OOC: This could get a little lengthy, and I kind of had to go thread diving back to thread eight to remember.
During thread eight, I remember really only being so relevant as to the Minor plot. And I remember because Phyllis and Sheila were just undergoing development. Well during this, I realized that I didn't have a teacher or an adult like everyone else on thread eight. And I kind of wanted to not just have the Minor problems. It was really fun to work with but I honestly felt like I should do something else.
Tori was really existing in the Minor family plot. I was contemplating making a plot for Bass, but I really had no idea where I was going to go with him. Bass really only existed to have a relationship with Tori, like a mediator for someone to lean on when she desperately needed to talk about Ivan. (If you go back throughout the threads, Bass was the go-to person for that, and I chose him because they had a history.) So I couldn't use them for something new.
So I went to my laptop, to my list of characters that I have stowed away but never used/use. And I came across two characters, two of them made for Hogwarts but I never felt like putting in. Their names were Demona and Pandora, and they were related. Demona was a professor and Pandora was her niece, conincidentally she was a fourth year like Eris. I then suddenly thought up a name, which came out to be Alec Ryland and I made him the Caretaker after researching which jobs were not taken, but then I looked back again and realized I could bring in Pandora if I really wanted to.
But then I figured that Pandora couldn't be put in without her aunt, so I created Eris as an evolved Pandora. I kept some of the same qualities, but there was a lot I could change around. I then realized that I wanted to make Alec related to her in a way. So I checked Demona and Pandora's relationship, which eventually became Alec's relationship to Eris. And all that was left was to work on their personalities.