rivern has to be one of my favourite creations. i really love writing his and shawn's story. i should upload more of them... rivern evolved as a character way before i came up with a story for him. his story: "love is" was an idea that spiralled out of control after reading a journal posted on here a while ago. it was about how people - and society - failed to accept people who were different. of all the lines, there was one that got embedded in my brain and from it spawned "love is". it was: i am the teenage boy sitting in the hospital waiting room on my own, crying; my best friend just overdosed because he was to afraid to tell me he loved me. i was told when i started writing it that the story wouldn't do very well - mainly because it was about a gay teenage boys life. he wasn't anything special. he couldn't fly and he wasn't a vampire... it was just an average kids life and the ups and downs that come with that... ...but the response to rivern's story here on da inspires me to keep writing. so thank you