#janus show

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had a world building revelation for TWO stories on here. wow the wonders of leaving academia 

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Current Projects (Listed From High Priority to Low Priority)

Tapetum Lucidum Tapetum Lucidum takes place in the small coastal town of Providence, a popular area for tourists to go on vacation. It is an episodic series surrounding the odd, supernatural happenings of the town, with reoccurring characters that are both created by me and the players of the campaign I run that the show is based on (who are involved in the process and might see this post; hi guys I love you <3).

Janus 3 museum employees working the latest shift, often at odds with one another, find themselves having to get along when a weird door shows up in the middle of an exhibit. 

On Hold Projects

Black Box Anthology series following a cursed immortal going around and interacting with people in the period of time before their final moments and taking their stories. Not really kept to one genre, varies between supernatural, horror, realistic, etc.

Channel 16 4 strangers working at the fire watch towers over the summer at a park have to figure out the weird things going on while only being connected through a radio system and having to deal with also doing their jobs.

The Wellness Machine Less of a series and more of a ‘verse consisting of 3 separate shows (so far). Takes place in a pre-, current, and post-apocalyptic period, with each show taking place at a different time. The Terrific Fairfield Hotel (a horror-lite show about a hotel for authors) is before, Dead District (about 3 people in the uneasy and awkward transition from pre-apocalyptic world to post-apocalyptic world) is during, and The Wellness Machine (6 strangers start a radio show while on a post-apocalyptic journey in their beat up truck and camper trailer across the country) is after.

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Janus Characters

Description 3 history museum employees working the latest shift, often at odds with one another, find themselves having to get along when a weird door shows up in the middle of an exhibit. Things go quickly downhill from there.

Characters below the cut for convenience 

Main Characters

Olive Gardean Tingle | She/Her | 26 Olive is a failed ASMR youtuber, though if you were to ask her, she would tell you she isn’t failed, she’s just ‘pre-famous’. Part of her lack of success stems from her fundamental misunderstanding of what an ASMR or oddly satisfying video actually is; she’s tried many different avenues to get attention, but most are along the lines of ‘Oddly Satisfying Shoe Tying’. She ended up getting a job at the local museum as a cashier. It isn’t something she takes seriously, and she slacks off most of the time in favor of making her videos. She has also been known to stay after hours despite the fact her shift is over to film her latest project, “Museum ASMR”, the first video of which is titled “Chased By Security Through Museum (ASMR)”. All things considered, its impressive she hasn’t been fired yet. 

Tatum Reese Staedlter | He/Him | 27 Tatum is one of the night-time security guards at the museum. Its quite clear that it isn’t exactly where he imagined himself- he can’t go five minutes without mentioning the loss of his beloved college soccer scholarship -but he takes it seriously all the same. While he does his best he is, as Olive describes, ‘horribly mediocre’ at most things. He has a extreme fear of ghosts; he tries to play it off like he just doesn’t like to mess with them, but at even the slightest suggestion of the paranormal he freaks out. That said, if a ghost was ever to tell him anything at all, he’d probably do it no questions asked. Ghosts are the absolute authority on all things, after all. 

Julia Lopez | She/Her | 26 Julia helps manage the collections at the museum, specifically the collection that concerns items from the civil war. On the side, she runs a paranormal investigation youtube. On camera, she acts like what she considers a ‘gullible’ believer in the supernatural, but off camera doesn’t believe a lick of it. She credits her ability to act to her old theatre days in high school, and uses these powers for evil to mess with people, namely Tatum as she considers him easy pickings. Olive considers her to be her biggest youtube competitor, yet she literally has no idea who Olive is. The ‘rivalry’ started when Olive branched out and pioneered ‘paranoise’, a paranormal ASMR experience which failed spectacularly. 

