Friendship series

	Friendship
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	TBC Info
Position	31st, 32nd, 34th & 35th
Started writing on	January 2007 (start of series)
Released	October 2007 (end of series)
Author	Aran Ho Yeow Yong
Country	Singapore
Rating	NC13
	Season chronology
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From BluWiki

Friendship is a series of books about friendship. These books fictionous and are a part of the TBC Collection. The Friendship series has been published since 2007 and has recently completed its fourth and final season, Friendship: The Complete Collection. It is written by Aran Ho Yeow Yong. Friendship had won a TBC Best Story Award in 2007.

[edit] History

[edit] Court Case and Friendship

In the third quarter of 2006, Aran Ho Yeow Yong attended a study camp that was organised by the school. During that night while in school, some of the campers were still awake even after the lights were off at around 23:30. Aran was sleeping beside Jason, a camper and his classmate. They then talked to each other since they could not get to sleep yet. During their conversation, Jason told Aran that a classmate of theirs was gang raped by a group of boys; most of them were his classmate. It is not sure whether this is true, but one of the rapers told Jason about the incident.

A few weeks later, from what Aran knew about the incident, he started to plan for a new book about the incident. According to the plan, the victim was raped by his friends when they were visiting the victim's house. Later at dinner time, the victim's parents noticed that there is something wrong with their son. The victim broke down and told what had happened when he was asked by his parents. The following day, the victim's parents made a police report about the incident and the rapers were arrested. Since the book is about a court case (hence its title), the victims, witnesses and the suspects had to go to court. The suspects were then found guilty of the crime.

Aran then started to write the book according to the plan. However, the project was cancelled after Aran just completed writing the dinner part.

In January 2007, Aran had an idea to write something about his previous year's classmates and the gang rape incident that happened in 2006 to one of this classmates. With this, he then started to write a plan for the next upcoming book, which he did not think of the title yet. He then put Friendship as a working title for the plan he is currently writing. The plan was then completed on March 2007. In the original plan, there was another raping incident after the first raping incident and before the study camp. There was also a second visit to the boys' home.

After the plan was completed, Aran then decided that there should be a sequel to the project as he wanted to write something about his current classmates.

Aran then started writing for the story, but after completing the first classroom scene, the project was then inactive for several months. The project was then resumed in May and the story was completed on the same month. Friendship was then chosen as the title and the book was released on 11 May, 2007.

[edit] Sequels

In March 2007, there are mutiples ideas for the upcoming book, Friendship 2. A list of up to 10 ideas were then created at first. Out of these ideas, a couple of them were then chosen to be included in the storyboard plan for Friendship 2. Some of the ideas not included in the storyboard plan for Friendship 2 includes a teacher being raped and Asher commiting suicide.

After the storyboard plan were completed by April, the project nearly got scrapped as there were too little "exciting" scenes. Aran then decided to re-write the plan as there were more ideas added to the list of ideas. The plans was then re-written on June. However, Aran did not start to write the story until July. The book was then completed on 15 August, 2007 and was released two days later.

After the ending of Friendship 2, the readers were left with a few questions; leading to a couple of cliffhangers. With these cliffhangers, the readers expect at least a sequel. It was then anounced that there will be two sequels: Friendship: The Beginning and Friendship 3. Friendship: The Begining is planned to be released next, followed by Friendship 3. However, as on 3 October 2007, Friendship: The Beginning is cancelled and the storyline for Friendship 2 has a minor change. Friendhsip 3 is still under planning.

After Yacob and Reuben read Friendhsip and Friendhsip 2, they gave Aran some ideas for a story about their class. Aran then decided at first to create a new story of a working name of Project Betrayal. A few days later, Aran decided to merge Project Betrayal into the Friendship series, thus created Friendship 4. Aran later decided to merge both Friendship 4 into Friendship 3. The book was then completed on 13 October, 2007 and was released two days later.

Immediately after Friendship 3 is released, Aran started to work on Friendship: The Complete Collection. On the 16 October 2007, two days after Friendship 3 is released, Friendship: The Complete Collection is completed. Aran actually have no plans to released the story on the internet. On 9 November 2007, Aran planned to post the story for Friendship: The Complete Collection on another website and wanted to link that website to his article on Bluwiki. Little did he know that the website was actually spammed by Bluwiki, so Aran have no choice but to post it here.

