Scorched and Burned

Scorched and Burned is a length-running animated gothic horror move/story made by Bluey; the creator of the Spirit Halloween The Musical series. The story takes place in the 1940's, and was an originally a story written for one of Bluey's Language Arts classes during her junior year of high school. She then decided to turn it into a somewhat animated full-length movie shortly afterwards when writing it. 
Background:
Courtney "Bluey" Setzer (creator of the SHTM series, as well as voice actress for all the characters and composer of the music for the installments) had TWO language arts classes in the same semester in her Junior year of high school, these being Honors Mythology and Literature (Lit) of the Fantastic. Her Lang and Lit 2 teacher did NOT want her to take the second class because it was "too slow" for her pace, but she got it anyway because the class was what she wanted.
Bluey describes her Lit of the Fantastic class as an "eye-opener" for her, regarding gothic and horror story writing. "I get to know about all these monsters and understand WHY they are so iconic to this very day. That is VERY cool!"
There were three units in the class- Gothic Literature, Fantasy Literature and Sci-Fi/Science Fiction Literature. Bluey liked the class's content- except for the Fantasy unit.
"I hate fantasy, not a huge fan of unicorns, elves, dragons and all that jazz," she said. "I hated watching The Dark Crystal (1982), and it wasn't just me, the WHOLE CLASS hated that movie. We all just sort of stared at each other and wondered 'What the fuck are we WATCHING?!?!?'. I liked the plot line and story, it's just the way it was executed was terrible. It was the '80s, so yeah. Maybe Jim Henson should have stuck with what he's good at; The Muppets and Sesame Street, cause the experimental fantasy films (Dark Crystal and Labyrinth *starring David Bowie*, released 4 years later) were disgusting and not really pretty to viewers...The puppets were UGLY. Eughh.."
However, Bluey had rather much the opposite to say about the Gothic unit. Stories that were covered in this unit were Poe's "Fall Of the House of Usher", a short story called "Burnt Toast" (about making a deal with the devil), but most importantly, the novels behind Universal's most famed monsters; Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Bram Stoker's "Dracula". The class had also watched the original Dracula starring Bela Lugosi (1931) and watched The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) rather than the original Frankenstein (also 1931) because her teacher stated that it was more "accurate" to the novel. Bluey was rather confused about this, and says the movie had SOME elements of the novel, however, some were all of Hollywood's doing.
"Bride of Frankenstein is the sequel, so it left off where the original ended. I was rather confused because I never watched the original Frankenstein, but all in all, it was a rather great film!" Bluey said in the official announcement of "Scorched and Burned".
However, all good things must come to an end. Unfortunately, the unit ended in mid-March, and Bluey was devastated. The final for that unit was a choice board, and Bluey, having already written the SHTM series, decided to write a gothic fiction novel. Thus, "Scorched and Burned" was born! The novel started on March 6th, 2024, and currently is still in progress. Bluey was super passionate about this novel, so she pursued to make a partially-animated version of it, like the installments of SHTM would be made.
"Every great thing- every great book, movie or TV show- no matter, started with an idea," she says. "I wanted to make a ghost story- but not only that. "Scorched and Burned" is much more than a piece of gothic fiction. It is a story about love, betrayal, danger and reward. It is meaningful, but could also be seen for entertainment. I hope people love reading it as much as I did writing it."
Synopsis:
"Scorched and Burned" takes place in a variety of settings and buildings, but the time period is set in the 1940's. World War II is still happening, everyone is in debt, except for one man and one man only...
The protagonist of the story is Collin Finneas Firth, often called Mr. Firth by many characters, but also called C.F. Firth for professional reasons. He was born and raised in Boston, MA, and is a contractor- selling houses to profit quick cash. However- he has a quirk of staying inside the houses he purchases to contract, before people buy them. 
Other than this quirk, Firth seems to live a relatively normal life. He is swimming in profit, which means he is the richest person on the planet at that time (impossible since the Stock Market Crash and the war made everyone in major debt). He has a girlfriend/fiancee named Madeline Martin, a quick-witted and brave young woman who Bluey describes as the typical "damsel in distress" in a gothic narrative- however, she also demonstrates the abilities of a powerful female character in a piece of fantasy. 
"Firth just CANNOT live without her," says Bluey in a video describing the plotline, "She's his- He is hers. They are star-crossed lovers, and we are all for that! It's sweet, and leads a perfect story. Unlike your typical Mina in Dracula, Madeline is brave and aggressive