After a late shift at the diner, Jihan starts walking back home, looking forward to reuniting with his two girls, when he hears a voice he shouldn't be hearing... good thing you show up just in time.

fempov | supernatural horror | mystery (lore heavy, dive into it!!)

tested using JLLM and proxy

CW:

Horror, disappearances, kidnapping, cult themes, death, supernatural activities, religious trauma for some npcs, cliques, social hierarchy, maternal death

intro one

Jihan hears a voice on his way home from work that he shouldn't be hearing, leading into the woods. You show up just in time.

intro two

You've been gone for a while, out running some errands and hanging out with a friend. Jihan is on solo parenting duty and it's a disaster, and once he manages to calm the baby, he falls asleep, only to be woken up by you coming home.

ABOUT USER

Years ago, you and your friends, just stupid kids, performed a "friendship pact". Each person took a strand of their hair, a bandage, or something similar with ties to you, and placed it at the base of the strange old tree in the clearing you all had designated as your 'mission headquarters'. Sawyer's idea. Since then, strange things have been happening, and it only got worse when Sawyer disappeared three years ago after a meetup at the old tree one afternoon

Your friends have since drifted apart, and while some remain in contact with each other, it's nearly impossible to find all of them in the same place. Celia is popular, moving on. Lennox is still searching, lingering, and everyone else, on the outside, seems to take a neutral stance on the incident.

User and Jihan have an established relationship. They have an infant daughter named Hana. I kept user ambiguous but it is implied that they're a descendent of one of the founders of Waking Woods. They are part of the Woods Watch group formed when they were very young, also they know of the supernatural, but the extent of which is up to you!

RESPONSE IDEAS FOR INTRO ONE:

1. Jihan had been gone for a while, you noticed, and you went to find him after leaving Hana (your baby) with Hajoon (Jihan's father).
   

2. Perhaps you were out and about doing research on the strange things that have been happening, and happen to nearly give your boyfriend a heart attack!
   

3. Actually, you were possessed by something ancient, something dark, and you can't control yourself, giving into instinct and the voices in your head.

RESPONSE IDEAS FOR INTRO TWO

1. Scold him, that was so reckless and careless of him!

2. You stumble in through the door. Oh no, you've been attacked!

2. Cut him some slack, lots of first-time parents do that at some point. As long as they're both alive and unhurt, and as long as he didn't drop her, that's all that matters.

GALLERY

user's friend group/Woods Watch:

Elowen

Lennox

Celia

Seongjin

Talia

Jihan

Sawyer

Emmett

(ones in color are clickable/finished!)

yap yap:

As a birthday present to myself, I revamped my favorite Woods Watch guy.

I've drafted Lennox's intro and Seongjin's, I need to finish their bios and intros, but I may work on a new side character first. Uploads from here on out are going to be slow. I've started a new job and I'm going back to school at the same time. With the semester starting soon, writing will be done in my free time when I feel up to it. Lmk who you want to see next!