Side Characters

Ava Maberry | She/Her | 20 Ava is a junior in college working a summer internship at the museum. Her supervisor doesn’t really pay her much mind, which leads to her staying after-hours without them at some points in order to finish work. She seems to genuinely enjoy the work she does. Amazingly, she is one of the few people on good terms with Julia, Tatum, and Olive. She’s working on a degree in archeology currently, and hopes to go to grad school as well some point in the future. As she puts it, she’ll be in school forever and wracking up debts until she dies.

Remington ‘Remi’ Pabst | They/Them | 29 Remi (”YES, LIKE THE RAT FROM RATATOUILLE”) is one of the museum curators, as well as Ava’s supervisor. They have a doctorate in anthropology and don’t let anyone forget it, because its easier to have people say “Dr. Pabst” then go through the process of people calling them Mr., Ms., and Mrs. over and over again. They jokingly said that it was the only reason they got a doctorate once, but it was said so dryly that some people actually began to believe it. Tends to send Ava on unsupervised errands, especially if those errands include interaction with coworkers that they don’t like to deal with.

Sloan Kaitz | He/Him/They/Them | 27....? A recently hire within the department that handles restoration, no one is quite sure where Sloan came from. No one is sure if he actually has the credentials to be doing what he does, either, but the museum hired him anyway and he has managed to do a decent job within the 2 weeks he’s been around. A very chipper guy who seems to know a lot of things he shouldn’t. No one has pointed it out loud yet, though.

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Janus Script Excerpts (part 3)

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Janus Script Excerpts (part 7)

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Janus Script Excerpt (Part 5)

I’m editing and re-writing and had to delete an entire scene because it didn’t make sense. RIP to the dialogue that had to go.

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Hi! :) Can I get a uhhh

84. for Olive from Janus

90. for Cassidy from Malady

Of course :) ( from — OC QUESTION MEME ! reblog)

84. What’s one thing they like that they don’t want anyone to know about?

Olive Olive isn’t really embarrassed by a lot and is open about most of her interests but does believe she has a brand to upkeep. After many hours of insisting that she has no interest in history whatsoever just to bother her coworkers (who all work in a history museum) admitting to the fact she actually finds world history interesting would be a death sentence. She refuses to let anyone figure it out.

90. Are they a good artist?

Cassidy “Ooo! i don't think so no. they're slightly more musically inclined; when it comes to like, drawing, they'll doodle noncommittally on occasion but they never had a big passion for it so not much in terms of technical skills.”

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gimme 6, 14, 15, and 16 for remi - fellow anthropology majors have my heart

(from the character questions - random reblog)

Anthropology majors rise up....

6. When they have to dress up, what do they wear? They hate dressing up, its the bane of their existence, so if they can avoid it they do. The last major gala event they were asked to go to on behalf of the museum, they wore a tacky Hawaiian-print button down and some slacks. They said it “had buttons” and therefore “worked as a proper outfit for a fancy event”. If actually forced, they would probably throw on a white button down, a tie with some weird design on it slacks, and a sweater vest. You wouldn’t be able to get them to do much more than that.

14. Could you describe their laugh? Depends on how much you can make them laugh. For any normal joke they find funny, its just a snort and then they will ignore you and go back to what they’re doing. However, they have been known to be taken out by the occasional unexpected joke, in which case they basically break down wheezing and doubling over. In this case, its a little harsh-sounding; they don’t get told they have a nice laugh a lot.

15. Could you describe their hand writing? Their notes are near incomprehensible to anyone but them. The writing is slightly slanted and messy, and they use as much short hand as possible; not to mention its in script. Its like trying to decipher code. It drives Julia, personally, up the wall since she has to directly work with them.

16. What would their causal day clothes look like? Remi hasn’t got a piece of professional clothing in their closet. Their outfits consist of jeans, short-sleeve button downs with designs on them (usually themed after their work, which is so oddly specific that no one knows where they get them. They won’t answer when asked either), and beat up sneakers. They also wear big, circular glasses because they are nearly blind. You may be thinking “do they wear weird socks too” and the answer is yes. They also have funny suspenders, but they don’t wear those where any of their coworkers may be lurking.