NightmareDetective

This page is currently under construction, please be patient Nightmare Detective (a.k.a. Detective,"ND", The Boss, John Harkear Harlan) is an eldritch private investigator and primarily horror gamer. He has medium length brown hair with greying tips, a green eye and a red eye, and is often pictured with a gun holster and button-up, stylized to be reminiscent of classic noire detectives (Vtuber model pictured in the "assorted media" section below).

Background and Character Lore
John Harkear Harlan vanished June of 1946, somewhere outside of Quedlinburg Abbey in Germany while on operation "Wolfsbane". No body was ever recovered and he was declared MIA by OSS (Office of Strategic Services-the precursor to the modern day CIA) Officer Grant Jones. No further details have been released on his life prior to this mission and all information regarding Wolfsbane and John's previous life has vanished or has been sealed away. Any and all material regarding Operation Wolfsbane is under orders to be destroyed, and mention of the name around the German Abbey will result in pale faces, hushed whispers, and hastily closed doors.

What happened to John in the spaces between worlds and during the time he became no longer fully human remains between the Detective and the entity who now shares his body. When ND was in between life and death this entity caught him, expecting it could "hitch a free meat suit" during ND's dying moments and last moments of real sanity. It appeared before him as a wolf and refused to give it's name. This entity has been nicknamed "Baskerville" by ND in a nod to the old Sherlock Holmes story. While Baskerville is capable of lending aid to ND, whether it chooses to do so is entirely at whims unknowable on this plain of reality. However leaving ND's body will result in the loss of a semi-corporeal form for Baskerville, so it's assumed it has a somewhat vested interest in keeping ND alive (unharmed or sane is another matter entirely). Prior to the arrival of Baskerville, John had blue eyes, they are now a red eye, and a green eye when he's in a somewhat relaxed posture."'John Harlan is man out of time, who sought occult relics for the Allies after WWII until an accident stumbled him into the pitch of the void. He fought his way back, changed forever. He's a fun loving gunslinger and a detective with each eye searching for truth between worlds. After finding his way back to his own world, years had passed; to catch up on events as well as investigate the unexplained, he opened an agency and secretly fights things that do more than bump in the night [...] Cocky to mask uncertainty with hair fading grey from what he's seen' -@Nightmare Detective, April 18, 2022 via twitter"While his career with the OSS was cut short, the parasitic relationship with Baskerville has allowed him to peer into the depths of the unknown at near abyssal levels compared to the current worlds detectives. His reasons and motives for the cases he takes are seemingly random, with the final patterns only visible to him (with the exception of a classic Dame case, of course).

How old the Detective is also remains a mystery, as time flows differently where he vanished off to, and his original birth records have been obscured. He's fond of saying he's "older than you and younger than god" should anyone choose to ask, or he overhears any speculation within the agency.

Should the need for undercover work arise, ND dons a half mask with the snarling fangs and snout of a grey wolf, dropping the Detective moniker for a more ambiguous and less easily traceable "Mr. Wolf" (disguise pictured in the main picture window). In other streams and imagery, ND will often lean a bit more into canine design elements.

While Detective is often gruff and unforgiving with new arrivals to The Agency, this is for two reasons; one, they may be there to work off unpaid case fees, and the sooner they leave, the less likely it is that Betty (see: Mascot, below) will devour them, and two, the Eldritch World is unforgiving in revealing its mysteries, and the sooner new agents learn to leave their egos and needless curiosity at the door, the greater the chance they will survive missions in the hidden worlds Detective roams and investigates in.

ND picked the name John Harkear Harlan for several reasons: John is a solid noir detective name, also John 1:5 states “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” Harkear comes from Harker: To eavesdrop or listen. Harlan means dweller by the boundary wood. So: A strong, focused light near the dark woods. -@NightmareDetective, May 27, 2023 via twitter This entry is reserved reading for new agents who have met all requirements and training, and may be subject to immediate destruction upon discovery (outside of the lore, ND is planning to upgrade to a 2.0 model, and this may all be re-written in the near future).

Personality
While Detective has a predilection for the darker, disturbing, and downright dangerous games and content, he is an utter delight to be around. With an exceptional memory for his friends and important community milestones, his stream hospitality is exceptional.

He tracks stream goals and milestones with a "Employee of the Month" board, and shares this in the discord (link below) when it gets updated. He actively recognizes newcomers and reads and interacts regularly with chat, and is very active in the community discord, nicknamed "The Lounge".

