User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/LTDI Update/Preview: One Year in the Making/@comment-3350823-20110703050406/@comment-1874924-20110704012423

It is fairly well known that I have been reading few OC competition stories, for two reasons: first, I tend to have trouble keeping the (sometimes literal) boatload of new characters straight; and second, as I noted in my Featured User interview, I prefer noncompetition stories with canon characters in the central roles.

As for Heather and LeShawna, I don't recall that we saw much of LeShawna for a few episodes after Heather's false peace offering. In season 1, LeShawna and Gwen had the same dramatic function (i.e. foils for Heather) and the writers seemed to treat them as an either/or proposition. Only once in the whole season (the pirate treasure hunt) did Gwen and LeShawna both have major roles in the same episode.