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We are headed into season 15 of Grey’s Anatomy. It’s officially my longest relationship, and I oddly feel quite proud admitting that fact. From declarations of love to tragic deaths, Shonda Rhimes has proven that she knows how to combine a hard-hitting medical drama with a little bit of comedy and a whole lot of romance.

Speaking of romance, who do I need to beg to bring back Scott Speedman as a series regular? Surely Dr. Marsh needs Dr. Grey to check on his kidney, right? And perhaps hang around Grey Sloane Memorial for a few years to do his own surgeries? I’d sign that petition. All day. Moving on.

Thanks to a few weddings and a shocking pregnancy announcement during last season’s finale, this season looks to be as juicy as ever. Here’s everything you need to know before the two-hour premiere on Sept. 27:

Amelia and Owen Remember Amelia’s huge brain tumor? The one she had for ten years that may have caused all of her erratic behavior? It was thankfully cut out, but now Amelia wonders if Owen fell in love with Brain Tumor Amelia. Owen thinks the idea is ridiculous, but that doesn’t stop Amelia from distancing herself from him. Their marriage crumbles as a result.

What’s a guy to do? Why foster a child, of course. When Owen quickly figures out that kids are a full-time job, Amelia is happy to lend a helping hand. She’s also happy to stick around when she learns that the baby’s mom is a teenaged alcoholic. Amelia invites her into the house, and a charming little dysfunctional family is born. Owen is living his dream. Sort of.

Meredith and Nathan Ugh. If Abigail Spencer wasn’t so cute, I’d hate her character Megan for screwing up Meredith’s relationship with Nathan. Megan is Owen’s sister and Nathan’s fiancé who served in the military with them but has been presumed dead for ten years. Guess what? She’s not dead! And she’s headed to Grey Sloane with a medical emergency. Look alive, everyone.

Are we glad that Megan survived her time in Iraq? Sure. Is it annoying that Meredith had to save her from her weird abdominal injury? Of course. It’s just a wee bit irritating that Meredith is finally open to loving someone again and she has to take the high road when Nathan looks at her with sad yet hopeful eyes, begging her to understand that his “big love” is miraculously back in his life. “If it were Derek, I would already be gone.” Classic Meredith.

Owen and Teddy Owen takes off to Germany to see Teddy in person, ready to give it a go. All is well until Teddy learns that Owen just slept with Amelia five seconds ago. No sir! He high tails it back to Seattle and resumes his awkward arrangement with Amelia, because it will never happen with Teddy. Owen hops back on that bandwagon, owning the chaos.

Naturally, Teddy shows up out of the blue and is handed the interim chief position on a silver platter. She accepts. Oh, she’s also preggers. Presumably with Owen’s love child. Put another log on the dysfunctional fire, please.

Miranda and Ben Miranda is tired of being chief, so she hands those reins over to Teddy after a quick interview. The heart attack she experienced has her thinking twice about life, her son, and her hunky husband.

Oh yes. Ben (played by Jason George) is hunky. He’s also starring on Shondaland’s Station 19, which debuted in the spring. Both bounce back from fire station to hospital, but their love is grounded. I’m glad Bailey will no longer be stuck behind a desk pushing papers.

Harper Avery For starters, Harper Avery dies and Jackson gets a bajillion dollars as a result. He anonymously slips the hospital some money to host an innovation contest. Everyone is on board, but it’s Meredith and Jo who win. It has something to do with a polymer and growing liver, and both are stoked.

There’s just one glitch: Meredith must acquire a patent that belongs to Ellis Grey’s former best friend, Marie Cerone. She hard passes which sends Meredith into a deep dive to figure out what is up with Marie.

It turns out, Harper Avery had several acts of sexual misconduct filed against him back in the day, and Jackson’s mom covered it up by paying major settlements to the women. One of those women is Marie Cerone. Bailey shuts down the research project, and Jackson changes the name of the Harper Avery Foundation to the Catherine Fox Foundation to protect his mother’s name. He also promises to retain, repay, and rehire all the women who were affected by Harper Avery’s mistreatment.

Jackson and Maggie Sarah Drew, who plays April, had a whirlwind of activity in her final episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. She walks away from God, parties way too much, sleeps around, reunites with her ex-fiance Matthew (whose wife was lost in surgery), and ends up in a car crash that sends her plummeting into an ice cold river.

