Pickles the drummer

“Tonight, I'm gonna burn down the garage.„

Pickles is a former frontman of the band "Snakes 'n' Barrels" and currently drummer for the band Dethklok. He was born and raised in Tomahawk, Wisconsin and is of Irish descent. He has red hair styled into dreadlocks and a combover, green eyes, and a very strong North Midwestern accent. Pickles’ surname is unknown. Pickles has a short, slender build and is indeed the shortest member of Dethklok. He is also the only member of the band who is balding. He has pale skin which is sensitive to sunburns: stereotypical features among those of Irish ancestry. Although generally calm and casual most of the time, Pickles builds up a lot of anger at things and is very quick to lose his temper when things don’t go the way they’re expected to. Though he is often the most mature and experienced person in the band, being much better socially-adjusted than his bandmates, he can also be the most cynical, sarcastic, and jaded in attitude. He had a more self-loathing and self-hating attitude, though this has mostly boiled down to feelings of inadequacy regarding his family, particularly his older brother Seth. He is also known to express jealousy or feel threatened when he perceives that other members have a relationship with each other that he does not. However, he is often the one the others will come to for advice or simply to confide in. It could be said that Pickles is the smartest member of Dethklok, and although he is known to sigh and rub his forehead in frustration with their antics, he also tries to maintain his patience with his bandmates. According to Charles, Pickles and Nathan are the two most responsible members of the band. Despite their denial of this, Pickles confirms that he is responsible by scolding Murderface and Skwisgaar for watching horror movies and eating too much whipped cream and allows them to take comfort in his bed after they have nightmares. He also expresses concern for Nathan’s “over-parenting” of Toki and scolds Skwisgaar and Murderface for picking on Toki. Pickles drinks and uses drugs heavily, which seem to have little effect on him, and he seems to have the greatest social acumen among Dethklok’s members, although Nathan appears to be close and actually appears to exceed Pickles in certain areas. However, low blood sugar leaves Pickles extremely irritable; at one point, he tells Toki and Skwisgaar that the band is in a grocery store, calling them douchebags in the process. He possesses strong leadership skills and sometimes acts as a mediator or voice of reason in the disputes of his bandmates. Pickles has a driver’s license. Despite his small stature, he is apparently not inexperienced at fistfights and is frequently able to inflict damage when initiating physical fights with guys with a clear size advantage, something he won’t hesitate to do when his temper goes off. The only person ever to successfully lay a punch on him is his best friend, Nathan. Pickles has a strong penchant for drug use and claims to be ’completely immune’ to the effects of most drugs. He is known to take cocktails of various drugs in heavy doses on a regular basis and still function as his usual self; sharing one of these concoctions with Murderface resulted in a drooling, seizure-like state for the bassist. He has an interest in experimenting with exotic drugs; his main motivation for traveling to the Amazon with Nathan was to try the local hallucinogenic drug Yopo. In particular, he seems to have a high tolerance for and enjoyment of psychedelics. The experimental government drug Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake had no adverse effects on him, though it destroyed the minds of his former band, Snakes N’ Barrels. Pickles is always at odds with his family and, despite being far more successful than his brother Seth, has never been able to please his mother and father, who favor his brother over himself. It is his family who initially drove him to drink and do drugs after Seth framed Pickles for burning down their garage during their childhood. His father in particular thought Pickles was trash, which eventually caused Pickles to leave home during his teens. Seth, on the other hand, has Pickles wrapped around his finger and constantly manipulates him into giving him money. Despite this, Pickles does feel a little sorry for Seth and at one point gives him a high-paying job managing the Australian division of Dethklok’s fan club, which he hopes will provide some distance between them. Despite hating his family, he is known to defend them and does not like the other members of the band insulting his parents, though he doesn’t particularly seem to care about their thoughts on Seth. He apparently still longs for his mother’s approval and at one point even temporarily puts music aside to pursue a career as a real estate agent in hopes that he will impress her. This fails utterly despite Pickles’ considerable success due to him buying property himself, with his mother angrily telling him to return to his band. Upon the urgings of his bandmates, he finally tells his mother to fuck off. He’s proudly stated he doesn’t know his father’s first name and that he has no further relationship with his father other than he hates him. Pickles’ greatest regret was never confronting his father, and when Murderface rejected him in exactly the same way, he gets a second chance and beats Murderface with Toki joining in just for fun. Alcoholism seems to run in Pickles’ family, or at the very least all members appear to be heavy drinkers. Snakes N’ Barrels is Pickles' first band. They enjoyed enormous success as a glam metal/hard rock band in the 1980s-1990's. However, they eventually folded due to constant drug abuse, as well as Pickles' growing disdain for the glam metal genre, needing heavier music. After its end, Pickles went on to join Dethklok, while the rest of the members suffered from poverty and sobriety.