In the story, the events were rearranged according to the event timeline. For example, in Friendship 2, it was only revealed that Asher and Brad were brothers, but in this story, that event was placed at the start of the story. The storyline has changed too. Originally, David, Keneth, Gideon and Melvin was released from the boys' home on December 2006, but in this story, they were not released until December 2008. Also, due to new characters and events in Friendship 3, new speeches were included in the story such as the part where some of the characters are talking about Keithon back-stabbing everyone. In addition, most of the flashbacks were edited out.

[edit] The next project

The next "Titanic Book" Collection project, originally named Project Romance, was originally not supposed to be part of the Friendship series. Since Aran decided to tell the readers the real reason why James was dead, he decided to include this project in the series. This story will also tell the story about James' family. The full list of characters for James' family have been comfirmed already. On 4 December 2006, Aran decided to include Brad's and Asher's family in the story.

On July 7 2008, Aran had release the Friendship Series Short Stories and also marking the first time that the story was not written in script form.

As on 20 October 2009, Friendship 4 has been on hold.

[edit] Characters

More information will be added to each of the characters as the story develops.

[edit] Main characters

Asher Hartano Piter: Asher is an understanding and trustful teenage boy who helps anyone who is in need, especially Brad and James. It was later revealed that both Asher and Brad were long-lost brothers after being seperated from their parents. He was, however, kidnapped by someone while walking back home. He was later found alive. A few weeks later after he was found, Jacky successfully destroyed the friendship between Asher and James.

Brad Lee Xing Hao: Brad is a cheerful and forgiving teenage boy. He is considered cute and "have a face that looks like a girl". It was also later revealed that both Asher and Brad were long-lost brothers after being seperated from their parents. Brad always care for Asher a lot as he always stay with Asher in the hospital until Asher is alright.

James Lee Hai Feng: James is a kind and helpful, but sometimes nosey, teenage boy. In primary five, he nearly commit suicide because on of his classmate, Keithon, back stabs him and almost the whole class insult him as a result. Jaygan was the one who prevents James from committing suicide. However, in the story Insults, only Keithon and his little gang only insulted James. Jacky later successfully destroyed the friendship between Asher and James. It was later reviewed that he killed Keithon. He was however killed by a DragonTooth member.

David Tee Han Jie

Kenneth Ng Yao Hui: Kenneth is a kind and understanding teenage boy. He is also a gay and is empathic to others.

Gideon Lucas Goh: Gideon is a fierce-looking but soft-hearted teenage boy. He is also quite a daring boy.

Melvin Wong Sui Lee: Melvin is a teenage boy and is a friend of Brad.

Leonard Wong Yu Sheng: Leonard is a rich but horny teenage boy.

Lou Ming Qiang Jacky: Jacky is an antagonist as he always sabotage Asher's classmate. The reason for this is that he wanted revenge as he was once suspended in primary five because a teacher caught him beating up a student. Thinking it was Asher who told the teacher, Jacky wanted revenge on Asher. He later conmmitted suicide.

Julie Lee Yeow Koh: Julie is a teenage girl and is Brad's non-biological younger sister. She also has a crush on Asher.

[edit] Friendship: Stories of the family

Jayson Lee Sheng Yuan: Jayson is James' younger brother. When he entered secondary school, he met a girl named Karilynn and fall in love.

Jameson Lee Fei Long: Jameson is James' and Jayson's father. However, he died in an exploded factory.

Christina Lee Rui Wen: Chritina is James' and Jayson's mother. She met a new lover called Giordano.

Karilynn Ong Sheng Li: Karilynn is Jayson's girlfriend.

Giordano Tyler Benrica: Giordano is Christina's new lover. He is also an Italian.

Barnabas Lee Hai Jun: Brad's foster father and Julie's biological father.

[edit] Minor characters

[edit] Students/Teenagers

Matthew Ho Lai Ming: Matthew is a teenage boy and is a friend of Asher, Brad and James. He is also a little kay poh (Singlish for busybody). He also tried to murdered Keithon as he is one of the four boys who plans to kill Keithon. He was supposed to go to the boys' home but was out on bail.

Keithon Mohammed: Keithon is a classmate of Asher and James and he is a back-stabber. He nearly cause James to commit suicide. As a result, he was murdered by James.

