Stan (Night At the Gates of Hell)

Stan is a supporting character in Bloodwash and the deuteragonist of Night At the Gates of Hell. He is a caring and kind old man that is always looking to help others in need. When the zombie apocalypse hits the town he took a vacation to, he takes charge and attempts to rescue anyone he comes across, saving a woman named Belinda and her son Charles from a zombie attack and creating a temporary safe haven in a shack occupied by two other survivors, Cap and Skeeter. When David eventually meets the group and subsequently saves their lives, they band together to survive the apocalypse, but by the end of the game, David and Stan are the only ones left, with them both ending up in Hell itself by the end of the game, with their fates being unknown as of now.
He was voiced by Devante Johnson.
==Biography==
Stan is first introduced when he appears in the doorframe of the door to his apartment after his neighbour, Sara, returns from her washing machine being broken. Stan then engages in a conversation with her, asking about her relationship status with her alcoholic boyfriend, Liam and offers her a place at his sisters apartment if he ever starts getting physically abusive towards her. Sara politely declines and instead expresses annoyance at the fact she has no clean clothes for her important interview the next day.
Stan then decides to inform her about a 24-hour laundromat that is on the outskirts of the town, but not without warning her of the serial killer dubbed "the Womb Ripper" who had been targeting pregnant women and killing their fetuses that lurked around that part of town. Sara then reassures Stan that she can handle any threats that the city will throw at her before getting the address to the laundromat from him, who then wishes her a safe travel. Following the events of the game, Sara appears to have taken Stan's advice, and decided to move in with his sister after realizing his idea was for the best.
After the events of Bloodwash, Stan decided to take a badly timed vacation to a village in Kansas, where the gates of Hell were first opened, unleashing hordes of demons and zombies onto the population. Stan's day of relaxing is interrupted when a zombie attempts to kill him. He fights it off, then decides to save a woman named Belinda and her kid Charles from any incoming threats. The three of them then head to a shack that also had 2 more survivors in it, a man named Skeeter and another man named Cap. Stan and the others decided to turn the shack into a temporary safe haven from the zombies by barricading any windows and the front door to the shack, although a group of zombies would eventually almost overpower the group, until another survivor by the name of David appeared and killed all of the oncoming zombies.
Stan then thanked David for bailing them out and told him that while he didn't have a gun, he will try his best to be useful regardless. He then told David that he heard the sound of a shotgun come from the nearby dance school and gave him directions to it, telling him he thinks a shotgun would be more effective then the old revolver that David had on him before wishing him good luck on his scavenger hunt.
Stan then left the village after David acquired the three necessary items for the boat next to them to work, gasoline, an engine hose and a fuse. The group then end up stranded at sea, due to Cap's poor navigation skills, which then lead to him revealing that he wasn't a ship captain at all, just a simple cabin boy who was poorly trained at the same time. Stan then attempts to calm everyone down, telling them they should wait until the fog clears, then they can get their bearings and find dry land to dock the boat onto. Stan then tells the group that everyone should just rest in the meantime as they have been active for a long time.
Belinda then begins breastfeeding Charles, who feeds loudly, continuously interrupting Stan when he tries to explain something to the group before losing his cool and telling Charles to "kindly shut the hell up". He then finally explains that he thinks the group should stay on their toes. He then talks to David that he feels like something has followed the ship and he is feeling uneasy about it, saying he is "going to keep his eyes open".
The ship is then attacked by a zombie shark, which eats Belinda. After a quick fight against it, the group decide to escape in a rowboat and call for Stan to get on it too, however Stan tells them that he will stay behind on the ship and keep the shark's attention so they can get to safety, telling them to "row like hell and don't look back". Skeeter then tells him what he is doing is suicide, but Stan reassures him, saying that "he will catch up" before finally taking on the shark with nothing but a javelin, the screen cutting to black as it lunges towards him.
After the rest of the group arrive on a remote island, Skeeter comments on the fact Stan saved their lives, calling him a hero and feeling regret that he wasn't the one that stayed behind the save the group, telling David that they can't let his death be in vain.
Once David takes a last stand inside a church after all of the other survivors have died, Stan appears from a portal inside of him, shirtless and baring an M16A4 with a grenade launcher. Stan then proceeds to kill off all of the remaining zombies and quips to David that he is "sorry for crashing the party", with him then telling David that he said he would catch up with him and that he should come with him if he doesn't want to die. A post credit scene then reveals the two entering Hell through a portal, with Stan then telling David to look in the book he got from Father Friedstein about getting back home, because "they sure as hell ain't in Kansas anymore".
==Personality==
Stan is calm, reserved and selfless, always trying to calm the situation down the situation whenever it gets tense, taking on the role of a de facto leader of the group and is polite to everyone he interacts with, even offering Sara a place to stay with his sister so she can escape from her alcoholic boyfriend, Liam if things ever got physical. 
He shows his selflessness through him putting his own life in danger to save the members of his group at least three times, once to save Belinda and Charles from zombies, a second time when he distracted the zombie shark so the others could escape on a rowboat and the last time when he appears in the church at the end of the game to save David from the overwhelming horde of zombies. He is also shown to be fearless, rarely if ever showing any signs of fear despite the stressful situation he is in and maintains a fighting spirit from beginning to end even if his chances of survival are slim, managing to survive a fight against an actual shark despite only having a metal pipe.
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