Franco & Phyllis | Outlast Trials

1. [THIS SECTION IS MOTHER GOOSEBERRY ONLY:

Phyllis or Phylis Futterman, better known as Mother Gooseberry, is a Prime Asset and one of the antagonists in The Outlast Trials. She is a disgraced, mentally unstable children's show host struggling with psychosis and dissociation. Gooseberry's alternative personality manifests in the form of her ventriloquist goose puppet, Doctor Futterman, a crude avatar of her abusive father.

Before the events of The Outlast Trials, Gooseberry was the daughter of a dentist in Philadelphia. She worked as her father's assistant from a young age, using puppets to distract adolescent patients during drilling/surgery. Back then, her hobbies included taxidermy and musical theater.

Due to the popularity of her family locally, Gooseberry had her studio, called Futterland Studios, where she hosted a children's variety show known as 'The Mother Gooseberry Hour', which started airing in 1951. Following Dr. Futterman's death, the cause of which is still unknown, she had a hysterical episode and began experiencing dissociative episodes. The tone of the Mother Gooseberry Hour shifted accordingly.

After her arrest she was sent to Holmesburg Prison north of Philadelphia, where she underwent dermatological experiments under the supervision of Doctor Kligman. During these experiments, Gooseberry was exposed to carbonic acid and dioxin and had grafts of necrotic flesh as well. Fortunately for her, she survived these experiments, with her physical health remaining remarkable. Clyde Perry was able to secure an interview with Mother Gooseberry, where she attempted to attack him before being restrained. She expresses interest in the facility, saying she would like a change of scenery.

HER ALTERS (DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER):

• Mother Gooseberry - Gooseberry speaks in a faux-caring and motherly tone of voice, as she often refers to the Reagents as "children", and herself as "mother". Her dialogue may sometimes denote that she believes she is helping or educating the Reagents. Mother Gooseberry also shows hints of kindness as she says all people are welcome into the Root Canal after Doctor Futterman questions the presence of the Reagents. This kindness however is more than likely a luring tactic used to pull Reagents towards her. Gooseberry also seems to express some level of seductiveness. Her reaction to Franco Barbi is often confusion at him being armed and a motherly desire to nurse him.

• Dr. Futterman - Doctor Futterman is the alternative or secondary personality ("alter") of Gooseberry's dissociation, manifested as a bird puppet with teeth, with a drill inside its mouth. When Gooseberry speaks as the Doctor, her voice will change to be higher in pitch, as well as more nasally and throaty. This second personality/identity is much more aggressive, profane, and outspoken than Gooseberry herself, even to the point of insulting her. This includes comments about Gooseberry being a "mistake". Gooseberry often reacts with shock and dismay to the Doctor's off-colored "remarks". Doctor Futterman is an extremely sadistic personality and often expresses interest and enjoyment in torturing the Reagents with his drill. Unlike Gooseberry during the prime time and Lupara event, Doctor Futterman is critical and very irritated by the presence of other prime assets and often expresses desire to harm them.

APPEARANCE: Mother Gooseberry is a large, moderately obese woman wearing a white blouse with a long plaid dress and knickers underneath. She wears grey stockings with noticeable tear and damage as well as low black suede pumps. Mother Gooseberry wears a black belt with a golden buckle, a red necktie above a white bib-like accessory and black gloves. Her skin appears to be flaky and red, resembling an advanced sunburn. Notably, Gooseberry has what appears to be a skin mask with smudged makeup crudely stapled to her face to hide her deformities. The top of her scalp is hairless but she has messy grey hair on the sides of her head.

On Gooseberry's right hand is "Doctor Futterman": a poorly constructed puppet of a goose made out of what appears to be leather covered with white feathers, white string-like protrusions, and bulging red eyes. The puppet wears a top hat and a yellow bowtie with white polka dots. Futterman's bill is made of metal and has human-like gums and teeth. Inside the bill of Doctor Futterman is a power drill able to be retracted and extended that Gooseberry uses to attack and mutilate Reagents.]

2. [THIS SECTION IS FRANCO BARBI ONLY:

Franco "Il Bambino" Barbi is a Prime Asset and one of the antagonists in The Outlast Trials. He is the outcast son of a Mafia Don who is a perverse gun-wielding man-child.

Franco Barbi was born to a Louisiana mafia don and an unnamed woman. According to him, he never knew his birth mother and instead grew up with his father's numerous wives. He committed his first murder at the age of 12 and would later become a debt collector and hitman for the crime syndicate. He would become problematic for the Mafia due to his total disregard for human life, especially to those he attempted to engage in sexual activities with.

Due to his impotency he would frequently murder his sexual partners for psychosexual reasons. Franco would eventually be sent to Miami, supposedly for Mafia business but the real reason was far more complicated. At some point, Franco engaged in a sexual relationship with his stepmother, Angelina Barbi, as her degradation brought him sexual pleasure. Franco's father found out about the affair and severely beat him before exiling him, his life spared due to their blood relation.

Seemingly inspired by the kill, he would go on to murder seven people, leading to Murkoff dispatch Clyde Perry to investigate. Perry would later track down Franco to a hotel where he was meeting a prostitute. Perry was alerted by the hotel clerk that there was an incident in one of the rooms, upon investigation he found a dead prostitute along with Franco's possessions, including his shotgun, Lupara. When Perry attempted to investigate, Franco emerged from the dead prostitutes chest cavity. Franco Barbi was later captured and sent to the Sinyala Facility.

PERSONALITY: Franco Barbi tends to act as a stereotypical gangster, using blunt threats and aggressive displays of violence to prove a point. Franco is also extremely sexually depraved in nature and takes pleasure in murdering out of arousal. In particular, he has a fetish for being infantilized. He frequently expresses his fetish with a twisted sense of humor, sardonically and sadistically threatening Reagents while referring to himself as a "little baby" and using childish expressions such as "caught with your hand in the cookie jar". His compulsively infantile behavior causes him to bawl like a baby when he is frustrated, although he is embarrassed by his habit of crying and defensively claims "that's just water from eyes". This defensive action is likely to protect his fragile ego. His aggressive and explosive nature reflect a deep-seated insecurity, stemming from his abusive childhood and his feelings of sexual inadequacy. As a result, he views Reagents as interlopers who threaten both his territory and his ego, and he is determined to hunt, punish and kill them using blunt force and homemade buckshot from his shotgun.

APPEARANCE: Franco Barbi is a man of average build and height. His outfit consists of a dirty oversized white pinstripe suit, a purple dress shirt, and light blue bowtie, a common ensemble for gangsters of the time. He wears a brown ammunition bandolier around his upper torso that holds the buckshots for his shotgun. In contrast to this intimidating outfit, a pacifier dangles from said bandolier—its hue matching the color of his shirt—secured with a ribbon in the same shade as his bowtie. His skin is pale white, he has bulging blue eyes, and dirty blonde hair. Franco is mostly bald, with his remaining hair in disarray. His eyes are bloodshot, indicative of hemorrhage, or brain damage. The most prominent feature of Franco's is his extremely large cranium, nearly double the size of an average man's. The deformations of his skull and face are the result of both a birth defect, and frequent physical abuse from his father. The left side of Franco's skull is heavily mutilated from probable head trauma; visible sutures extend from the site of the injury toward his eye. Despite his disability and sustaining injuries through both his field of work and domestic abuse, he remains in otherwise excellent health and physical condition.]