#Rachel Barkman

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Rachel Barkman

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Rachel Ellen Su-Jin Park is a Witch that currently resides in Downtown and has been a Lunar Cove resident for about a month.

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD

GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis Woman, She/Her

DATE OF BIRTH: March 20, 1994

OCCUPATION: Clerk at Broken Record

FACECLAIM: Adeline Rudolph

AS WE KNOW IT, AND I FEEL FINE

SPECIES: Witch

INHERENT ABILITIES: Audible Inundation, Earth Manipulation & Tracking

COVEN POSITION: Non-Member

COVEN ABILITY: Water Manipulation

WELCOME TO LUNAR COVE, RAE ELLE PARK

Trigger Warnings: Violence, Death, Allusion to self-harm 

Once upon a time, there were two witches who met and fell in love. Park Jin and Grace Barkman were young, ambitious, passionate witches who wanted to be something greater than they already were. Together, they joined an up and coming coven headed by one Silas Chamberlain. Together, the two of them wanted to help change the world. If not for the better, then at least for the betterment of themselves and their new little family. 

This isn’t their story, nor is it a fairytale, but it’s important to get things set up. Jin and Grace got married, and it wasn’t a year later that they had a daughter, Rachel Ellen Su-Jin Park. They were young parents, but good parents, and they wanted a good life for their kid. As age brought experience, they started to wonder if Silas’s coven was best for them. Jin wondered if they should move back to his hometown of Lunar Cove, but there was also worry So they move back to Grace’s home of New Orleans, distancing themselves from the coven mile by mile. They wouldn’t pull out immediately; they’d give it time. With luck, by the time Rachel started to grow and become her own little person, they’d have pulled out completely. 

That didn’t happen because this isn’t a fairytale, and things are never easy. Something happened. Something terrible. There was a vampire attack, random and cruel, just as fate always is. Jin was killed, and Grace ended up being turned. This wasn’t something she knew how to handle on her own, and it wasn’t something she could just bring to her family. They’d welcomed her and her new husband back, even after they strayed, because of Rachel, now affectionately called Rae or Rae Elle. Grace knew, as a newly turned vampire, they’d take her kid. Maybe with good reason, but she couldn’t handle that. She’d just lost the love of her life, her magic, even her own life in a way; no one could take her kid from her, too. So Grace did the one thing she didn’t want to do: she went back to Boston, Rae in tow, hoping that she could get help for her new condition while keeping her daughter. 

This was how the first few years of Rae’s life were. She didn’t remember much of her father, and her memories of those few years in Boston were hazy, but things weren’t bad. She knew that much. Her mom was the best, and sometimes she got to play with kids her age, and Rae was still so young. It didn’t take Grace long to figure out how to control her vampiric urges, though the damage was done. She’d gone back to the coven, and now she needed them. Rae Elle was little, but she was already showing an aptitude for magic that had the capability to be incredible. Grace couldn’t teach Rae anymore, not in a practical way. So there would be no leaving the coven. 

Even still, once Grace had control, she and Rae Elle moved back down south. Grace wanted to be closer to home. Rae was still young, so the move wasn’t too bothersome. Rae grew up traveling through the south, from New Orleans to the Mississippi Delta to Memphis to the Smoky Mountains.She played in swamps, climbed mountains, swam in creeks and oceans. Every year, Rae got older, and every year, her mother didn’t. For anyone else, it might have been strange, but this was the only life Rae ever knew, and she was happy. Long stretches of peace were punctuated by the occasional visit to or visit from members of Silas’ coven. Sometimes, it was to help with Rae’s training. Other times, it was to test her abilities. Throwing rocks with her earth manipulation, controlling the quantity and volume of the voices from her audible inundation, and, occasionally, using her tracking abilities to help find someone. Grace allowed it, but only because there was no way she could avoid the coven. She owed them, now, and that was her debt to pay. No one had tried to force Rae into joining, and that was all that mattered.

