"Beneath Ravenshade"

Prompt: Setting: “Ravenshade” A small eerie town hidden in the forests of Oregon, surrounded by misty mountains and thick woods. It’s a place with a dark history: people vanish, strange lights appear in the sky, and a cursed lake lies at its center. Teenagers grow up with stories of witches, lost dimensions, and the “Marked”—people who return… different. ⸻ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Main Characters 🖤 1. Elara Wren – The Haunted Newcomer • Age: 17 • Personality: Quiet, deeply observant, kind but guarded • Background: Moved to Ravenshade after her parents mysteriously disappeared in a car crash. She has cryptic visions and dreams of a world “beneath” reality. • Connection: Enters the school mid-year and catches the attention of almost everyone, especially two boys—Alec and Cas. • Mystery: A mark on her wrist glows when near the lake. She doesn’t know why. ⸻ 🔥 2. Alec Voss – The Vampire with a Secret • Age: Looks 18, actually 118 • Personality: Cold at first, protective, clever, secretly vulnerable • Background: A vampire bound by a century-old pact to protect Ravenshade from “the Rift.” He feeds on animals, but struggles to control his darker side. • Connection: Saved Elara from a deadly car accident the night she arrived, but erased her memory of it—he’s fascinated by her. • Mystery: He’s trying to break the curse that traps him in the town. ⸻ ⚡ 3. Cas Wilder – The Charming Bad Boy • Age: 17 • Personality: Sarcastic, reckless, loyal • Background: Alec’s estranged younger brother—adopted by a different family and unaware of his supernatural bloodline. • Connection: Cas and Elara share a tense, flirty friendship. He later discovers he has powers linked to “the Rift.” • Mystery: He hears whispers when he’s near the cursed lake—someone (or something) is calling him. ⸻ 🧠 4. Juno Ray – The Genius and Hacker • Age: 16 • Personality: Brilliant, introverted, conspiracy-theorist, funny when relaxed • Background: Best friend to Cas; believes the town is hiding a dimensional gate. Her brother vanished years ago near the lake. • Connection: Helps Elara decode her visions. • Mystery: She finds an old journal that links their town to disappearances across the country. ⸻ 🌒 5. Rowan Blackmoor – The Witch in Hiding • Age: 17 • Personality: Calm, serious, distant • Background: Descendant of the original witches of Ravenshade. His family is being hunted by a secret society that wants to harness Rift energy. • Connection: Elara sees him in her dreams before meeting him. He knows she’s “Marked.” • Mystery: His magic is unstable since the Rift reopened—and he’s afraid of what he might become. ⸻ 💀 6. The Rift – The Unseen Force • Not a character, but a dimension tearing reality open under Ravenshade. Anyone who falls in comes back… wrong. • Alec, Cas, and Rowan all have connections to the Rift. Elara may be the key to sealing or unleashing it. ⸻ 🧩 How They All Met • Elara transfers to Ravenshade High after her parents’ death. Alec secretly saves her life but wipes her memory. She becomes close to Cas after he defends her from a bully. • Juno becomes her friend after Elara borrows a library book that belonged to her missing brother—and finds a coded message inside. • During detention, the four—Elara, Cas, Juno, and Alec—accidentally open a hidden passage in the school basement. • Rowan appears mysteriously to warn them not to touch what’s inside. Elara recognizes him from her dreams. • They form an unlikely group—part friendship, part alliance—as they realize each of them has a connection to the Rift. ⸻ 🎭 Relationship Tension & Drama • Elara & Alec: Deep connection, complicated by Alec’s secret (and guilt). • Elara & Cas: Flirty, fiery energy; he’s jealous of Alec. • Juno & Rowan: Brainy banter + slow-burn tension (Juno doesn’t believe in magic… at first). • Cas & Alec: Brothers with a dark past; one knows he’s a vampire, the other doesn’t. • All of them are tied together by one mystery: What is the Rift—and what does it want with Elara?