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DISASTER CLASS
❝One for the yearbook!❞
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❝You know, for a bunch of famous people, you four sure know how to cause a lot of shit without getting noticed.❞

— Disaster Class, AU
( Set in an alternate universe where all of my oc's are connected by one thing: The disastrous actors who play them. )

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⠀⠀⠀⠀ELLIOT is a fuckup.

⠀⠀⠀⠀He always has been. Great first impression, he knows, but he's always been the straightforward type — had actually said "Hi, I'm Elliot and I'm a fuckup," on a first date once, to which his date laughed and told him he was really funny, which he wasn't. He was being serious. Then again, Elliot isn't really known for being the 'Good At Dating' type.

⠀⠀⠀⠀One thing Elliot Bleil is known for, however, is being that one kid from that once-obscure turned overhyped-but-good Netflix series, Stranger Things. And really, if he's being honest, it might be the only opportunity Elliot hasn't managed to screw up yet, which is pretty ironic considering his starring character on the show, Thorn Dillon-Holman is a bit of a loveable fuckup himself. And so, yeah. It's no wonder Elliot talks about his character so much given they're so similar and, well... who can blame the guy? Teenage girls seem to be doing the same, what with hundreds of fanfictions about Thorn popping up all over the internet lately. And don't get Elliot wrong: It's cute. Hell, he'd want to kiss Thorn too if only he didn't have his face!

⠀⠀⠀⠀But he does have his face, and he supposes that's where the problem lies. With Stranger Things blowing up and the retro eighties-fad making a resurgence, Elliot Bleil is suddenly getting more buzz and attention than ever. And he won't lie... it's starting to make him uncomfortable.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Elliot doesn't want to be famous anymore. Go fucking figure, right? How ironic of him to not want such a thing when it was him who had checked into the life of paparazzi, flocking fans, interviews, award shows, appearances and, of course, films. But the public seems to forget — even Elliot does sometimes — that before all of that there had to come the 'Background Extras Needed' and the 'Stuntman For Hire' and the 'Last Minute Guitarist' ads Elliot sent self-made audition tapes to. He was sixteen then and innocent and impressionable with shitty grades, living with his budget-tight family whom he'd do anything for. Thus the hundred auditions he never heard a word back from, the extra shifts as a babysitter — a babysitter, for fucks sakes! — and him holding so much respect for his cool-as-all-shit older brother, whom has looked out for him and their sick mother ever since, well... since as long as he can remember.

⠀⠀⠀⠀So you see, Elliot Bleil has always been used to the simple life. It was only by chance he got that one callback for a movie titled something inconspicuous only to get the part and find himself staring at a script for "The Maze Runner." How could he have known it would jumpstart his acting career for real? People kill for that kind of luck!

