Post by Clay on Feb 21, 2011 20:24:55 GMT -5
Name: Clay Puppington
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: Average
Physical Appearance: N/A
Picture:
Personality: Clay Puppington is ultimately a pathetic, cruel, self-pitying, misogynistic, emotionally immature and self-centered man who no longer cares for anyone but himself. He is ill-equipped to deal with life's problems and takes out his anger and frustration on his family, friends, and the town. He hates and fears the reality about his life and himself. He's irresponsible. He mocks and ignores anyone who tells him he is wrong, including Orel and Bloberta. His adult life bears the fruits of his spoiled and unbalanced childhood. His marriage is a lie and everyone but Orel knows it. When he makes a mistake, he blames it on other people. He began to blame other people for his mistakes ever since he accidently killed his mother, resulting in his father despising Clay. Clay does not want to take the direct blame for his actions and instead blames others. When he was in his twenties, he was a mild-mannered man until he met his future wife, Bloberta, who introduced him to alcohol. He then became an alcoholic and drinks almost every day.
Let's see how much he will change now that he's been given a second chance.
History: As a child, Clay was the only surviving child of his parents, as his mother's drinking, smoking and fun-loving lifestyle (including riding roller coasters, jumping on a trampoline, and horseback riding) caused her to miscarry ten of Clay's unborn siblings before he was born (largely because Clay's mother spent all of her pregnancy with Clay praying for his safety). Clay's mother was a religious zealot, who spoiled Clay rotten and instructed him in the various "Lost Commandments" of Moses. This created tension with Clay's father, who was outright neglected by his wife in favor of his son, to the point that he was forced to eat his son's leftovers. Clay's life collapsed however when he faked his own death as a prank on his mother, causing her to have a fatal heart attack. Clay's father (who was not deeply religious) never forgave Clay for his part in his mother's death and emotionally shunned his son, ultimately telling him that he's "not even worth it" upon an initial refrain from slapping him. This deeply affected Clay, causing him to seek out his father's abuse as a means to gain any sort of emotional response and validation. The two formed a casual hatred towards each other and blaming each other for the death of Clay's mother. His love for his mother would develop into an Oedipus Complex many years later, shown in "Nesting." His father gives his gun to Clay saying he is ending the male Puppington tradition of passing along the gun to one's first born son, because it is tainted with blood. Not wanting to feel responsible for his mother's death, Clay says he'll keep the tradition going only to fail terribly with Orel during the hunting trip. (Also, Clay took the gun away from Orel and give him another gun instead indicating he did not want Orel killing Bloberta). The trip was meant to have a father and son bonding rather than killing animals. Because of Orel's large love of animals, Clay drinks very heavily to suppress his anger (he even drinks a bottle of straight rubbing alcohol instead of using it on Orel's gunshot wound, which also occurred due to Clay's ingestion of whiskey).
When Clay was in his early twenties, he was much similar to Orel, shown to be a rather mild figure who wanted to spend his days studying the Bible and drinking apple juice. While attending a wedding, Clay met Bloberta Hymentact. Bloberta asked about his family, Clay said "my parents are dead," not telling her the truth about his father Arthur being alive. The two went to the wedding reception together, where Bloberta introduced Clay to liquor. She believed that alcohol relaxed people for the better, and even used a religious justification ("Jesus drank") in order to get him to drink. Alcohol caused a massive switch in Clay's personality, turning him into a womanizer and drunken partier and ultimately caused Bloberta to punch him unconscious in order to keep him from flirting with other women. Afterwords, Bloberta lied to Clay, telling him that he passed out and that she looked after him while he was unconscious. She then pressed him to marry her, citing that he needs someone like her to "help" him. Clay agreed, but by this point the damage was done as Clay was now a full-blown alcoholic who spent most of his wedding flirting with other women, getting drunk, and ultimately getting arrested after the wedding for driving under the influence.
Clay largely hates his family, not remembering his children's names or caring when one of his children (Shapey) is briefly switched with another child (Block). This is taken to an extreme in the episode "Numb" when he assumes Shapey and Block are a liquor-induced hallucination. He is rather misogynistic, believing that women differ from men in the ability to fulfill themselves solely through tending to their husbands. He is close friends with Coach Daniel Stopframe, who secretly lusts after Clay. It has been shown that Stopframe is Clay's chief enabler as far as feeding his dependency on liquor and went as far as to seduce and impregnate Bloberta in order to be near him.
