PREQUEL TO "ALIVE"
(While Alive is a phanfiction, this story features no Phan (no Dan at all actually) and mostly original characters. While many of them are named after real people, none of the characters in this story are based on real personalities or circumstances at all. This is an entirely original, fictional work. [You don't have to ship Phan or be in any fandoms to enjoy this story. You can read it before, during, or after reading Alive and it won't really make a difference. You can read this and not Alive or Alive and not this. it doesn't really matter. However, if you do read this and Alive this will provide a lot of context for things mentioned in that fic.] Okay that was a lot of information lets get to the description.)
DESCRIPTION: Diana, Jamie, Sophie, PJ, Chris, and Phil are six best friends determined to make the best short film any thirteen-and-fourteen-year-olds have ever made. But things get complicated when puberty and hormones start to take over their lives, bringing romance, peer pressure, and that oh-so-important desire to fit in right along with them.
TW: mentions of self-harm and depression, partes, social anxiety, sadness
THERE'S MOSTLY HAPPY STUFF THOUGH LOTS OF HAPPY STUFF DONT LET THE TW SCARE YOU AWAY
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Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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