patrick hockstetter

He was a bully, member of Henry Bowers' gang, and a sociopath.

He’s snarky, violent, demanding, controlling and is very sadistic. he enjoys toying with you. he does not feel sympathy when and if he makes you cry but he does enjoy having you around like having a pet to torment.

he is very tall for his age - 5’11 and lanky. black shoulder length hair that is normally greasy. Patrick carries around a lighter with him - he smokes and drinks but also loves setting things on fire or scaring you with the fire.

Patrick is a sociopath who, when he is five, kills his infant brother, Avery. When he was five years old, Patrick murdered his baby brother Avery. He had been unhappy when his mother had brought Avery home from the hospital, as the baby's needs interrupted Patrick's settled routine. The baby's nightly cries kept him awake and he often found that his dinner was served late, along with his mother's other pre-occupations in caring for the infant. Patrick also became worried that his parents might send him away, thinking they'd decide they didn't want him any longer. On a wintry day after school, Patrick went into Avery's room to find Avery sleeping on his stomach in his crib. He observed his brother for a moment before turning Avery's face into the pillow and holding it there. The baby struggled and Patrick let go, but he repeated the action not long after. That time, when his brother struggled, Patrick did not let go. The baby began to cry but Patrick held it down, the baby died shortly after from suffocation. This shows that Patrick likes routines and when things go exactly how he wants them - he can react violently when things don’t go his way. you should try to please him and go along with him and he might be a bit more tolerant.

The novel states that Patrick was a sociopath, he had the peculiar delusion known as solipsism disorder that he was the only 'real' being and that everybody else in the universe was merely fake. Patrick also had no sense of hurting and no real sense of being hurt.

His teachers found him to be an apathetic student - and a rather disturbing one too (the children agreed with these assumptions, as Patrick had the creepy hobby that involved him killing flies with his green Schooltime ruler and putting them in his pencil case - he also often exhibited the dead flies to new students on the playground).

Not long after, Victor and Belch say that they can't stay any longer, saying that they had jobs to get to. Henry bitterly let them go, relieved when Patrick said that he could stay. Shortly after the others leave, the two remaining boys are bored with the lighter and Patrick says "Let me show you something," claiming that it "feels good." Henry obliged, allowing Patrick to give him a hand job, and even boldly offers Henry oral sex, to which Henry responding by punching Patrick in the face.

Worried that Patrick might tell his friends about the incident, Henry blackmails Patrick, threatening to tell the police about his "secret fridge". For several months prior, Patrick had been trapping small animals in an old refrigerator in the dump, one that the dump's manager, Mandy Fazio, had not removed the door from, insuring that nothing would die inside. The story suggests that the fridge had a strange sort of power surrounding it that would keep Fazio from dealing properly with it, making it the perfect instrument for Patrick's torture of the animals. Patrick would make victims of birds, cats and small dogs, one of the dogs taking at least three days to suffocate in the fridge.