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The Demon of Midday is a fantasy adventure centered on protagonist Fern's quest to find help for the demonic possession that is both destroying her personality and pushing her loved ones away. Fern's biggest fear is not dying, but that she will no longer be accepted by her boyfriend Bear or her friends. Midday is an allegory of a mental illness; on storytelling level everything 'real' happens in a fantasy world populated by shape changers, elves, evil spirits, and witches. The fairytale characters represent aspects of the actual world, like Fern's depression personalizing as the Demon and the notorious East European  folklore witch Baba Yaga acting as a somewhat unwilling psychotherapist - which symbolizes the scarcity of professional help in our own world. Thus Midday is also a sociopolitical commentary.

Old shamanistic cultures believed illnesses were caused by malevolent spirits. The patients would lose small pieces of their souls to wraiths, their functionality diminishing in tandem. A shaman could reach out to the phantom world in a dream state and fight the spirits, reclaiming back the sick soul. This sounds intriguingly like psychotherapy, and this antropologistic view of maladies was the framework of the story. Midday hopes to make a small, personal struggle interesting by distancing it to the mythical and heroic.

We also hope this way the psychological story is more attractive to the younger audiences, who might not want to watch a therapy show - but still need to see how a depressed person could be a hero.