Cecil King (Arrowood Kills)

== Cecil King ==
Doctor Cecil Aaron King is a major antagonist in the "Arrowood Kills" series, serving as a main character and the deuteragonist of the 3rd chapter before revealing himself as a hidden main antagonist.
King is a doctor who, after going through several traumatic events during his childhood, became a deluded and obsessive serial killer with the intention of sadistically teaching his victims (who has been revealed to be criminals and horrible people) that life is precious before murdering them brutally and one of the most iconic killers to date in the series.
== Background ==
Born on March 20, 1985, Cecil grew up in Milton, Georgia to a wealthy family. At the age of 12, Cecil lost his family when a violent robbery took place in his home. Cecil was saved by his uncle and is taught to become a construction-level civil engineer by his uncle, who is a foreman from a construction company.
At the age of 18, Cecil left the construction company and went to college as he joined the United States Army and became a combat medic, earning him a degree of Medicine. He left the Army with a honorable discharge and became a surgeon as he was still in college. He quickly got praise and respect for his dexterity and his kindness for his patients.
Cecil was deeply traumatized by a certain event, leading him to give up the surgical career and moved to Arrowood, Georgia to become the town's primary care doctor, earning him the same respect and praise in the town.
== Biography ==
Cecil is first seen in the 3rd chapter, having helped out many townsfolk, including Marcus (who befriended him due to their similar wisdom). However, Cecil was killed off-screen after doing an autopsy. As a new killer strikes fear within Arrowood, he managed to frame Marcus for the murders.
Cecil's death played a huge role in the 4th chapter, as shown as he managed to convince Alice and Marcus to take down the killer. However, they got killed in the spree by Cecil, who is revealed to be the killer and that he managed to survive a near fatal shootout with the police, being imprisoned for a life sentence without parole.
It's revealed that Cecil was killing criminals and horrible people to get rid of the world of "evil" and to avenge his family for what happened as a kid.
== Personality ==
In his first appearance, Cecil is a respectful and polite man who showed deep compassion and patience for his patients and showed empathy for their well-being. As seen as he talks with Marcus Davis, Cecil shows great wisdom and even gave him great advice to avoid getting into trouble, showing a slight pessimistic viewpoint. According to most people, Cecil is extremely charismatic and wise when necessary, having managing to gain a huge level of admiration and respect from the townsfolk.
However, as the killer, Cecil is revealed to be an extremely vicious and cunning murderer who took sadistic joy in torturing and killing his victims and was ruthless enough to instill extreme fear into his victims before brutally murdering them in the most horrific ways possible. He was also highly perceptive and intelligent, creating traps and certain scenarios to induce fear and terror into his victims, showing his sadism and brutality.
As revealed to Marcus and Alice, Cecil is shown to be extremely insane and had his own moral code, only targeting criminals (from murderers to rapists) and horrible people due to his traumatic past as a kid. Unlike the other 3, Cecil never targets innocent people and police officers, but even thought he only killed 2 good-mannered cops in self-defense and showed deep regret upon doing so until he found out that they worked for Detective Perkins, quickly ridding his guilt. Despite his ill intentions and his twisted morality, Cecil's brutality and tactical mindset ultimately led him to his own downfall and ended up being imprisoned with a life sentence. 
== Appearance ==
Cecil is an American man, standing at 6'2. He has green eyes (revealed to be contacts to hide his dark brown eyes), thick black hair (revealed to be hair to hide his balding head), a tanned complexion, and a stout muscular physique.
Cecil wore a white coat, gray t-shirt, and blue jeans as his primary outfit.
As the Arrowood Slasher, Cecil wore a brown long sleeved shirt underneath a cut out jean shirt and overalls. He also wore gray gloves with brown cuffs and a brown tool belt. He also wore a rabbit scarecrow mask.
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Cecil was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charisma and politeness to gain trust with his victims in order to blend in and to complete his mission without them knowing that he was the killer.
