Juno Jennings

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**Juno Jennings** is the ghostly receptionist who works the Motel's front desk in the evenings. She is a character in *Kate's American Horror Story: Motel* portrayed by Liz Fenning.

## Background

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Ultimately, Juno decided to remain in the area, though she distanced herself from anybody she knew at the time. She began picking up odd jobs wherever she could, never staying in one place for terribly long. After a decrease in success, she eventually stumbled upon the Clown Motel, which happened to be hiring. Juno was fully aware of the Motel's reputation as an eccentric, haunted building, but knew little of the multiple deaths that occurred on its grounds.

Juno worked under the supervision of "J", the Motel's aloof caretaker, whom she routinely disagreed with in the three years of employment preceding her own death. Despite the strange setting, and her coworker's clashing personality, the Motel marked Juno's longest-held job at that point in time. She found the building and its history to be interesting. Even so, both Chloride and her anxiety had begun to wear on her, and so Juno decided that she'd continue westwards before the new year.

That opportunity did not come, however, as Juno was murdered on the Motel's grounds on October 12th, 1990. Often one to strike up conversation with disarming strangers, Juno returned to the Motel late at night, alongside a man she'd met at a bar earlier in the evening. To her knowledge, there was nothing "off" about the stranger until he began to slip into a drug-induced psychosis and became aggressive, causing Juno to grow uncomfortable. About to depart for the evening and leave the situation for the following day, she attempted to exit the room only to be caught by the man and shoved to the floor, where he then stabbed her dozens of times with one of his hunting knives. Overcome with paranoia, Juno's attacker left her to bleed out as he escaped the Motel, never to return.

Upon regaining consciousness, Juno was unable to recall most of the night's events, save for the fact that she was dead, and now presumably a ghost. In an effort to buy herself a bit more time, she collaborated with the other spirits (and guests) residing within the Motel in disposing of her body. She returned to work the next the day with the intention of keeping her death a secret from J, who immediately caught onto the fact that she was no longer among the living and admonished her for breaking his trust.

In the years that followed, Juno continued to work the front desk in the evenings, though now with more rigorous and extraneous duties assigned by J. She resented the extra work, but begrudgingly completed it so as to spare herself from her supervisor's temper. Five years after her death, J finally confronted her about the circumstances, and Juno divulged that she had, as he suspected, ignored his rules on the night of her murder. The confession further deteriorated the trust between them, which remains fractured even thirteen years following Juno's death.

## Personality and Appearance

Juno is a young woman with blonde hair, slim features, and hazel eyes. She always wears her hair in some kind of ponytail, regardless of whether she dresses in the Motel's uniform or to her personal tastes, and has never really been one to observe dress codes. Her personal fashion is dark and contrasts sharply with the tolerance of the area, most closely resembling alternative fashions from the late 1980s. She wears minimal makeup apart from strong black eyeshadow, which she continues to wear in spite of the Motel's staff uniform.

She is reckless at best, and completely lacking self-preservation at worst, having never really put much thought towards her mortality when she was still alive. Juno approaches situations with a perplexing level of nonchalance, even when it comes to more serious matters. Her flighty nature and general distaste for following the rules distances her somewhat from her co-workers, though she doesn't appear to mind. In the afterlife, ghostly amnesia keeps her from fully recalling the circumstances of her death, and she often comes across as incredibly unfocused. Even so, she remains a highly secretive person, and doesn't often offer glimpses of whatever lies beyond her facade of carelessness.

## Story

In the days leading up to Halloween 2003, Juno works alongside J and the other Motel staff to prepare the space for its annual Halloween party, as well as the arrival of its new and mysterious owner. The morning of Halloween itself sees her staffed at the front desk, wherein she begrudgingly awaits the inevitable influx of guests. Father Gabriel Monroe enters the lobby, introducing himself as a priest and declaring his mission to provide divine services to the Motel, which immediately appears to make Juno uncomfortable. Gabriel is joined soon thereafter by his more personable counterpart, who doesn't introduce himself to Juno by name.

After receiving the details of their stay, the two priests are confronted by J, who welcomes them to the Motel officially. The gesture confuses Juno, who has been kept in the dark regarding the arrival of the new owner's special guests. Additionally, much to her chagrin, J implores her to show the priests to their room, and she reluctantly obliges. She leads them out of the lobby and towards the residential building, vaguely pointing out features of the property along the way, including the San Ginés Cemetery. Upon reaching the room, the friendlier of the two priests, who is revealed by Gabriel to be named Father Orson Banks, attempts to tip her, though Juno refuses and returns to the lobby.

To her surprise, the new owner has arrived in her absence, and is none other than the formidable Carnita Glasse.

To Be Continued:

This story is not yet finished.

## Quotes

* **Role Description Quote:** "Bleeding out was somehow less painful than this conversation."

## Notes

* Juno's appearance is pulled directly from Liz Fenning's role as Sister Imperator in the music video for Ghost's *Dance Macabre*.
* She is Kylo's seventh character to die in the course of the series in which she appears, and is the first of Kylo's ghostly characters.
* She is the first character in *Kate's American Horror Story* to be portrayed by Liz Fenning.
* Juno's birthday, September 13th, was chosen as a commemoration of Ghost's *Seven Inches of Satanic Panic* EP, which she was inspired by.
* The link to Juno's Pinterest Board.
* The link to Juno's Spotify Playlist.
* The link to Juno's Lyric Compilation.
* Juno is inspired vaguely by the character of Natalie 'Nat' Scatorccio from Showtime's *Yellowjackets*.
* Juno has a gravestone in the Motel's cemetery, per J's insistence.

## Gallery

See also: Juno Jennings/Media
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