He builds entire worlds by himself - fictional bands with full discographies, characters with secrets, stories set in places that feel like they actually happened. Then he goes to work and keeps other people safe.
Every project is its own universe. Full casts. Real histories. Songs that exist inside stories that exist inside other stories.
Five guys from Colorado who stumbled into pop stardom through a talent show and a VHS tape of New Edition choreography. Built to feel like alternate history - specific enough that you wonder if you missed them on TRL.
Kira, Zara, Chloe, and Pippa. Started as a plot device. Developed distinct vocal personalities, a full album, and eventually their own story running parallel to the main one.
A semi-autobiographical story about a boy from Pueblo who gets handed a box labeled "Boy Next Door" and spends the whole film trying to write his way out of it. Set in early 2000s Colorado. Based on things that almost happened.
A spiral notebook that's been in use longer than most people know about it. Songs across genres, written for fictional groups and real people. The kind of work that gets called "just stuff I think about."
A fully built steampunk world with its own rules, its own era, and a dachshund named Gizmo who earns his place in the story. Built from the rivets up.
Something is being built. It has characters, a setting, and a reason to exist. That's all there is right now.
Nearly two decades as a master public safety dispatcher in the state of Colorado - the voice on the other end of the line when things go wrong. The job that never really leaves you, even when you're off the clock.
The work lives in the writing, whether he means it to or not. The instinct to stay calm. The understanding of what people sound like when they're frightened. The knowledge that someone has to be the steady one.
It's a strange life to lead alongside a notebook full of pop songs and a screenplay about chasing dreams in Orlando. But most of the best things are strange.
Semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story. A Colorado kid, a fictional boyband, a sound malfunction that changes everything, and the girl who wrote a better song about him than he ever wrote about himself.
A steampunk adventure. Features a dachshund named Gizmo. Built its own world from the rivets up.
Three of the five original songs written for the After the After-Party universe. Exist as full compositions with arranged harmonies and assigned vocal parts.
Songs written for and by the members of Aura - Kira especially. "Empty Stage, Silent" may be the most honest song in the entire universe. It plays at the end, in the quiet.
Written for coworkers who lost their fathers. Shared with one of them. She said it helped. That may be the whole point of all of this.
A princess in a steampunk-modern hybrid world governed by a deterministic computer system. A character who fights the system that defines her. He keeps coming back to her.
It exists. That's enough for now.
The production home for everything built here. Screenplays, songs, fictional worlds, and the infrastructure that holds them together. If Brandon Keever is the writer, Janus Studios is the room he writes in.
Brandon Keever is a songwriter, screenwriter, and builder of fictional worlds based in Pueblo, Colorado. He has been writing - songs, scripts, characters, entire alternate histories - for longer than most people have known about it.
He works in public safety. He has a dachshund mix named Arya. He knows every harmony to songs you haven't thought about since middle school. He once heard an AI music tool generate a crowd singing one of his choruses and it affected him in a way he didn't entirely expect.
The work is the point. The notebook is real. The worlds are built. This is the door.