Better Days Ahead Universe

The **Brighter Days Ahead Universe** (**BDAU**) is a media franchise created by wattpad user 'mylonelydreamhouse'. Its main content resolves around the story-telling website Wattpad. As of November 2021, the universe has 3 confirmed stories, with only 2 in progress and several others proposed.

Each story is primarily set within the same universe, though none are ever set within the same year. Some key themes in the story include; the 'Shuteye Apocalypse', 'Hall of Worlds' and the 'Great Source Collapse'. All stories are confirmed to set place between 1500-3000AD and can lap over; with some characters crossing over.

### Confirmed

* Brighter Days Ahead (set in 2032/2033) \*in progress: the Schroder family leave their farm after 10 years of no contact from the apocalypse-ridden world.
* Our Lies, So Deceitful (set in 2002/2022/1992): Malia Bourbon travels between worlds to find her true family.
* Worse Days Ahead (set in 2022/2023) \*in progress: the Rubio family trek a world devastated by a new virus.

### Proposed

* Colophon of The Mangenites: spinoff from Legend of The Hendidoikis, focusing on another earth-extinct species named Mangenites.
* Fire and Ice: spinoff from Our Lies, So Deceitful starring a human with fire powers and another with ice powers combating a new enemy.
* Into The Jungle (set in 1972): Twins Lemar and Jenga are forced to survive an alive ghost town in the Brasilian rainforest.
* Kingdom of Men (set in 1830s/1898): Priscilla Eirlburg exposes her story as a Princess runaway from the collapsing Kingdom of Esmaska.
* Legend of The Hendidoikis (set in the 1500s): Florin comes across the now-extinct Hendidoik people who give him the power of Immortality in the 1500s.
* Nanakorobi Yaoki: Japanese tale of the underground witch/wizard community before the Great Source Collapse.
* Our Truths, So Forgotten: spinoff from Our Lies, So Deceitful starring a human who found the Worlds Portal Room during WW2.
* Pormigty or Zorthairy: spinoff from Recalcitranters of Humanity starring two species saving their planet Urtremnadoras.
* Recalcitranters of Humanity (set in 2999): Martius Wilson is exiled from Earth and becomes a soldier for the Second Promina Centauri Empire.
* Scintilla Love (set in 1969/2001): Madeline Vlahos documents her individual childhood horrors of Lake Champlain and the Appalachian Mountains.
* Signals from Yonder: spinoff from Recalcitranters of Humanity showing the story of the planet that sent distress signals in 2767.
* Tavern of Thoughts: Medieval European tale of three adventurers attempting to find the last city of magic in 1623.

## Canon/Confirmed

The Better Days Ahead Universe starts with a tale set in the 1500s and continues with tales that lead to 3000AD (covering a time span of 1500 years). Throughout these 1500 years many stories and events that affect the general human population are written in the form of diary entries that are collected by someone in the unreachable future (past 3000AD). Better Days Ahead shows the shuteye apocalypse that lasted from 2022-2090s. Kingdom of Men shows a monarch revolution in the 1830s that set of a course of 'The Twenty Wars' that killed many millions. Scintilla Love shows a group of runaway teenagers who battle a monster threatening world domination in the 1960s.

Overall, sometime in this unreachable future, another apocalypse in the form of natural disasters has hit the world and killed most of its wildlife; with humans and some animals managing to escape. This individual inherited these stories from a past family member (meaning they are most likely related to all shown families) and reads them whilst walking down the 'Hall of Worlds'. In the meantime, this Hall of Worlds showcases each event from each written story in forms of 'bubbles'.

## Behind the scenes

* The 'Better Days Ahead Universe' was originally the 'Let the Daisys Grow Universe' due to it being the first proposed, confirmed and planned out story; however, it was not the first to fruition.