Carnival Row - Legacy

Season 1 (Ideas for a plot)

Premise

It's 20 years later. Women in the Burgue had and still have some degree of rights, but the patriarchy is still strong and a lot of men, rich and poor, don't like the idea of more progress and women being allowed more agency and being heard - much like they don't like the cojoined forces of them and faefolk advocating together for being treated as equals to them, also by the police (here's Dombey).

The story follows the now young adult children of the main set of characters and a few more new ones:

Darianne Philostrate, the daughter of Philo and Cicely, his wife, a human herbswoman he met at some point after the show, Amber Larou-Stonemoss, the adopted daughter of Vignette and Tourmaline, Clarisse Astrayon, the daughter of Agreus and Imogen (she also has an older adoptive brother, Pantelis (the boy they rescued from the streets) and Delia Quince, a secretairy at police department 6. There are also Althea and Zoe, the daughters of the faun doctor Philo met in season 1, and Dombey's son Rafe.

The present

A women's right's movement is active, but around this time, women and faefolk start dissappearing and bodies as well as completely confused/apathetic individuals with strange burning marks on their temples - Darry starts investigating, her friend Clary first recognizes the burning marks as electric burns - Darry continues to investigate and asks Amber, who's fish she buys (and recognizes from their previous encounter above the woods) if she's seen anything strange - latter agrees to help and, being kind of interested in her and the case, they meet up more often and join Clary for meetings women's rights advocates, where they meet Delly, who's there in disguise because the police department send her to collect info and report back to them - however, this gives her the chance to listen to these people and she's not against them. The four of them continue to investigate and eventually come across a plot where a local high-security mental institution, in cooperation with the police and the Burgue government, wants to abduct the leaders of the cause and, via electroshocks, make them incapable of continuing their work and by that destroy the entire cause, also by scaring their followers with what they did to their leaders (underrestimating the cause as a whole)

After a lot of trouble, they track down the location of the hospital - which is familiar to Clary's adoptive brother. His sister, a faun seer, was abducted by police officers and his eye damaged when he tried to protect her - he eventually, after being treated by Zoe's father, found out via what some witnesses on the Row saw that they took her to this institution. He spent a lot of time around it, but could never get in and eventually went back to the Row... but he knows the area. And his sister might still be there.

Around this time, the police abducts young Zoe, who has been advocating for the women and fae rights movement at her school (she's the youngest in the group), from her home and incarcerates her in a larger cell with the lost sister, who's been cared for there, so she could make predictions for them properly, but essentially has been in prison since her abduction.

The girls do manage to get in all together (go faeries and Amber living up to her mother's legacy), to rescue the abducted people (some of which are yet unharmed and can testify to the public - that includes Zoe, nothing happened to her yet, and the sister) and Clary destroys the electro machine (go Astrayon electricity's heiress!). This is also where Rafe distracts the police for the night, resulting in him faking his own death by jumping off a bridge into the river and boarding a ship in disguise en suite (he has letters delivered to his friends). They manage the rescue, but despite having entered armed too, the fight to get out is rough and Telly's sister is killed in his arms - she transfers her powers to him, however.

The public is outraged at what happened and a public dispute is erupting between those agreeing with the new cause and those still firmly against it. The girls and Telly recieve the letters from Rafe (latter locked himself in his room when they returned and was left alone by his family when he briefly came out, so only learns now that he had gone missing in the first place).

The girls watch as the public is rallying up, as their cause is, and how heated the situation has gotten - but as Darry remarks, in reference to a song her father used to sing her when she was little "Maybe it needs to get loud before it can be properly quiet for the first time. And I, for one... can no longer "lay low".

Roll credits ^

Big thanks to r/jayoungr for the help and support :) I'm on a roll in how many directions this could go, and it's really fun :)

Edit: that Dombey's son already had a name I only found out during research XD and I realized:

Rafe, if it's spelled like this, means "wise wolf" or "counsel of the wolf" - but when I first read it, I interpreted it as short for "Raphael", the arcangel of healing (which it is in romanic languages and hebrew) ... and idk both versions kind of imply canon Rafe was being set up to become a better person than his father some day