⠀⠀⠀⠀Which is why, four years later, he maybe, sort of, might be a fuckup when he cracks under the pressure of fame and decides to skip town two weeks before his next big movie premiere with only his friends knowing where he's going: Back home, he says. For good.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀WARREN is a fuckboy.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Well... he used to be (and, yeah, maybe he occasionally still talks like one, but he swears he's changed — honest!). Gone are the years of the cliche high school "Jock meet Cheerleader" bullshit and in are the days of this "New and Sorta Improved" Warren Liberato (opinions may vary). And yeah, maybe he's had more hookups than girlfriends. Maybe he hated being forced into that lame Shakespearian school play alongside the drama kids. It was that or get expelled instead for that one time he and his teammates broke into their rivalling school to trash the football team's locker room. And yeah, sure... maybe Warren did end up enjoying himself in the play, after all (and the destruction that lead him there). But, well... what Warren is trying to say is: Maybe trashing that locker room was a blessing in disguise. Hell, that entire goddamn play sure was. Perfect, popular Warren Liberato graduated with a full athletic scholarship to Oregan State — could have done anything, made it big. So it's safe to say no one expected him to raise his middle finger to his overbearing football coach father and yell one last final "Fuck you, Dad!" before disappearing from his home town for forever, spouting some uncharacteristic bullshit about Hollywood.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Warren wishes he could have been home to see the look on everyone's faces when news broke he — an amateur, nobody actor — got cast as Bellamy Ronan in an actual Hollywood movie; a prequel to, oh, you know... just this little movie you may have heard of called The Hunger Games.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Now he's famous and has a pretty, way too good for him girlfriend — his co-star, actually — whom he can't go an hour without seeing or hearing, lest he have another panic attack like the other hundred he's had outside of her company. So, okay... Warren used to be a high school fuckboy. His girlfriend, the famed and beautiful Amara Belmonte changed him, though; made him faithful, sensitive, kind. And he loves her for it — loves her so fucking much that it hurts, really. His character in The Hunger Games prequel must have had something to do with that change, too, for playing a heartthrob sweetheart with daddy issues like Bellamy Ronan onscreen wasn't easy to accomplish when being a dickhead was all Warren Liberato used to know. But he's learning to be better. He is. Oh, but if only his own dipshit, mentally abusive father would stay out of his fucking life after disowning him three years ago.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀AMARA is a possessive bitch.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Well, to be fair, below her loving "Mom Friend of the Group" personality, this rumour might be a little true — trust her, it keeps her up at night — but this doesn't stop Amara from falling into the wormhole of deny, deny, DENY. So what if her boyfriend is Warren Liberato, only the most gorgeous thing she's ever laid her eyes upon? So what if everyone else in the world knows this, too, and so what if every comment on social media talks about how much they love him and hate her, blowing his Instagram dm's up with messages that radiate thirst? Amara doesn't care. Her? The jealous type? No way!

⠀⠀⠀⠀Then again... Why hasn't he fucking proposed to her already? And... okay, sure, they're young and dumb and in love and Amara might be feeling a little desperate. Warren is too good for her and she doesn't deserve him, yada yada yada, but— Well... maybe Amara really is possessive. A bitch? Not so much. No one had even considered her until her junior year of high school when she decided to ditch the books and her shy wallflower persona, trading them in for high heels and an emotionless husk of a body in order to sign herself onto a record label they only wanted the best and most beautiful girl for. She got the callback. Her first song hit platinum across North and South America and she jettisoned into her music career by the young age of seventeen.

⠀⠀⠀⠀It was a dream come true. Some dreams evolve into nightmares, though. For one, she shouldn't have walked into that label with high heels, red lipstick and a push-up bra and not have expected that to become a staple of her brand. Sweaters from her floor and cargo and zero makeup from her innocent wallflower days would be no more. Now she has a reputation to uphold — the charming and young "pretty girl" everyone wants to see more of — and for the past five years since her signing, it's made her all the more fucked up and emotionally devoid, covering up her true self and changing her for the worst.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Which is why she might feel so — what was the word again? — possessive over that damned Warren Liberato. He was the first person she opened up to in forever; her first co-star in their very first movie, her first boyfriend, her first love. Problem is, that leaves room for him to be the first person to break her heart, and Amara won't let that happen... even if she accidentally takes preventions a little too far.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀SCOUT is a ghost.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Invisible, more like or— Well... as invisible as one can get when starring as Jessica McCall in MTV's Teen Wolf, that is. Invisible nonetheless? Sure. Not in the superpower sense (which would be way cooler in her opinion) but in the everyday sense where only some people stick out to you in passing whilst others blur by without you ever knowing they were there. Rory Mayhew is the latter of the two. Scout is who she's better known as by friends, and within good reason. Never seen without a camera, Scout is usually seen, well... scouting out the world for that one perfect shot. Her favourite subjects are people, and given that all of her friends are, well, pretty goddamn beautiful people, she has a knack for photographing them in particular.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Perhaps that's why she's the first to notice something different about them; something... off. Elliot Bleil is oddly quiet for once, Warren Liberato won't open up to anyone anymore — even his girlfriend — and Amara Belmonte won't stop snooping around Warren's cellphone — Scout caught her in the act twice (or maybe it was three times?) so she'd know.

