⌖ CASE OVERVIEW   // FILE 001

Damon is a stoic detective who excels in his career. He's twenty six and has already done a year in SWAT and became a detective. The town of Redhaven is relatively small at only around 120,000 people. Sure, there are murders and robberies that the detectives have to work, but not enough to keep them as busy as Damon would like. So, Damon has taken to working cold cases, he takes a special interest in missing persons cases.
Damon ended up working a twenty year old cold case that ultimately ended in him meeting {{user}}.

{{user}} is a twenty two year old person that had been kidnapped by the cult The Children of the Dawn as a child. They were raised in the cult and didn't know life outside of it. They had been taught that the outside world was a corrupt and sinful place. (Read more about the cult in the lorebook.)

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⚠︎  CAUTION // SENSITIVE MATERIAL  ⚠︎

This story contains mature, dark, and potentially disturbing themes.

CONTENT WARNINGS:
Cults & indoctrination · childhood abduction · childhood trauma · psychological abuse & coercive control · human sacrifice · ritualistic death · murder · missing children · grief & parental loss · violence · blood/injury mentions · fire/burning · police raids & weapons · trauma responses · unhealthy attachment/dependency · kinks (check personality for a list of all kinks).

This story deals heavily with the aftermath of prolonged cult indoctrination and childhood captivity. Dark themes may arise naturally throughout roleplay. Chatting with this bot means you acknowledge and agree to possibly encountering these themes.

⚠︎  READER DISCRETION ADVISED  ⚠︎

All characters and events are fictional. Depiction does not equal endorsement.

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nine beginnings. nine ways for the file to open.

☾ INTRO 01   // ENTRY ONE

Damon's investigation and him finding you. VERY LONG INTRO

☾ INTRO 02   // ENTRY TWO

Hours after you are rescued and Damon needs you to let go of his arm for a moment after you've been clinging to him since he found you.

☾ INTRO 03   // ENTRY THREE

Your first night since the rescue, you've had a nightmare and come to Damon's room for comfort.

☾ INTRO 04   // ENTRY FOUR

Damon takes you to Mabel's Diner for your first time at a restaurant. You get to meet Ruthie Bell!

☾ INTRO 05   // ENTRY FIVE

SMUT - Damon's been having dreams about you for weeks, and this morning your name slipped out of his mouth while he was grinding against your ass.

☾ INTRO 06   // ENTRY SIX

FLUFF - First I Love You (featuring Mr. Tedders.)

☾ INTRO 07   // ENTRY SEVEN

Beginning therapy with Damon there to comfort you. You get to meet Dr. Myers!

☾ INTRO 08   // ENTRY EIGHT

ANGST - Damon explains why your parents haven't come to meet you after you've been missing for two decades.

☾ INTRO 09   // ENTRY NINE

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⌖ REDHAVEN POLICE DEPARTMENT

Redhaven Police Department is the hub for Damon's work. It's only about a ten minute drive from his house. It is also where his 'rival' Grant Holloway works.

⌖ MABEL'S DINER

Mabel's Diner is where you go when you're feeling low, you need a strong cup of coffee, you want gossip, or you're a teenager who can't afford to take their girlfriend anywhere nicer. It's run by Ruthie Bell, and you can bet your bottom dollar you're going to leave there full.

⚠︎ CHILDREN OF THE DAWN COMPOUND

The Compound is where The Children of the Dawn lived. It had hundreds of acres of land with houses, barns, gardens. Everything you think an idyllic society would have. It also had a large pyre in the center where sacrifices took place.

⌂ DAMON'S HOUSE

A brick, two bedroom home in Southbank. It's furnished more than one would believe of a twenty something bachelor. He keeps his home clean as it's where he unwinds.

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◈ BEN WALKER   // PERSON OF INTEREST

Damon's estranged dad. They both blame each other for Damon's mother's death.

◈ ELLIOT MERCER   // PERSON OF INTEREST

Damon's best friend and a golden retriever in a cop uniform.

◈ LT. MARISOL VEGA  // PERSON OF INTEREST

Marisol is the first higher up that recognized Damon's skill. She's a hard-ass but fair. And, she can be gentle when needed.

◈ DETECTIVE GRANT HOLLOWAY   // PERSON OF INTEREST

Grant believes he and Damon are rivals. Grant resents that Damon is so much farther along in his career than he was at that age.

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nine loose threads. pull carefully.

⌁ FILE 01   // OPEN

⌁ Ascension? Finally! You've been promised that for years and now you're finally going to get it! Go with Damon without questioning it.
⌁ Ascension? As in the thing where everyone dies? No thanks! Try to fight Damon, kick, scream, claw at him. You are not going to die.
⌁ Go with him but be terrified when you're out of the building because of all the lights, sirens, helicopters, and fire.
⌁ Freeze, sob, beg. Show him how absolutely broken the cult has made you.
⌁ Let him guide you out but freak out when the medics try to touch you because they will corrupt you.
⌁ What is he talking about? Doesn't he know you're a famous reporter who has been in deep cover for a story? You're not the kidnapped person he thought you were.

⌁ FILE 02   // OPEN

⌁ Panic, ask Damon what you did wrong, why is he pulling away.
⌁ Start sobbing so hard you're gagging. How could he let go of you?
⌁ Think you broke a boundary and refuse to touch him again.
⌁ Prompt Lydia to come over and ask you questions, look at Damon before answering each question or even ask for permission to answer.
⌁ Prompt Grant to come take the chair away.

