Yes indeed. I think the main thrust, the main cast of characters, are the dead ones, with some liberties taken. Dan Scott being the main liberty, but I think it's obvious he has no issue crossing between universes as he chooses. Wherever there's a war, that's where he is. But this is no simple good vs. evil fight. There's obviously the Scott brothers conflict, which also involves their childhood flashback counterparts. I guess we have to make a choice on the Dan/Sears relationship, because originally we had them as enemies, but then the next day they were high-fiving over holding child Keith's hand over a fire. I'm thinking the entire story line begins with Dan Scott fighting hard to bring John Sears into the Ghost War world. At first they have a relationship that's a lot like Old Biff and Young Biff in Back To The Future II. "Leave me alone, OLD MAN! I'm not interested in fighting your dead brother in a quasi-afterlife! There are a lot of depressed, homeless, 16 year-old girls in L.A. that I have yet to sweet talk and skewer!" Dan will not take no for an answer of course, so he chokes Sears to death by shoving a deflated basketball down his wind-pipe. Now crossing over into the Ghost War, Sears is pissed, but elated to find he has the power to shoot an endless supply of black marbles out of his mouth. Unfortunately he can't shoot them very far or with much velocity, because his throat is still clogged with a basketball. So he runs in circles around Dan spilling marbles out of his mouth hoping Dan will make a wrong move and slip, which Dan is somehow able to avoid. He watches this spectacle for a full five minutes and then calls Sears a "schmuck" before he puts a supernatural collar on him and gets him under control. So the Sears/Scott war is ended, and Dan Team vs. Keith Team begins, with lots of interrupting story arcs, some of which will include:
*Peyton's mom's huntresses that are ghosts but HATE ghosts
*attempts by both teams to get Whitey on their side, who has been on the edge of death for fifty years at least
*sort of a constantly running sideline story of the loner Jimmy Edwards, always walking around with his sweatshirt hood on, looking mysterious. He watches every fight, but never chooses a side, might meddle occasionally, but only to keep things fair. He's the only one in Ghost War with a legit gun.
*another side story is Jimmy Edwards vs. Mick Wolf, who crosses over into Ghost War after electrocuting himself onstage after crying over his daughter on a live wire. One loner vs. another, except one is super cool and one is just a mixture of depression and anger
And so on. There are a lot of brushes with death on One Tree Hill, so everytime someone almost dies, they pass into the Ghost War universe for that time. So Nathan, Cooper, and Rachel would have all visited when the car went off the bridge. And maybe people cross over during insane trauma, like Brooke comes over everytime she gets the shit beat out of her by an intruder.
*VERY NECESSARY NOTE* I'm posting this at almost 11pm and I started writing it around 7, so I may already be behind! My computer shut off on its own at one point and I almost cried like Keith when Lucas is in the hospital. But then I got it back up and the draft was saved through Blogger, and I cried like Keith when Lucas got chest hair.
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