⠀⠀⠀⠀And she'd know, of course, because of the fact that she's a ghost. It's not that everyone mentioned above has a habit of ignoring her or anything. Scout just knows how to blend in, stay quiet and observe the world around her. It's what she's best at. It's why she can pick out the perfect shot to take in a sea full of people and dense LA smog, seeing the beauty in the little things. Then again, she also sees the beauty in the worst. And, well, almost everyone she knows is kind of the worst. Even her.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Try as she might to be the perfect college student balancing books and grades and an acting career, Rory Mayhew is just as — erm, what's that bad word? — fucked up as everyone else. She knows too many secrets that aren't her own and might have maybe anonymously posted one of said secrets online a few years ago... and made an entire blog out of it creatively titled "LA Observations" (aka, the L.A.O). But she hasn't posted about anyone she personally knows before, she swears! At least, not publicly... and with Elliot, Warren and Amara acting so weird, documenting them for herself is beginning to sound tempting.

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⠀⠀⠀⠀ELLIOT, WARREN, AMARA AND SCOUT are all friends. Best friends? Maybe. They jokingly (and not so jokingly) flirt with one another a little too much to go as deep as that. And it's really no secret the four of them are just as problematic as the other. They're messy. They're shit talkers. They fight like enemies, flirt like lovers and yet, they depend on one another like they're each other's limbs; sever one off, and they'll hurt and stumble. Cut off the head, and like a hydra, two more grow back in it's place. Fucking cheesy, they know, but what's a good story without a little flavour?

⠀⠀⠀⠀And oh, what a story they certainly have. With fuckup Elliot going on the run, fuckboy Warren's past coming back to bite him in the ass, possessive Amara having a quarter-life crisis and the invisible Scout being there to document it all, how could anything possibly get more disastrous?

⠀⠀⠀⠀Trick question.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Everything goes to hell.

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STARRING CAST
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Tom Holland stars as...
ELLIOT BLEIL
( fic: static )

twenty | german-american | enfp

— ❝ I'm a subpar human at best. ❞

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Froy Gutierrez stars as...
WARREN LIBERATO
( fic: fragments )

twenty | mexican-american | estp

— ❝ Vete a la mierda, asshole! You
leave my shitty friends out of this! ❞

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Sofia Carson stars as...
AMARA BELMONTE
( fic: fragments )

twenty-two | columbian | isfj

— ❝ He took my virginity so I
plan on taking his last name. ❞

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Ryan Newman stars as...
RORY ❛SCOUT❜ MAYHEW
( fic: instinct )

nineteen | canadian-american | infp

— ❝ I am... confused. Situationally?
Sexually? Both? Who knows. ❞

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WITH...

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Bryan Dechart as...
AARON BLEIL

— ❝ Elliot, I love you little brother,
but for the love of God, shut up. ❞

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AND...

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Young Jessica Alba as...
PAIGE LAUREANO

— ❝ So... Warren the heartbreaker fell for the girl this time around. Sucks to be the sucker, doesn't it, kiddo? ❞

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[ + additional cast ]
static cast as themselves
fragments cast as themselves
stranger things cast as themselves
& teen wolf cast as themselves

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S O C I A L S
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@elliot.bleil
stranger things — the maze runner

@warrenliberato
the hunger games — teen wolf

@amarabelmonte
the hunger games

@rorythescout
teen wolf

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ADDITIONAL INFO.
i. — This story will be confusing. Nothing will make sense, so try to bare with me, lol. You do not have to read any/all of my fics to read Disaster Class. It will help you better understand, of course, but it isn't necessary. This really can be read as it's own standalone "coming of age young adult" book if you ignore the references and jokes the characters make to my fics.

