Waylon Park

"You don't know me. Have to make this quick. They might be monitoring. I did 2 weeks of software consult at MURKOFF Psychiatric Systems' facilities in Mount Massive. All sorts of NDA's I am very much breaking right now but seriously, fuck those guys. Terrible things happening there. Don't understand it. Don't believe half the things I saw. Doctors talking about dream therapy going too deep, finding something that had been waiting for them in the mountain. People are being hurt and Murkoff is making money. It needs to be exposed." - Waylon Park's infamous Whistleblower message sent to Miles Upshur at the beginning of Outlast: Whistleblower, alerting him of the immoral and corrupt experiments occurring within Mount Massive Asylum.Waylon Park, also referred to as The Whistleblower or as Mr. Park, is the main protagonist in Outlast's 2014 DLC expansion, Outlast: Whistleblower.
He is a moral software engineer and former employee for The Murkoff Corporation, responsible for directly debugging and managing The Morphogenic Engine software in the Underground Laboratory. However, due to the level of secrecy, mistreatment of patients and the profit motivated scientists, Waylon decides to leak Murkoff's illegal activities to journalists all over the world, including Miles Upshur in an attempt to expose Murkoff's actions to the entire world.
He was portrayed and voiced by Canadian voice actor, Shawn Baichoo, who also voices Miles Upshur in Outlast.
== Story ==
=== Background ===
Waylon Park was born at an unknown date in the early to mid 1980's in the United States of America to two unnamed parents. In Waylon's younger years, he was proven to be highly intelligent and gifted, especially within the mathematic and technological fields, including software engineering. Because of his knowledge within these subjects, he would pursue a career in software engineering in his adult years.
In his teenage to early adult years, Waylon attended the prestigious University of Berkeley where he graduated with a cum laude. He moves on with his life into adulthood following his graduation.
At an unknown date, Waylon met and became involved in a romantical relationship with Lisa Park. After some time, the two would become married and have two young boys together. The two parents developed a close bond with their children, especially Waylon, willing to do anything and everything for them no matter the cost.
After a few years, presumably in the early to late 2000's, an unemployed Waylon searches for any jobs to earn some quick cash to provide for himself and his family. The family fell on hard times, struggling with severe financial issues such as debts, bills and insurances. They were forced to live in a rented out truck with absolutely nothing to their names except a radio with peculiar channels.
In late 2013, unexpected and out of the blue, Waylon receives a two week job contract as a software engineer at The Murkoff Corporation's, Mount Massive facility, showing up just in time to cover the family's various financial problems. Waylon accepts the offer and moves his family to Leadville, Colorado. He immediately begins working as a software engineer for The Morphogenic Engine software in the Underground Laboratory while his family stays in the nearby city.
While working at Mount Massive, in the Underground Laboratory, Waylon experienced firsthand the immoral and evil experiments occurring within the asylum, witnessing the greed filled scientists and doctors mercilessly perform their sick experiments while experiencing the abusive and cruel treatment of the patients by the staff of the asylum. Because of Murkoff's strict security protocols, he loses complete contact with his family, unable to talk or contact them. Over time, Waylon developed a deep resentment for Murkoff and everyone associated with the corporation, eventually deciding to do something about it to expose them to the public while silently performing his job adequately to avoid arousing suspicion and fates far worse than death.
=== Outlast: Whistleblower ===
==== Chapter One: Underground Laboratory ====
On September 17th, 2013, Waylon writes an anonymous email in his office in the Underground Laboratory, sending it to journalists all around the world, including independent investigative journalist Miles Upshur, in an attempt to expose The Murkoff Corporation's actions to the public. He is forced to report to The Morphogenic Engine console as problems have arisen that require his expertise. 
Upon arriving, he configures and resets The Morphogenic Engine software while monitored by Steve, one of the Project Walrider scientists. Eddie Gluskin, one of the patients about to be subjected to The Morphogenic Engine, escapes his captors and scares Waylon, pressing up against the glass and pleading for help. He's promptly restrained and Waylon reluctantly finishes his work before being forced to leave as the scientists monitor Gluskin's therapy session with the engine.
Returning back to his office, Waylon comes face to face with corrupt Murkoff executive, Jeremy Blaire who caught Waylon attempting to leak Murkoff's activities to the outside world. Blaire mocks and insults a petrified Waylon before subjecting him to the Project Walrider experiments and forcing him into forced confinement, under the impression that Waylon "volunteered". Blaire then orders his guards to beat Waylon unconscious to be processed as a patient for Murkoff's experiments.
