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AU:  My Midnight Monster

AU Summary: 

You love all things spooky and mysterious, a cryptid lover and enthusiast; someone who seeks answers no matter the results. So when you see an online forum mentioning rumors of people going missing in the town next to yours, on top of people claiming to see ghosts haunting the cemetery, well anyone who knows you isn’t surprised to hear you renting out a campsite in the town to figure out what’s going on. 

While on your investigation, you run into the town’s graveyard keeper, Sun, who you find out also runs the small town’s morgue. Sun is full of forced pleasantries and politeness, a wide smile that you can tell he doesn’t wear happily. He’s got a large burn over the left half of his face and pale blue eyes that no longer hold the wonder of the world. He doesn’t like you poking around the cemetery, constantly trying to convince you to just leave.

In an effort to keep you away he tells you about himself, how he got his burns and robotic limbs in an accident before he moved to this quiet town to get away from his past. Though you can feel he still doesn’t like you too much, you can also tell that you’re slowly growing on him. A slowly growing friendship that takes an unexpected turn one night when you don’t listen to him and venture back into the graveyard at night; wanting to simply pick up the camera you forgot earlier.

Holding your camera is someone you haven’t seen around before, just as tall and imposing as Sun, as pale as the moon, with deep blue eyes that rival the night sky and hair as dark as soot. You stop in your tracks but not before you’ve drawn his attention, a grin so sharp it makes your heart race as it splits his face. Your heart threatens to burst as his eyes flicker to red with a deep chuckle as he introduces himself as a friend of Sun’s, known as Moon.

Pairing: Vampire Moon/Graveyard Keeper Sun (Same body) x Cryptid Researcher Y/N (Neutral)

Graveyard Keeper Sun

If you read the drabbles already (all of which currently are nsfw sorry to non-smut lovers 😔), then you know he's not a super nice guy (anymore) and especially not to hobby journalist "cryptid researchers"

He was very much burned by the world and holds a lot of resentment now. He contently (he's actually very happy about it don't let him lie to you) runs the small town's morgue while also being the sole caretaker to the cemetery.

It lets him take care of his basic vampiric needs (it's not ideal but drinking the drained blood from the corpses he's sent works to keep him/Moon fed - he'll buy older less producing livestock if the craving for something fresh is too strong) as well as gives him a peaceful sense of duty and helping others.

After his past (how he became a vampire and gained his artificial limbs) he's no longer sensitive to dead bodies or gore, and finds a gentle peace in being able to offer care to the dead and a place of comfort for the ones still living with their ghost.

He actually loves gardening and caring for flowers, so each grave is kept in a lovely condition and if the loved ones of the deceased want, he'll happily plant and tend to flowers/plants of their choice around the gravesite. But he'll never to admit to loving flowers, he'll always say he doesn't love anything anymore; but you could see it in his work, in how he treats the graveyard and its visitors (well except for you for the most part)

Sun does not give himself nearly the same amount of care, he meets only his basic needs and almost nothing more. His hair is always a mess, constantly ruffled from wearing his hood to hide his face and he almost never brushes it unless he needs to be more formal for a funeral or visitation for guests. His boots are always muddy and for the most part so is his cloak and coat; he doesn't mind the dirt since he spends most his days in it.

Sun is stubborn and has strong willpower, if needed he can suppress changing into Moon and will just suffer an intense migraine and sickness.

Vampire Moon

From the drabbles I hope I conveyed how utterly and deeply in love with you Moon is, that man fell hard and fast the moment he caught you sneaking into the cemetery that night. You were the first thing in his entire existence that made him feel such a strong desire; he never wanted much of anything until he picked up on you.

He has an eternity to spend alive and none of it had meaning or felt worth living until you. This vampire wants you on every level, your blood, heart and soul. He considers himself a romantic and for the most part he's very optimistic, much more so than Sun, who has given up on finding love ever again.

While he has the power to make you submit and just become his, he wants you to give him all of you freely; which considering your over ecstatic feelings on meeting a real life vampire isn't a big ask from you, though he does want you to want him and not just because he's a vampire. But he's also pretty happy to take whatever he can get from you.

He has a lot of Sun's same control and willpower, though he cannot suppress Sun and the change will always take place around dawn, but it means he very rarely would ever lose control of his vampiric urges and hurt anyone (well who doesn't deserve it.)

