Eli Northcutt (Dire)

Eli Northcutt (largely referred to simply as Eli) was a character in the web serial Dire, and served as the main antagonist in the first season of the series. The father of a young girl that died prior to the societal collapse in the series, Eli blames Jaime Morris' social media startup company for his daughter's demise, making it his intention to kill her now that laws have become irrelevant.
== Representation ==
Eli is shown to be a sadistic character with his eyes set upon ensuring the demise of Jaime Morris, believing a feature of her social media app to be responsible for causing a chain of events that would lead to his daughter dying in a fatal car crash prior to society's fall. Eli is a vengeful spirit that will stop at nothing to kill Jaime, even going as far as to call Jaime's actions in the series "the most selfless form of evil", a statement that would go onto serve as the title for the episode that served as the first season's finale.
== Consequences and Fate ==
In the season one finale, "The Most Selfless Form of Evil", Eli is stabbed to death in a physical altercation by Jaime, who killed Eli in an act of self defense. Prior to his own demise, Eli was responsible for beating and stabbing David to death in another attempt on Jaime's life. It is also likely that Eli killed multiple other people after, and possibly prior to, the fall of society.
== Appearances ==
=== Season 1 (2021) ===
* So, Now What?
*The Why, The How, The When and the Now
* Finding Sanctuary
* The Most Selfless Form of Evil
== Killed Victims ==
* Multiple unnamed people
* David
== Killed by ==
* Jaime Morris
== Trivia ==
* Eli is the first antagonist in Dire, he is also the first antagonist to die in the series.