Horrorshow Pretty Cure

**Horrorshow Pretty Cure** is a fanseries created by InfiStudios. Its main motifs are horror genres and film, and it has themes of fear, making deals, and coming to terms with oneself.

## Synopsis

Ethel Bleak, Carol Wood, and Shane Machado-Escarrà are part-time workers at the Caligari Film Library, a lending library that doubles as a vault for antique films...and, as they're about to find out, cursed films. At least, it used to be-two weeks ago, most of the evil creatures (curses) haunting those films escaped and are currently roaming the city of Hitchworth. The solution? To fight fire with fire-Ethel, Carol, and Shane will have to use the power of the three remaining demons, becoming the city of Hitchworth's most unlikely saviors...the **Horrorshow Pretty Cure!**

## Characters

### Pretty Cure

* **Ethel Bleak/Cure Haunting:** An intelligent, introverted young woman who's too overworked for her own good, Ethel's easily one of the best students at King Public High School. She's incredibly competent academically, but not as much socially or emotionally. Her closest confidant is her twin brother Jackson, the only person she feels comfortable talking about her stress with. Ethel's alter ego is **Cure Haunting**, whose powers are based off haunted house and ghost stories.
* **Carol Wood/Cure Abduction::** Carol is an interesting person. She's smart, especially with regards to history, but has absolutely no tact or emotional maturity. Her mother is the dictionary definition of a helicopter mom, and her meddling in Carol's life has convinced Carol that she's too good to suffer the consequences of her actions. Combine this with her lack of cultural competency, and you have a bully who's unaware of the fact that she is a bully. Carol's alter ego is **Cure Abduction**, who's themed off of alien invasion movies.
* **Shane Tamboli/Cure Spark:** Shane's almost an outlier in the group. She's an extrovert with a large friend group, for one, and isn't afraid to give her co-workers (mostly Carol) some much-needed criticism. She's also not a fantastic student-she's good at chemistry and math, but is pretty average (even below average) at everything else. However, Shane's nowhere near as confident as she seems, and the clique she's a part of is nowhere near as healthy as it seems. Her alter ego is **Cure Spark**, who's themed off resurrection-based horror.

### Allies

* **Todd Cage:** The director and head of the Caligari Film Library.
* **Alfie Fischer:** A longtime employee of the Caligari Film Library.
* **A Haunting at August Lake:** The curse Ethel draws power from.
* **Invaders from Planet 10:** The curse Carol draws power from.
* **Love Brought Her Back:** The curse Shane draws power from.

### Secondary Characters

* **Jackson Bleak:** Ethel's brother and closest confidant. He's also a member of King Public's Track & Field team.
* **Daphne Bleak:** Ethel and Jackson's mother. She puts lots of pressure on her kids to do well at school and, like her daughter, is very quiet and a bit of a homebody.
* **Joan Wood:** Carol's mom. She's extremely pushy and will go to any length to make her daughter happy.
* **Harvey Wood:** Carol's dad.
* **María Machado-Escarrà:** Shane's mom. She's an administrator at a local community center, and is extremely busy.
* **Víctor Machado-Escarrà:** Shane's dad.
* **Lon Sargent:** Carol's best friend.
* **Audrey Espina-Huerta:** Shane's closest friend.

## Items

* **Curse Brooches:** The Cures' transformation items. They're ordinary pins transformed into their current shape by the power of the curses inhabiting them.

## Locations

* **Hitchworth, Ohio:** The main setting of Horrorshow Pretty Cure.
* **Caligari Film Library:** The library where the main characters work. It also used to be a prison of sorts for cursed films, up until the breakout.
* **King Public High School:** A prestigious, selective public school the main characters attend.
* **Old Lace's:** A bakery near the Bleak family's home and the place where Jackson works.

## Trivia

* There are a ridiculous amount of references to horror in this series; Infi will probably be making a document with all of them soon.
* The series takes *heavy* inspiration from horror podcast *The Magnus Archives.*
* *Horrorshow Pretty Cure* was created to celebrate Halloween of 2020.