Figure 8 has always been the brighter side of Outer Banks. Maybe it'd just been that way for Mikayla, or maybe it was simply her that seemed to keep the sun shining on those manicured lawns and deep blue waters. As sunny as her personality is, it wasn't a secret that she was something that didn't quite entirely belong - a new money Kook with Cut roots. It didn't hinder her from befriending Sarah Cameron and forming a longtime crush on none other than Rafe Cameron. At the start of the summer, Mikayla's crush finally becomes real when she and Rafe begin a relationship she's dreamed about since middle school. But as tensions rise between Kooks and Pogues and Sarah begins drifting toward John B Routledge and his friends, Mikayla finds herself caught in the drama of it all. Meanwhile, Mikayla begins noticing unsettling changes in Rafe - volatile mood swings, growing aggression, and a desperation for his father's approval that she doesn't fully understand. What begins as small cracks in the boy she's idolized for years slowly grows into something darker. By the end of the summer, as the hunt for the Royal Merchant reaches its climax and the truth about Rafe's violent actions begins to surface, Mikayla is forced to confront a devastating reality: the boy she spent years believing in may not be the person she thought he was. As friendships shift and loyalties fracture across the island, Mikayla's idealistic view of love, status, and belonging is shattered - leaving her standing between the Kook world she grew up in and the people she's only just begun to understand. (pre-s1 - s1) *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆ | pre-s1 | s1 - | mainfem!oc x multi ships | - | rafe cameron : pre-s1 - | - | *** | secfem!oc x jj maybank : s2 | | male!oc x kiara carrera : s3 | | canon | au | | fmc pov w/ multi oc's povs | | cover by @poisonedquills <3 |

They call her Sunshine. Not because she's naive. Not because she's soft. But because no matter how ugly the island gets, Solana still chooses warmth. At twenty-five, she's learned how to survive being a Pogue. She's learned how to keep her head down. She's learned exactly who the Kooks are-and exactly who Rafe Cameron is. What she hasn't learned? How to stop him from looking at her like she's the only light left on the island. And daylight doesn't belong to boys who live in the dark.

Kinslee Maybank didn't leave the Outer Banks for adventure-she left to survive. After high school, she headed for the mainland with nothing but a notebook, a stubborn streak, and the need to be more than where she came from. Writing turned into reporting, and reporting turned into a job that finally felt like a way out. Until it wasn't. One investigation led her somewhere she was never meant to go. A cold trail. A wrong name. A murder no one wanted reopened. When the pieces finally came together, so did the threats. Anonymous calls. Footsteps behind her at night. The sick certainty that someone was watching her-and enjoying the fear she couldn't shake. Terrified and running out of places to hide, Kinslee fled back to the only place that ever taught her how to endure. The Outer Banks. Back to salt air and old scars. Back to her brother, JJ Maybank, crashing on his couch with her old friends and trying to make a living in her old town. But what happens when her return doesn't go unnoticed? Word travels fast in the Outer Banks, and it doesn't take long before her name reaches the one person she never thought she'd see again. Rafe Cameron doesn't just hear that Kinslee is back-he hears why. Whispers about a murder investigation gone wrong. A stalker. A man who was still free and after her. And that's when Rafe starts paying attention. And once his attention locks onto Kinslee, the line between protection and possession begins to blur. Because if someone thinks they can touch what once belonged to him, and still does Rafe takes it personally. The past doesn't stay buried when it's soaked in unfinished business, and Rafe doesn't believe in coincidence. He inserts himself into her life under the guise of protection-offering resources, connections, solutions no one else can provide. Where love isn't soft, choices have consequences, and falling for the wrong person might cost you everything-but leaving him could cost you more.

Alaia Sinclair was Rafe Cameron's girl--the only light in a life drowning in his father's expectations and his own self-destruction. For three years, she tried to save him, but you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. So, she left. Now, years later, Alaia returns to the Outer Banks as the CEO of her late father's company. She is powerful, polished, and determined to keep her past exactly where it belongs. But Rafe isn't the same broken boy she left behind. He's gotten clean, taken control of his life, and has become the man she always believed he could be. And he's been waiting for her. What starts as unfinished business becomes something far more dangerous when a collision of old wounds and new desire, of the people they were and the people they've become. Rafe swears he won't make the same mistake twice, but Alaia Sinclair has always been his addiction, and some things run too deep to ever truly break. A dark romance about second chances, old wounds, and the fine line between devotion and obsession.

Lynnianna Keating. That name to most means royalty. But to her it meant nothing. Lynni hated the way she was. Being a Kook was torture. Fancy parties, big houses. Not her forte. So, how does a Kook change the way her life is? She befriends a pogue..or two and they bring her along for a scavenger hunt; which ultimately leads to bigger, better, and more dangerous things. (rafe cameron x fem oc x jj maybank) OUTER BANKS ! season 1-4 #3 in rudypankow - 2/2/26 cover by the beloved and amazingly talented: @swannluvr @vanitybeaches || 2023 ⓒ All Rights Reserved

〝𝙬𝙝𝙮? 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩? 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙚?〞 〝𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙥 𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜.〞 *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆ | twilight - | | fem!oc x edward cullen | | canon | au | | fmc pov w/ mmc pov | | cover by @poisonedquills |

In which Maeve Cameron & John B Routledge, once childhood friends torn apart by the island's divide, collide again when a treasure hunt digs up old secrets and even older feelings. Childhood Friends to Lovers / SLOW BURN! (John B x fem OC) Season One: In Progress Season Two: PLANNED Season Three: TBA Season Four: TBA

★・・・➤ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴀʟʟ, ᴄᴀᴘᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴍᴇ ୧‿̩͙ ˖︵‿̩͙‿੭༒︎ৎ‿̩͙‿︵˖ ‿̩͙୨ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ [ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ ꜰɪᴠᴇ - ɴɪɴᴇ]

WHEN WE WERE ON HONEYMOON AVENUE. THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY MULTIPLE POVS SEASON ONE - THREE cover by @amuors written by @wilqson

•••• "God, I have my father's eyes- but my sister's when I cry. I can run, but I can't hide from my family line." •••• Cara Miller left the community that she had helped her uncle and aunt build from the ground up- in the name of finding a missing friend in the ruins of the old world. She soon comes to the realization that she had bit off far more than she could chew, when she is suddenly thrown into a battle that she never should have been a part of. Love, sacrifice, selfishness and loss are the only things that she finds on her quest across the country after she reunites with her estranged father while he smuggles an immune thirteen-year-old girl across the country, in the name of finding a cure that could save whatever was left of the crumbled world. •••• LOVE INTEREST(S): light Henry Burrell x oc, Oc x Manny Alvarez Oc x Jesse SEASONS: 1- EPISODES COMPLETE: 1 (not following Joel and Ellie in 1-4 tho!!) CHAPTERS COMPLETE: 4 SEASONS COMPLETE: 0 IDEA: March 2nd 2023 STARTED: April 28th 2025 PUBLISHED: May 24th 2025 FINISHED: 🚧 WRITING STATUS: ongoing.