Dale Hutchingson

Arthur Hutchingson and Lucy Davison were off on a camping trip when the bombs dropped. When it came to fruition, it was only a romantic Halloween Get-a-way for the two Ohio-born High-school seniors, of which they chose to have as far off from civilization as possible, with a great deal of supplies in case they were stuck in some tremendous fire. Under these conditions their first son was born, Dale. His early life was plagued by competition from his other 3 siblings, squabbling over supplies, food, toys, all things indicative of a shortage of supplies, however this gradually released as trade routes were established and civilization began digging itself out of the ashes. As a child, and adult, Dale had a taste for anything colourful, sweet, sugar-coated, or shiny (not unlike a rodent), but his favourites were heart-warmingly ice cold Nuka-Colas and chilling stories about the cryptids across America, from the Canadian Cadborosaurus to the legendary Mothman of West Virginia. On one occasion, his parents found him near miles away from their camp because he thought he saw the Jersey Devil, which eventually only turned out to be a very sick bat, because of his obsession with the tales. His parents had tried to enroll Dale in homemade physical education camps, but they never saw it work very well with activities that didn't involve running away from radroaches. Any sort of intellectual involvement Dale had no prowess in either, in fact, his parents gave up the very first day they tried to homeschool him due to the sheer fact he could hardly spell the word cat. Both of said activities he was eager to do, however, which his parents remarked as always helpful. The area of expertise he did specialize in was charm. His big, goofy smile won over his parents many-a-time, sometimes even so with his sisters. With no formal (or informal) education, and near to no physical prowess beyond his innate running ability, it looked like Dale was doomed to fail, until he heard about a fabled place East of his home-state of Ohio. The place where the majestic Mothman pierced the sky, West Virginia. And so, his sisters and him were off, all going on their own separate journeys for their own separate reasons, to West Virginia