Brain Dump

## Pitch / Ideas

* If The Vampires Diaries was set in the 90s in an elite boarding school.
	+ Inspirations: Dead Poets Society & The Vampire Diaries
* Setting: 1993 in Gray Haven, Oregon, Highgarth Academy.
* Themes: The 1990s as a backdrop in an elite (recently co-ed) boarding school ruled by class mixed with the Generation X, MTV Generation, grunge culture that was happening during that time. “It was a countercultural, anti-consumerism youth movement that defined Generation X.” The supernatural and magic is all around them and they do not know it unless they are supernatural. Secret Society of supernaturals at Highgarth Academy.

### Synopsis

"A Witch? You're a *Witch*?" said Jules. "Yes a witch, an immortal witch to be exact" said Cameron. "Wow I knew it, *You* are a crazy son of a bitch" said Jules back to him.

The autumn wind blows in the forest where something magical has happened. The bell tolls as the school year begins.

16 year old Julianna "Jules" Hillridge has been an orphan her whole life. Bouncing around group homes and orphanages in different cities and states. Older kids never get picked to be adopted, she was banking on turning 18 and leaving if not running away. Until she got adopted by this old couple. They are rich and have extreme privilege. She moves near Boston, a place of old money called Hillridge. In this town there is this elite boarding school called Highgarth Academy originally an all-boys school and recently has been turned into a coed school. She's sent there and her trouble begins.

At the school she meets Luna Goodwin, the fashionista; siblings Kennedy & Preston Sutton, who have a massive secret; and Mikaela Pruitt a girl who's confidence masks insecurities. Initially very standoff-ish to but, soon softens up too.

Jules is drawn to the forest, which is a place filled with magical energy. She sees a young man around her age practicing magic. At this point she doesn't believe in magic shrugs it off and tries to leave but the man follows her and puts her to sleep with his magic. Hours later her friends find her in the forest not knowing what had happened.

Jules is drawn to this person and now as they figure out why.

### Plot

The story begins in 1993 with 16 year old orphan Jules Hillridge, she just got adopted to this wealthy family and subsequently gets sent to a boarding school. This school was an all boys school named Highgarth Academy and it was recently made into a coed school. There she meets different people and befriends them, and what they don't know is they live in a world of supernatural beings, witches, werewolves, etc. She meets and befriends this young man around her age named Cameron Walsh, he is an immortal witch and introduces her to the supernatural world.

### Themes/Concepts

* Witches, Fairies, Werewolves, Kitsune & Void Children (a Fate).
* Dynasty Coven & the Harvest Moon Ritual.
* A Secret Supernatural Society for Highgarth Academy (inspired by The Dead Poets Society).

### Locations

* Gray Haven, Oregon
	+ Highgarth Academy
		- Abdin Hall (Freshman-Sophmore Boys Dorm)
		- Herzog Hall (Junior-Senior Boys Dorm)
		- Hale Hall (Freshman-Sophmore Girls Dorm)
		- Yates Hall (Junior-Senior Girls Dorm)
		- Dark Forest
		- Dusk till Dawn Drive-In Theater
		- St. Andrew's Church & Graveyard
	+ Hawthorne Manor

### Character Ideas

* Julianna "Jules" Hillridge is an emotionally wounded young woman, who has been orphan all of her life and her walls are built up. She has had this awareness that older kids don't get adopted but she just been adopted by these older rich people with massive privilege. She moves to their hometown called Gray Haven in Oregon the small town is a town of old money and is subsequently sent to the elite boarding school called Highgarth Academy which has been recently been turned co-ed. Getting to the school she steps into a world of money and class but she also unknowingly steps into a world of the supernatural.

* Cameron Walsh

### Character Ideas

* Dylan Humphrey from Immortal.

* Levi Sparrow from Immortal.

* Olivia “Livy” McAllister from Immortal.

* Primrose Blossom from Immortal.

* Pandora Nevermore from Immortal.

* Gavin Hathaway from The Whitmore Chronicles & East Hollow.

* Quentin Riddle from The Whitmore Chronicles.

* Finneas Riddle from The Whitmore Chronicles.

## WIP

**DEAD POETS SOCIETY** x **THE VAMPIRE DIARIES**

In the fall of 1993, a young orphan girl is finally adopted but is sent to an elite (recently co-ed) boarding school in the pacific northwest. She steps into a world of money and class and the supernatural after meeting a magical person with a dark history of their own. The supernatural and magic is all around them and they do not know it unless they are supernatural. A secret society of supernaturals hold all the secret power.

- 90s Grunge x Dark Academia x Fall / Halloween Vibes

- Diverse Queer Supernatural Found Family

- Secret Supernatural Society people slowly discovering what they are

- Secret Histories surrounding the school and the supernatural world

Vibes trough emojis:

🍂 🕯 🌙 🥀 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 🪦 🔮 🧙🏻‍♀️ 🧚🏻 🐺 🦊

*Aesthetic & Mood board for The Immortal Chronicles*.

* Aesthetics: Dark Academia, Grunge, Witchy Academia, Darkest Academia, 1990s, MTV Generation.