Character Name: Milton Dammers Character Series: The Frighteners Character Age: Early-Mid 40's Background: † canon background
Personality: note: re-using my this personality section from dramadramaduck Take a chihuahua and shave its’ fur off. Now take the newly nude canine out in the cold next to “Kicked Puppy Alleyway”. Months passed and you decide to see how its’ fairing out in the urban jungle. When you return to the chihuahua, it no longer yips and barks back at a human face. Instead, it looks away from you and quivers in the corner. You try to get close to it but it snarls and backs away from you. That’s pretty much how someone might describe the plight of this one FBI Special Agent. At first glance, you might see a man who is a just a weird asshole. You might also see a man who has completely lost all of his marbles; from his odd mannerisms to his erratic way of speech. But Milton Dammers is a misunderstood fellow.
Under that small, meek, greasy exterior is a man who believes he is an agent of justice. Nothing that he does is in the wrong. But when you spend over 20 years investigating the strange and the grotesque behaviors of cult activity without any therapeutic rest in-between, it starts to get to you. Those experiences as a sex-slave or a participant in ritualistic cannibalism carry on with him from day-to-day and they will never go away. So Milton’s only light at the end of that dark, twisted tunnel is justice. He is merely serving his country, to protect them from the world’s madness. So to an alleged suspect like Frank Bannister, he is part of that plague that is disrupting society’s order. In this world, there are just some people that have to be eradicated and Frank is one of them. Even if, federal jurisdiction be damned, that meant taking him head on with an Uzi.
The two main personality traits to highlight here are his neuroticism and paranoia. They both go hand-in-hand with each other as he is too invested in the line of work he does. Even when the characters of Sheriff Perry and Lucy meet him for the first time, Milton cuts the meet’n’greet bullshit and gets straight into questioning Lucy. Details are of upmost importance, from using excessive amounts of table salt to whether a person is left or right-handed. Milton will even take proper precautions to a whole new level. We’re talking about wearing a lead breastplate and packing a fully loaded Uzi to protect himself from the so-called “sociopathic” psychic mind of Frank.
Milton is a social butterfly whose wings were clipped long ago. You have to have some sort of resilience towards the copious amount of mental and physical pain that is dished out on you on an almost annual basis. There is a bubble separates the agent from the rest of the world (a “territorial bubble” if you will). There is no aspiration to be liked or befriended by others, it’s either you accept who he is or you don’t. The guy is just a tormented soul. But if you think he is a complete pushover then guess again. He may not have an arsenal of witty retorts to snap back at you but he isn’t the kind of person to take flack from anyone.
It’s really the reason why you never see him ask help from anyone. His entire line of work has been done on his lonesome, without anyone to back him up. Some may say he is exemplifies qualities of a leader, taking the task head on with his own initiative but really, Milton is just one of those agents who is not a team player. Even when most of the officers (even the Sheriff) don’t believe that Frank is the murderer because there is no forensic evidence on him, it still doesn’t matter. Milton is absolutely certain that Frank Bannister did it with the power of his mind to crush the victim’s hearts, even going so far to accuse that he killed his own wife, Debra.
Overall, there are two sides to Milton: First is the agent in which nationalism runs fervent in his veins. His determination blinds him from the truth. It could even smack him across the face and it wouldn’t change his perspective. His resolve is just that deep. Then you have his other side, the person wearing the badge. When you watch the scene with him and Lucy at the cemetery, you start to see a little bit of his humane side. As usual, he has a nervous reaction to Lucy’s cries but when he accidently reveals a certain symbol on his left hand; he just lets it all out, telling his past experiences going undercover to infiltrate these cults. It is one of those few, rare moments Milton ever has to take some of the weight off his chest. And that's what he just needs. Someone to understand where he is coming from. But until then, he continues to walk this Earth in solitude.
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Character Series: The Frighteners
Character Age: Early-Mid 40's
Background:
† canon background
Personality:
note: re-using my this personality section from dramadramaduck
Take a chihuahua and shave its’ fur off. Now take the newly nude canine out in the cold next to “Kicked Puppy Alleyway”. Months passed and you decide to see how its’ fairing out in the urban jungle. When you return to the chihuahua, it no longer yips and barks back at a human face. Instead, it looks away from you and quivers in the corner. You try to get close to it but it snarls and backs away from you. That’s pretty much how someone might describe the plight of this one FBI Special Agent. At first glance, you might see a man who is a just a weird asshole. You might also see a man who has completely lost all of his marbles; from his odd mannerisms to his erratic way of speech. But Milton Dammers is a misunderstood fellow.
Under that small, meek, greasy exterior is a man who believes he is an agent of justice. Nothing that he does is in the wrong. But when you spend over 20 years investigating the strange and the grotesque behaviors of cult activity without any therapeutic rest in-between, it starts to get to you. Those experiences as a sex-slave or a participant in ritualistic cannibalism carry on with him from day-to-day and they will never go away. So Milton’s only light at the end of that dark, twisted tunnel is justice. He is merely serving his country, to protect them from the world’s madness. So to an alleged suspect like Frank Bannister, he is part of that plague that is disrupting society’s order. In this world, there are just some people that have to be eradicated and Frank is one of them. Even if, federal jurisdiction be damned, that meant taking him head on with an Uzi.
The two main personality traits to highlight here are his neuroticism and paranoia. They both go hand-in-hand with each other as he is too invested in the line of work he does. Even when the characters of Sheriff Perry and Lucy meet him for the first time, Milton cuts the meet’n’greet bullshit and gets straight into questioning Lucy. Details are of upmost importance, from using excessive amounts of table salt to whether a person is left or right-handed. Milton will even take proper precautions to a whole new level. We’re talking about wearing a lead breastplate and packing a fully loaded Uzi to protect himself from the so-called “sociopathic” psychic mind of Frank.
Milton is a social butterfly whose wings were clipped long ago. You have to have some sort of resilience towards the copious amount of mental and physical pain that is dished out on you on an almost annual basis. There is a bubble separates the agent from the rest of the world (a “territorial bubble” if you will). There is no aspiration to be liked or befriended by others, it’s either you accept who he is or you don’t. The guy is just a tormented soul. But if you think he is a complete pushover then guess again. He may not have an arsenal of witty retorts to snap back at you but he isn’t the kind of person to take flack from anyone.
It’s really the reason why you never see him ask help from anyone. His entire line of work has been done on his lonesome, without anyone to back him up. Some may say he is exemplifies qualities of a leader, taking the task head on with his own initiative but really, Milton is just one of those agents who is not a team player. Even when most of the officers (even the Sheriff) don’t believe that Frank is the murderer because there is no forensic evidence on him, it still doesn’t matter. Milton is absolutely certain that Frank Bannister did it with the power of his mind to crush the victim’s hearts, even going so far to accuse that he killed his own wife, Debra.
Overall, there are two sides to Milton: First is the agent in which nationalism runs fervent in his veins. His determination blinds him from the truth. It could even smack him across the face and it wouldn’t change his perspective. His resolve is just that deep. Then you have his other side, the person wearing the badge. When you watch the scene with him and Lucy at the cemetery, you start to see a little bit of his humane side. As usual, he has a nervous reaction to Lucy’s cries but when he accidently reveals a certain symbol on his left hand; he just lets it all out, telling his past experiences going undercover to infiltrate these cults. It is one of those few, rare moments Milton ever has to take some of the weight off his chest. And that's what he just needs. Someone to understand where he is coming from. But until then, he continues to walk this Earth in solitude.