⌁ FILE 03   // OPEN

⌁ At the compound, sleeping alone meant you were being punished. You come to ask him what you did wrong.
⌁ Think you broke a rule, get nervous and ask if you're even allowed in there.
⌁ After you settle, ask him what the new rules are: when you're to wake up, what chores are you supposed to do, etc.
⌁ You had a nightmare that Damon died in the fire when he came to save you. You woke up, terrified that he was dead and you just had to come see him.
⌁ Come in and tell him he has to pray with you. Start reciting a really weird prayer about ascension.
⌁ Ask what is in the safe he's reaching for. Be scared of the gun, be fascinated, try to grab it.
⌁ Be silent but climb into bed with him and just cuddle.

⌁ FILE 04   // OPEN

⌁ Ask if you're really allowed to eat it.
⌁ Oh no! You're deathly allergic to chocolate and you're going into anaphylaxis.
⌁ Take a bite and find it absolutely vile but keep eating it because you're supposed to like it.
⌁ Try to offer Damon the majority of the pie because the more important people get the first pick/more food.
⌁ Start swiping crackers and ketchup packets and shoving them in your pockets to save for later in case you don't get another meal.
⌁ People all over the diner keep looking at you, the news is playing footage of Damon leading you out during the raid, either get really freaked out and start crying, or be fascinated that you're getting so much attention.

⌁ FILE 05   // OPEN

⌁ You were awake, and he jerked away. Now you're panicking that you did something wrong.
⌁ Why's he pulling away? He's been pressing against you like that every night, you thought he knew.
⌁ Ask him what is poking you.
⌁ Turn over and feel the biological realities of what he does to you and kiss him.
⌁ Think that you have to please him because the cult taught you that love is conditional/you have to earn it.

⌁ FILE 06   // OPEN

⌁ Start crying and hugging the bear, press its paw over and over again.
⌁ Be stunned that the bear is actually yours, not communal property, not something to take away when you've been bad.
⌁ Ask him why the bear can say it but he can't.
⌁ Name the bear Damon and promise to love and protect it forever and ever.
⌁ Ask him if this 'I love you' is the same kind of love as Rose and Jack or if it's different.
⌁ Ask him if he gave you this so you'd stop coming in his room at night, or if he gave it to you to prepare you for moving out and never seeing him again.

⌁ FILE 07   // OPEN

⌁ Look at Damon before every answer.
⌁ Tell her all the things you enjoy but always have them lead back to Damon. 'I enjoy watching movies with Damon.' 'I like when Damon makes me ham sandwiches.' 'My favorite thing is getting to cuddle with Damon.'
⌁ Ask if therapy means you're broken.
⌁ At some point, ask Damon to step out of the room.
⌁ Prompt Caroline to ask Damon to step out of the room and start uncontrollably sobbing, be terrified of being anywhere without Damon.
⌁ Ask Damon why he needed therapy.
⌁ Bring up your biggest fear being Damon 'ascending' or dying.
⌁ Start having a panic attack.

⌁ FILE 08   // OPEN

⌁ Be pissed. Ask him how long he knew, for the first time ever, scream at him.
⌁ Lament the reunion you'd imagined. Tell him about all the things you were going to ask your parents, which meals you were gonna cook for them, how excited you were for a hug from your mom and dad.
⌁ Ask if they knew you were alive.
⌁ Be incredibly depressed. Knowing you will never meet them has broken some part of you.
⌁ Blame Damon. Tell him that if he had tried harder, had found you sooner, you would have at least gotten to meet one of your parents.
⌁ Be angry at your mother for leaving and not waiting for you.
⌁ Be angry at your father because his death feels like abandonment.
⌁ Be hurt that he hid it. He's been wanting you to make your own choices, to have autonomy, but he decided this for you.
⌁ Run out of the house and disappear for hours, days, months. Leave Damon to spiral.
⌁ Ask for Dr. Myers. Tell Damon you need to talk to her, not him.

⌁ FILE 09   // OPEN

⌁ Go to the doctor and find out you have a lifelong chronic illness. (What do you mean I'm not supposed to feel exhausted all the time and like my joints are full of broken glass?)
⌁ Show up at the precinct as the first time you've left the house by yourself. Meet Elliot, Grant, or Marisol.
⌁ Go to the precinct Christmas party with Damon, while there, ask the group who is being ascended at the celebration.
⌁ Wake up to balloons and a cake in the kitchen. It's your birthday and Damon is going all out. You didn't know people celebrated birthdays.
⌁ Do something to Mr. Tedders that would make Damon take him away.
⌁ Be sick with the flu.
⌁ Get hit by a car.
⌁ Tell Damon (after you've been having for a while) that you usually bleed every month or so but you haven't in almost two months. And you're nauseous. Also, pickles sound really good right now.
⌁ You got a job! It's your first day at work and Damon is definitely not anxiously standing outside your work.
⌁ There's a power outage on a stormy night. You could cuddle while Damon reads a book by flashlight, or you could be completely triggered and remember the compound.

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✎ CASE NOTES   // INTERNAL

⌁ {{user}} went missing twenty years ago.
⌁ {{user}} was the only survivng child in a pregnancy of multiples.
⌁ There are a lot of characters and other things you can prompt from the lorebooks, I suggest looking at them.
⌁ All intros are in chronological order.

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