ParaVerse

"Don’t be in such a rush to figure everything out. Embrace the unknown and let your life surprise you".- Quote used as the ParaVerse's official tagline

The ParaVerse (from the Greek "para-", meaning 'abnormal' or 'beyond' + the Latin "versus", meaning 'turned'), also known as The Redwood series, is a term used to identify the universe featuring Anastasia Wynter, Malakai Reid, Mary Jane Fitzgerald and Carmina Montgomery. It was created in March 31st, 2021 by Brooke Redwood, who took many films, TV series, novels, and videogames as an inspiration to create each of the novels, and has many moral themes and literature genres that take an important role in the development of this universe.

There are a total of 12 stories in the ParaVerse. The ParaVerse take place in an alternate Earth, where humanity interacts with supernatural creatures of many forms, shapes, and sizes, and discover unknown worlds and dimensions. Each of the novels are focused around several humans who have a direct encounter with these creatures, places, or elements that change their lives in a irreversible way, leading both sides to make important choices.

History
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Don't Let the Darkness Consume You
Set in 1984 in California, the story follows Mary Jane Fitzgerald, a depressed young girl who is traumatized by her dark past after seeing with her own eyes the deaths of her parents, Alan and Janet Fitzgerald. While trying to move on, Mary Jane attempts to connect with society, but she fails as her parents' memorial still haunts her life, and is soon disregarded and mistreated. However, Mary Jane meets a group of socially rejected young adults called the Liars Club, who are fixated on spreading liberties and modern culture, while taking down injustices.

As they began to get along, the darkness begins to hunt down Mary Jane, when she attempted suicide following a horrific encounter with satanist serial killer Richard Ramirez. Vowing to help her, the Liars Club drag her out of the city and travel to a remote, newly-reopened summer camp, known as the Firefly Summer Camp, located in Willow's Bell, to work as counselors and escape from The Night Stalker’s rampage.

Upon arriving in town, they meet the camp's owner Randy Cavanaugh, the priest Father Michael Campbell, and the financial administrator Abigail Kraenen, who were once campers there, and who have their experience surviving a killer. Not long after the counselors settle into their first week, their dark pasts, ignorance, and stupidity would draw in harsh consequences to the teens, as Edward Sexton Church, infamously known as The Deer Hunter, and the darkness drawing in the woods, will make their lives miserable, and reveal secrets of their true identities and the location they stepped into.

Malakai: Warrior of The Black Veil
Set in 2018, during a science trip in the Ancient Carthage, mordern Tunisia, members of The Omega Foundation find a 73-years old frozen body in the Mediterranean Sea. After taking it to the headquarters of the foundation in Silverton, Miami for further studying, the scientists and their leader Ahmed Pinkner discovers that the body belonged to a supernatural warrior known as Malakai Reid, part of the Reid dynasty that perished in 1945. While attempting to do an experiment with it, Malakai is suddenly awakened with a Paranérgeia-based serum and brings chaos to the laboratory to successfully escape to the streets of Silverton. As a result of the escape, Malakai becomes the prime target of the Foundation and authorities.

Life in the Mines
In January 2021, writer Matthew Calico took his family, composed by his pregnant wife Cindy, and their two siblings Keenen and Amy, to the isolated beach town of Brooke’s Bay, located at the tip of Cape Cod, for a three-month wintertime sojourn. At the same time, Matthew has been tasked by the head of The Prinze Networks Heather Weinstein to write a novel that would surpass mind-blowing levels, despite a lingering writer’s block. Once the family is settled in, locals begin to haunt the family by heralding the arrival of a greater malice, and the town’s true residents begin to make themselves known. Soon, the Calico family are several times assaulted by a group of strange humanoid creatures, who the Brooke’s Bay Police Department bill them as "seething drug addicts".

To clear his head of the problems taking place, Matthew visits the only restaurant in town that is open and finds himself bemused by the meteoric playwright Lochlyn Slade and the prolific best-selling novelist Electra Sheridan, who attempt to help him after discovering his talent of writing. However, Carmina Montgomery, a struggling black ink surrealism artist, sees Matthew with the couple and warns him to stay away from them. Despite the warnings, Matthew asks them for help to take out his writer’s block, which they proceed to introduce him into The Minerval, a strange liquid concoction created by a mysterious individual known as Vannesa Feldman, which enhances the creativity, but at the cost of tremendously increasing the rage and the ingestion of blood. In a circle of addiction, avarice, and aspiration, Matthew struggles to keep his family under control, while trying to finish the task he wants to achieve.

Anastasia: A New World
Twelve years have passed since the shock of a lifetime, as the mysterious Anastasia Wynter reveals herself to the world, ultimately proving that the supernatural creatures exist.

Journey into the Hollow Earth
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The House of Black
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Anastasia: Homecoming
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Horror Society
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Primal Proliferation
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The Key to Coexistence
With the world still shaken from the proliferation of 2022, humanity has begun to try and coexist with the supernatural creatures. Suddenly, as Anastasia Wynter watches over the world with tranquility, she enters in conflict with Mount Rushmore Industries, when a squadron led by Jeffrey Snyder attempts to capture a pair of chilote sea horses for unknown, malicious reasons. Soon as she fends them off, Drew Pestock gets news about the attack, and vowed to get revenge on her some day. Several days later, a brutal attack takes place in a Mount Rushmore Industries facility in Dallas, Texas by the hand of an enraged Malakai Reid, scarred by Madison Balt's death at Masterson Shipyard.

As yesterday's saviors become a menace to the eyes of the world, the elite and the U.S. army forces ARK agents to help Mount Rushmore Industries in finding out a way to stop both Anastasia and Malakai. In the midst of the conflict, the emotionally haunted Eden Ambrose attempts to persuade the world that Mount Rushmore Industries has something vile planned for the creatures. However, her mother Mary Jane Fitzgerald senses, partially from her ancient past, that a dormant, centuries-old conflict is about to be triggered. She calls upon her cousin, the "Paramount of Crows" Carmina Montgomery, in order to find a way to stop the war between Anastasia and Malakai and find out what started the newly-revived conflict.

As Carmina, Mary Jane and a ARK squadron composed by carthographer Michael Hawthorne, super soldier Bentley Hamilton, biologist Kimberly Grimes, and scientist Paul Gallant, embark on a perilous mission to unearth the clues to the creatures' very origins and the key to a possible coexistence between humanity and the supernatural, rival factions that want to manipulate the creatures so that war begins to emerge under the guise of a nefarious conspiracy, which threatens to end all life on Earth. Now, with humans are caught in the middle once again, three of the most powerful otherworldly forces engage in the ultimate fight for dominance.

Trivia

 * The following list shows the main inspirations used for the ParaVerse:
 * Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse
 * Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story
 * Eric Kripke's Supernatural
 * The Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things
 * Behaviour's Dead by Daylight
 * Studio Wildcard's ARK: Survival Evolved
 * The ParaVerse's lore states that most of the supernatural creatures are endangered by humans, because mankind has a lust for control and dominance over the Earth, and they will do whatever it takes to wipe out the creatures once and for all.
 * The eye used for the ParaVerse's symbol is based on the teachable perk unique to Laurie Strode "Object of Obsession" from Dead by Daylight. The meaning behind the eye is to symbolize Malakai's right eye.