Where Sun doesn't care much at all for his appearance, Moon does; he thinks they need to be taking better care of their body, it's the only one they got. So after the transformation when golden hair turns to a sooty black, skin turns a deadly pale shade with ears and claws sharpening and irises fill with a deep blue hue, Moon will take the time to groom and care for them both.

He'll wash and comb their hair and scrub any dirt and built up mud from their clothing. Moon will also prep food for Sun to eat the next day and will be the one to drink the blood their body requires. Stale old blood is not Moon's favorite but he makes do with it, happy to keep the peaceful life they've managed.

Misc Rambles

I do have worries about having their skin color shift, as I worry it might be offensive but I wanted to keep the aspect of their single body switching to two different people; and a stark difference in their appearance like pale skin for Moon vs the tanned skin of Sun (pale skin to show lack of outdoors in the sun vs high times outdoors in the sun) felt like a good design choice.

Sun is very much a heavy work centric guy, he doesn't want to spend time "enjoying" anything else; his work is the only thing he feels he truly has left. While Moon seeks enjoyment in very task and tries to relax and just "live" for the both of them.

Sun being fed up with the world and being selective in where he shows his care, I wanted to reflect how I think canon Sun would be. He's capable of having those soft feelings and of showing them when he feels he needs to but also knows when he doesn't. So if you show that you won't listen or respect the rules, you get a sassier Sun.

For Moon I wanted to show how he's this dangerous being but with control over himself he's just a person wanting to be loved for who he is; more than just his parts and the rumors that get tied to vampires.

Both feel like they're less than human but carve someone to still show them human decency, kindness and touch. They're fiercely loyal once they trust you.

Clothing wise their wardrobe is fairly dated, older styles mostly with the only modern wear being a handful of sleepwear that they find soft and comfy.

Originally they didn't fully care about your struggles, they didn’t like you back then and it just showed that you couldn’t handle the job. But once they do start to like you? Moon is very much up in your business and trying to figure out why you struggle most nights unless you completely drain your body’s battery. He gets kind of upset that his normal ‘tricks’ for getting the kids to sleep doesn’t work on you. 

He’s given you a large variety of his plushies, scented, weighted, heated, the whole works and yet not a single one of them works for you. (Though he finds you absolutely adorable stuffed on a small bunk surrounded by his handiwork, practically buried in him.) He’s recounted stories after stories and songs after songs and yet you never tire from them, instead watch and listen far too attentively to him with such a lovely expression on your face. 

He hates it as much as he loves it. You need to get some rest! You can’t be awake and charge like they can. Stop spending such gentle and sweet moments with him that he can’t help but save and replay on his own later and go to sleep already!

Sun starts to try to give you the more physically taxing tasks for the days in hopes you’ll wear yourself out but not to the point of pure exhaustion you’ve been doing; he just makes you run or walk around more often, claiming you forgot to grab something (that he purposefully took out and moved to a different spot that you’ll have to go find). Though it doesn’t seem to be enough as you’ll tend to still be restless and toss and turn in your bunk. 

He starts trying to monitor your food and drink, making sure you meet whatever requirements his current search says a human adult should do for healthy sleep practices; only to find you don’t really do any of the unhealthy ones in the first place so he can’t scold you for anything. The only thing that comes close is the occasional smore you sneak when helping the kids make their own and watching how much you enjoy the gooey treat (much more than the children you’re helping) is too cute for him to take the small bedtime snack away from you. 

Eventually the two find some solutions together, one of which is, Moon will get you snuggled in and Sun will ask you question after question to wear out your mind. They never answer any of the questions you ask in return, you’ll perk back awake to listen to their answers too much. So you play 100 (one-sided) questions with Sun until your mind dozes off and your answers are nothing but sleepy nonsense and mumbles. He keeps track of what number you tend to fall asleep near the most; unsure of what he'll do with it but he finds it interesting nonetheless.

Sun does try to take advantage of what he asks the further off you doze though, questions that start with ‘what was your favorite activity of the day’ or ‘something you enjoyed eating’ quickly become ‘what trait do you like most in a partner’ or more devilishly ‘what do you think about your co-counselors’ and such.

He’ll always wait until it seems like you won’t remember though and absolutely will pretend he doesn’t know that you admitted something that he’ll or Moon will ‘surprise’ you with later.

You dream of waking up to some hot cocoa loaded with marshmallows and some cozy blankets to snuggle together outside and watch the sunrise? Crazy how they thought that up on their own, just guessing it was something you might enjoy.