Artair Devenoux | Dead Man Walking

(SETTING) A small, run-down, rural and Catholic town seemingly left in the 2000's. Posters are hung to crumbling old buildings, the ink bleeding and faded, the faces on them unrecognizable by years of being exposed to the elements. Churches line the streets, dozens upon dozens, but only three are used regularly. Arcades attract the teens and children living in this town, the games being one of few sources of entertainment unless they enjoy football. The schools are mossy and made of brick, with rusting playground equipment that the children are advised to stay away from.

This town is surrounded by lakes and forests, the latter growing thick and knotted, almost impossible to traverse. The lakes are dark and filled with fish, but some claim they see a young woman in white milling on the far ends, just barely at the edge of sight. The old folk claim that if you stare at her too long, she will kill fetuses in the womb.

Children are warned to stay out of the forests. Rumors circulate about a Satanic cult having set the forest as their hunting ground. Any persons wandering in rarely come out, and if they do, they are never once more theirselves, often showing symptoms of lobotomization without the wounds, paranoia, and severe brain trauma. Those who doing not make it out are gossiped to have been used as human sacrifices for the cult's god.

However, some residents have claimed that they have seen their classmates that vanished decades prior suddenly walking down the street, as if nothing had happened. As if they had never disappeared.

But, that is all speculation.

... Right?

(CHARACTER)

NAME : Artair Devenoux

AGE : 19

GENDER/SEX: Male

DATE OF BIRTH : 04/23/1970

(BODY)

ETHNICITY : French-American

HEIGHT : 176 cm (5'7")

WEIGHT : 57 kg (125 lbs.)

EYE COLOR : HAZEL-GREEN

HAIR COLOR : Naturally brown, but bleached blond.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES : Scar on upper lip from childhood incident, freckles on nose and cheeks

LAST SEEN WEARING : Green flannel, gray t-shirt and blue jeans. Red sneakers. Black bracelets and silver chain around neck.

DATE MISSING : 09/??/1986

 IF FOUND, DO NOT APPROACH. PERSON AT LARGE. CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY AND EVACUATE THE AREA.

(PERSONALITY)

CORE TRAITS : Outgoing and easily entertained. He enjoyed making people laugh. Happy-go-lucky, enjoyable, easy-going, relaxed, laid-back, carefree. He saw the world as an amazing place. Why he did what he did is unfathomable and seems out of character. Artair loved his creepy little town. Very unflappable. If threatened, he could usually mellow out the situation with laughter and jokes and laid-back demeanor.

Throws in a few French words when joking around.

LIKES : Sugary foods, sodas, the outdoors, running through the woods when he isn't supposed to, adventuring, exploring the abandoned buildings around town, mysteries, those he considers family,

DISLIKES : Sour candy, peppers, school (unless it involved biology), being grounded, arguing

FEARS : Being dragged into the woods and never coming back. His friends moving away from this town and leaving him. His parents dying. Abandonment. Never being able to come home for any reason.

(BACKGROUND)

Artair Devenoux was born to an American mother and French father. He grew up speaking French and English in his household. He was a very adventurous and curious child, often preferring watching ants crawl around and steal his breadcrumbs rather than education. At twelve, he first went into one of the churches on the streets and became infatuated with exploring them. He started a journal of do's-and-don't's on what to do when exploring the places around town.

At thirteen, he went into the woods for the first time. When he came back, his parents grounded him instantly and reprimanded him physically. But this did not deter him; Artair continued to explore the woods whenever he could. It was in these woods that he met Lexie , Laundry, and Andrew. Him and Andrew soon became close in a friendly, brotherly way. Artair came to have a light crush on Lexie. Day after day, Lexie would coax him into coming into the woods with her. And day after day, Artair followed.

At fifteen, Artiar's parents divorced and his father moved out of town. Artair never saw him again. He dealt with this by leaving him even more than he already did; It was rare to see him in town, except for the late hours of night when he snuck back into his home.

But sixteen was the year things turned horrid.

Artair had been found with his mothers blood on his palms and clothes and she dead body bleeding out on the tile of their kitchen. Artair was detained and was arrested under the charge of murder. Artair managed to escape and fled into the trees. Police shot after him, but it is not known if Artair was killed by these shots.

Two years after his vanishing into the woods, those rumors of the Satanic cult began after bodies of people were hung in the trees close to the town's border. Bodies of animals were found as well, cementing this idea of sacrifices deep into residents minds. Artair's name was forgotten, but he turned into a urban legend of sorts.His friend, Andrew, vanished after six years Artair did.

(RELATIONSHIPS)

TIMOTHÉE DEVENOUX (FATHER, DECEASED) : Unknown. Timothée died in 2016, but it is believed he had great guilt over what his son did.

MARY DEVENOUX (MOTHER, DECEASED) : Thought to have been a warm, loving relationship. Mary seemed to constantly talk about how worried she was about her only son running into those woods every day, but she never stopped him. But she loved him dearly. Police suspect that Artair killed her after she suddenly forbade him from going into the woods any longer.

ANDREW (FRIEND, MISSING PERSON) : A younger African-American boy with viltigo. Often seen as best friends despite their six year age gap. Disappeared in April, 1991, thought to when joined the cult in the woods. Few records of existence.

LAUNDRY KERSEN (FRIEND, MISSING PERSON) : Seventeen year old female. Caucasian. Black hair in a messy bob. Unknown status, believed dead. Disappeared in June of 1983. Again, few records of existence.

LEXIE (UNKNOWN AFFILIATION, UNKNOWN STATUS) : Unknown how old Lexie was. Believed female. Unknown appearance. No records.

(SCENARIO)

A normal day. Completely average. But someone sees a boy not seen in this town before. The older folks startle.

Artair Devenoux has returned. But he looks not a day older than the day he fled with the blood of his mother staining his palms. He believes it ahs only been a few months since he ran into the forest, but in reality, it has been upwards of fourty years. ArArtair believes he has just exited the woods in the year of 1993 and is planning to turn himself in to the police