With a dry sense of humor and a mischievous streak a mile wide, ND never fails to find the humour in many of the darker games he plays, while still allowing the story elements to breath and suspension and tension to build when the moment and immersion call for it. He's also smart as a whip, and has near inhuman reflexes and memory for the multiplayer games and survival horror, third-person shooter and first-person shooter games he plays on stream.

Mascot
The Agency has one mascot/admin individual/horror about town, a tentacled eldritch creature named Betty. While Betty has presumably no need for gender and gender roles, ND and members of the Agency use She/Her pronouns to refer to her and her shenanigans. Channel point redeems and bits can be used to torment ND and provide sustenance for Betty (throwing trash and bitties, respectively). Despite the seemingly endless exasperation for Betty that ND regularly displays, and the amount of interns and bill collectors she eats, it's clear ND is very fond of Betty (even though he'll never admit it).

Despite being an avid bowler and general menace, Betty is either incapable of, or does not understand the concept of paying rent. Detective brings this up frequently whenever it's discovered she's caused some sort of non-specific havoc or hidden a file in a dimension unavailable to human eyes. On stream, she's depicted as a writing mass of teal and purple tentacles, undulating near ND's desk.

At least she's funny.

Stream Lore
As mentioned above, ND's community is referred to as "The Agency". The Agency is fun an inclusive place for anyone to crash and "study the dark", whether this is purely classical horror, slasher films, subversions of modern day horror, or even share media within the discord. Subscribing to his channel brings up a series of glowing green runes and a "____ has joined the agency" notification. Subscriber badges are ornate "protection circles" that increase in complexity and become different colours the longer a person has been subscribed for. Leaning further into the horror elements, any time ND is raided into, a "X has summoned # of cultists" notification is displayed, with mysterious red hooded robed figures holding torches.

There are multiple channel point redeems that allow chat to interact with ND's model, and Detective Noir redeems that can lead to ad-libs regarding stream cannon and ND's Lore. Other redeems include various sound alerts or the ability to pick which champion or character ND plays in a multiplayer game.

Quotes
Ongoing and rapidly evolving.
 * "What do you meeean?"
 * "You guys used to be so nice to me"
 * "What can I say"
 * ....."Anyway"
 * "If the check clears, I'm all ears"
 * "Pay me or you work for me"

Relationships
This list is by no means finished or exhaustive, and will be updated semi-frequently.

🎮 - A streamer ND frequently games with (Divinity II, Deceive Inc., Dead by Daylight, other Multiplayer games)

📺- Another Vtuber or PNGTuber in ND's friend group
 * 📺🎮 AtteraNox : Part of the regular Divinity II Sunday Streams in addition to other games
 * 📺🎮ED_XII
 * 📺Freyaamari
 * 📺Indra_Rojas (overlay and stream asset artist)
 * 📺jeffstrongbrew
 * 📺🎮Junior_VT
 * 📺🎮Konzetsu: Part of the regular Divinity II Sunday Streams in addition to other games
 * 📺KittyMcPancakes
 * 📺LoLotus
 * 📺🎮MJC2527 (MJ); Part of the regular Divinity II Sunday Streams in addition to other games
 * 📺🎮Persephone
 * 📺Pigeon_Child
 * 📺🎮PixCatOS
 * 📺Strawbirb_
 * 📺T0rnbubbl3

Lore

 * Runs an Eldritch Agency
 * Dr. Pepper aficionado
 * Is a partnered content creator for Death Damnation



Content

 * Divinity: Original Sin II
 * Deceive Inc.
 * Hunt: Showdown
 * Dead by Daylight (offers mentorship and is, frankly, insanely skilled at the game)
 * Resident Evil
 * Smite
 * The Outlast Trials
 * Sherlock Holmes Games
 * Death Damnation
 * Evil Dead
 * Soulsbourne games
 * Speed runs Silent Hill and other horror games
 * Speed runs Silent Hill and other horror games



Likes and hobbies

 * Horror
 * TTRPGs (Tabletop role-playing games)
 * Lore discussions
 * Storytelling analysis
 * Speed running





Media

 * NightmareDetective - Twitch channel
 * Nightmare Detective- YouTube channel
 * @Nightmare_Det - Twitter account
 * "The Lounge" -Official Discord server

Twitter hashtags

 * #DetectiveDrip- Fan art