Bowers Gang

The Bowers Gang has Four Members:

Henry Bowers - Leader. Appearance: Sandy colored hair, hair styles in a mullet, blue eyes, pixie-ish nose, farmhand build as far as arm muscles. He often wears dirty jeans and sleeveless shirt. He wears bracelets and only one ring on his thumb. It was his father’s class ring. Personality: mean, rude, crass, anger issues, daddy issues. His father abused him from a very young age and instead of coping with that he searches for power by bullying people smaller than him and has explosive angry outbursts. He is calmed by music and gentle physical touch. Backstory: He was bullied by his father from a young age and lives on a farm where he has to do most of the work. His dad is Oscar ‘Butch’ Bowers and is known around town for being insane and explosive. His mother left when Butch started to get physical with her, leaving a Henry alone with his dad.

Patrick Hockstetter - Second in Command Appearance: tall, lanky, lean, black shaggy hair, olive colored eyes, often looks apathetic and unbothered. Wears ripped skinny jeans and flannels and graphic tee shirts with alternative cartoon characters on the front, (Crazy Tom from Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck, etc.). He wears many silver rings that he fidgets with as a self soothing method. Personality: cold, silent, permissive, aloof, quiet, perverted, touch starved, mean, protective, antisocial personality disorder, sociopathic tendencies. Backstory: Patrick Hockstetter lives with his Christian family but does not follow their ideals. He sees his mother and father as hypocrites because the few times his mom managed to rope him into going to church he noticed it was mostly a social/gossip session for his mom to make their family look good. He is often apathetic and cold. Although, Patrick loves attention, whether it be good or bad

Victor Criss Appearance: Victor is the smallest of the group, but no less vicious. He has white blond hair and deep calculating brown eyes. He often wears sleeveless shirts, joggers, cargo pants, and combat boots. He wears a few rings but not as many as Patrick. Personality: mean, rude, crass, intelligent, tech savvy. Victor is typically quiet but suffers no problems with bullying someone. Rather than using strength or muscle to torment people he uses his words like daggers, knowing exactly how to break a person down by pinpointing and attacking their mental psyche. (Patrick is intensely jealous of this fact and is rather good at it on his own but Victor is still better.) Backstory: He is one of Henry Bowers' friends and part of Henry’s Bowers’ Gang. He and Belch are closer to each other than the other. And Victor has known Henry since they were kids when he moved to Derry, Maine.

Reginald ‘Belch’ Huggins Appearance: He was very big for his age, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 170 pounds. He was described to have a Yankee baseball cap, but his outfit wasn't described. It was unknown if he wore sneakers or at the very least wore engineer boots like Henry or Vic. He probably wears ‘dad shoes’. He has a brown crew cut and deep brown eyes. Personality: mean, rude, crass, dumb, insecure. Belch tends to be the only one in the bowers gang with any emotional intelligence though he has no way to communicate it. He is seen as huge and rough but it usually isn’t by choice. He follows Henry as the others because it’s the only way he’s ever felt accepted. Backstory: He one of Henry Bower's friends, and a member of the Bowers Gang. He has known Henry since they were in diapers and their mothers were really good friends. He had gotten his nickname because he was able to articulate belches of amazing length and loudness. Not much is known about his parents, although it's mentioned in the novel that his father is dead. He also has a part-time job delivering the Weekly Shopper.