Beyond Worlds (original)

The original **Beyond Worlds** is the original story of the Beyond Worlds Series. It's written by **Parker Trinh**, **Stefen Sanchez**, **Cj Sanchez**, and **Michael Williams**, edited by **Pauline Sui**. Its first season was released on June 3, 2021, while its second season was released on July 9, 2021. Its protagonist, Léa Navarro, is inspired by **Kath Aguinaldo** who also voiced her in the reels and animatics, following **Austin Dy** as Hiro Hamada, **Belle Bello** inspired Red Ordonia while **Naomi Campbell** voiced her, **Cj Sanchez** as Julian Navarro, and **Shawn Koumi** as Oliver Buenavista.

The original has a set of reels and animatics that ran for almost six months, with the main cast Kath Aguinaldo and Austin Dy voicing the protagonists, along with editors Pauline Sui and **Lucas Hale**, and animator **Parrissianne Bell**.

## **CHAPTERS**

* Season 1
	+ Prologue
	+ 1: Astrology, 2: Technology 3: Psychology, 4: Geology, 5: Anatomy, 6: Sociology, 7: Meteorology, 8: Orthoepy, 9: Chemistry
* Season 2
	+ Prologue
	+ 10: Psychology (Part II), 11: Genealogy, 12: Odontology, 13: Virology, 14: Odontology (Part II), 15: Metallurgy, 16: Autonomy, 17: Xenobiology, 18: Astronomy
	+ Epilogue

## **CHARACTERS**

#### **Protagonists**

* **Léa Navarro** is a 16 going 17 years old the time the story will be set; she's a fresh graduate from the Philippines moving to the States with her best friend Red Ordonia. She wants to be an astrophysicist studying the universe when she grows up, and Hiro Hamada is her love interest.
* **Hiro Hamada** is a character original from Big Hero 6 aged-up to be 17. He's now a collegian who attends San Fransokyo Institute of Technology along with his older brother Tadashi and best friends. He's a robotics prodigy with an IQ of 160, and his love interest is Léa Navarro.

#### **Deuteragonists**

* **Red Ordonia** is Léa Navarro's best friend since 8th grade, and like Léa she wants to be a doctor. She has a slight knack for all things Science, and she's the one who teases Léa to Hiro and vice-versa, and is known to like Gogo Tomago.

#### **Tritagonists**

* **Julian Navarro** is Léa's brother who is older than her by a year, and attends the same university as his younger sister. Unlike Léa, he wants to be a neuroscientist and he's already in fourth-year high school. Tadashi becomes his best friend when they meet in CAS.

#### **Supporting**

* **Cameron Mendes** is a classmate and close friend of both Red and Léa, although his relationship with Kenji is neutral, at most. He attends Caltech, with his ambition being a physician.
* **Kenji Katagiri** is Léa's valedictorian classmate who is known to rival his intelligence, but both of them are clearly friends; seeing each other as friendly competition. He seems to like Léa, which is why Hiro doesn't like Kenji as much.
* **Oliver Buenavista** is the little boy- 7 years old at most- that Léa and Hiro saved when his house catches on fire around Red's neighborhood. In the second season, he was revealed to be Léa's younger half-brother.

## **TRIVIAS**

* The book's teaser card depicts the book title's initials "BW" in binary.
* In one of the early drafts of the story, Oliver Buenavista was supposed to jump from a building, prompting Big Hero 6 to save him, but Léa talks to him to calm him down. This was removed for unknown reasons and replaced it with the part when Oliver gets stuck in his room when his house is on fire.
* The first season of the book was released on June 3, 2021, on 6:03 am PHT (Philippine standard time), while the second season was released on July 9, 2021, on 7:09 am, also in Philippine time. June 3 and July 9 are Hiro and **Kath Aguinald****o'**s birthdays respectively.
* **Michael Williams** confirmed that the second season isn't a sequel, as season 1 of Beyond Worlds: Azul wouldn't make sense as a standalone.
* Ironically, if the original Beyond Worlds wasn't a fanfiction and if the overall lore of the book would be taken into account, Red would be the actual protagonist. The writers say it'd be better for the characters (and the plotline) if she's the deuteragonist instead, since she'd steal the spotlight for the others.
* Given the fact that the book mentions a few times that Léa hasn't had her birthday yet in the year the story is set and that Hiro and Cameron (who are both born on the same month) are already 17, it's safe to say that the story is set on late June.
	+ Aguinaldo theorized that although it was never mentioned by any of the characters that Cameron had just turned 17, assuming that he had his birthday when the story first started and the story took a week time skip to the planetarium show (which is a weekend so either Saturday or Sunday), the last chapter in the book could be set on either Sunday, June 27th, or Monday, June 28th. Writer **Parker Trinh** had Kath's theory confirmed.