* Intimidation: Due to his height, muscular frame, and his exceptional combat abilities, Cecil is widely known and feared by most of the victims that survived his attacks.
* Hacking Skills: After learning from his uncle, Cecil is a intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secure systems to find his targets and to trace their location. He can jam communications, cause blackouts, and disable security systems.
* Skilled Physician: Cecil appears to have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as expert first aid and medicine. He is shown to be extremely knowledgeable in pressure points, as shown as he aims for weak points to subdue his victims.
* Master Tactician: As a former combat medic/Iraq War era combat veteran, Cecil is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of victims just by watching them via body language. 
* Stealth Mastery: Cecil is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of stealth to enter authorized locations and he's well adept with blending in to his surroundings, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them.
* Skilled Engineer: Cecil is a very skilled mechanic and engineer that is capable of manipulating and using objects and machinery around him to gain an advantage. He's also capable of using makeshift traps out of common household supplies and military weaponry to kill his victims.
* Forensics Specialist: Cecil is very capable of making a "clean murder" by using a subtle approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his victims, he tries to make the deaths look like a simple accident.
* Master Marksman: As revealed to Marcus, Cecil was extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances.
* Master Martial Artist: Having been trained in the US Army, Cecil is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Muay Thai, Boxing, Sambo, Wrestling, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once.
* Knife Mastery: Cecil is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Cecil is able to use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight.
* Improvised Weapon Mastery: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Cecil is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his murders to gain an advantage over his opponents. Due to his engineering skills, Cecil was very capable of making makeshift traps with minimal resources to maim and kill opponents.
* Peak Human Condition: As a former soldier of the United States Army, Cecil has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition. He's strong enough to overpower most of his victims, quick enough to catch up to them, and tough enough to survive a huge height and got up with ease, despite being dazed.
== Equipment ==
* Mask: It is the most important piece of his costume. His mask resembles a scarecrow design. His mask is similar to a rabbit.
* Costume: He wears a thick, improved suit (a cut off jean shirt and a long sleeve brown shirt) with overalls and grey gloves with brown cuffs. He has a brown tool belt around his waist, with a few tools inside. His costume is fitting and slightly dirty.
* Knife: His primary weapon. He notably used it to brutally murder 6 victims. His knife is a 7 inch KA-BAR combat knife with a Kraton handle.
*Beretta Px4 Storm Inox: Cecil's back-up weapon. He notably used it to shoot at Marcus and Alice, but was quickly disarmed of it after being hit in the head with a bat. This was Kyle Waterman's sidearm and Cecil presumably took the pistol after disposing of his body.
* Voice Changer: Cecil used it to scare his victims. His changer is built inside the mask and disguised it as a deep, menacing tone.
* Bulletproof Vest: His most important piece. He notably survives multiple gunshot wounds, which gave the illusion of immortality.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Cecil:
* Alexander Winters: Throat slit with a combat knife, stabbed multiple times (implied to be disemboweled and right hand cut off offscreen). It's revealed that Winters was a serial child molester that kidnapped and killed over 125 children in 5 states.
* David Simpson: Head split open with a fire axe. It's revealed that Simpson was a con-man that directly caused the death of a old woman after scamming her of her life insurance.
* Erika Jones: Stabbed once in the back, thrown over a balcony, and head bashed in with a hammer. While she's not a criminal, she's guilty by association and even helped her lover with his crimes.
* Cody Roberts: Ripped apart with a trap. It's revealed that Cody robbed his neighbor's son and beat him close to death over $25.
* Max Becker: Back stabbed with a double edged axe, head chopped in half. Max helped Cody with the beating and robbery.
* Franklin Welles: Beaten, stabbed and slashed multiple times, and bludgeoned to death. It's revealed that Welles was a serial rapist and that he is the ringleader of the crew that killed Cecil's family (having raped his mother and killed his father himself before leaving Cecil to die in a burning building).
