I’ve actually got two different versions for this AU but they both share some common characteristics:
- Abeke has an obsession with the occult and wants to start an occult club at their high school
- Meilin is a supoortive gf and immediately gets on board
- The club needs at least 3 members to become official so they need at least one more member.
- (Tarik eventually becomes able to see the ghost boy in both versions bc of occult accidents that he stumbled into.)
- After no one else in school expresses interest in the occult, they try to recruit someone they’re more familiar with.
- Abeke and Meilin manage to recruit their classmate, Rollan, after promising him that he doesn’t really have to do anything for the club and that he just needs to show up to meeting to prove that they actually have enough members.
- After some introductions at the first meeting, Abeke tries to summon a ghost with an old book found at their local library and they actually manage to summon a ghost.
- Conor is the Victorian ghost they summoned and has no memory of his previous life.
- He ends up not being as creepy as they were expecting. He acts just like a high school kid, except much more clumsy and bashful.
- When a teacher interrupts the meeting, Rollan, Abeke, and Meilin are all scared as to how they’ll explain the floating boy in the middle of the room above a summoning circle, but it turns out only the three of them can see Conor.
- The four of them try to live their days normally while simultaneously trying to figure out how to bring Conor to peace so he can be sent to the afterlife.
- When they try to figure out what to do with Conor after school (Abeke refuses that he be left alone), he ends up being dumped onto Rollan and stays at his house.
- Conor keeps managing to accidentally cause poltergeist shenanigans at school while the other three scramble to fix his messes.
- Rumor goes around that the school is haunted by a ghost, which draws attention to the occult club. The three (and Conor but he keeps failing) try to keep the hauntings on the low so that the club doesn’t get banned.
- (Rollan lives with and is adopted by Tarik, a teacher at the school. Tarik is also the faculty advisor for the occult club.)
- (Olvan and Lenori are principal and vice principal, respectively. The rest of the adult Greencloaks are teachers or staff. The rest of the child or younger cast are students.)
- Conor is a member of the student council and known for being very reliable and helpful so Meilin and Abeke go to him and practically beg him to join their club.
- Conor CANNOT PHYSICALLY say no so he agrees to join since he has the free time for it.
- After some introductions at the first meeting, Abeke tries to summon a ghost with an old book found at their local library and they actually manage to summon a ghost.
- Rollan is a ghost that they suspect is from the late 1800’s, who was very visibly poor and most likely homeless based on the rags he wore. He has no memory of his previous life.
- Turns out he isn’t into the whole scary part of the ghost business and instead of the creepiness the club was expecting from the ghost, Rollan just throws out insults and attitude instead.
- When their faculty advisor interrupts the meeting, the three members are scared to explain the floating boy above the summoning circle but the advisor doesn’t notice him. Only the three of them can see Rollan.
- After the advisor leaves, Rollan attempts to leave to go do his own thing, but he’s stopped by some sort of force connecting him to the other three.
- After some experimenting, it turns out he has to be within a certain distance of at least one of the club members at all times.
- Abeke is convinced that they have to help Rollan go to the afterlife. Meanwhile Rollan is not very fond of this idea and argues against it but Abeke is very adamant about it.
- After club hours are over, the three high schoolers (all Rollan is doing is complaining about his situation) try to figure out who Rollan’s going to stay with. After Meilin and Abeke ask Conor to keep him, he says yes because he can’t bring himself to say no.
- Conor stays with his parents and two brothers so he tries his best to seem normal while also trying to stop Rollan from messing stuff up in his house.
- His parents and brothers get kind of concerned over Conor’s nervousness so to avoid suspicion, Conor decides to lock himself in his room and tries to convince Rollan to stop causing chaos. It doesn’t work.
- Conor comes to a revelation that he’ll spend a lot of time confined to his room so that he doesn’t look crazy in front of his family for speaking to thin air.
- After that, Rollan keeps causing at least one of the club members trouble by messing with things in their classrooms.
- Rollan’s determined to have some fun by convincing the school that the school is haunted.
- As rumors of a ghost haunting the school starts circling, the occult club is in danger of being shut down. So Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan try to play nice with the ghost in hopes that he’ll grow to like them enough to stop trying to get them in trouble.
- Rollan is not convinced of their friendliness and is sure that there is a different motive in them being so friendly with him, which at first is true.
- While staying with Conor one night, he annoys Conor a bit too much while he’s trying to study and Conor breaks down angrily.
- Conor explodes at Rollan in a mess of tears and yells at him about how Conor’s been trying to be as good of a student as he can possible be, to get as many scholarships as possible so that he can get accepted into college, which is why he’s joining all these clubs. The fact that Rollan keeps distracting him because Conor has to always chase after him like a chaotic toddler is stressing him out so much along with the burden of wanting to be the first person in his family to go to college since they could never afford to.
- Rollan is silent after Conor’s outburst and Conor just decides to call it a night.
- Afterwards, Rollan seems to have reigned himself in a lot, to the surprise of Abeke and Meilin. They’re even more shocked when Rollan tells them about how he wants to help them figure out how to get him to pass on (Conor feels a bit guilty but doesn’t bring it up).
- The only problem is that Rollan needs his memories to do that so as they try to help Rollan regain his memories, they also try to get the club to stay active since the schools convinced they summoned a ghost to haunt the school.
- Rollan reluctantly agrees to stop intentionally haunting the classrooms but accidents happen.
Thanks to whoever got this far in reading my rambling! This AU is pretty popular among my friends so I’ll hope you guys like it too! As you can probably tell, the Ghost!Conor version is a lot sillier than the Ghost!Rollan version. Which is also why there’s less of it written because most of the storyline is hilarities and hijinks rather than the angst that is the Ghost!Rollan version.
This first came to me when I thought of Abeke and Meilin being occult club girlfriends and the Ronor plot kinda developed from there. Meilin and Abeke are very much involved in the plot and that’ll be clear as day whenever I write a fic or two about this. They all very much become an occult club family!