When Matthew is brought into the hospital, Owen figures out that April was with him, so he leaves the ER and somehow finds her at the scene of the accident. Yay! Except she’s sort of dead. Boo. It’s a good thing she’s at Grey Sloane where lots of people on staff have been dead before, including Meredith, who barks, “Warm dead is dead dead.” Maggie finds a pulse and April is alive again. Yay!

Arizona and Sofia Poor Arizona can’t catch a break. She knows her daughter Sofia is not happy in Seattle and struggles to figure out a plan. Luckily, her mentor Nicole Herman, in the form of Geena Davis, offers Arizona a partnership in creating the Robbins-Herman Center for Women’s Health. In New York. Where Callie lives. Done and done.

I’ll miss you most of all, Jessica Capshaw.

Jo and Alex Jo and Alex always had a rough go, thanks to Jo’s miserable ex-husband Paul. He’s the worst in all the ways. When he arrives at Grey Sloane, Meredith and Alex save the day by advocating for Jo, and Paul leaves undeterred with his new wife. Moments later, Paul is brought into the ER with major injuries. It was a hit and run. Did Alex hit him? Did the wife? Does it matter?

The doctors save Paul, which does nothing for his horrible character. He tries to attack Jo while in recovery, slips, hits his head, and is immediately brain dead. And since Jo wasn’t divorced from him yet, she gets to decide if she wants to pull the plug. Which she does. Right after she donates all of Paul’s organs.

Now Jo and Alex are free to marry! They are also free to enjoy a quickie before the ceremony. In true Grey’s form, they get locked in a shed with a dead guy. Fun times.

The day is a disaster. April accidentally sends everyone to the wrong church. The on-site wedding coordinator goes into anaphylactic shock. A drunk DeLuca kisses Meredith. And when the reverend shows up to marry the happy couple, no one can find the bride and groom.

This doesn’t stop some people from their happily ever after. April and Matthew step up and tie the knot. They are headed off to do mission work for the homeless. Good-bye, April!

And finally, once Alex and Jo are rescued from the shed and its ghost, Meredith gets ordained and marries her two friends on the back of a ferry.

Who’s ready for season 15? How do we feel about the new doctors in town? Will Meredith ever get another love story? Do you think Jackson and Maggie will make it? Or will something dramatic happen in the first episode?

Great. I just jinked them.

#grey's anatomy #season 14 #season 15 #Meredith Grey #nathan riggs #Owen Hunt #Teddy Altman #amelia shepherd #arizona robbins #sofia robbin sloan torres #jackson avery #Maggie Pierce #Miranda Bailey #ben warren #EW

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voltageotome · 7 years

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Voltage Inc. Developer Interview - 2nd Installment

Ready to get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating your favorite stories?!

The second installment of our Developer Interview series features none other than the creator of Star-Crossed Myth herself, M-san!

Click Keep Reading to see all of the juicy details!

*We do not shy away from Main Story spoilers here! Haven’t read the gods’ stories yet? You might want to play catch-up...

She really likes Leon, by the way (as you will soon find out)!

What characters & stories have you personally developed at Voltage?

Finally in Love Again’s (FILA) Momoi Shuichiro was my first original character, followed by Star-Crossed Myth’s (SCM) Leon and Huedhaut – those are the two characters I plotted in their entirety. Of course, I created the setting and all the characters for SCM.

Oh gosh... what else. Oh man, there are just so many. Oh! I created Butler Until Midnight (BUM) too, and plotted the story for Yuma Akagi and Kyo Aizawa. After that I made Era of Samurai: Code of Love (EOS:COL), and plotted Soji Okita, Hajime Saito, and Shinsaku Takasugi. And then I made Irresistible Mistakes (IM), where I plotted Shunichiro Tachibana.

So from Star-Crossed Myth you’ve helped create...?

Well, I was the person who came up with the original plot, world, and characters. But as for the ones I actually crafted into a story... Leon and Huedhaut. I was part of the brush-up work for Dui’s route. I, and another member of our staff (who has since left the company), were in charge of coming up with all the characters’ general back stories. Like, for example, ‘he was the last god left on Earth,’ or ‘he won’t live for eternity,’ stuff like that.