* Detective Rodney Perkins: Beaten to death and hung (offscreen). It's revealed that Detective Perkins organized the robbery and hired Welles and his crew and had indirectly caused the deaths of Cecil's parents.
* Deputy Shaw: Fire axe thrown into the head. 
* Deputy Stevens: Stabbed 5 times to death. Both men were working with Perkins and helped him with getaway.
* Joseph Willis: Stabbed twice in the chest and back, thrown out of a window.
* Shawn Thomas: Strangled with barbed wire garrote.
* Patrick Johns: Stabbed in the kidney, scalped to death. All 3 participated in a underground mob robbery and stole $250,000 for themselves.
* Samuel Rose: Burned alive. It's revealed that Sam participated in the robbery and had partake in sexual assault/murder against Cecil's mother.
* Rose Richards: Disemboweled alive with a machete, bled out. It's revealed that Rose is a habitual pimp and helped Samuel with his crimes.
* Darren Jackson: Dismembered with a machete, hacked to death. It's revealed that Darren had participated in the beating of Cecil's crimes.
* Kyle Waterman: Jugular severed with a combat knife, bled out. It's revealed that Waterman had participated in the robbery and was a jewel thief that intentionally killed a few cops.
* Richard Watson: Throat slit with a combat knife and stabbed 12 times. It's revealed Watson was a serial killer that preyed on innocents and made their bodies into art.
* Alice Harris: Stabbed in the heart, bled out.
* Marcus Davis: Stabbed in the trachea, suffocated and bled out.
Murders connected to Cecil:
* Jonathan and Keith Washington: Tortured to death with a trap (offscreen). Both brothers tried to rob Cecil.
== Trivia ==
* Cecil is the most insane killer to date, having killed various criminals and horrible people due to his trauma and hatred towards evil.
* Cecil is labeled as the most dangerous killer out of the 4 due to his knack of creating traps and experience in engineering, medicine, and combat.
* Cecil was the only killer to survive and to be imprisoned for life rather than dying like the other 3. Unlike the others, Cecil actually accomplished his goal of being famous, inspiring people to become vigilantes like him and seeking vengeance against the people that targeted his family.
* Cecil had new tricks up his sleeves, unlike the last 3 killers:
** He had a built-in voice changer in his mask, in order to disguise his voice and to induce deeper fear.
** He wore a level II bulletproof vest to survive gunshots, giving him the illusion of immortality.
** He faked his own death, using his own blood and ripping out his teeth and planted it to throw the cops off of him.
** He used his engineering knowledge and what he learnt from his uncle to break in homes and shut down their alarm systems and to built elaborate traps to kill his victims.
** He used a radio, trivia questions, and cars to lure victims out into the open where he could easily ambush them.
* Cecil was the only killer to survive and start off 2 killing sprees in different towns and killed two main characters in close combat.
* Cecil was the only killer not to use a firearm directly to kill his victims in the 2 killing sprees. Although he used a pistol, he mainly toyed with the pair before running out of ammo.
* Given his traumatic past and background, Cecil was the most complex killer up to date.
* Cecil is the only killer that had the highest kill count of the 4, having only killed 21 victims (2 indirectly) before being imprisoned.
*Even though it's very subtle, but it is heavily implied that Cecil could been the killer throughout the series:
**Cecil's speech to Marcus and his slight tone of voice as he claims that the bad people needed to be weeded out, revealing his anger and deep resentment to evil.
**Throughout the autopsy scene, Cecil is listening to old school music (Don't Stop Believing by Journey) and whenever the killer pops out, he played old school music (Baby Come Back by Player at Winters' death, Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest at Erika's death, and Red Right Hand by Nick Cave at Waterman's death).
**The killer seemed to be extremely precise in his attacks and in a notable scene, Cody is given several questions relating to medical terms, hinting at Cecil's medical experience.
**The killer seems to target criminals and as revealed by Cecil's subtle shift to tone when telling Marcus about avoiding crime, it's a strong hint to his true nature.