As Rae Elle got older, she decided to spread her wings. She loved her mom, but she also wanted to experience life on her own. Visits from the coven became fewer and farther between, especially after Silas’ arrest, until eventually Rae wasn’t bothered anymore. That was just fine with her. She was making her own path in life. Her mother always said she was like sand: solid enough to stand strong but still capable of movement. She loved traveling, the wandering nature of her childhood becoming a staple for the rest of her life. She never considered herself a scholar, but she loved learning, and she loved growing things. She loved music. She enjoyed being around people and being kind, and life was beautiful. She’d wander around the country, staying in one place for a few months, working in plant nurseries or record stores, singing in coffee shops, making friends and falling in and out of love like it was breathing. People thought Rae was odd but sweet, eccentric but fun to be around. Every few months, she’d get back together with Grace, who she had grown older than, and it was bittersweet, but it would always be like coming home.

Until home was taken away from her. The entire supernatural community was under attack in February of 2023. The first thing Rae Elle did was get in touch with her mother. Grace was fine. Rae was fine. They agreed to meet up, regroup, and figure out where to go from there. They’d meet back in New Orleans. It should have been quick; Rae drove all through the night, her fingers clenched around the steering wheel. She was so close. She should have made it in time.

She did make it in time to watch hunters kill her mother. The last thing Grace ever told her daughter was to run, and Rae, feeling like a coward, ran. She regretted it ever since, but what else could she do? She felt alone in the world, a new kind of bitterness taking root in her. Her mother had never wanted Rae to go back to their old coven, but she didn’t know what else to do. She needed help. She wanted to make the people that hunted down supernaturals hurt. So, Rae Elle joined the coven. She didn’t know how to feel about it; there wasn’t any sort of connection, any sort of kinship or found family that settled into place. It was just a means to an end. And Rae tried to keep up appearances, tried to cling to the happy woman she’d been, free and easy-going and always ready to help someone struggling to smile. 

But she was struggling, too, and she couldn’t find a way to help herself. She thought getting more involved in the coven would help. She thought helping Silas would help. She thought killing hunters, bleeding herself and them and causing pain and feeling it, all of it, would help. God, she wanted it to help. If she just kept trying, dammit, maybe it’d help. 

Rae did as she was told for the next few months, a model coven member. So, when she was told to head to Lunar Cove, to watch after Jasmine Chamberlain, no longer a Chamberlain, and wait for Silas’ next order, Rae made the move. She found a job, a place to stay, and started making herself at home. Lunar Cove was a nice place. Perhaps, if life had been kinder, she’d have ended up in Lunar Cove before, joined the coven there, and been a contributing member of society. As it was, Rae Elle didn’t see herself as bad. Dealt a bad hand, maybe. Having to do bad things, definitely. But she saw it as a means to an end. The world was full of terrible things. At least she wasn’t doing anything with terrible intentions. She just wanted the world to be a better place, one where folks weren’t killed because of who they were. Joining Silas’ coven was the most proactive way that she knew how to do that. It might have been the wrong choice, but Rae didn’t feel like she had a lot of options. Now, as the world seemed to be caving in, it still felt like that.

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T-minus just over a week...

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Rachel Barkman

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Rachel Barkman 

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Rachel Barkman | @rachelbarkman 

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Pender Island, BC | Rachel Barkman 

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Bryan in the Highlander life

"Omg love why is this Curtis?!"

Canon agreed, lol

"SOPHIE AND BLAIR!!!!!"

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Scary Music Masterpost

Season’s Creepings, all you lovely listeners; this is your DJ of darkness over at the Symphony of Death. Once again, it’s the time of year to update the Masterpost!Now you won’t find the classic Halloween haunts here, since those scares can be had anywhere, but maybe you’ll find a new favorite. Pull out your cauldron, brew up something nice, and kick back with me!

