Thread:Tyler Gracyne/@comment-4295751-20150429222403/@comment-4295751-20150504142839

I like your idea with the witches!! Am I sensing a Nina Dobrev/Ian Somerhalder cameo? :))

Yeah, sadly Illyria will be killed. Caroline will kill her once she finds out she's the witch that helps April and Stefan. It'll stir things up between them to make the final battle brutal, in a "all out for blood" kinda way.

um.. no vampires. absolutely no vampires, at least until Caroline is introduced. because it'll ruin the whole "stefan is the only vampire who survived the extinction when originals were killed" vibe. As far as the show is concerned, Stefan is the last samurai of vampires and it's a mystery how he survived. So it'd be best if your witches don't/can't spoil that mystery :)

Speaking of witches, as much as I agreed about you introducing new one(s), there's a crucial detail you need to be careful about: If you visit Caroline's SD page, you'll see she's the one who killed everyone. But since Caroline will not be introduced until the middle of 2nd chapter, THEY CAN NEVER mention her. So avoid conversations that might lead there, or if you do, leave the answers in the air, like connections breaks or something and he can't hear the answer. That is of course if he can manage to contact them somehow..

The idea is; after the vampires were gone, the supernatural world found balance again. So things are not the way they used to be. No mysterious murders, witches and werewolves are in the hiding, it's all quiet in the world. So the transition back to supernatural after 10 YEARS of peace and quiet must be slow. That's why I'm against all kinds of supernaturals being introduced in a rush. Like, I mentioned werewolves, but thinking about future plots, I may never need to introduce a single wolf. And hunters (The Five) will be introduced only in season 2, when Anita turns into a vampire and becomes their target.