History Characters / OldManHenderson

One of A Self Called Nowhere's characters, Ronald was a used car salesman who had just gotten out of a divorce with his wife. She had won all of the possessions and proceeded to kill herself, leaving them to the new church she had devoted herself to: the Disciples of the Yellow King.

!!Old Man Henderson

* CrazyIsCool: He might as well have been named Florida Man.

* HeroKiller: [[RunningGag He personally killed several of Nowhere's characters,]] including:

!!Jimmy the Jock

* AcademicAthlete: More implied than actually stated, but it's clear that Jimmy's no DumbJock; he's not only smart enough to know when he needs backup and when something is clearly a bad idea, but he also takes schoolwork very seriously. He misses out on a number of antics because he has homework [[spoiler: which might be one of the reasons why he's the only party member who survives the game.]]
* DueToTheDead: He and Kary end up [[spoiler:using some of the money inherited from Henderson to throw him a very nice funeral]], though they are the only ones in attendance.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Though unintended, he and Kary are the only members of the party to survive. Furthermore, he's the only member from the beginning of Henderson's tale to have lived to the end.]]

!!Detective Albert Johanson

A former cop-turned private detective, Albert Johanson was investigating in a missing persons case linked to a local cult when his path crosses with that of Old Man Henderson.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries to bail out when he learns that his prospective new client is the man who burned down a church. Doesn't stick, and Henderson joins up with him when he reveals that he knows about the cult.

!!William Brocklaw

!!Professor Filkins

* BoomHeadshot: Gunned down by Henderson while trying to play peacemaker between him and a cultist.
* TheMole: Tried to infiltrate the cult to gain information on it.

!!James Fink

!!Ronald

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!!Patrick the Thug

* HeelFaceTurn: Nowhere's intended course of action was getting in a fight with Henderson and then somehow joining up with him, but [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Henderson killed him before it could get to that.]]

!!Malcolm Reeves

!!Simon Breckenridge

--> '''A Self Called Nowhere''': I knew setting out that I would never curb Henderson's madness. I could never hope to match it either. I therefore built Henderson's exact opposite: Competent, sane, cunning. His karmic balance. The Yin to his Yang. His fucking soul mate in plot annihilation.

!!Kary
Jimmy's girlfriend, initially one of the cultists. Switches sides after they try sacrificing her and Jimmy.

* HeelFaceTurn: Leaves the cultists after being saved by Henderson and Will.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Though unintended, she and Jimmy are the only members of the party to survive. ]]

The King in Yellow, the Unspeakable One, H'azztre or Kaiwan. Many names, many faces. A Great Old One ([[DependingOnTheWriter or possibly Outer God]]) of the Cthulhu mythos who's worshipped by a cult in Henderson's home town. [[spoiler: He's ultimately killed by Henderson, but is reincarnated by Nyarlathotep because of a bargain made by Henderson]]

* BigBad: He's one of the Great Old Ones, of course.

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** Ronald, a recently-divorced used car salesman who just so happened to be standing next to the wall Henderson, Will, and the mob boss's son crashed through in the aforementioned stolen car. Right after playing a perfect game of darts and feeling genuine happiness for the first time in weeks.

* ViolentGlaswegian: He was portrayed with a thick Scottish accent when he was angry, but he wasn't Scottish himself.

* LovableJock: The teenage jock who mostly got involved in everything because he was worried about his friends and girlfriend, Jimmy's probably the nicest and most good-hearted of the PCs.

%%* LovableJock

-->'''Simon:''' “I'm a secret agent for the crown. I came here to re-enact a James Bond movie, and get throw out under an assumed name. Given your hilariously liberal gun laws, that should take most of my holiday.”
-->'''Henderson:''' “Which Bond?”
-->'''Simon:''' “Connery. The only proper one.”

* OldSoldier: Simon was 45 years old, just a bit younger than Henderson, and survived more spy missions than many a James-Bond style compatriot.

* EldritchAbomination: WHM's phrasing implies that he didn't so much ''create'' Henderson as ''summon'' him from some unguessable realm with the Backstory Of Doom, and there are multiple details that hint that he may exist independently of WHM's mind. He is a flawless expy of The Dude from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', despite the fact that WHM had never seen that movie. Portions of his backstory are written in fluent German, which WHM does not speak a word of. And that's not to mention that even WHM doesn't know whether "Henderson" is his first or last name.

** The Professor, who was gunned down by Henderson for trying to play peacemaker.
** James Fink, who was run over during the Tanker Truck Incident and left to die.
** A mob bodyguard who was killed when he was trapped in a car that was ignited by Henderson.
** Ronald, a used car salesman who was run over by Henderson's [=BMW=].
** A cop who was killed in a housefire Henderson caused to destroy an eldritch beast.
** Patrick, who was a thug supposed to make a HeelFaceTurn but was shot by Henderson when he came to threaten him.
** Malcolm Reeves, who wasn't ''directly'' killed by Henderson, but instead gets his throat torn out by a HellHound that Henderson dodged.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The last of Nowhere's long trail of characters getting killed off.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He has a Scottish accent that comes and goes on his player's whims.