Felix Fairbanks

local TV host (major antagonist)

Sometimes referred to simply as "the TV guy" by Helston residents.

Male (he/him, cisgender)

About a hundred years old, give or take a couple decades. Physically, he looks to be somewhere in his early thirties.

Wouldn't you like to know

He has a faintly phospor-dot quality to him, and his slightly-too-saturated image blurs gently as he moves. Looks vaguely like a muppet.

Fairly average for his (physical) age and height

5'4" (163 cm)

Black

Short and spiked forward

His eyes are a little too abstract and cartoony to explain in words well, but I'll try! In his normal, generally happy state, one is full of yellow and orange concentric circles and has little rays radiating from it, making it look like an abstract sun; the other is filled with blue and cartoon tear drops are constantly pouring out of it. When he's sad (or pretending to be) they both become blue and teary. They don't both look sunny unless he's in a manic state. If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, the Gallery images will do a much better job explaining.
In a realistic style, I'd probably draw him with dark brown eyes.

Human(???)

Medium brown

Indian-American (Indian as in the South Asian country, not Native American)

He has a inverted triangle shape to him, with somewhat broad shoulders and a narrow waist.

Suits and bowties, usually in bright, saturated colors. Very muppets/other kids' puppet shows-esque stuff.

Tends to stare directly into people's souls. If you're talking to him, he won't ever break eye contact except to blink, and he doesn't blink very often.
Speaks with a transalantic accent because of course he fucking does.

To take over the world...eventually. He's in no rush.
Felix is a villain out of boredom, pure and simple. He's entirely cut off from the outside world and has literally nothing else to do, so why not get a kick out of terrorizing the people who are keeping him in the dark?

More than anything, Felix is scared of obscurity. Though he's a minor celebrity in Helston, it's doubtful that a single person outside of the county has heard of him, and the fact that the world would just keep going on without him if he ever disappeared terrifies him.

Felix has lived in an environment where he's treated like a bomb that might go off at any second and not like a living person--and because he has nothing else to go off of, he thinks his inhuman treatment must be totally normal and has understandably become pretty ruthless himself. Because the people around him don't care about him, he doesn't care about them, instead constantly trying to figure out what buttons he can push to get what he wants. Anyone outside Channel 01 that actually treats him as human--for example, the protagonists--he does genuinely like and appreciate, but he thinks that they'll inevitably start treating him as a weapon at some point or another, and that thought doesn't terribly bother him since it's what he's used to. He still tries to figure out what makes the protagonists tick in the case that he needs to manipulate them.
Sees himself as separate from the rest of humanity and so finds human conflict almost funny. He views politics and human affairs as nothing more than entertainment--the more dramatic and chaotic, the better. Loves subtly encouraging partisan strife in his news reports.
News is literally his only form of entertainment, in fact. If he had access to literally anything else--books, maybe, or knitting supplies, whatever--he probably wouldn't feel the need to occassionally terrorize the town.

Pretty much the entirety of the human race

Persuasion, giving his audience semi-accurate weather forecasts, breaking the fourth wall, hijacking radio shows and television programs

Chatting directly with individual residents through their TVs and radios to report on the latest gossip almost the moment it happens

Trying to descibe Felix's personality is difficult. He's like a void in the shape of a person. He's charming and charismatic, but behind his affable exterior is...well, nothing. Or maybe everything. He exists in thousands of forms through thousands of people's perceptions, and all of their interpretations are fine by him. There's too many different reconstructions of himself to ever hope to merge into one solid identity, but that's not why he's there. He exists to give people what they expect; he might as well give them what they want if even he isn't sure what perceptions of theirs are real. He finds comfort in viewing himself in the third person, but who is he without being warped through someone else's lens? He doesn't know.

Quill Cardenas: used to intern at the studio he works at. She was fired two weeks in when Felix convinced her to help him escape. There’s no real animosity in their relationship, but Quill’s still pretty disgruntled about the whole thing.
He and Anthony Croce are "friends". By that I mean Felix talks at him a lot and Anthony has begrudingly accepted that there's nothing he can do about it unless he throws out his television set completely.

English and Spanish

He's happy with the political landscape as long as people are at each other's throats. Which is to say, he's happy with it all the time.

Television host

Stygian blue (look it up, it's cool stuff)

Felix has been the local television channel’s, Channel 01, main personality since the ‘50s and has not visibly aged--or, indeed, changed in any way at all--since then. 01 is not entirely sure what he is: the team of scientists who created him in the '50s in their quest to make the perfect TV host thouroughly destroyed all their research after realizing a little too late that it was probably not a great idea to wield the secrets of life and death for commercial purposes, no matter how accurate his weather reports might be. The studio has been trying desperately to replace him for decades, but each new person they hire dies the day before in a car crash due to a mysterious traffic light malfunction, or in a freak elevator accident, or quits two weeks in ranting about being watched.
All that legal disclaimer mumbo-jumbo out of the way, if you're an outgoing and fun-loving person interested in a rewarding job with no prior television experience required and career growth opportunities, contact Channel 01 and we'll set up an interview as soon as possible! Please.

It's unclear whether Felix was fully human and had a family at one point or if he was created completely artificially. If he had a family, he's never mentioned them.

Chaotic evil feels way too intense for this guy, and yet it's the most accurate. Chaotic Evil Lite™?

He has a Spotify playlist! Here are the greatest hits™ (his is one of my favorite character playlists you should totally check it out) (if you feel like it):
- "...AND WHEN YOUR SUN GOES DOWN, YOU’LL KNOW" by Whitey
- “Pop Music” by Lilac Boy
- "Primadonna" by Marina and the Diamonds
- “Goodbye Mr. A” by The Hoosiers
- 「カラカラカラのカラ」 ("Emptiness, Emptiness, Emptiness of Emptiness"/"Kara Kara Kara no Kara") by Kikuo
- "Photoshop Handsome" by Everything Everything

Felix's Pinterest board

Artists of the gallery images in order:
- First three by me! This is his most up-to-date design, though it's probably subject to change again soon since I'm never quite satisfied with how he looks
- @wubboxi (cyberdreams)

His last name is Fairbanks do not trust the lies spewed by his ref sheet (a year ago I forgot I already gave him a last name, gave him a new one, than realized he already had one and decided the alliteration of the original suited him better. Thanks for reading this pointless sidebar)