(A quick note, I went back and did a ton of actualización and fixes to the older stories recently as I was combining them all into one big Word Doc to print. However, I never went back and updated the stories on here, so they're super outdated. That's what I'm talking about when I mention anything that's not in the stories on the website.)

I first discovered fanpop in the summer of 2018. I had recently rediscovered Alpha and Omega, an old childhood movie, and I had been watching it again. But one thing kept nagging at me and that was the fact that they never made any mention of Humphrey’s parents.

So, I searched google for who his parents were when I was up late one night, just in case I just wasn’t paying attention and they were discreetly mentioned. One of the results was a link to a examen pregunta on a site called “Fanpop”. After clicking on it, I found out it was a fan site for pretty much anything. I took the examen and found out that they never were mentioned o seen and that we had absolutely no idea about them. My ADHD distracted me, and I spent the rest of the night exploring fanpop and joining different fan clubs. I spent the rest of the summer looking through the Alpha and Omega fan club, doing encuestas and other stuff.

Not long before school started up again, I decided to write something about Humphrey’s parents. I had seen plenty of fanfictions about them and his puphood, so I decided to do my own. I had also seen plenty of encuestas that served as inspiration, like “Who would have a harder time taking care of the other if one was seriously injured, Kate o Humphrey?” o “What plot would be best for a PG-13 Alpha and Omega?”

I also made a few encuestas asking if I should do an A&O 9 and what should happen in it. I reached out and asked for ideas, but I hardly got any response. But I thank those who did get back to me with their ideas.

After deciding to do a story about Humphrey’s parents, I looked through some encuestas for inspiration and in the end when I had loosely tied together the original script, I ended up using multiple suggestions from the polls.

There was one poll, the PG-13 one I mentioned earlier that I heavily drew from. I took inspiration from some of the options of the encuesta in Missing Parents. One of the options was something regarding Humphrey's past, so I took that as the main plot of the story. Another option was that a rival pack targets Humphrey, which is where Owen and the Northern Pack came in. I included Daria partly because that was part of another option, along with the fact that a lot of people had hoped she had been used más in the sequels.

Originally, I hadn’t planned on doing anything from the last option, which was that King returns and takes Kate and Humphrey hostage, because I figured that would almost require a whole other story that I never planned to do, although that’s what ended up happening and when I decided to do Legend, I came back to that idea and decided to have the Rogue lobos originally be the main villains and take Humphrey hostage.

My first job was to come up with a title. It didn’t take too long for me to put two and two together what with my story being about Humphrey’s parents, so I just picked a simple title, Missing Parents.

After the title, I needed a place for the story to start. I knew it would be an epic quest to find his parents (which I also got from a poll), but I still had to figure out what was going to start it all off. I decided on Father’s día because I knew everyone would be talking about their parents and since Humphrey didn’t have any, it would seem like the thing to trigger it all.

I decided to include Cando, Hutch, and Daria because I’d seen on the encuestas that people were saying those characters should’ve gotten más screen time. I would’ve included Salty, Mooch, and Shakey, but I couldn’t find a good place to put them that wouldn’t feel like meaningless filler.

When I wrote the first chapter, I included a short explanation of what happened to Garth’s mother since she was never seen o mentioned either, mainly as a short answer to that plot hole, but once The Legend of the Peaceful Warrior started nearing its end, I decided to expand on it more.

A few days later, I got a message from a person called Ben15delas saying that he had written a story that had long since died about Humphrey having a long-lost sister and he dicho that I could use her if I wanted to. So, I read his story and then asked for más information about her. Was she older/younger than Humphrey? What was her personality like? He got back to me with some answers, and I got to work.

I decided where to put her into the story, which was in a human town. I did this because I thought it would be an interesting idea to have Humphrey’s sister grow up as a pet. As for what happened with Kyle, I really just thought of some kind of accident Humphrey caused (probably from logboarding) that would get him banished.

Pretty much all the original characters I created have names with some significance to my life but there are so many, I’ll give them a separate section at the end.

I wanted some minor drama and a surprising change of pace, so I made Kate and Humphrey get into an argument, a scene whose dialogue I changed numerous times over the course of four years because I wanted it to be just right. And in a little under a month, I began to get very productive and soon I got to the fateful part of the story, Humphrey’s death.

Originally, I did plan for him to die at the end of Missing Parents, but then I realized that we still hadn’t learned what had happened to Humphrey’s parents. So, I let him live for the time being and just injured him instead.

I decided to give Humphrey a brother when I decided that he would find his old pack in the cliffs. I knew he would have to be taken in, but it just didn’t seem right to have a misceláneo lobo that none of the characters knew be the one to do it, so I gave him a brother. I made him an alpha because both Humphrey and Kenya were omegas and I wanted to switch things up a little.

I decided to have my story be ten chapters long. I wanted to make it short, but not too short. I had reached the end of chapter ten when Humphrey had just remembered everything and it didn’t feel right to end the franchise in the middle of a cave with Humphrey injured, so I decided to make an Alpha and Omega 10. But I needed a story. I couldn’t just have them go inicial and have Humphrey slowly heal. And that’s where the encuesta from earlier came into play.

Toward the end of all this, I ended up having to go back and add some stuff since in A Hero’s Past, it’s made clear that Kate and Winston already know what happened to Humphrey’s parents since he tells them his story when he gets accepted into the pack. So, I had to try and come up with a reason for them all to go on this quest to find his parents, even though they really could’ve just told him. I don’t really like the reason I came up with, but it’s the best I could do.

Basically, I decided that it’s for Humphrey to discover himself instead of just being told and I reinforced that with the fact that while Kate knew what happened to him, she didn’t know if his parents were actually still alive, so that was another reason they could’ve gone looking for them

Another thing that came up later was the concept of the dens. In the movies, tu only ever see Kate and Humphrey’s guarida, den atop the cliff. There’s only one other time tu see anything else resembling a den, so when it came to expanding the world of Alpha and Omega, the cine don’t give tu a whole lot to go off of.

As far as the dens go, the other one was a domed bit of rock that was just randomly sitting out in the middle of the woods, which is super weird, but it’s all I had to go off of whenever it came to talking about dens in my story. So, that’s what they all ended up having to look like, despite it being super impractical and having absolutely no possibility of just naturally occurring in the real world.
I also had to try and shoehorn a better reason for how they come across the ruins of the Central Pack after Humphrey gets shot. Originally, they continue on until they just happen upon it, but I realized they would never keep searching for his parents after he got shot. They would head back to the Western Pack.

At first, I thought back to what the map that I made looked like, and I figured they could cut through the Central Region to get inicial quicker, but then I looked at the map and cutting through the Central Region would’ve put them out of their way. So, I ended up doing a lot of semi-good explaining and basically going with, 1) the map isn’t 100% accurate since I had no sense of scale to base it off of and 2) instead of it being the quickest way back home, it could be the easiest way home, meaning there weren’t a whole lot of hills to go over. And I figured those two things combined can somehow work out to the group going into the Central Region.