To be determined Kelly Cartera Viare Exclusive

Kelly Cartera, co-founder of Viare, will be producing an animated Viare Exclusive series, to be released prior to 2022. Though she has developed several ideas for what this series will be, no single idea has been greenlit for full production.

Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest (stylized in all caps) is a horror fantasy series created by Kelly Cartera. It is potentially an upcoming Viare Exclusive.

Little detail surrounding the plot of Dark Harvest exists. What is known is that the series will overall have an ominous atmosphere and a more mature, morbid story. Cartera has stated that she got the idea for the title and feel of the series during a thunderstorm and wrote a draft script for the first episode fueled by "Billie Eilish and Dr. Pepper". The show will also draw from Cartera's own life, with place and character names being potentially taken from real life.

Though, Cartera has also stated that Dark Harvest is proving to be "the hardest thing [she's] ever pushed [herself] to create" and has said that she loves the atmosphere, energy, and some ideas she's had for the show, but overall feels that Dark Harvest is underdeveloped and in need of multiple revisions, and that she has had more writers block with this show than any other script she's created.

If Dark Harvest is greenlit, it will consist of 3 seasons, each season containing 6 half-hour-long episodes (for 6, 6, 6). The show would be released in the month of either October or November, because the series itself is set in winter. 2021 would be the most likely year of release as Cartera has remarked that due to difficulty writing, and production times for series in general, a 2020 release is an "optimal impossibility". For the shows animation, Cartera has said she would want it done by Toronto-based studio Solis Animation due to Cartera having become a fan of work done by the studio after viewing Rare Americans music videos.

Junior's High
Junior's High is an American animated sitcom and potential upcoming Viare Exclusive created by Kelly Cartera (credited as Bubblegum Ice Cream).

Set in the all-American suburban town of Southwest, Junior's High follows its 15-year-old title character, Junior, alongside his friends Tiffany and Doug, as they navigate their sophomore year at North Southwest High School. Together they endure plane crashes, mean jocks, social media, school-hosted water parks, their own imbalanced hormones, elections, long lunch lines, marijuana legalization, and much, much more.

Cartera first conceptualized Junior's High in August of 2018, just days before beginning her freshman year of high school. Of her potential Viare Exclusives, Junior's High is the most developed. Cartera has also stated that it's her personal favorite. The series has a much more colorful, brighter art style and atmosphere compared to Cartera's other shows. It also tends to have very outlandish plots (the series planned first episode. "Pilot", involves Junior and Tiffany stealing an airplane which they crash into the school due to their inexperience at flying and general incompetence). If greenlit, the show's first season would consist of anywhere from 16 to 24 episodes, each episode around 20 minutes in length. The show would be rated OA for frequent use of strong language, crude humor, and mild scenes of cartoon violence.

However, despite Junior's High being the most developed, most known about, and a favorite show of Carteras', it is increasingly unlikely that the show will be greenlit. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United States have been and continue to be widespread and ever-shifting. Online schooling has become the nationwide normal, and, Cartera predicts, will stay that way, possibly long after the pandemic ends. "The idea for my show, my mocking of the high school drama genre, is outdated" she has stated. "Junior's High is pre-Viare, and maybe it'd be best if it stayed that way".

Lorena's House of Mythicals
Lorena's House of Mythicals (abbreviated in production to LHOM) is an American fantasy adventure series created by Kelly Cartera with potential to be an upcoming Viare Exclusive.

The show follows Lorena Perez, a gas station attendant in northern Michigan. She lives on her own, in a home in a secluded area. Lorena discovers that the woods on her property is filled with supernatural creatures. With the help of her friends, Lorena continues through the series finding these creatures and caring for them.

Cartera created Lorena's House of Mythicals in November of 2019, inspired by the music of Canadian alternative group Rare Americans and her own experiences growing up in rural upstate New York. The show was the first idea Cartera ever considered becoming a Viare Exclusive. It was greenlit for 2 seasons upon its conception. Cartera even reached out to a few friends for becoming possible voice actors. Just as with Dark Harvest Cartera would want Lorena's House of Mythicals to be oroduced by Solis Animation.

However, despite having already technically been greenlit, Crtera has stated the the show remains "just one of a handful of possiblities" for a Viare Exclusive, and that it still may not be produced to allow for other ideas from Cartera to take priority if she so chooses. It is also of note that the show's style and ambiance is extremely similar to that of Dark Harvest, the only main difference according to Cartera being that "Dark Harvest is, well... darker." Cartera has stated that if she is to collaborate with Solis Animation, she would have to make a decision between Dark Harvest and Lorena's House of Mythicals.

Welcome to Wayward
Welcome to Wayward, sometimes shortened to simply Wayward, is an American animated fantasy adventure comedy series created by Kelly Cartera (credited as Bubblegum Ice Cream). Although initially planned to be created as a YouTube webseries, the show now may potentially become a Viare Exclusive.

Lucky Gohappi is a persistently cheery and optimistic 14-year-old boy who lives in the fictional city of Wayward. Wayward is surrounded by hundreds of monsters that constantly wreck havoc as they try to infest the town. Lucky's antics often attract the monsters, which he is then forced to fight off. Lucky can typically be found alongside his only two friends, the cynical and ill-tempered Unmelodious, and the typical voice-of-reason yet clumsy Bounty.

The idea of Welcome to Wayward first started to come to Cartera in September of 2018. According to Cartera, she was in her creative writing class when the word "unmelodious" came up in conversation and she thought it sounded like a good name for a goth character. From there, Cartera started to create character designs and plots and titles for episodes of what would become Welcome to Wayward.

The show is markedly more family friendly than Cartera's other creations, rated AA. The series would also be more 'comedy-centric' and more episodic (consisting of few to none over arching themes or narratives) than any of the others listed here. Just like Junior's High, Welcome to Wayward is very developed. "I have created two seasons at least; in my mind and on paper..." Cartera has claimed. "...and yet I haven't even been greenlit for one!"

Other options
Cartera has said that she likes all the ideas listed here and will have trouble picking just one (that being the main reason why none of these have been greenlit). Though extremely unlikely, it is still possible, if Viare is successful enough, that all of these could be given full series.

Fun facts
Cartera has expressed a desire to play Junior in Junior's High and/or Lucky in Welcome to Wayward. If either Junior's High or Welcome to Wayward is greenlit, it will likely be the last time Cartera ever portrays a male character, as she has also made it her goal to receive a laryngeal chondroplasty, as part of her transition, to make her voice sound more feminine.

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