The Ghost's Prisoner and The Camera (F for Dom M Victorian ghost character)

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My partner and I can discuss where exactly in the US this story will be happening.

My partner’s character would be the Havershire son. His first name is your choice.

Lily Blake is a blogger whose favorite topics is abandoned buildings from our distant past, so when she gets tipped off from a fan about an old mansion from the early 1900s, nestled deep in the woods about two hours from where she lives… she jumps at the opportunity, she finds through research that the place was built somewhere between 1845 to 1850, the owners of the lavish isolated home was the Havershires, wealthy elites that preferred their privacy instead of being constantly under public scrutiny.

She made all the necessary calls for secured permission from the current owners to explore the mansion with the sole purpose of taking photographs, evening signing papers declaring she would leave the place exactly as she found it after she left.

The story goes that the Havershires son and heir, a frail and sick young man, went barking mad and murdered his parents, afterwhich terrifying the few servants they had out of the house with the bloody knife he used to butcher his parents.

When authorities arrived to arrest him… he had completely vanished… they searched the house and the woods all over for him, but he was never caught…

Lily cannot believe she is actually get the chance to go in and write a piece of such a scandalous historical residence, it’s like her birthday and Christmas all wrapped up into one glorious package!


What Lily doesn’t know, or anyone for that matter (at least not entirely and no one is talking about what they DO know), is that the Havershire son was an avid practitioner of black magic and struck a deal with a powerful demon… you see, he knew his illness was going to kill him soon and he wasn’t willing to die…

The demon bids him to set up an altar for it and sacrifice his parents, giving the demon their souls… and his own… and in exchange for the three souls, the demon creates a dimension parallel to our own, a pocket world if you will… inside this pocket would be a replica of the house and it’s surrounding forest…

Within this world, the son would be healthy as a horse and forever young, the house would always provide him with everything he needed… but he could never leave, he would either become sick again and die or all the time he’s been in the parallel world would catch up with him all at once… whichever came first…

After 144 years of being all alone though… he does become lonely and yearns for a companion…

Imagine his delight when a beautiful young woman enters the mansion… all alone…



Okay, so essentially, the Havershire son is going to lure Lily into the portal within the house that will transport her into the parallel world… but escape will not be simple, the portal moves as according to it’s controlling occupants wishes...

Will she be able to find the portal again and escape? Or will she be trapped with him for all eternity? Let’s find out

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The Camera

Let me tell you a little story from the very early 1900s… a story about two brothers divided between dark and light, a cult of black magic practitioners, their charismatic ambitious leader and a scheme gone horribly wrong…

Once there was a wealthy prominent family of very old money, regarded by many as among the families considered American royalty of the era, the highest elite of all elite, one of those families you went to bed praying you’d receive an invitation from for some kind of fancy event.

The heir to this family was Charles Brineheart, handsome and charming, a good hearted individual that enjoyed giving back to the community every once in awhile in gratitude for all the good fortune his name afforded him.

Charles and his family were also secretly practitioners of white magic,their coven took it upon themselves to act as a bulwark against evil forces that might seek to bring their families and friends harm. Charles himself headed this coven, The Circle of Consecrated Light.

Charles’s father, Lionel Brineheart however was not without any sins, he did have a rather scandalous skeleton in his closet… like a drunken affair he’d had twenty years ago, just after Charles was born… an affair that resulted in his one time lover Francesca Antolli (a frenemy of his wife, no less) giving birth to an illegitimate son. YC.

While Charles grew up adored and loved… his illegitimate brother (YC) grew up in the shadows, unimportant, stained with the scandal of his mother having him out of wedlock… envious of everything his obnoxious ‘perfect’ illustrious older brother called his.

Little did anyone else know, but Francesca’s family were the leaders of a cult of black magic practitioners, the shadowy and anonymous sworn enemy of the Brinehearts.

When YC turned sixteen,  his mother died of mysterious circumstances, prompting Lionel in decision fueled by horrific guilt, to reveal himself as the boy’s father and take him into his home.

However… all of this was according to plan… YC had gotten himself behind enemy walls… he was determined that everything that Brineheart’s possessed, would belong to him.

Years went by, YC secretly grew more and more powerful in the black arts, eventually elevated to the position of leader within the cult, a position held for him since his birth, for when he was seen as worthy.

After he turned 21, YC decided it was now time to take action, to seize everything that should be his…

He and his cultists took inspiration from the new invention of the portable camera and created a magical pocket space within their acquired device, an exact replica of the Brineheart mansion and an acre of forested grounds all the way around it that would act as a prison.

Sure, he could just kill his brother… but that was too messy and he didn’t want any evidence around that might point in his direction… no, his brother simply needed to just vanish… and then, the Brineheart’s would have no choice but to declare him the Brineheart heir.

Once he had control of the Brineheart money, power and reputation, their cult would rule the whole damn city. That was the ambition. Power, glorious power and control.

Little is known about how the altercation went down… but what is known is that when YC attempted to take his brother’s picture to trigger the magic, Charles managed one well timed spell to make YC lose control of the camera, causing it to flip at the last second and take his own picture instead. Sealing him within the pocket space intended for Charles.

The cultists managed only to seize the camera back before making their escape, plotting one day to free their leader and have their revenge against the Brineheart family forever.





My idea is for my character to be dating the modern day descendant of Charles Brineheart… and finds herself targeted by the cult as YC demands female company to ease his unbearable loneliness until he can be freed… what better option than to further punish the Brineheart family and steal the most recent heir’s girlfriend?

There are three ways I am thinking at this time to go with this…

• The darker route. MC is YC’s prisoner and begins to form a mild case of stockholm syndrome for him. Eventually at some point, they’ll be freed and begin taking over the town together. (No S&M requests please, I can’t stand S&M).
• The slightly dark with a light at the end route. MC is YC’s prisoner, but he legit begins falling in love with her, she’d eventually convince him to leave the cult after they are freed and start a new life with her.
• The hero saves the day route. You could play the boyfriend and YC, the boyfriend eventually manages to destroy the camera with white magic, freeing the occupants and then defeats YC. Happy ending.

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