Arcs

An **“Arc”** is a story based around a small plot point in *Tales From The Darkside,* usually serving as a subplot, but sometimes as the main plot of a season.

## List of Arcs

### *Standalone Arcs (Seasons 1 & 2)*

The first arc of  *Tales From The Darkside.*  it involves Bryson Martinez as he hides from a recently psychotic Skylar Thompson, as they attack and murder multiple Nelson High students.The second arc of  *Tales From The Darkside.*  The arc revolves around Bryson Martinez as he is exiled from Nelson by Kathy Beefer.
### *The Jackson Cosmology Project Trilogy (Seasons 3, 4 & 5)*

The third arc of  *Tales From The Darkside*  and the first installment of the Cosmology Trilogy. It involves Katie Jackson as she figures out her origins as The Group’s guardian angel.The fourth arc of  *Tales From The Darkside*  and the second installment of the Cosmology Trilogy. It involves The Group time traveling to the RMS Titanic and surviving its sinking while also being hunted by Diana Colbe.The fifth arc of  *Tales From The Darkside*  and the third and final installment of the Cosmology Trilogy. It involves Bryson Martinez & Carson Vagil as they start a club at Nelson High School to learn more about racing.
### *Standalone Arcs (Seasons 6 & 7)*

The sixth arc of  *Tales From The Darkside.*  The arc follows the newly created Revenge Group as they fly around the world, gathering manpower to assist The Group in their battle against Jennifer Weston.The seventh arc of  *Tales From The Darkside.*  The arc follows the mysterious parallel universe known as Belsen. In the universe, many former Deceased characters are alive, and it’s nothing like Nelson.
### *The Time Travel Memory Trilogy (Seasons 8, 9 & 10)*

The eighth arc of  *Tales From The Darkside.*  The arc follows certain members of The Group as they experience twisted memories of past events, which begin to follow a pattern.
## Aftermath

* **Lockdown Arc:** Bryson finds out about Evan’s plan, and is kidnapped. Luckily, with Katie’s help, they both escape Evan’s bomb, which kills Evan, avenging Janice.

* **The Exile Arc:** Bryson returns to Nelson with Annalise, and Katie apologizes to him after a musical gone wrong and two deaths. The Group exiles Kathy, but she isn’t defeated for long.

* **The Origins Arc:** Kathy and Angela are killed, and Yasmin mourns Angela’s death with a memorial. The Group relax for a few weeks.

* **The Titanic Arc:** Principal Brown and Shelby are killed when they unsuccessfully escape the sinking. Later, The Dark Lord returns, and possesses Melissa. Yasmin is forced to kill Melissa, and plans to write a book in her honor.

* **Racing Arc:** The Group defeat The Dark Lord for the final time, and destroy the God Box once again. They all graduate and leave Nelson for a few years.

* **Revenge Arc:** The Group battle Jennifer, but are all left hanging for their lives as they are left in life-threatening situations, and betrayed by a fellow member.

* **Belsen Arc:** The Group finally defeat Jennifer, with help from Writer Bryson and Narrator Katie. However, they, alongside the entire town of Nelson, are sucked through a pipe.

* **Skylar Memory Arc:** The memory victims manage to survive these twisted flashbacks, but unintentionally revive Melissa. She then uses a meteor to destroy Nelson, and Yasmin seems to have saved the town. Unfortunately, the consequences seemed to have time travelled everyone back to 2023.

## Trivia

* Each story arc is based around a popular/unpopular trend that focuses on and brings to light different issues.
	+ The Lockdown Arc addresses and mimics many school shootings that have occurred in American history, with many famous ones being the Columbine massacre, the Sandy Hook shooting, the Parkland shooting, etc, bringing to light many flaws with them and a possible alternate universe where the police manage to take down the attacker before more damage is done.
	+ The Exile Arc focuses on the trope of the protagonist being exiled from their city, made famous by the Minecraft server, the Dream SMP, being Tommy’s Exile.
	+ The Jackson Cosmology Project Trilogy contains 3 arcs, each with different themes.
		- The Origins Arc addresses flaws based around rewriting backstories around characters, made famous by the Genesis Arc in the machinima web-series SMG4.
		- The Titanic Arc pokes fun at many flaws around films centered on the RMS Titanic, including making its own story, and having the Titanic be the centerpiece, but not being accurate to the real-life sinking, made famous by the 1997 film of the same name.
		- The Racing Arc pokes fun at many different things; the racing action genre made famous by the film series Fast & Furious, the phonk music genre with one artist in particular being Softwilly, and the arc almost having nothing to do with the Cosmology Trilogy, with it being an outlier.
	+ The Revenge Arc pokes fun at the side plot of the 2023 American action film, Fast X, centered around Dom’s crew gathering manpower for Dom.
	+ The Belsen Arc pokes fun at the “eventzied arc” from the 2017-23 CW series Riverdale, nicknamed “Rivervale.”
	+ The Time Travel Memory Trilogy contains 3 arcs, each with different themes.
		- The Skylar Memory Arc pokes fun at shows that remake their old, previous episodes, but this time, abuses them against the protagonists.