Ever wondered what inspired "The One Series"? Ever thought about the characters? This book will give you all the details on this series, from its origins to the inspirations. There will be major spoilers, but go spoil yourself anyway!
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It all started with an S Club 8 fanfiction that never saw the light of day.
Based on the date of a particular Word document, it was modified on "Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 11:53:41 AM." So yeah, it was modified back then, meaning it was written around that time. I remember I was planning on submitting it to an S Club 8 fansite. I never did, unfortunately. Why? I don't remember. I must've been busy reading other SC8 fanfics at the time.
So basically this story was called "English 8 Meets American 5." I only wrote the first two chapters, which helped jogged my memory up. So the story was going to be about S Club 8 meeting with a slightly younger, American counterpart pop band. Think American Juniors, but not them. This group had three guys and two girls, and they were roughly ten-years-old. At the time, the former members of SC8 were between the ages of 13-16. This band was called S Club 5, and if memory serves me, they were not formed by S Club 8′s management. They were their own band, but somewhat related to the S Club franchise, at least in terms in music and image. The two pop bands were to go on tour across America. That was basically the story. Just two tween/teen bands going on tour. There was no actual drama. No villains. No juicy ships and stans. That was it. Yeah, keep in mind I was also 14 at the time. This was a few years before writing my true attempt of writing a Young Adult Soap Opera, albeit fanfiction, "S Club 8:The ShowStoppers."
Another thing to add to this was I was also in the Arthur fandom. Yeah, I probably I should've moved past Arthur at the time, but it still appealed to me, just as early-mid 2000s Disney shows appealed to me at the time. I guess it was an odd mix of me being deep in the S Club 8 while hanging on to Arthur. Once again, I was 14. Yeah. Anyway, I based this S Club 5 band after certain Arthur characters. I even named some of them based off of the Arthur characters, and some of the SC8 members. The band itself was loosely based off of an Arthur band from that awesome special, "Arthur, It's Only Rock N Roll," U*Stink. It was that combined with, well, both American Juniors and S Club 8. The members of S Club 5 were Frankie, Staci, Aaron, Calvin, and Jay. So original! There wasn't much personality in those characters, other than they were fans of SC8: Frankie Frensky (yeah, I went there) had a crush on SC8′s Calvin; and that SC5′s Aaron Barnes was trained in ballet. There probably would've been more character development had I continued the story, but oh well.
Then this happen later that year:
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(^^My photoshopping skills were on fleek for a 15-year-old in 2004.)
Later in 2004, most likely inspired by S Club 8′s TV show "I Dream" and S Club 7′s TV series, I created what was going to be a series. Based on my files, I didn't actually have a name for this particular series, but there were going to be three sets of series: "Popstars:2004," "Freedom Means Famous" (don't ask why thought of this title), and "Malibu Juniors". I actually wrote the first story of that entire series, "I Dream of Being A Popstar." I actually made a bunch of these types of posters for a total of 13 stories for two of the three series. I don't remember where I was going to share my stuff at the time. I probably wasn't going to. Anyway, I clearly kept the original cast of S Club 5 from that failed SC8 fanfic, and added a bit more personality to them. Based on the posters I made for both series:
