JourneyThroughTheDark

Journey Through The Dark is a YouTube web series based on the Slender Man mythos.

Plot
early days

Journey Through the Dark was supposed to be an internet series about the study of urban legends and paranormal locations. Chandler and Jared worked on half of the project before Jared abruptly cancelled the project due to serious mental health issues.

the start

chandler had been experiencing some paranormal activity in his home until one day, he discovered what was haunting him. he was being haunted by a being known as Slenderman. a month afterwards, he begins having nightmares about the Slenderman, or the reaper he calls it. a day after he uploaded the video known as "the nightmare" he starts suffering a breakdown and puts it on YouTube. two days later, chandler uploads a video titled "just an average day". the video introduces the nightmare known as ghost head, a nightmare that feed off of human emotional states (in the case of chandler, chandler has ASD). the next day, chandler posts an update to what happened the day prior. many days afterwards, ghost head hacks the channel and uploads a video titled "don't fear" telling chandler that he can't hide forever. chandler has another breakdown and a day afterwards; he updates on his current status. chandler then finds an ancient sword, whom according to ghost head belongs to someone who should not exist. chandlers twitter is hacked later, and a day afterwards does a livestream where he contacts BowiE about the Slenderman. chandler's birthday came and has barely had any interruptions.

Dimitri

a cryptic video is made by another being known as Dimitri, warning chandler of his coming doom against ghost head and the reaper. on November 13th, chandler decides to revisit his friend Jared. when visiting Jared, Jared reveals the truth to chandler. Jared had been haunted by Slenderman way before they decided to do the YouTube channel. chandler later reveals that Jared was being filmed and the two have an argument. the two apologize afterwards and they both play video games. but not before Jared heard a noise, so chandler investigates. during his investigation, Chandler is chased and confronted by Ghost head. and then, chandler leaves. days passed, and chandler decides to investigate the strange noise in his closet, but suddenly he is attacked by the rake.

Dimitri makes a discord server, where he tells many stories of his adventures, one of them being his first-time meeting ghost head. where they both budded head many times throughout his adventures.

Dimitri uploads another video, where he starts questioning himself.

ghost head hacks the channel yet again showing that he has been in chandlers' room, which pissed off chandler at one point. chandler decides to take a walk and soon discovers that someone has been in his house yet again but is almost killed by the Slenderman and then is saved by Dimitri.

the death of chandler

in January of 2022, Dimitri takes over chandler's twitter where he reveals that chandler died at the hands of the Slenderman. on January 23rd Dimitri uploads the final footage of what happened, dimitri has finally come out of retirement. Dimitri joins the cult of raindrops. and it's also revealed that Dimitri is Daniel Henderson. Dimitri was then banned from the church of raindrops after Dimitri found out about Lucile's true intentions.

Chandler
The secondary protagonist of Journey Through The Dark.

Ghost Head/The Claw
Ghost head is a nightmare that feeds off of human emotional states, he was once a human who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. when the public deemed him innocent, the towns people tracked him down and took him to the outskirts of Tulsa, Ok. then he was left for dead, but a nightmare set him free and ghost head/the claw, feeling enraged, decided to kill the nightmare and became one himself.

The Reaper
Journey Through the Dark's interpretation of the Slender Man and the secondary antagonist.

Dimitri
the main protagontist, Dimitri was once a human named Daniel Henderson, an investigative reporter who was also a victim of Slenderman. Daniel died after fighting a cult member who swore to kill Daniels's bloodline. after Daniel died, a corruptelam named Samael (who is also Daniels's future self), ended up giving Daniel life by merging his personality with Daniel. when Daniel was brought to life, he had so many powers. but then a being outside the multiverse ends up wiping Daniel out of existence, rewriting the timestream of Daniel's story into Journey Through the Dark. another being named Dorrion, a genderless demon, finds the remaining essence of Daniel and converts him into a new man. a man named Dimitri, Daniel's memories were altered as a man who hunts down monsters with a very powerful sword and a western pistol.

Dorrion

Dorrion is a being who found the essence of Daniel and converted him to Dimitri. Dorrion is also a genderless demon from another dimension worse than hell itself. He hates nightmares and other creatures, which is why Dimitri follows orders from them.

Facts

 * GhostHead represents the daily struggles that neurodivergent people face.
 * Journey Through the Dark is named after a song by power metal band Blind Guardian.
 * The Reaper's name comes from a song by Blue Oyster Cult.
 * Chandler is the creator's real name.
 * The mirror scene in “just an average day” is a reference to an ARG called HiImMaryMary.
 * there was a lost episode that revealed a new character named Dimitri, whom in the episode turned out to be Daniel Henderson. a character that the original creator made in another series. but the episode didn't go through, due to game jacking.
 * Robert Englund, actor for Freddy Kruger, is one of the biggest inspirations to the character Ghost head/The Claw.
 * Journey through the dark had an unused introductions video before the series started
 * half of the slender verse community didn't exactly like the character of chandler, which is why the creator killed him off.
 * Dorrion comes from a name the creator found when playing diablo III.
 * Clint Eastwood is half of an inspiration to the character of Dimitri
 * just like with I Could Make You Care, most of the videos are unscripted.

theories

 * 1) Dimitri is Daniel Henderson, another character made by chandler. (confirmed)