7/17/20

"The finale is upon us!
For those unaware, these are characters for a story I’m writing called Locals Only!. It’s set in the small Indiana town of Povey, in the year 1955. The story follows a group of locals who wish to purge their beloved home of the organized crime that threatens their safety, as missing persons reports and property damage cases have spiked dramatically in recent years. In doing so, they accidentally uncover a scheme much more dire than a couple of greasy teenagers who steal and destroy property. As it turns out, there's something in the forest by the lake that’s causing all those disappearances, and it becomes a race to stop whatever it is before anything worse can happen.
The characters on paper and the character descriptions below are respective, and in order.
*I may edit these biographies in the future if I don’t like them or if there are typos

Milo and Diane
Milo is the older brother of Jesse Sanders. Always somehow outdoing Jesse in everything he did, Milo was always held in high regard by the community, unintentionally putting his much less impressive brother in his shadow. While he is mostly congenial, he can sometimes let his ego get the better of him. He’s away at college, and is letting Jesse stay in the house he bought while he’s away. He’s been away a long time though, and the brothers haven’t spoken in years. This has allowed Jesse to grow a little too comfortable with his situation. Even though it’s been a long time, Milo could knock on that door any day now...The real reason he’s been away for so long is partially because of him meeting a woman, Diane, who would eventually become his fiancé. Diane is a kind, quiet woman who's always got her snout in a book. She particularly likes mystery novels, but also enjoys her fair share of drama. She’s also proficient in sewing, and in the years she’s known Milo, has hand made him countless articles of clothing.

Patricia Whitaker
Patty was St. Thomas Senior High’s premier acting student. Before she found acting though, she dated Jesse. She and Jesse at the time they first met related to each other with their lower social status, and they began seeing each other. Their relationship lasted until the end of their senior year. As Patty found her niche in theater, the couple grew more distant. As her prestige grew, so did her ego, and she over time quit making an effort to see Jesse anymore. Where once she was a modest, polite girl, she slowly became more crass and entitled. By the time they both graduated, Patty was ready to become an actress in show business, and saw the desperate Jesse still clinging on to the hope that they could still somehow make the relationship work as a pathetic orbiter. She abandoned him, and left for Hollywood. Patty did see some success early on, but her popularity quickly waned for one reason or another. Her current whereabouts are unknown, but rumor has it she’s back where she came from, living in plain sight.

Hudson
Once a timid and unconfident outcast, who we know today as ‘Hudson’ is a completely different person than who he used to be. While in college, he was taken under the wing of one Professor Lancaster, who claimed to see potential in him. Lancaster manipulated ‘Hudson’, and groomed him to believe he was much better than what others thought. Invited to stay with him and help with his personal research, ‘Hudson’ obliged, unknowing of what he would endure. As soon as they were alone, Lancaster dropped the act and immediately put his new assistant to work, with little resistance. ‘Hudson’ was disallowed from leaving the lab, and did most of the research. Any missteps were met with harsh punishment, mental and physical. Overwhelmed, but lacking the courage to leave, the poodle stays. The constant mental and physical torment would only degrade ‘Hudson’s’ weak psyche. Compounded by the self-experimentation he was forced to conduct, it was no surprise he would eventually break. Slowly at first, he begins exhibiting neurotic behavior such as constantly brushing his growing hair, or talking to himself in a shaky voice. Years of abuse, and experimental shot injections and pills later, his mind is now lost to a twisted sense of narcissism and exaggerated feminine traits. As Lancaster’s health begins to deteriorate, Hudson takes more liberties in leaving the lab. Going under numerous disguises, he lures unsuspecting locals and vagrants back home, where he then uses them in experimentation, as they are blank canvases, untouched by any transformative drugs. After being pushed around for so long, he feels a rush of satisfaction and catharsis in being in complete control over someone else’s life. Many who he kidnaps end up murdered by the end as a result. That, or reshaped entirely through a manner of pills, shots, and stitches.

Rudolph Lancaster
Dr. Rudolph Lancaster is a giant copperhead snake. He and Hudson have been working together to create his greater vision for humanity through science for a lot longer than Lancaster would like. Ill tempered, he blames all setbacks on his poodle lab partner, often violently. As he lacks appendages, he has to rely on Hudson to conduct all the experiments, something he doesn’t trust him fully to do. He harshly criticizes Hudson for his constant ‘guests’, since he wants their operation to be as covert as possible. Between his limited mobility and rapidly declining health though, there isn’t much he can do about it. He’s begun to get desperate, begging Hudson even, to drop whatever research he’s currently doing to help find a way to prevent him from dying before they can finish his master plan. It has been his goal to turn everyone into feral animals for many years now, and the last thing he needs as death grows imminent, is for the monster he created in the process to continually set him back in the most idiotic ways imaginable.

Thank you everyone for being patient with these!"