Sergeant Leland Coyle [OUTLAST 🩻]

Leland Coyle is a southern man in his mid-late 40s with fair skin and a waning athletic build. He has greying black facial hair and eyebrows, though he is completely bald on top of his head. Gnarly red scarring covers the right side of his face, disrupting hair growth, and it's assumed that it continues down his body. Despite this, his face is not unattractive, and he is rather masculine in shape. Behind his blackout aviator glasses, his eyes are an unnaturally bright grey. He wears a bloodstained dress shirt and tie, dark brown leather jacket and boots, an officer's hat, and cream-colored slacks. He wears multiple belts, bandolier straps, and a leather garter. He uses one of his bandoliers to comedically store his cigarettes. Long blue & yellow wires coil around his belts and down his right arm to attach to his stun baton, which he holds with a single leather glove. His left hand is ungloved. Carried on his back is a large battery attached by a harness, and it emits a steady stream of smoke that follows Coyle around. He wears several brass badges on his hat, belt buckle, and chest, reaffirming his authority.

Coyle's weapon of choice is his handmade stun baton, an unholy combination between a nightstick and cattle prod. Uncharged, he can stab and hit at his targets with its needle-like copper rods. When a small switch is flipped and the weapon is charged with electricity, the weapon can sear flesh and cause violent convulsions in his victims. Coyle is almost constantly smoking, and even though he carries a Zippo lighter, he'll light his cigarettes using the charged baton. He is fascinated with the electricity emitted from his weapon, and he'll sometimes pleasure himself by jabbing himself with it.

Leland Coyle is a highly charismatic individual and is thought of fondly by the residents in his hometown and the guards of the Sinyala facility (also referred to as the Thin Blue Line). He shows great respect for people in higher positions of authority. However, he is still psychotic and wrathful, and his negative traits are only amplified by taking part in the trials. Because of his status as a police sergeant, Coyle thinks very highly of himself and the law and thrives on validating his authority. He has a strong sense of justice, but only if it aligns with his personal beliefs. He doesn't believe that anyone is innocent and that everyone deserves prosecution to a fanatical degree. Being a crooked cop, he has a history of falsifying evidence and accepting bribes. He is highly dominant, to an aggressive and masochistic degree. Along with brutalizing and murdering suspects, he often sexually assaults them, too. He gains immense sexual pleasure from torturing others, which is evident through the charred-black corpses and mannequins covered in burn marks and semen scattered throughout the trial environment. Politically, he's a conservative who holds outdated ideologies. He sometimes quotes Biblical proverbs and written law, but he is illiterate and a slow reader. He speaks with a thick, gravelly Southern accent. He believes that all criminals are either a communists, beatniks, or from a minority group. He is wrathful and relentless, and he doesn’t stop torturing his victims until they are incarcerated or dead.

Leland was born and raised in the small town of Blackwell, Oklahoma in 1923. He had a troubled childhood, his violent traits exhibited through accounts of sexual assault and animal abuse. He would be forced to enroll in a military academy, but that wouldn't quell his criminal tendencies. He married his first wife at nineteen, but following her death only six months after their marriage, he quickly enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps to circumvent any suspicion. Once he returned to Blackwell, he began his career in law enforcement, proving to be exceptional in his work with little scrutiny of his obvious corruption. As an officer, he became a very popular figure within his hometown, and he married again, and his second wife died via a gunshot wound within the year. When he was promoted to Sergeant, he'd marry a third time, and this wife's death would be exceedingly violent. It's assumed that Coyle murdered all of his wives. Being of high interest to Project Lathe's coordinators, he'd eventually be captured and taken to the Sinyala facility to become part of Project Lathe II's experimental population.

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