don't let it in with no intention to keep it,
jesus christ, don't be kind to it.
honey, don't feed it: it will come back.
HOZIER / IT WILL COME BACK
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𓆩 Angel of small death. 𓆪
ROSY SANTOS has made a career out of pushing up daisies.
Or, at least, that's if you believe the rumours.
Rumour has it that she rose with the sun one morning, clawing her way up from hell and bursting into the world with fire. Hearsay says she skulked the world and set her eyes on the small town of Mystic Falls with the intent to destroy it from the inside out–– but that's just gossip.
With an easy smile and a shrug of their shoulders, the Peters-Santos household swears blind: they're just your average All-American family and Rosy is just your average neighbourhood sweetheart.
And she is, for the most part–– all aside from the fact that she was, definitely, once a very dead witch.
For real? Very real. Dead? Very dead.
The kind of dead that had left her with a blank mind and a confusion about what exactly had caused her to ascend the grave in small-town Virginia. Blinking once and twice and then finding herself a life in normality–– suddenly a suburban witch with more compassion can stomach.
What's worse than a dead girl walking than a dead girl walking desperate to find out who she once was?
But, the problem raises when Mystic Falls goes dark and the moon rises and magic comes out to play –– and Rosy realises that maybe asking questions about the past is a lot more dangerous than she would've thought. Sharp teeth, midnight incantations and an affinity for raising the dead. Dreams that don't make sense and faces that shouldn't be familiar... brothers and lookalikes and midnight revivals––
And that feeling that ticks by at the back of her head. Just a suspicion.
Just an inclination that things are about to turn darker... that she might not quite be what she thinks she always has been.
But one question prevails in the corner of her reflection...
Is everything really in the past, or is it tomorrow just begging to send her back to the grave?
paulina chávez · ROSITA SANTOS
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE / WHAT WILL YOU DO?
alongside the original vampire diaries cast
aside from ...
pedro pascal · ALARIC SALTZMAN
edward bluemel · KOL MIKAELSON
suraj sharma · MATT DONOVAN
alaya f. age · VICKY DONOVAN
florence pugh · ELENA GILBERT (etc)
and jeremy irons as MACRON SMITH
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optional recasts.
matthew goode elijah mikaelson
lorenzo zurzolo stefan salvatore
ben barnes damon salvatore
andrew matarazzo tyler lockwood
emily lind caroline forbes
precious mustapha bonnie bennett
ewan mitchell klaus mikaelson
SMALL TOWN WITCH ━━━ 𝖎. season of the witch, lana del rey. 𝖎𝖎. perhaps vampires is a bit strong but..., arctic monkeys. 𝖎𝖎𝖎. angel of small death and the codeine scene, hozier. 𝔦𝔳. she's so lovely, beach house. 𝖛. roslyn, bon iver. 𝖛𝖎. feel so different, sinéad o'connor. 𝖛𝖎𝖎. cursed, lord huron. 𝖛𝖎𝖎𝖎. small town witch, sneaker pimps. 𝖎𝖛. it will come back, hozier.
𝖛. you're dead, norma tanega.
FOR ROSY ━━━ 𝖎. grapejuice, harry styles. 𝖎𝖎. fallen fruit, lorde. 𝖎𝖎𝖎. creep, mxmtoon
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WARNING ! . . . this book contains: dark themes including violence, trauma, ptsd, animal death, major and minor character death, gore and grave ascension. there will be discussion around mental health, exploitation, age gap relationships, crisis of faith and satanism.
[ if you find these themes distressing please do not continue reading.your readership is NOT more important than your health. always prioritise yourself. ]
if anyone is uncomfortable with my casting in particular, i'm in the process of providing a age appropriate alternate cast, as exampled above. the optional cast is not essential to reading this book but i figured i'd give it a shot anyway -- it feels right in my tiny little heart, some just because the actors are icky and others just because why not,, let's actually have some younger actors playing teenagers !
DISCLAIMER ! . . . i do not own the vampire diaries and respective plots and characters are owned by cw and the respective creatives behind the vampire diaries/originals production team. this is loosely inspired by the chilling adventures of sabrina (yes, the one in the sigh riverdale universe) so credit due there for the little details i harvest from it here and there.
it is also inspired by the film/book series 'beautiful creatures' -- if you saw jeremy irons playing a man called macron and your brain went bingo, well done! you've understood a very niche and underrated reference and now you are my favourite kind of person in the world.
I DO... however own rosy and any plotlines that surround her and are separate to the show. this fic will weave in and out of canon and i will, simply, do as i please. canon can get boring sometime so i'm going to crack everything up a bit and just have a very demonic party with it.
DEDICATIONS ! . . . this one goes out to the milfs! annika, lindsay, hannah,
tina, ash, maheeka, aria, ema as always!
with special thanks to lindsay for making the cover!
read their books,, no fr,, read their books, they're unreal.
( foxgioves / 2022 )
STARTED · NOV '22
FINISHED · N/A