Joshua Chan Koh Seng: Joshua is a teenage boy and is a friend of Asher, Brad and James.

Bryan Er Dai Wei: Bryan is a very talkative teenage boy.

Thomas Chin Jia Wei: A classmate of Asher and James.

Richard Low Wei He: A classmate of Asher and James. He is one of the four boys who plans to kill Keithon.

Ken Lee Hua Chai: A classmate of Asher and James. He is one of the four boys who plans to kill Keithon.

Reagan Yu Mei Wang: A classmate of Asher and James.

Yabbin Mohammad B Rauf Kethenam: A classmate of Asher and Brad. He is one of the four boys who plans to kill Keithon.

Andrew Keng Jia Wong: A classmate of Asher and Brad.

Jaygan Yu Zhan Hu: A classmate of Asher and Brad. He was the one who prevents James from committing suicide.

John: A former classmate of Keithon, James, Jaygan, Brad and Justin during the primary school years. He also join with Keithon to insult James.

Justin: A former classmate of Keithon, James, Jaygan, Brad and John during the primary school years. He sided with Jaygan during a quarrel between him and Keithon about Keithon constantly insulting James.

[edit] Parents

Caroline Hartano Chankon Ayuthaya: Caroline is a Singapore PR and Asher's mother. Caroline was born in Thailand. She is Brad's biological mother.

Patrick Hartano Matious Koh (Chai Hock): Patrick is Asher's father. Patrick can speak alot of languages, including Tamil, Malay & Thai. Patrick works as a tour-bus driver and is the family's soul bread winner. He is Brad's biological father.

Magnolia Lee Chen Wei: Brad's foster mother and Julie's biological mother.

[edit] Teacher

Carrie Seow Tian Ying: Geography teacher.

Ashley Goh Lee Yuan: English teacher

Danny Yong Jie Hui

[edit] Others

An Xiao Qian: She is the CID Team leader.

Wu Cheng Yi: He is the person who murder James. He is also a DragonTooth member.

[edit] Series

[edit] Friendship

Main article: Friendship

[edit] Frienship 2

Main article: Friendship 2

Friendship 2 is a sequel of Friendship. The book is about Asher, Brad and James helping one another. It will also known that Asher and Brad are actually brothers. In the end, Asher will be kidnapped.

[edit] Friendship: The Beginning

Friendship: The Beginning is a former sequel of Friendship 2. The book is about the history about the characters' past, such as the friendship between James and Brad and the rape incidents that happened to Asher. The planning for the book have started. However, as on 3 October 2007, Friendship: The Begining is cancelled due to a very screwed-up storyline.

[edit] Friendship 3

Main article: Friendship 3

Friendship 3 is a sequel of Friendship 2. In this story, Asher was found alive. Jacky managed to destroy the friendship between Asher and James. Keithon was found murdered in school and the murderer turns out to be James. James was however killed by a DragonTooth member, Wu Cheng Yi.

[edit] Friendship: The Complete Collection

Friendship: The Complete Collection is a sequel of Friendship 3. This book will include all the stories of the Friendship series and it will include extra contents to link up all the story of the Friendship series.

To read the story, please visit this page.

[edit] Friendship 4: From Then Til Now

Main article: Friendship 4: From Then Til Now

Friendship 4: From Then Til Now is a story about James, Asher and Brad plus their family. Here is the summary for James' family: Jameson and Christina got married and Christina gave birth to James. Leaving James to their parents, Jameson and Christina went for a honeymoon. However, during the trip, Jameson somehow died. Christina then gave birth to another child, Jayson. Following the story of the Friendship series, James was murdered. Jayson met a new girlfriend, Karilynn, and Christina met a new lover, Giordano. Suddenly, some events that is going to happen to the both of them that may change their lifes forever...

[edit] Friendship Series Short Stories

Making its debut on July 7, the Friendship Series Short Stories is a series of short stories from the Friendship Series. It is basically a rewrite of the events that happen in the Friendship Series. The first story of this series, Insults, marks the first time ever that the story was not written in script form in the whole TBC Collection.

[edit] Insults

The story is set during the times where James was still in primary school. James is trying to control his emotional anger towards Keithon who always pick on James everyday. Brad and Jaygan, best friends of James, were aware of the bullying that was happening and were afraid that James will become someone beyond everyone control if James couldn't handle it anymore.