Masters of Horror

John Carpenter

Better Check the Kids - Halloween / Put Them in the Ground (with Jim Lang) - Body Bags / Main Theme - The Fog (1980) / All Out of Bubble Gum (with Alan Howarth) - They Live! / Hell Breaks Loose (with Alan Howarth) - Prince of Darkness / Regeneration - Christine / Just A Bedtime Story (with Jim Lang) - In the Mouth of Madness

Marco Beltrami

River’s Edge - My Soul to Take / Tea for Three Plus One - The Woman in Black / Return to Blackwood - Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark / The Concert - The Eye / Love Theme - Cursed / Priest Dies - Mimic / 1m2 (Production Note) - The Substitute / Return to Blackwood - Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark / Pulled Down Deep - The Shallows / The End of Fur - Cursed (II) / Carillon My Wayward Son - The Snowman

Charlie Clouser

American Horror Story Theme (with Cesar Davila-Irizarry) / Out of the Fire - The Collection /Hello, Zepp - Saw / Theme - Dead Silence

Bernard Herrmann

Teddy Bear Wired - Cape Fear / Theme - Vertigo / Theme - Psycho / The Tomb-Sandra - Obsession / Theme - Twisted Nerve / The Kidnapping - Obsession / Marketplace Murder - The Man Who Knew Too Much

Christopher Young

Twilight Mercy - Urban Legend / The Lament Configuration - Hellraiser / Sinister - Sinister /Concerto to Hell - Drag Me to Hell / The Devourer of Souls - Deliver Us from Evil / Butchers and Bakers - Copycat / Six Demons - The Exorcism of Emily Rose / Cryptomnesia - The Gift / The Sacrifice - The Dorm that Dripped Blood / Death After Life After Death - Untraceable / Reversing Colors - The Hider in the House / Church Isn’t Church - Pet Sematary (2019)

Video Games

Room of Angel - Akira Yamaoka & Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Silent Hill: The Room) Mandus - Jessica Curry (Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs) The Drunken Whaler - Daniel Licht (Dishonored) Chill and Rigor - Shinji Hosoe (9 Persons 9 Hours 9 Doors) I’m Not Edible! - Chris Vrenna (American McGhee’s Alice) Ring Around the Rosie - Jason Graves (Dead Space 2) Soul of Steel - Mao Hamamoto (Corpse Party) P.T. Silent Hills Ambience Weekly Despair Magazine - Masafumi Takada (Dangan Ronpa) Close to Evil - Mikko Tarmia (Penumbra) In this Wretched Place - Eipix Studios (Phantasmat) The Nameless Game (Requiem) - Masayoshi Soken (Nanashi no Game) Last Day - Koji Kondo & Toru Minegishi (Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask) Welcome to Rapture - Garry Schyman (Bioshock) Theme - Yoan Landau (Nightmare House) Plague Blossom - Ndemic Creations (Plague Inc) Gore Nest - Mick Gordon (DOOM) Creepy Forest - Jason Garner & Vince Di Vera (Don’t Starve) A Nightmare Reborn - Ramin Djawadi (Gears of War) Before the Mirror - Maribeth Solomon & Brent Barkman (Fallen London) Broken Vessel - Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight) Letter From A Friend - Carlos Viola (The Last Door) Rata Novus - Maclaine Diemer (Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns) The Hole at the Center of Everything - Alec Holowka (Night in the Woods) Bury Her - Ivan Zanotti (imscared) Devil’s Crossing - Steve Pardo (Grim Dawn)

Movies

Close to You (Carpenters Cover) - Josefine Cronholm (Mirrormask) The Void - Stephen Price (Gravity) Intro to Horror - Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th) The Supper - Bruno Coulais (Coraline) Tubular Bells (Exorcist Cut) - Mike Oldfield (The Exorcist) Main Theme - Shiro Sato (Ju-On : The Grudge) Main Title - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind (The Shining) Dark Earth - Jack Trombey (Dawn of the Dead) The Ringtone (Chakushin Ari) A New Swan Queen  - Clint Mansell (Black Swan) Audition - Koji Endoh (Audition) Roar! - Michael Giacchino (Cloverfield) It Was Always You, Helen - Philip Glass (Candyman) Finale / End Titles - Howard Shore (Silence of the Lambs) A Discordant Split - Kenji Kawai (Ringu) Funeral in Carpathia - James Bernard (Dracula: Prince of Darkness) Name Your Poison - Christopher Lee (The Return of Captain Invincible) The Carousel After Dark - James Horner (Something Wicked This Way Comes) The Game Begins - Masamichi Amano (Battle Royale) The Event Horizon - Michael Kamen & Orbital (Event Horizon) Poison - Herman Kopp (Der Todesking) Samara’s Song - Daveigh Chase (The Ring) Brainerd, Minnesota - Carter Burwell (Fargo) Number One Fan - Marc Shaiman (Misery) Graveyard Theme - Vince Guaraldi (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) We are the 1% - Darren Baker (The Conspiracy) Call to Worship - Sons of Perdition (The Backwater Gospel) Longest Night - Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption) The Auction - Michael Abels (Get Out)

