A second season of Jessica Jones is on the way, but first fans will be catching up on the ace investigator in Marvel's The Defenders. Lucky for viewers, Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg and The Defenders executive producer Doug Petrie promise there won't be vastly different depictions of the character between the two shows.

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Rosenberg is currently hard at work writing Jessica Jones: Season 2, but whenever she has a question about what's happening in The Defenders she can just walk across the hall to the offices of Petrie and Marco Ramirez, the Daredevil: Season 2 showrunners who are also helming The Defenders . At a Marvel TV press mixer at the 2016 summer TV Critics' Association press tour, Rosenberg and Petrie told IGN about their positive experiences working on the same characters."Mel has had some really helpful thoughts," said Petrie. "Mel has been f**king wonderful because she's in this position of being a fellow artist and letting us do what we do, but at the same time loving her character and being protective of her character and wanting us to get it right and wanting to guide us and help up, but also let us be free. And she was walked that tight-rope so beautifully."There has to be people who are open to and enjoy collaboration," Rosenberg added. "And not only with each other as partners in this, but with all the showrunners involved. I know I -- I know all of us -- felt really included in the process."Petrie and Ramirez have the challenging job of taking four characters who (at least by the time The Defenders comes to Netflix in 2017 ) have been established in their own respective TV series, and then bringing them together into one cohesive group. Petrie clarified that "none of them are stopping their character arcs, they're just taking this incredible epic detour then going back into their own respective pools," and said it's been a fun challenge for him and Ramirez to start writing dialogue for the four street-level heroes."It's been really nice because also we're fans of Jessica Jones. It's this weird feeling of the first time I wrote dialogue for Jessica, I was typing in my office, and I go, like, 'This is thrilling. Is it right? It's like, is it my Jessica? Is it your Jessica? Is it the Jessica? Is it Kristen's Jessica? Is it Marvel's?'" he said. "The answer is yes, all of those, as the character grows and expands, but we couldn't possibly move forward without Mel and without Kristen and their incredible relationship and their friendship and their collaboration. We just feel like we're swimming in the same stream."By the time The Defenders comes out, Netflix will have already aired two seasons of Daredevil and one season a piece for Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. The positive reaction to Jessica Jones: Season 1 pushed the company to greenlight a second season , and Rosenberg has already started figuring out how that season will not only follow up Season 1 but also flow naturally from The Defenders "What's nice for us over on our side of the hall, is if we think -- we're still shaping what we want to do, but we're like, maybe we can set them up over in the Defenders, let's go talk to Doug and Marco, and we're like, 'Hey, what do you think about this?' So it's nice," she said with a laugh, adding, "We've started gathering and thinking about where we're going. We have a big job in front of us. The bar was set pretty high."Jessica Jones drew from Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos' iconic Jessica Jones comic arc Alias for Season 1, and Rosenberg said "we'll continue to pull from it if we can in the second." But it doesn't sound like Season 2 is looking to retread much familiar territory, especially with whatever the new season's threat ends up being."David Tennant's [Kilgrave], we'll never create that again. That is one of the great iconic characters played by a profoundly talented actor. The objective is not to match that, not to try to do that again," Rosenberg said.Season 2 will spend more time exploring Jessica Jones' supporting characters , including "some new characters that are only interesting in how they relate to our existing characters." Rosenberg teased "we can really get into some very interesting aspects of their characters and where they're from, where they're going, all these things. I'm super excited about that."There's also the opportunity to follow up the conflict of The Defenders with how that affects some of Hell's Kitchen's residents, like Trish Walker. Would seeing so many superheroes come together on the streets potentially push her to pick up her own superhero identity... like, say, Hellcat "[There's] always the promise," Rosenberg said. "I mean, for me, the character of Trish is so rich, Hellcat or not. She's already bad-ass. What's most interesting to me is their relationship. You know, that friendship, that sisterhood. That's the core of the show. That's the core relationship of the show."

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz