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GENERAL IDEAS:

-Nevermoor used to be a sacred land with Native Americans thriving and living there until the settlers came, took over and began to build a residential school there. With so much blood bleeding from the innocence and the evil doings of the white settlers, it tainted the land and Nevermoor soon became a land filled with darkness. (Huge shoutout to my girlfriend @ragelaurence for mentioning smth about human sacrificing humans and it triggered my brain to think of the word "sacred"😭. Without her, I would still be stuck here)

-After the abolition of residential schools, Camp Nevermoor was soon built on there and it was built by the Dunlap family. I figured this would work more because we know from the og material is that the Dunlap's ancestors was one of the white settlers. I feel like they wouldn't believe in the Nevermoor's "darkness" and still believe that the land is just another place to make more profit out of. This would reinforce more of the fact that everything happened was because of the Dunlap

-Man, I must say, trying to think of a reason as to why an old magic book even exist in the first place was a pain in the ass but I finally think of one now. Let's say the book belonged to Leather's ancestors and at first, it was used for actual good purposes until the book fell into the hands of the white men. For the longest time, it was the “property” of the Dunlap before Carol, Jay's mom, found and stole it (don't ask me how she stole it, I tried very hard to think of why and I still don't have the answer…). I will explain why she used it for in the next part. After Carol died, the book was found by Lysa when she went to the camp back in college

-As for the slashers, they would still have some sort of connection to Nevermoor and they all died there (its confirmed for Jay and Ghost but I dont think it is for Mike and Leather). They're from different time periods with Leather being moved back to the 40s, Mike is late 60s, Jay is 70s and Ghost is in still the 90s. Don't ask me why I changed their time periods, I just want to do so😔. Also I like the idea despite them being decades apart from each other yet all connected to the camp. This would give the MC the chance to collect pieces of the slashers’ past during their journey to save their friends and connected it together to get a vague idea why they're all stuck roaming in Nevermoor. All while using those knowledge to get on the boys’ good sides, bond with them and free them from the Dark One's aka Riley's influence

-Get rid of the whole Damien/Freddie, Jaxon/Dealer, Krampus, secret labs, Mourncrest town, etc,... thingy. I'm sorry but these are just unnecessary conflicts that serve nothing but make the plot line more confusing while giving answers to NOTHING. Plus the slashers are literally the UNDEAD with PARANORMAL powers, what technology can stop and trap them????? It would make more sense that they're controlled by Riley's dark magic then a fucking lab tube

IDEALS FOR MC AND THEIR FRIENDS:

-Now for the MC and her friends, I think its still quite neat to keep that Riley is the "Dark One" all along and that Camp Nevermoor was her territory to perform dark rituals on. So when Nico, MC and Damien had the ideas to become camp counselors for the summer, Riley immediately show interest and pretend to "wanting to be friends with them" while in reality, shes merely wanting to use the MC and her friends as sacrifices. Basically, MC and her friends have ZERO connection to Nevermoor nor the slashers (except for Riley) and they're all just confused victims who have to endure horror after horror because they can't escape the camp

-There was a scene where Riley said to the MC that they're lucky to have Nico as best friend and ride-or-die. It would be interesting if Riley was never friend with Nico, Damien and/or MC or had any real friends in the first place. She does know Jaxon because she sees him as her "right-hand man" rather than a friend. Through Jaxon, Riley knows about the MC's friend group and tbh, I think it would be really sweet if Jaxon become close friends with the MC, Nico and Damien because he needs the occasional escape from Riley's egoistic "mean girl" personality to be in a group where everyone is genuine

-Riley is definitely still the typical girl who wasn't loved enough by her mother, leading her to crave attention and wanting people to see her as an absolute "goddess". For her mother, Lysa, her backstory overall would be the same with a few details changed. She got bullied back in college then used the magic book to manipulated Ghost into helping her eliminated the bullies because she knew Ghost had a very big crush on her then later on killed him when shit went too far. It would be interesting if Riley and her mom both have a twisted idea of "being a self made woman". For Lysa, she believed that she had successfully overcome her obstacles (aka the bullies and Ghost) by outsmarting them, by taking absolute control into her hands without realizing how harmful her actions were. Because of that, it would make sense for Lysa to hold high expectations for Riley (to the point of making Riley insecure about herself and her weaknesses) and taught the same thing to her. Therefore, Riley's motive for becoming the Dark One feel at least more realistic because Riley is desperate to prove herself that shes capable of handling anything life throw at her

-I feel like in the game, the Vixen/Riley arc ended too soon and her motives felt so…questionable too like did she did all of this because she has killer fetish??? For the sake of fame??? Thats some serious dedication just for fame if that was the case. I would make her arc last a bit longer with the MC not only trying to rescue their friends being sacrificed/hunted down by the slashers but also trying to save Riley from herself, from being corrupted further by the book. From this, it gives room for Riley learns to let go of that toxic mindset, to accept and admit her own flaws and her redemption arc doesn't feel as rushed as in the game

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