Stories by @mr95

The Lady of the Lake

Told entirely from the perspective of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, across three timelines simultaneously: her origin as a Celtic water-priestess during the Roman occupation; her long middle years watching over Excalibur and shaping events from the margins; and the aftermath of Arthur's fall, when she must decide what the next age of the world will look like. This is a slow, dreamlike series — closer to literary fiction adapted to screen than conventional fantasy. Morgana appears here as a younger woman who seeks Nimue as a teacher. Merlin appears as a former lover whose choices Nimue ultimately cannot forgive.

The Court of Camelot

Set entirely within the walls of Camelot at the height of Arthur's reign, this series is a political drama in the vein of I, Claudius and Succession. Arthur is a middle-aged king managing an increasingly ungovernable alliance. Guinevere runs the actual intelligence network of the kingdom. Lancelot is a traumatized war hero who has become a liability. Morgana is not a villain but a brilliant political operator excluded from power by gender. Season 1: The succession crisis. Season 2: The Grail quest fractures the court. Season 3: Guinevere and Lancelot. Season 4: The fall. Magic is ambiguous — always explainable, never confirmed.

The First Sword

A young, illiterate stable hand named Arturus discovers a strange iron sword buried beneath the ruins of a Roman fort. He cannot pull it free — until the night raiders burn his village. The story follows his brutal, unglamorous journey from orphaned peasant to reluctant warlord, with no magic, no prophecy, and no Round Table — only mud, iron, and loyalty. Merlin is here not a wizard but an aging Roman-trained physician and strategist who sees in Arturus the political instrument that could unite the fractured British kingdoms against the encroaching Saxon tide. The film ends not with triumph but with a single battle won and an uncertain dawn — the legend just beginning to breathe.

Descendants: Shadow Realm

A decade after the barrier fell, Auradon has flourished — but a rift between worlds has cracked open beneath Mal and Ben's kingdom. The Shadow Realm, a dimension where the echoes of vanquished villains fester into a living darkness, begins bleeding into reality. Six teenagers — heirs of heroes and villains alike — discover they alone carry the genetic magic needed to seal the rift. But doing so will require them to journey inside the Shadow Realm itself, where illusions take the form of their darkest selves. The film is equal parts epic fantasy adventure and coming-of-age character study, launching a new trilogy.

Descendants: Rise of the Forgotten Isle

A newly discovered island appears beyond the Isle of the Lost — a place where forgotten villains and side characters were banished. When magic begins leaking from it, a new generation of teens must investigate before it destabilizes Auradon.

This Time It's Real

An aspiring writer is forced to fake-date the C-drama actor at her school after her made-up essay about falling in love accidentally goes viral.

If You Could See the Sun

A scholarship student at an elite Beijing international school monetizes her invisibility powers by working with her academic rival to steal and sell her classmates’ secrets.

Escaping From Houdini

Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they’re delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. The strange and disturbing influence of the Moonlight Carnival pervades the decks as the murders grow ever more freakish, with nowhere to escape except the unforgiving sea. It’s up to Audrey Rose and Thomas to piece together the gruesome investigation as even more passengers die before reaching their destination. But with clues to the next victim pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer’s horrifying finale?

Hunting Prince Dracula

Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend. But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

Stalking Jack the Ripper

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

The Naturals

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie's help. What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides - especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.

The First Witch

Yackle is older than the Wizard, older than Shiz, older than the name "Oz" itself. She is a crone of indeterminate origin who appears at moments of magical inflection — a midwife, a prophetess, a warning no one heeds in time. This film, structured as a series of vignettes across centuries, traces her observations of Oz's magical history: how sorcery entered the land, why the Animals were given speech, and what dark covenant underpins the entire world. Visually unlike any Oz story ever told — dark, folkloric, and deeply strange.

Frex & Melena

Frex is the ambitious, joyless Governor of Munchkinland — a man who married for politics and loves his position more than his wife. Melena is a woman of passion, beauty, and deep, restless boredom who finds in a glassblower named Turtle Heart something her marriage never gave her. Their story is a quiet tragedy — intimate, morally complex, and culminating in the birth of a green child that will destroy them both in different ways.

The Wizard's Ascent

Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs was a mediocre circus illusionist from Omaha, Nebraska. Then his balloon went off-course and he landed in a golden field where a crowd of small people called him a wizard. This is the story of how a con man built an empire — and how the lies that made him king slowly consumed everything he once was. A tragicomic rise-and-fall origin told across eight deeply human episodes.

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Reality is ending. The Anti-Monitor, a being of antimatter and absolute entropy, erases entire universes from existence. Heroes from parallel timelines converge for a single, desperate stand at the dawn of creation. Not all will survive. Those who do will inherit a universe reborn — singular, permanent, and changed forever.

Black Adam

Five thousand years ago, Teth-Adam was the first mortal to bear Shazam's power — and was stripped of it for using it without mercy. Now, resurrected in the modern era, he is neither villain nor hero but something older: a king who never stopped fighting for his people, even when the world called him a monster.

Shazam: The Word of Power

Billy Batson is fourteen years old and in his fifth foster home when a dying wizard grants him the power of six gods. Shazam is the most powerful being on Earth — and the most confused. When Doctor Sivana steals the power of the Seven Deadly Sins, only a child's pure heart can stop the end of innocence.

Green Lantern Corps

Hal Jordan and John Stewart uncover a conspiracy within the Guardians of the Universe themselves. As the emotional spectrum fractures into seven corps — from the fear-yellow Sinestro Corps to the death-black Black Lanterns — the two Earth Lanterns must decide whether the Corps can be reformed from within or must be torn down entirely.

Justice League: Darkseid War

Darkseid has found the Anti-Life Equation embedded in humanity's collective unconscious. His forces, the Parademons, descend on every major city simultaneously. For the Justice League, this is not a battle — it is a war of annihilation. Heroes die. The world is changed forever. One hero makes a sacrifice that echoes across all timelines.

The Amazon War

The god of war has been rebuilding his power for seventy years, feeding on humanity's conflicts. Now Ares moves openly, raising an army of mythological creatures and fallen warriors. Diana must return to Themyscira, confront her mother's long-held secrets, and accept the full weight of her divine heritage to stop him.