He will often bring Orel into his study to discuss various misdeeds Orel often does after dealing out "a good belting" to the boy. The lessons usually have little to do with the actual damage he caused, usually focusing on "the lesser of two evils". For example, when confronting Orel for raising the dead, Clay is more concerned with the fact that Orel created naked zombies (by removing their clothes prior to resurrecting them) than for actually creating zombies. Also, when Orel develops an unintentional addiction to crack-cocaine, he is punished by Clay for speaking slang rather than smoking it. "Nesting" however, reveals that Orel has become completely indifferent to his father's threats.
He also has a collection of firearms in his study, including a Heckler & Koch PSG1 sniper rifle and what is revealed in "Nature Pt.1" to be an extensive arsenal. During a mostly unsuccessful camping trip with Orel, a drunk Clay rants violently about how awful his life is and then accidentally shoots Orel but denies any responsibility. He sinks even lower when, in "Honor", it is revealed that he continues to blame Orel for the injury, telling anyone who asked that it had happened because his son was either clumsy or had gotten in the way.
Clay often complains about his "stinking dead end job" and being "buried in paperwork". In the penultimate episode, it is revealed, even to Orel's surprise, that Clay is actually the Mayor of Moralton. On a document in his office his full name is shown to be Mayor Clayton Middleinitial Puppington.
In "Honor" Clay finally (though indirectly) admits his feelings for Coach Stopframe, in front of his wife, and children. Stopframe, however, coldly refuses him, saying it is "too late" and Clay leaves dejected and defeated.
It is when Stopframe gives up on him that Clay finally opened his eyes to see what he was doing to everyone and to himself. Finding no way to fix the misery he had caused, he decided to rid himself for everyone's well being. Clay was intoxicated and held the "tainted" gun in his hand. It was Christmas. Orel was heading to Clay's office to talk to him, possibly about forgiveness, but when he had opened the door and saw Clay with the gun, he had shouted. The shout surprised clay while he had been hesitating, but his finger twitched and pulled the trigger.
It was too late.
But then he woke up in his office - the mayor's office, with hardly any recollection as to what happened. He was the new mayor.
House: N/A
Allies: None so far
Enemies: none so far
Love Interest: No one currently
Year at School: He's the mayor, so...nope
Favorite Subject:
Peace or Power: Peace and Power
Sample Post: (will soon)
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: Average
Physical Appearance: N/A
Picture:
Personality: Clay Puppington is ultimately a pathetic, cruel, self-pitying, misogynistic, emotionally immature and self-centered man who no longer cares for anyone but himself. He is ill-equipped to deal with life's problems and takes out his anger and frustration on his family, friends, and the town. He hates and fears the reality about his life and himself. He's irresponsible. He mocks and ignores anyone who tells him he is wrong, including Orel and Bloberta. His adult life bears the fruits of his spoiled and unbalanced childhood. His marriage is a lie and everyone but Orel knows it. When he makes a mistake, he blames it on other people. He began to blame other people for his mistakes ever since he accidently killed his mother, resulting in his father despising Clay. Clay does not want to take the direct blame for his actions and instead blames others. When he was in his twenties, he was a mild-mannered man until he met his future wife, Bloberta, who introduced him to alcohol. He then became an alcoholic and drinks almost every day.
Let's see how much he will change now that he's been given a second chance.
History: As a child, Clay was the only surviving child of his parents, as his mother's drinking, smoking and fun-loving lifestyle (including riding roller coasters, jumping on a trampoline, and horseback riding) caused her to miscarry ten of Clay's unborn siblings before he was born (largely because Clay's mother spent all of her pregnancy with Clay praying for his safety). Clay's mother was a religious zealot, who spoiled Clay rotten and instructed him in the various "Lost Commandments" of Moses. This created tension with Clay's father, who was outright neglected by his wife in favor of his son, to the point that he was forced to eat his son's leftovers. Clay's life collapsed however when he faked his own death as a prank on his mother, causing her to have a fatal heart attack. Clay's father (who was not deeply religious) never forgave Clay for his part in his mother's death and emotionally shunned his son, ultimately telling him that he's "not even worth it" upon an initial refrain from slapping him. This deeply affected Clay, causing him to seek out his father's abuse as a means to gain any sort of emotional response and validation. The two formed a casual hatred towards each other and blaming each other for the death of Clay's mother. His love for his mother would develop into an Oedipus Complex many years later, shown in "Nesting." His father gives his gun to Clay saying he is ending the male Puppington tradition of passing along the gun to one's first born son, because it is tainted with blood. Not wanting to feel responsible for his mother's death, Clay says he'll keep the tradition going only to fail terribly with Orel during the hunting trip. (Also, Clay took the gun away from Orel and give him another gun instead indicating he did not want Orel killing Bloberta). The trip was meant to have a father and son bonding rather than killing animals. Because of Orel's large love of animals, Clay drinks very heavily to suppress his anger (he even drinks a bottle of straight rubbing alcohol instead of using it on Orel's gunshot wound, which also occurred due to Clay's ingestion of whiskey).