It’s complicated, I know. Haha. I make the basic outline/story of the app and its characters, but it’s just way too tough and way too much work for one person to be in charge of every single character’s individual scripts.

I’m more the one who directs what should happen to the characters and how the world is formed... Most of the time there’s someone else who’s in charge of actually implementing those ideas into an enjoyable story.

Star-Crossed Myth has a massive following among our English-speaking fans. What do you think is the secret to its success?

Gosh, I think there’s a lot that goes into it, really... But if I had to say... Well, I guess there are two reasons. One being the characters’ personalities. You look at the star sign of Leo and you have an image of someone being super confident and imperious, while Cancer has this image of being impartial and practical. All of the characters we made are based off those star signs and what they represent, so seeing those aspects in characters is really interesting for fans.

The second reason is how dramatic the story is. It’s really tragic, actually. A forbidden romance, a love that could never be. I mean, you have a god and a human... That’s not a love story that could ever end happily. It’s forbidden... And that love, as wonderful as it feels, comes at a huge cost – sometimes at the expense of actual lives. That’s so heartrending. I feel like that could be one of the reasons for SCM’s success.

And plus, wishing on a star or looking up at the sky, hoping and dreaming for something, is such a universal theme. It’s a beautiful idea that transcends a lot of cultural barriers.

Do you have any favorite characters from that app?

Oh you’re killing me with this question. I love them all so much; I can’t pick just one... But the ones I have the most memories with have to be either Leon or Huedhaut. I can’t choose between them though...

Leon was actually really tough for me to create. The first character from any title has to perfectly encapsulate the world of that app; they have to be the flagship character, so to speak. So, love between a human and a god... I mean, no one has any experience in that obviously, so how do you go about making a romance like that? You know, he descends from on high and grants your wishes, sure, but... how are you supposed to fall in love with him? What happens when you do? Would he give you flowers? Would he take you on dates to fancy restaurants?

Gods should be haughty, proud things, beings that are used to getting their way. So we knew Leon had to be arrogant, but how do you make a god arrogant? We decided that he’d call humans goldfish [to illustrate that concept]. He doesn’t call humans goldfish because he hates them - he calls them that because he literally thinks nothing of them. I mean, a person doesn’t touch goldfish, right? You just sit there and look at them.

Plus, we had to think about how a god would feel when he fell in love with a human. Would he suffer because he knows he has to love all humans, but now he loves one more than the others? Would he hate himself for falling in love with something as lowly as a human? It was tough getting into that headspace.

For Huedhaut, I have so many memories with his story...

Huedhaut denies all love, he doesn’t need it. He had his one great love, the goddess who sacrificed herself, and to keep her soul alive, he gave up a part of himself. I mean, his love is a tragedy; it can never be reciprocated because his goddess is gone forever. There’s a part, right in the middle of his Main Story, where he says he wishes he’d never met the heroine, around the time when the heroine’s memories come back.

The heroine, for her part, only wished for something good to happen... So then where IS her ‘something good’? Because when she does fall for him, he has to return to heaven. Now she’s stuck, suffering with this love that can never be. She even regrets meeting him at a certain point in the story. But that’s love! It happens to everyone at some point. There are times when, in our lives, we think ‘Shoot, I wish I’d never gotten married to him’ or ‘If love is this painful, why did I even bother?’ or stuff like that. I wanted to make a story that basically told people ‘Whoa, stop thinking like that. Loving another, even if it didn’t work out in the end, is something amazing. Don’t think for a second that it wasn’t worth it.’ I really wanted to get that message across in Huedhaut’s story.

From the outset, when we were coming up with the character settings, I knew I wanted to make his story about that. I mean, Voltage is about more than just happy-happy romance... There’s this element of drama too. So I knew I had to make his story about a grittier side of love.

If you had to choose on character to date in real life, who would it be?

Yikes, that’s tough. Well, being realistic here... I probably wouldn’t choose a god. I mean, you could never see each other. ...That’s a long-distance relationship I’m not ready to commit to. So if I had to be realistic? I’d probably choose Shunichiro Tachibana. I mean, that salary, whew... Haha!

That’s part one for you! Did you guys enjoy that? We hope you did... because there’s lots more yet to come!

#voltage inc #voltage #otome #otoge #star-crossed myth #leon #huedhaut #scm #era of samurai: code of love #eoscol #butler until midnight #bum

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