ART FIGHT. TEAM TRAGEDY. CLICK ON TEXT. FUCK WITH ME.
gonna direct your attenshun to the first 3 featured characters in particular. my lovelies My Stupids Becka JJ and Showrunner aka my AU version of slendered man
refs and info under the cut
they were born out of exactly 2 thoughts:
• hey does anyone even remember the Hugo gameshow, the concept sounds sick as hell to make some lost media paranormal sorry out of. also believe it or not JJ's concept came to me months before DR chapter 3
• out of all the slenderverse series i've watched, the antagonist seems to have either an adversarial relationship with The Man Himself or a purely business connection. what if there was some gay shit going on.
Rebecka "Beck" Prescott. The Archivist.
Well, okay, not by occupation, she works a boring night shift security job at a dying mall, but she does have an amateur passion for one particular project.
Personality-wise, rather mellow and and timid, has a difficult time meeting new people outside the internet, especially with her job and all the general struggles of entering adulthood as an already rather asocial kid, so she clings onto things that remind her of the simpler times.
She's on a mission to find out as much information there is about a mysterious lost-to-time gameshow she used to watch as a kid. If anybody remembers "Hugo". similar concept. Call the number, use the touch-tone buttons, and play it live. Except less trolls and chases, and more creepy forest mansions and puzzles.
No information about the studio, no way to track down the cast/crew's current antics, even the previous contestants have all been reported missing for years on end.
Soon, she might just find out why there's such a lack of info. Ever since she tried to talk about it publicly, she's pretty sure something's out to get her. It started as just seeing figures out the corner of her eye or the episodes playing out slightly differently when digitized, which could all logically be brushed away by spotty memory and sleep deprivation, but over time, the harder she tried to ignore it, the more blatant they became. You can't exactly logic away the host himself hijacking the CCTV footage trying to get YOUR attention in particular.
And one day, when out of morbid curiosity, she finally dialed in the number on her thrifted vintage phone that surprisingly still worked
someone answered.
J.J. Jovial, The Host, in more ways than one.
Host of a lost-to-time gameshow, Mansion Madness. Call in live and get the chance to in front of a live audience from the comfort of your home, using just your phone buttons!! Explore the woods in search of clues scattered about and don't get caught by whatever resides within, solve puzzles within a mysterious run-down mansion, and if you're skilled enough, you, yes YOU might just win a prize!!! Too bad there's no... actual testimonies of people winning anything, or really any information about the contestants after the show had ended. All of them are, coincidentally, come up as missing cases who disappeared shortly after the show ended.
Well, doesn't seem to bother Mr. Jovial too much. His smile is as wide and voice as full of energy to playfully banter with his assistant as ever, save for a persistent cough.
And the help of a certain amateur archivist, the show might just gain a new life and reach more people than ever.
Right, Beck? Please. He's been really lonely trapped in this studio for years on end, you're the first person he'd seen in AGES. Sure, the assistant provides company, but you're new. You're a window to a world beyond this studio.
The gloves aren't just for style, they're also to cover up his nasty weird skin condition that for some reason can't be shown on camera without messing up the footage.
Maybe the show was lost for a good reason.
Just maybe, the lack of information was a way to protect us from whatever it contained.
The host might be the face, but he doesn't run the production, it does. Posing as a quiet assistant whose head is conveniently always out of frame, its influence is far, far greater. Not just within the show, but outside of it too, thanks to a certain young lady. Don't be too harsh, she didn't know better, after all.
Him and the host do have a close attachment to each other behind the scenes. In both a parasitic sense and in a "The host is absolutely head over heels for him, would do anything no questions asked." sense.
(this IS very much my AU interpretation of slenderman. i am cringe but i am free. his back cables can plug into any electronic device and take control of it, and his gloves hide some rather horrifying claws)