When Clay was in his early twenties, he was much similar to Orel, shown to be a rather mild figure who wanted to spend his days studying the Bible and drinking apple juice. While attending a wedding, Clay met Bloberta Hymentact. Bloberta asked about his family, Clay said "my parents are dead," not telling her the truth about his father Arthur being alive. The two went to the wedding reception together, where Bloberta introduced Clay to liquor. She believed that alcohol relaxed people for the better, and even used a religious justification ("Jesus drank") in order to get him to drink. Alcohol caused a massive switch in Clay's personality, turning him into a womanizer and drunken partier and ultimately caused Bloberta to punch him unconscious in order to keep him from flirting with other women. Afterwords, Bloberta lied to Clay, telling him that he passed out and that she looked after him while he was unconscious. She then pressed him to marry her, citing that he needs someone like her to "help" him. Clay agreed, but by this point the damage was done as Clay was now a full-blown alcoholic who spent most of his wedding flirting with other women, getting drunk, and ultimately getting arrested after the wedding for driving under the influence.
Clay largely hates his family, not remembering his children's names or caring when one of his children (Shapey) is briefly switched with another child (Block). This is taken to an extreme in the episode "Numb" when he assumes Shapey and Block are a liquor-induced hallucination. He is rather misogynistic, believing that women differ from men in the ability to fulfill themselves solely through tending to their husbands. He is close friends with Coach Daniel Stopframe, who secretly lusts after Clay. It has been shown that Stopframe is Clay's chief enabler as far as feeding his dependency on liquor and went as far as to seduce and impregnate Bloberta in order to be near him.
He will often bring Orel into his study to discuss various misdeeds Orel often does after dealing out "a good belting" to the boy. The lessons usually have little to do with the actual damage he caused, usually focusing on "the lesser of two evils". For example, when confronting Orel for raising the dead, Clay is more concerned with the fact that Orel created naked zombies (by removing their clothes prior to resurrecting them) than for actually creating zombies. Also, when Orel develops an unintentional addiction to crack-cocaine, he is punished by Clay for speaking slang rather than smoking it. "Nesting" however, reveals that Orel has become completely indifferent to his father's threats.
He also has a collection of firearms in his study, including a Heckler & Koch PSG1 sniper rifle and what is revealed in "Nature Pt.1" to be an extensive arsenal. During a mostly unsuccessful camping trip with Orel, a drunk Clay rants violently about how awful his life is and then accidentally shoots Orel but denies any responsibility. He sinks even lower when, in "Honor", it is revealed that he continues to blame Orel for the injury, telling anyone who asked that it had happened because his son was either clumsy or had gotten in the way.
Clay often complains about his "stinking dead end job" and being "buried in paperwork". In the penultimate episode, it is revealed, even to Orel's surprise, that Clay is actually the Mayor of Moralton. On a document in his office his full name is shown to be Mayor Clayton Middleinitial Puppington.
In "Honor" Clay finally (though indirectly) admits his feelings for Coach Stopframe, in front of his wife, and children. Stopframe, however, coldly refuses him, saying it is "too late" and Clay leaves dejected and defeated.
It is when Stopframe gives up on him that Clay finally opened his eyes to see what he was doing to everyone and to himself. Finding no way to fix the misery he had caused, he decided to rid himself for everyone's well being. Clay was intoxicated and held the "tainted" gun in his hand. It was Christmas. Orel was heading to Clay's office to talk to him, possibly about forgiveness, but when he had opened the door and saw Clay with the gun, he had shouted. The shout surprised clay while he had been hesitating, but his finger twitched and pulled the trigger.
It was too late.
But then he woke up in his office - the mayor's office, with hardly any recollection as to what happened. He was the new mayor.
House: N/A
Allies: None so far
Enemies: none so far
Love Interest: No one currently
Year at School: He's the mayor, so...nope
Favorite Subject:
Peace or Power: Peace and Power
Sample Post: (will soon)
