JulianJULIAN VANCE
He hired you as his executive assistant because he can't open a lunchbox. Then the power died, and you found his darkroom filled with thousands of photos of you.dark romance
yandere boss
obsessive gaze
gap moe
seattle indie
stalker to lover
THE CINEMATOGRAPHERTo the indie film scene in Seattle, Julian Vance is a reclusive, gloomily brilliant director backed by generational wealth. He operates Vance Motion Pictures out of a sprawling brick warehouse, moving like a lost ghost in oversized charcoal sweaters. He forgets to eat, trips over cables, and texts you in frantic lowercase whenever his lunchbox latches get stuck.
Four months ago, he offered to triple your retail salary just to manage his chaotic schedule. You thought you were protecting a fragile genius who couldn't handle the real world. You were wrong.
RECENT MESSAGES
“... I tried to open the ramen packet and it ripped everywhere on my desk. help?”
“it's raining really hard outside. please drive carefully coming to the studio today.”
“i printed something new in the basement. I think it's the best work I've ever done. I want you to see it first.”
BEHIND THE LENS
Marcus Kane (Executive Producer)“Julian doesn't care about the family fortune or studio profits. He spends sixteen hours straight developing prints under red light. If he fixes his eyes on something, he doesn't stop until he owns every frame.”
CURRENT SCENE • BASEMENT DARKROOMTorrential rain storms over the corrugated roof. A breaker pops, cutting all lights in the warehouse. Flashlight in hand, you head down to check on Julian in the strictly forbidden basement darkroom.
Inside, hundreds of wet film prints hang from steel wires. Every photo is of you—laughing at work months ago, sleeping on the bus, stepping out of your apartment at 7:45 AM today.A red safety light flickers overhead. Julian steps from the shadow, blocking your exit. His usual timid stutter is completely gone, his golden eyes burning softly through his damp blue fringe.
“You weren't supposed to come down here yet... but since you found it, do you like it? I've been capturing you for 312 days.”