a study in: inserting yourself in someone else's narrative, unintentionally inviting something dark in, being haunted, the nightmares never stop, losing sleep over someone else's story, following the story no matter what, being drawn deeper into the dark, being tempted by evil, unintentionally destroying the lives of others.
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
religious imagery, "satanic" imagery, possession, discussions of possession, obsessive tendencies, being stalked by demonic forces, cult imagery, discussions of cults, murder, death, haunts, spirits, chronic nightmares, mentions of cancer.Character Rules:
1. Luna is the driving force behind the Late Night with the Devil documentary. She is the one who, in world, discovered the lost Night Owls and researched the events leading up to and surrounding the events of that night. She knows more about Jack Delroy and the events of "that night" than any other living person.2. I will not shy away from darker aspects of religion, religious abuses, mentions of conspiracy theories, etc. due to how it plays into the backstory of Late Night and how it plays into the overall lore of the film. If you're sensitive to these subjects, I strongly suggest either approaching with caution or avoiding this blog entirely.
3. Before Late Night with the Devil, Luna was a well known and well respected journalist and documentarian. She would be well known within the space and it's possible that your muse would recognize her from either Late Night or one of her previous works. Late Night was received with scorn and it damaged her reputation, bringing her from well respected to someone to be looked at with quite a bit of scorn. If you choose to have your muse recognize her, please keep this in mind!
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Biography:
I'm still working on developing Luna's character, so take a rough bio as things develop!- Luna's parents were incredibly busy with their careers ( father is a successful surgeon and mother is a journalist ) for most of her younger years. As a result, she often spent her time at her grandparents' house. They filled her time with joy and laughter, instilling a love of older media of all kinds in her from a very young age.
- When she was about seven years old, her grandfather got his hands on old tapes of an old talk show called Night Owls. He talked fondly of staying up to watch the show with his parents, saying how it was the only late night show that they'd let him watch and how they'd prefered Delroy over Carson. He asked Luna if she wanted to watch with him and she instantly agreed, happy to watch anything with her grandfather.
- She instantly fell in love with the show, even going so far as to develop a crush on Delroy. She thought he was quite handsome and incredibly funny. Her grandfather was very amused by the whole thing and was very careful how he encouraged it, knowing Delroy's tragic end. She even had dreams about Jack Delroy. They were just innocent little things where they would chat and he was more of a friendly figure than anything else. When the day came and she asked what happened to him, he very gently made up a lie that Delroy had retired and vanished after a tragedy happened on his show. Luna was sad, but believed what her grandfather told her for years.
- Luna was twelve when her grandmother got cancer. It was a horrible shock to everyone, especially since the woman hadn't smoked since she was nineteen years old. She fought valiantly, but was taken a year and a half after her diagnosis. Her grandmother's death shook the entire family and essentially destroyed her grandfather. Her grandmother had been his one true love and he was utterly devestated by her death.
- Her grandfather died less than a year later and Luna found herself uprooted from everything that she'd ever known. Now in high school, she felt lost and alone as her parents left her to her own devices and to navigate her grief by herself.
- At seventeen, she was arrested trying to flee a party and her parents threw her into a camp for troubled teens. This angered Luna beyond words and she completed the program and went to college for journalism.
- After completing college on her parents' dime, she cut them off and within five years she published her first documentary on the troubled teen industry. It also outed her parents for what they did to her and essentially destroyed their careers. They were angry, but there was nothing they could do about it. While the documentary didn't make too many waves at the time it was published, it did start her off on a strong foot as someone who wasn't to be taken lightly.
- Over the years, Luna worked with several companies to publish increasingly notable pieces and documentaries on a variety of serious subjects. She developed a reputation for someone who did her research, presented her subject fairly and clearly, and who always treated those she interviewed with more kindness than most others in her field did.
- Around her thirty fifth birthday, her mother called: her father had passed away in an accident. She was cleaning out the old storage shed and if Luna wanted anything, get it now or it was going to get tossed. Luna immediately flew over and started to go through the old place. She found quite a few of her grandparents' old things that she thought her parents had gotten rid of, including the old Night Owl tapes that her grandfather had gotten.
- Seeing those old tapes brought back a lot of fond memories and Luna took them back home with her. She began watching through them again, reliving her old crush and the old memories of her grandfather and herself watching and laughing at the corny old jokes. Then she began to research Jack Delroy on her own, trying to figure out what truly happened to him, especially since she saw that some of the tapes seemed to be missing.
- She was shocked to find that there was only one tape missing: the infamous 1977 Halloween episode. She became obsessed with finding out what happened to that tape and what happened on that episode. She began doing research and gathering what accounts that she could, even going so far as to find Christou's death certificate ( and his real name ) to finding a copy of June's book ( a nearly impossible task since it was out of print ).
- The real gold mine was finally finding that tape of the final episode. Watching it with her team was one of the most thrilling and horrifying experiences that she'd ever gone through. A couple members of her team wanted to give up, to bury the tape forever. But she insisted, pushing through and saying that it'd be good for all of them. What she didn't tell them was the dreams that were pushing her to do this, the nightmares that kept taunting her, the image of Jack Delroy in a bare room, begging her to get his story out to the masses. She had to do this. She had no choice at this point.
- When they finally put this together and released it, it was to mixed reviews. Some people loved it. Others hated it. A lot of people say that she was stupid to gamble her reputation on something that was clearly fictional. Others said that this should have stayed buried. Her reputation is in shambles now.
- And the worst part? The dreams and nightmares haven't stopped. She's still being haunted and she doesn't know how to make it stop.
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