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An adopt I grabbed from NannerMilk today.
I figure he lives in close proximity to the dump. He knows it plays into awful stereotypes, but it's hard to feel motivated to live up to conventional societal standards when you can survive on literal garbage.
This likely means he semi-regularly encounters both Emmet and Sully. I wouldn't consider it impossible that he's even worked out what Emmet's secret is, since he keeps an eye on the things he takes back with him. Whether he'd ever use that information for ill gain is uncertain.
He may look like he's plotting something devious, but that's not necessarily so. It's just his "dubious mystique" you're whiffing. Don't assume he's an Artie or a Luke and that his living low makes him a lowlife. However, if you insist on giving him a reason to behave dishonestly around you he will eventually take it.
I see him as a big eater, if only to nourish his turbocharged immune system. At the same time I can't imagine that his diet is very balanced. He probably sleeps a lot.
He's not homeless, but I'm positive there's an archipelago of couches he crashes on. He's definitely the sort of person with a preternatural talent for getting himself invited to your place, despite the aforementioned "mystique."
There's no dress code at landfills, though presumably he put on pants when he went to buy that bubble tea. Assuming Sully didn't bring him one in exchange for some doodad.
He found that shirt in... well, where else?
(Silvio and he would not see eye-to-eye, despite their respective refuse-driven lifestyles. Silvio merely adopted the trash, while this guy was born in it, molded by it.)
I figure he lives in close proximity to the dump. He knows it plays into awful stereotypes, but it's hard to feel motivated to live up to conventional societal standards when you can survive on literal garbage.
This likely means he semi-regularly encounters both Emmet and Sully. I wouldn't consider it impossible that he's even worked out what Emmet's secret is, since he keeps an eye on the things he takes back with him. Whether he'd ever use that information for ill gain is uncertain.
He may look like he's plotting something devious, but that's not necessarily so. It's just his "dubious mystique" you're whiffing. Don't assume he's an Artie or a Luke and that his living low makes him a lowlife. However, if you insist on giving him a reason to behave dishonestly around you he will eventually take it.
I see him as a big eater, if only to nourish his turbocharged immune system. At the same time I can't imagine that his diet is very balanced. He probably sleeps a lot.
He's not homeless, but I'm positive there's an archipelago of couches he crashes on. He's definitely the sort of person with a preternatural talent for getting himself invited to your place, despite the aforementioned "mystique."
There's no dress code at landfills, though presumably he put on pants when he went to buy that bubble tea. Assuming Sully didn't bring him one in exchange for some doodad.
He found that shirt in... well, where else?
(Silvio and he would not see eye-to-eye, despite their respective refuse-driven lifestyles. Silvio merely adopted the trash, while this guy was born in it, molded by it.)
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One unfortunate* idea to enter my head is he may secretly be loaded either due having found some treasures in the trash, sold them, and has quite a lot stored up somewhere.
Possibly he is also/instead a mechanic/general fix-it-upper who can not only bring things in the dump back to life (as it were), but make his own creations when so motivated.
Also possibly he has rich family who, if they know where he is, do not approve of his lifestyle.
*Unfortunate because there are way too many people who believe the idea that the homeless and destitute are actually better off than they appear.
Possibly he is also/instead a mechanic/general fix-it-upper who can not only bring things in the dump back to life (as it were), but make his own creations when so motivated.
Also possibly he has rich family who, if they know where he is, do not approve of his lifestyle.
*Unfortunate because there are way too many people who believe the idea that the homeless and destitute are actually better off than they appear.
It gets a lot of thoughts spinning in my head. I guess it all depends on whether Riley (his provisional name) was ever "genuinely" destitute or if he chooses to live this way for other reasons. He may simply live on the periphery of society because it affords him greater freedom to be himself—although that's not incompatible with a traumatic event landing him there.
In either case he'd be an inverse of Emmet, who's essentially a privileged rich guy who's posing as an "eccentric outcast."
He'd also be an inverse of Sully, who escaped from an impoverished background and recently found stability. If Riley escaped from a rich family and found his calling "down in the dumps", I imagine he'd appreciate the ironic parallels with those two weirdos who keep dropping by. They're merely visitors, but it's his domain.
In either case he'd be an inverse of Emmet, who's essentially a privileged rich guy who's posing as an "eccentric outcast."
He'd also be an inverse of Sully, who escaped from an impoverished background and recently found stability. If Riley escaped from a rich family and found his calling "down in the dumps", I imagine he'd appreciate the ironic parallels with those two weirdos who keep dropping by. They're merely visitors, but it's his domain.
*nods* If Riley is more a "free thinker" type, it's easy to imagine him coming from a family that expected conformity and finally enforced it in a way that left a terrible mental scar which led to him fleeing and finding sanctuary in the dump.
It's possible that his family might be looking for their "dear, beloved [[deadname]]" but not because they care: they want to find him to do more of their abusive control stuff. He might look too different than his old self for most searchers to find, though.
To go with what you wrote to
Horned_Hut, he might live on the outskirts of the dump in a place that's perhaps something akin to this but made with more metal components. Electricity could come from discarded solar panels: gas and water/plumbing from tapping into the city's in some way they can't easily detect or possibly other solutions to those. I mean, if Sully is finding parts for a time machine in the dump, I'm pretty sure Riley could figure out some solution to the heating/plumbing/electric stuff.
It's possible that his family might be looking for their "dear, beloved [[deadname]]" but not because they care: they want to find him to do more of their abusive control stuff. He might look too different than his old self for most searchers to find, though.
To go with what you wrote to
Horned_Hut, he might live on the outskirts of the dump in a place that's perhaps something akin to this but made with more metal components. Electricity could come from discarded solar panels: gas and water/plumbing from tapping into the city's in some way they can't easily detect or possibly other solutions to those. I mean, if Sully is finding parts for a time machine in the dump, I'm pretty sure Riley could figure out some solution to the heating/plumbing/electric stuff.
There are a couple of cartoon precedents out there for something like that. There'd need to be a twist on it though. It should neither be too cartoonishly outlandish nor too depressing and destitute, but strangely cozy-looking.
If he lives there, and he's "thriving" in his own way, then it should be a place where it's possible to be comfortable.
If he lives there, and he's "thriving" in his own way, then it should be a place where it's possible to be comfortable.
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