==== Chapter Two: Hospital ====
Two hours later, Waylon regains consciousness, finding himself on the floor of an experimentation chamber. A couple of doctors enter the room with one of them strapping him to the chair nearby, preparing to subject him to The Morphogenic Engine that all the other patients have been subjected to. Andrew, one of the doctors in the room, sexually assaults Waylon, slapping him and sensually licking his face but before he can proceed any further, he is forced to leave after hearing news of Billy Hope making a "lateral ascension" at the engine. The doctors leave as Waylon's therapy begins. 
He helplessly screams and yells as he's forced to watch the engine. However, it only lasts a few moments as the screens cut to static, unlocking his restraints. Dazed, Waylon falls to the floor just as he witnesses The Walrider viciously dismember and murder the patients in the adjacent cells. The lights cut out and he regains his footing, retrieving the nearby camcorder to record his experience at Mount Massive. Unknowingly, Waylon has just stepped foot into the complete collapse of the asylum as all The Variants are unleashed onto the building while The Walrider wreaks chaos onto its inhabitants, creating absolute Hell on Earth.
Waylon is let free from his cell by one of the Variants and Waylon leaves. As he runs through the siren blaring corridors of the Hospital, he finds the patients releasing their pent up anger and vengeance on all the doctors and security guards that wrongfully abused them while The Walrider continues its murder spree. Waylon rushes to reception with the exit, having several run ins with both Variants and The Walrider. After overhearing a conversation between two employees in the vents, he decides to make his way to the radio in the Prison Block to radio for help from the authorities in the outside world to save him from the asylum's madness. 
Recognised as a patient by the escaping staff of the asylum, one locks the exit doors on Waylon, compelling him to find an alternate exit. While searching for another exit, he discovers Frank Manera, a cannibal with a buzzsaw who resides in the Hospital. Traversing the Hospital, Waylon has multiple encounters with Manera where it almost results in the former's death when he's trapped in an active incinerator by the latter. Waylon continues exploring, examining the trashed rooms and finding numerous corpses of Variants, doctors and security guards alike. Following his final encounter with Manera, Waylon deactivates the gas and escapes the Hospital into the outside Recreation Area.
==== Chapter Three: Recreation Area ====
Eerily silent, Waylon explores the foggy Recreation Area, filled with overgrowing trees and dead grass. Getting closer to the Prison Block, he walks through a sporting yard where Variants play basketball with a decapitated head. The Twins and other Variants attack and attempt to kill Waylon however fail to do so as the latter hastily flees the scene, climbing a ladder.
Soon enough, he reaches and enters the Prison Block through an entrance in the higher floors of the Recreation Area.
==== Chapter Four: Prison ====
Quickly noticing that the chaos has reached the Prison Block of the asylum, he bustles through the corpse littered hallways as several people are killed around him by either Variants or The Walrider. Finding the radio, Waylon grabs the radio and calls the authorities for help but before he can speak to the 911 operator, he's ambushed and attacked by Blaire who destroys the radio beyond recognition, rendering it useless. Before Waylon can escape, Blaire begins suffocating him with his baton, continuing to mock him for not "keeping his mouth shut". However, roaring from an unknown source interrupts Blaire's murder attempt and causes him to cowardly flee the scene. Waylon gets up and progresses forward. 
He encounters Chris Walker committing his ravenous rampage throughout the Prison Block where he's forced to flee from the hulking brute. Soon after escaping Walker, he overhears an emergency message over the speakers stating that an emergency evacuation has been initiated for any surviving employees of the asylum. Waylon decides to make his way to the administration block to escape the asylum as there is no hope of getting any outside help, only escape. 
Waylon has one more run in with Walker where he's pursued through a dark corridor for a few seconds before the former evades the latter by leaping through an open window to the Drying Ground. 
==== Chapter Five: Drying Ground ====
Waylon investigates the Drying Ground, walking through the dirt ridden areas and through the various locked fences. Finding the way forward through an electrified fence, he searches for the power breaker to shut off the electricity and allow passage forwards. He soon finds it in an underground facility, hearing Variants around him pursuing and attacking hapless victims. He shuts it off and returns back to the former electrified fence however it reactivates followed by a maniacal laugh, forcing him to shut it off again. However, upon shutting it off for a second time, he is attacked and chased by a Variant but Waylon loses him and progresses forward.
Venturing forward, he makes his way upwards in the water tower, reaching one of the highest points possible in the asylum. Planning to use the roof's scaffolding to easily access the Administration Block and the subsequent exit, Waylon performs a simple leap from the water tower to an adjacent ledge but he fails to pull himself up the ledge, losing his grip and falling through the ceiling into the Vocational Block, oblivious to the experiences awaiting him.