Anime

Youran - Kayo Konishi & Yukio Konda (Elfen Lied) Aya - Mari Fukuhara (Amatsuki) I was waiting for this moment - Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion) Go DA DA - Yoko Kanno (Ghost in the Shell: SAC) A Last Flower - Asa-Chang & Junray (Aku no Hana) White Hill (Maromi’s Theme) - Susumu Hirasawa (Paranoia Agent) 24 Hours OPEN - Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop) Nui Harime’s Theme - Hiroyuki Sawano (Kill La Kill) Daughter - Ichirou Imai & Kazuhisa Yamaguchi (Petshop of Horrors) Monster - Susumu Hirasawa (Berserk) Ake ni Somaru - Yasuharu Takanachi (Jigoku Shoujo) Sanctus - Hikaru Nanase (Angel Sanctuary) March of the Moving Dolls - Akira Senju (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Other

Stay Awake (Mary Poppins cover) - Suzanne Vega Heigh Ho (Snow White cover) - Tom Waits Come Little Children - Kate Covington I, Witchfinder - Electric Wizard Brennistein - Sigur Ros Psychobabble - Frou Frou Sirens - SingerSen Lose Your Soul - Dead Man’s Bones Grisly Reminder  - Midnight Syndicate An Echo, A Stain - Bjork Elaine - ABBA (trust me) Welcome Home (Instrumental) - Coheed and Cambria The Greatest Show Unearthed - Creature Feature Something Wicked (That Way Went) - Vernian Process Black Water - Timber Timbre God’s Away on Business - Tom Waits The Wicked - Blues Saraceno The Gravedigger - The Pine Box Boys Lake Ponchartrain - Ludo The Smiler - IMA Score (Alton Towers Amusement Park) DOA - Bloodrock Breathing Water - Inhale Chupacabra Cha Cha - The Swingtips Confrontation - Anthony Warlow (Broadway’s Jekyll and Hyde) No Death - Mirel Wagner Thick as Thieves - Natalie Merchant Say Goodnight - Skeleton Key The Sad Mafioso - Godspeed You! Black Emperor What’s So Amazing About Grace? - The Paper Chase Blood on the Blue Grass - Legendary Shack Shakers In A Lonely Place - Joy Division Walpurgis - Black Sabbath

Television

Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Jeff Fisher Theme to Unsolved Mysteries - Michael Boyd & Gary Remal Malkin The Red Room - Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch (Twin Peaks) Suite from ���The Mark of the Rani” - Jonathan Gibbs (Doctor Who) Norma Doesn’t Approve - Chris Bacon (Bates Motel) The Cordyceps - George Fenton (Planet Earth) Dark Harvest Chase - Kevin Manthei (Invader Zim) Main Theme - Robert Lydecker & Brian Tyler (Sleepy Hollow) Blood Theme - Daniel Licht (Dexter) Arkham Asylum - Shirley Walker & Todd Hayen (Batman the Animated Series) The Old Mill - The Blasting Company (Over the Garden Wall) Sleep Deprivation - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Bird Box) Turn on the Lights - Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things)

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Rachel Barkman

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Simple Complications #829

     “I’m confused,” Rachel said as she looked at herself in the mirror.      “What’re you confused about?” Krissy asked.  “I think you look great.”      “She does,” Murshidah said as she came out of the change room.      “That’s what I’m confused about,” Rachel said.  “I thought bridesmaid dresses were supposed to look ugly, but these look good.”      “I’m pretty impressed too,” Murshidah said.  “You even managed to have them incorporate a hijab into the design of mine.”      “I know it’s important to you,” Krissy said.  “And that means it’s important to me.”      “Mine could stand to show off a bit more cleavage though,” Rachel said.  “That’s important to me.”      “Uh huh,” Krissy said.

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Rachel Barkman

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Rachel Barkman

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Rachel Barkman