Nightmare Hunter

**"Nightmare Hunter"** (Hangul: 악몽 헌터; Romanization: *agmong heonteo*) is a character who is first introduced in Chase Me.

## Background

He is sent to investigate the disappearance of 7 girls in a haunted hotel, in this hotel he experiences paranormal phenomena while being tormented by them.

> “*- Nightmares' fantasy story in full swing If the last debut single introduced the members of Dreamcatcher as 'Nightmare', this time, 'Nightmare · Fall Asleep in the Mirror' is a full-fledged storytelling. The Dreamcatcher's mischievous antics awaken the Nightmare Hunter's beastly nature, and a chase ensues with the Seven Nightmares.*
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### Chase Me

The next part of this storyline is when the nightmare hunter is sent to find out what happened to the girls in the mansion. This is confirmed by what Yoohyeon said in a vlive. In the image where the nightmare hunter is seen circling Gahyeon on the nightmare picture, the pencil breaks. The nightmare hunter is trying to find the cause, perhaps trying to find out about SuA’s involvement, but isn’t any closer by circling Gahyeon, signified by the breaking of the pencil. In a short still, we see SuA holding Siyeon’s hand, which links back directly to their scene in Fly High. This shows that SuA has indeed captured siyeon.

In an important scene, Dami is seen to be lying down in the middle of all the girls, SuA notably in the middle of the ring they form around Dami. This relates to how Dami defended herself by reading about the curse in Fly High. Perhaps this scene is them (especially SuA) calling to Dami to be with them, to partake in being nightmarish with them. And it succeeds to some extent, as Dami joins the circle, and raps the lines “seven little presents every day”, however she is still further apart from this curse than the rest.

Each of the girls act as their own nightmare to the Nightmare Hunter. They toy with him, and torment him. SuA is seen with a pendulum. Handong is a ghastly figure on a table underneath a moving light. JiU is seen as a ghost thrown across a pillow in the corridor. Siyeon torments his door and locks him in. Gahyeon throws books across the floor. Yoohyeon is seen tormenting the corridor and adding to the mystery of room 808. However, the Nightmare hunter has evidence. And he analyses it, and as is his profession, he finds out the origin, that being room 808. And he knows he needs to get in to trap them, because he realises in here is how they do their work. This is the photo room of the chase me mansion. This is the room where the girls are seen in the final part of the moving having fun with “pillows”, having fun with sleep, having fun creating nightmares. And the hunter has found the source- the nightmare photograph that SuA herself left a mark on in Fly High.

### Good Night

Here we get introduced to the “nightmare book”, the book where the timeline and evidence is held for how the girls were cursed. The nightmare hunter finds it, and with a lot of other evidence, he begins to trap the girls in the nightmare together, so that he can finish what he came there to do- stop the girls from invading people’s dreams. The first that he is seen to trap is Gahyeon, as soon as he opens the book she is seen falling. Later we see him rapping SuA in the vines, and Yoohyeon and Siyeon in the forest.

JiU however sees that he has trapped Gahyeon and is a powerful force to be reckoned with, so she prepares with Handong and Dami to not be trapped themselves and to free the others who he has trapped. Dami is seen with Handong in a library, collecting perhaps knowledge on how to do this. With this knowledge that the three of them have then, they begin once again to torment and mock the hunter, perhaps implyling messages like “ha! You think you’ve won” and “we’re still out here- you’re not done yet!”.

And so the three of them take the book, through the mirror (which is now becoming a strong symbol for the communication between nightmares and real life). They burn the pages of the book, starting at SuA’s entrapment, setting fire to the vines that have entrapped her and setting her free that way. The wallpaper of room 808 is seen to burn, showing that the Nightmare hunter’s work is being reversed, the room he’s in has papers flying around him, and so, finally, he is seen, trapped in the mirror. Trapped where he aimed to trap all the 7 girls. But through teamwork in the nightmare, they saved each other.

The final scene shows the girls leaving the nightmare hotel, leaving the nightmare hunter trapped with no hope of escaping, every time he falls asleep he will be tormented by nightmares, whatever he does. This is the last we’ll hear of him.

The girls move through the forest that they were chased through, looking for the next place for them to stay and torment people, which will be at the You and I mansion, and on the way they drop the book. This book has in it perhaps more than was shown in Goodnight, and by dropping this book, the girls lose part of what they can use to combat their own nightmare world, and they lose perhaps the missing link to what is needed to save Yoohyeon in You and I.

## Trivia

* The Nightmare Hunter is played by the actor Jo Dong Hyuk.