==== Chapter Six: Vocational Block ====
Recovering from his fall, Waylon uses his night-vision camcorder to explore the dark, clustered Vocational Block, overhearing multiple voices discussing the presence of someone named "The Groom", a different and intimidating Variant who is greatly feared as told through the whispers and murmurs of the other Variants trapped in this fresh Hell. Shortly afterwards, Waylon is planned to be given to The Groom as a sacrifice to save themselves and following a short chase, he finds himself in the basement, unintentionally entering the territory of The Groom.
Waylon meets and becomes acquainted with Eddie Gluskin, the patient he saw earlier pleading for help in the Underground Laboratory, who has now been transformed into an insane, psychopathic serial killer who savagely mutilates his victims into women to "birth his children". Gluskin pursues Waylon, desiring to turn him into his wife deserved of his "love". Waylon seemingly escapes, leaping towards a ladder in an elevator shaft however it breaks and falls apart, causing him to plummet all the way down the shaft into the roof of the elevator and puncturing his ankle with a wooden shard. Believing that Waylon would rather die than be with him, Gluskin decides to leave him for dead in the elevator but a limping Waylon escapes, angering Gluskin further.
Cornered into a room with no hope of escape as Gluskin closes in, Waylon is forced to hide in a locker but is found and caught by Gluskin who kidnaps him and takes him to his bloodied saw table where he murders and mutilates his victims. Planning to make Waylon his next "wife", Gluskin knocks him unconscious with sleeping gas to "help him relax".
Twelve hours later, Waylon barely awake and still trapped inside the locker, witnesses Gluskin inhumanely and ferociously murder several victims on his saw table, attempting to make a "wife" out of them, cutting off various limbs and subjecting them to Hellish tortures and inflictions. Waylon falls back into unconsciousness and upon awakening, he finds himself naked and restrained on the saw table, being prepared for Gluskin's next victim. With the saw inches away from his penis, he's saved by an unnamed Variant who attacks Gluskin and lures him away from Waylon. He breaks free from his restraints, retrieving his clothes and camcorder, having been seconds away from a gruesome demise.
Waylon encounters Gluskin once again, who continues to pursue him close behind while the former limps towards an escape. Waylon leaps through a two story window, falling outside onto the concrete pavement below, injuring and fracturing his ankle tremendously. Gluskin, completely fed up with Waylon by this point, curses him out from the window, screaming at him uncontrollably. Waylon gets back up and returns back inside the building.
Discovering an exit route to the Male Ward, Waylon sets off to search for the key to the locked door, finding the countless mutilated bodies of Gluskin's victims strung up to the ceiling, hanging naked upside-down with their heads covered. He hears Gluskin singing a version of I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) in the dark as he explores the area. Eventually, he finds the key hanging on the hand of a bride before fleeing from a frustrated Gluskin.
Waylon uses his newfound key, unlocking the door but before he can finally escape, he's ambushed and attacked by Gluskin once again who punches him repeatedly. Feeling that he's been "betrayed", Gluskin ultimately decides to kill Waylon, hanging him up like all of his prior victims. Defenceless and powerless against Gluskin, Waylon is easily hung from the neck to the ceiling where he hangs in the air for several moments, slowly suffocating to death and gasping for air. Miraculously, the mechanism fails because of Waylon's weight causing Gluskin to yell in disbelief. Seconds later, Waylon is released from the rope's grasp while Gluskin becomes entangled in his own ropes, being impaled through the stomach with a metal pipe, killing him. From the ground floor, Waylon stares up at a dead Gluskin, recording the scene with his camcorder before leaving, finally escaping the Vocational Block into the Male Ward.
==== Chapter Seven: Exit ====
Reaching the Male Ward, Waylon realises it's now morning as the sun leisurely rises over the horizon. He looks outside one of the windows, observing a burning chapel. He continues forward to the exit. He finds several Murkoff private military contractors and mercenaries, having arrived on the scene, regaining control of the asylum, eradicating and killing everyone inside with their rifles and weaponry. Avoiding the sight of the soldiers, Waylon makes haste to the exit, determined to make it out alive and return to his family.
He progresses through an empty Administration Block, at last arriving at the exit of the asylum. Instead of an easy escape from the asylum, Waylon instead comes face to face with an injured Jeremy Blaire, leaning against the asylum's doors and begging for Waylon's mercy. Despite everything he's done to him and presumably countless of others, Waylon chooses to walk past him and leave him to bleed out however Blaire attacks and stabs Waylon in the stomach with a concealed knife. Waylon falls backwards onto the floor as Blaire inches closer and closer with his knife. Prepared to finally kill him, Blaire lifts the knife in the air but before he can strike down onto Waylon, he's viciously attacked by The Walrider who throws him around in the air like a ragdoll as Blaire helplessly screams in utter terror. Seconds later, The Walrider bursts out of Blaire, dismembering him into countless pieces and killing him instantly. Although heavily injured and in immense pain, a determined Waylon gets back up and limps his way outside, escaping at last.
