour.(The same someone that Aden himself nearly killed, with a deliberate act.)He shows no grief at his passing, treating his father's body like an inconvenience to be got out of the way.So no, I don't think he was portrayed on screen as someone with good moral values, I think he was portrayed as someone with a very faulty moral compass who hurt a lot of people and was lucky that he had a lot of other people on his side constantly bailing him out and covering for him.

That said...I did write an awful lot of stories featuring him.And I only sent him to jail once.(Well, okay, twice.But that was off page back story.Oh no, three times!But then he was innocent and I let him out pretty quickly.I should really stop before I remember more.)Which was partly because the forum was full of Aden fans and that was what they wanted, but also because he was a fairly compelling character who made a decent anti-hero (although I usually had someone else in there to be the more conventional hero) and because I absolutely loved the relationship between him and Nicole and loved writing scenes between them.So I'm willing to come onboard with your interpretation of the character, and despite what I've just said, I think that while Aden would never become a straight arrow, he wouldn't come back to town just to screw Roo and Matt over either.