Taking the ending of The Originals as it's starting point, The Awakening is a spin-off starring Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire and Malese Jow as Anna Huo.
Premise[]
Unknown number of years have passed and the world has forgotten all about the supernatural. There hasn't been an incident in years. However, everything changes on the day of The Convergence. As the nine planets align to form a perfect line, which causes the barriers between Afterlife and Land of the Living to weaken, Anna, a vampire who had found peace, forces her way back to Earth to find her missing mother. Since the Other Side is destroyed, believing the only place she can be is the Ancestral Plane, Anna enlists the help of the Gatekeeper, a powerful witch known as Davina Claire, to help her find the lost soul. However, their search invokes powers that has long been dormant, and pushes the supernatural world into a powerful Awakening.
Episodes[]
There will be 8 seasons in total
Characters[]
Main Cast[]
- Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire: The Gatekeeper of the living realm and the ancestral plane. After the Awakening, she vows as the Gatekeeper to bring the peace and quiet back to the world.
- Malese Jow as Anna Huo: A dead vampire spirit who escapes Afterlife to find her missing mother. She enlists the Gatekeeper's help.
- Lucas Till as Ian Lowe: A witch who doesn't know he's a witch. He is an orphan, never knew his birth parents, and lives with his foster parents. His powers will be triggered by The Awakening of the supernatural world.
- Walton Goggins as Colin Blake: A homeless man who keeps witnessing things he cannot explain and starts thinking he's losing his mind.
- Kristen Stewart as Deborah Blake: Colin's daughter from the future. Colin thinks she's crazy, but nevertheless takes advantage of her wealth.
- Noah Bean as Chase Cormack: A local police detective who keeps ending up with weird cases. He meets Meredith on one of the crime scenes, and they end up working together in most his cases. He doesn't know that the supernatural exists.
- Cassie Ventura as Meredith Sulez: A self-appointed non-supernatural vampire hunter who is trying to find the vampire in the neighborhood. Her search places end up being Chase's crime cases and most of the time they work together. In time they grow closer.
- Ezgi Asaroğlu as Nihal Yıldız: A Turkish journalist who has arrived to observe the convergence, and upon witnessing the madness that follows, stays in town hoping to make a career break off of it.
- Adam Driver as Alan Pruitt: A lady's man. He starts to develop feelings for Nihal and inadvertently finds himself at the center of supernatural events.
- Cillian Murphy as Sascha Pieterse: A demon who used The Convergence to escape Hell after years of torture and torment, and will do absolutely anything to not return. The Awakening will trigger his demonic powers.
Recurring characters[]
- Nathaniel Buzolic as Kol Mikaelson: Davina's husband, and an original vampire. He works for NASA for deep space exploration missions, putting his immortality to a good use.
- James Dreyfus as David Lowe: Ian's father.
- Embeth Davidtz as Stacy Lowe: Ian's mother.
- Holland Roden as Shailene Lucas: A local girl who starts being able to sense the supernatural presence after the Awakening. Meredith saves her life and they start an occasional partnership.
Music[]
- All music will be composed by Turkish composer Pınar Toprak. She is known for her works in Krypton (TV series) as well as Marvel's Captain Marvel.
- Themes by Michael Suby may occasionally be used.
Trivia & Notes[]
- The Awakening is the title of the first novel in The Vampire Diaries novel series. Needless to say, the story is not based on the novel, or any novel (from or related to The Vampire Diaries series).
- No years will be established in the series to keep the "where does this fit in the timeline" vague.
- Events of Legacies will not be considered canon.
- Shelley Hennig is the only actor/actress who appears in all 3 of my fan fictions.
- I found no source indicating Anna's surname was Zhu as it said on The Vampire Diaries wiki [1], so I came up with a different surname. Continuity be damned.
- The series will end on it's 123rd episode for no other reason than I feel like it. For this reason, I opted for a shorter first season which consists of 11 episodes, unlike the regular 16 like the following seasons.
- Unlike it's more grounded predecessors, this series will know no bounds. There will be all kinds of sci-fi/fantasy stuff like deities, demons, aliens, celestials, time travel, multiverse, etc.
- Every season, the episode before the finale will be a "what if" episode. Regarding a crucial decision taken somewhere in the season, these episodes will show "where things would have been now if a different choice was made".
- There will be crossovers with various shows or movies (because why not), limited to be once per season, and most likely (but not as a rule) occurring within in the first 3 episodes of every season.