ii. — Multiple celebrities will make appearances in this story. To make things easier on you and myself, their usernames on social media will be written as their full names instead of what their real handles are (for example, Joe Keery is uncle_jezzy in real life, but here, he'll be joekeery)

iii. — If you want to learn more about the characters Elliot, Warren and Scout play in my fics, you can check out my meet my oc's book Memories for more info about their respective characters (Thorn, Bellamy and Jess). This excludes Amara, as her character Demetria won't have a profile posted at the time of me making this. I also recommended checking out Static and Fragments of course ;-) Just... DON'T read Instinct. It's old, I hate it, and I'll be retconning a lot of dumb things about Jess's character anyway. The only character referenced in the story who doesn't belong to me is Nolan Holloway from Teen Wolf (whom Warren plays). I usually don't like writing my famous oc's taking over real characters (aka, Warren replacing Froy Gutierrez) but I mean, this one just makes sense to me since Scout is supposed to be apart of the Teen Wolf cast too!

iv. — Disaster Class includes multimedia imagery, therefore it's recommended you read with a WiFi connection. The story takes place through both social media posts and the "real world" and will switch between the perspectives of Elliot, Warren, Amara and Scout in no particular order (though it should be noted that Elliot and Warren might get more opportunities to narrate, as I see them as the main main characters, if that makes sense?)

v. — Each character has their own plot inspired by the oc's they play in my stories. Elliot (like Thorn) is struggling through life, not really feeling like he belongs, but one constant remains: His love for his friends and his family. Warren (like Bellamy) obviously has a lot of daddy issues and will have to break through that (only difference being that Warren's father is an actual prick whereas Bellamy's father wasn't) and Warren is, well, obviously quite the pretty boy, only he embraces it because why not??? Amara (like Demetria) suppresses her emotions because she has a public 'image' to uphold even though she's really loving beneath her tough exterior. And finally, Scout (like Jess) is poking around in business she shouldn't really be getting into which turns out to be an OOF.

vi. — Elliot (Tom Holland) will not portray Peter Parker in this universe. I'm not going to dwell on who does instead because it's not important, but... yeah. I just feel like Spidey is too major of a role for Elliot's character, as he's only just broken in with the big league a-listers and his central plot will be about him struggling to deal with this sudden fame he maybe doesn't want so much anymore. So yeah... Elliot has no association whatsoever to Marvel or Spidey in this universe (sorry!)

vii. — Literally no one is straight. Elliot, Warren and Amara are bisexual (Warren obviously so, as he's very open about his sexuality) and Scout is sexually confused (unsure if she's bi or leaning more towards lesbian). Everyone will also deadass flirt with each other like, all the time in this story (especially Elliot and Warren lmfao).

viii. — In the description of this book it says "Multiple love interests" but that might change. Obviously Warren and Amara are together, and I really want Elliot to get with a guy (maybe Joe Keery?) and for Scout to have a crush on a girl, but I'm really not sure how to fit anyone else in since this book is more about friendship and self discovery. So I don't know. If you have any suggestions of what I should do, let me know! Even if like, Elliot runs into a cute guy on his road trip and the guy tags along, I'm all for that shit, I just need a faceclaim and a backstory, lol.

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DISCLAIMER.
This feels kind of weird to say, but I guess Disaster Class is entirely an original story, and therefore, I own everything in it? Oh, aside from the shows and/or movies the characters are apart of, so... disclaimer for that: I don't own Stranger Things, The Hunger Games or Teen Wolf.

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WARNING.
Disaster Class will contain strong coarse language, (mild) underage drinking, sexual content (not smut), depictions of mental illnesses such as depression, insomnia and anxiety disorder, mentions of mental abuse (specifically towards Warren as a kid), and dumb not-so teenagers doing dumb stuff as they go on a road trip of self discovery.
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DEDICATION.
To those of you who asked for this (for some reason, lmao) and to all of my readers and followers. From those of you who have been there from the very beginning to those of you who discovered me today or even yesterday, all of you are the reason I continue to write even when I come up with maybe not so good ideas such as this mess of a story!

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PUBLISHED:
[ Feb 12th, 2019 ]
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( previous covers by me )

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