This is super rough, but I can't be bothered to make it all shiny and pretty. Beware, there are probably swear words and unintelligible keysmashing below.
This is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Oliver is big popular musician, falls in love with Ellie who is beautiful and perfect and everything that’s wonderful in this world. She dies from a snake bite on their honeymoon, he mourns, writes depressing ass music, shady person tells him to go see Hayden (hades). He begs to get her back, at any cost, he doesn’t care. Hayden teases him asking is he sure that he’s willing to do anything to get her back, does he even know how she really died, who she really was? He gets all defensive and angry and is like she was perfect whatever and Hayden’s all ‘fine, if you’re so sure, I’ll give you access to what you wish. If you can bring her back from the underworld, she’s yours alive for as long as her natural life would have been.” He’s happy and thankful and aioewjgsd and she’s like “On one condition. You cannot look upon her face until you return to our realm, should you do so, you will lose her forever.”
Oliver sets forth in the Underworld to find her. Dark place. Like a shadow version of the real world, but with nightmarish versions of people and creatures. Has to hunt down Ellie, tries not to look anyone in the face while trying to find her in case he accidentally stumbles on her. Eventually does find her, but she doesn’t remember who he is (the memories of life come back over time) so he has to hold on to her to bring her back, but when he touches her, the other underworld creatures attack. He must come up with a system to keep them bound together without looking at her face.
The memories start coming back with him there, but even as she falls back in love with him, part of her doesn’t want to go with him because there’s a lot about her that he doesn’t know. She doesn’t quite have the sunshine and daisies past that he thinks she does. He’s battling the other Underworld creatures and trying to get her back to the portal to the world of the living. She might cut and run at some point. Hmm, maybe they go back to where the portal was and it moved. Hayden’s moved it and they have to find it? Might be too complicated idk.
At any rate, they somehow eventually get to the portal and Ellie seems happy to be with him, they’re laughing and kissing (eyes closed) and just as Oliver swings her over the threshold he looks into her smiling face and watches her dissolve in his arms.
Now he’s back in the realm of the living, begging to have her, inconsolable, but Hayden already granted him his bargain and now she wants to collect on her payment. His mortality. He will become immortal. Never to die, never to join his love in death. Forever alive to remember her, but never to be with her. If he had succeeded, the price would have been his life for hers. Either way he was going to lose, but what do you expect when you make a deal with the devil?
For some reason I keep picturing Evan Rachel Wood as Hayden, Darren Criss as Oliver, and Dianna Agron as Ellie. /le shrug
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