He continues limping to the front gates, taking in the sunlight of the morning sun. He reaches the jeep of Miles Upshur, hopping inside and using it to escape. Turning on the car, he sees a dark cloud lingering outside the front doors of the asylum so he grabs and uses the night-vision of his camcorder to get a better look at whose inside the cloud. He finds a limping Miles Upshur surrounded by the black mist of The Walrider. The two stare at each other for a brief moment before Waylon rams through the front gates of the asylum, followed close behind by The Walrider. Waylon has finally escaped Mount Massive Asylum, being the only one to escape Hell on Earth alive.
==== Epilogue ====
Having reunited with his family, a healthy and recovered Waylon sits in a room with a laptop, holding his footage that he recorded at Mount Massive, resting on a table while a man named Simon Peacock stands opposite of him. He talks to Waylon, warning him of the consequences of uploading his footage to the public to expose The Murkoff Corporation. 
While it may rightfully lead to justice, Waylon will be forced to live a life in hiding for the rest of his life as Murkoff's load of corporate hitmen and mercenaries will never stop hunting him down, using any means to hurt him such as hurting the ones he loves and cares about, including his family. Peacock leaves him with the choice to either upload the footage and have his life changed forever or put his experience at Mount Massive behind him as nothing more than a distant memory and pretend like it never happened.
Regardless of Peacock's warnings, Waylon accepts the consequences of his actions and uploads the footage anyway after some initial hesitation, forever dooming himself and his family for the rest of their lives. 
== Appearance ==
Waylon Park possesses a slim, medium build of a young Caucasian adult male, measuring at a height of six feet and weighing at a reasonable weight. Because his face is never seen or shown, his facial features and face remain unknown and ambiguous to the player.
Whilst working as a software engineer at Mount Massive, Waylon wears his casual outfit to work consisting of a long-sleeved white shirt with the top button undone, a faded checkered plaid shirt with both of the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and the top buttons undone and dark blue jeans with the bottom of his jeans folded and rolled up to the end of his leg, covering the top of his dark blue sneakers accompanied with a belt around the waist.
Upon being processed as a patient of Project Walrider, Waylon is fitted and dressed into a prison inmate jumpsuit consisting of a long-sleeved faded green shirt with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows. Over the shirt is his dark brown, beige jumpsuit, covering both his torso and legs. His prisoner/patient number is displayed on his right breast of the jumpsuit. He is provided with no form of footwear or shoes so he roams Mount Massive completely barefoot. Following the death of Jeremy Blaire, his jumpsuit is utterly splattered and covered in blood, staining both his torso and legs.
When Waylon is stripped naked to be mutilated by Eddie Gluskin on his saw table, his entire body is exposed, revealing that he has dark curly hairs on his chest and around his genital area.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Lisa Park (Alive) - Wife
* Unnamed Child (Alive) - Son
* Unnamed Child (Alive) - Son
=== Allies ===
* Simon Peacock (Alive) - Advisor
* Miles Upshur (Unknown)
=== Enemies ===
* Jeremy Blaire (Alive) - Former Supervisor & Archnemesis
* Andrew (Unknown) - Sexual Assaulter
* Steve (Unknown) - Former Colleague
* Frank Manera (Unknown) - Attempted Murderer
* Chris Walker (Deceased) - Attempted Murderer
* Dennis (Unknown) - Attempted Murderer
* The Twins (Unknown) - Attempted Murderers
* Eddie Gluskin (Deceased) - Attempted Murderer
* The Walrider (Active) - Attempted Murderer
* Several Variants (Deceased/Unknown) - Attempted Murderers
== Appearances ==
Title 	Role 	Additional Notes
Outlast: Whistleblower	Main Protagonist	- Makes his debut in the Outlast series.
- Survives his ordeal, escaping the asylum and exposing The Murkoff Corporation however at the expense of his family's freedom.
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== Trivia ==
* While Miles is described as having dark brown hair, Waylon is described as having blonde hair.
* Out of all the Outlast protagonists, he is the only one to suffer the least amount in terms of both psychological and physical damages.
* Waylon's voice lines are just recycled lines from Miles Upshur's voice lines instead of newly recorded lines for the character.
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