William Kerr

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“
Some people are destined to strive for greatness, and others are simply obstacles along the way.
”

— William Kerr

**William Kerr** (real name Patrick C. Montesquieu) is the secondary antagonist of Beacon Pines. As CEO of Perennial Harvest, he always has a group of Clipboards at his beck and call.

## Profile

### APPEARANCE

William is an adult hyena man, with menacing and fake smile.

Kerr has long powdery/ivory blond hair. It is braided at the back, and it appears that the ends of his hair are slightly darker in hue. At the front, it is combed back and over to the side.

He wears a longsleeve white button-up shirt with the sleeves halfway pulled up. Over the shirt is a striped green buttoned vest that appears to be made out of silk. He wears a tan bowtie around his neck. He has khaki/beige colored pants and brown leather shoes with laces.

#### PERSONALITY

Mr. Kerr is a two-faced liar; a bilker, if you will. He keeps up a fake persona in public, pretending to be a friendly concerned executive. He acts peppy and outgoing towards everyone, wearing his fake smile. He tries to form friendly connections with everyone to uphold a positive reputation and to manipulate people more easily. He is gregarious to a fault, being incredibly talkative to the point of others finding his rambling to be an annoyance.

In reality, Kerr can be very cruel and berating, especially towards his underlings, the Clipboards. He insults them when they do something he doesn't want them to do, whether his demands were properly communicated or not. He can be quite unpredictable with what he wants which only makes this more difficult.

He claims that he is a part of Perennial Harvest and helping the town of Beacon Pines because he saw potential for growth, but truthfully, he is there for his own selfish purposes. He doesn't care who gets hurt when it comes to accomplishing his goals; said goals being to become youthful and live forever so that he can salvage his acting career, as his true identity is Patrick C. Montesquieu. Sharper Valentine was the one who gave him this opportunity, after finding him in a terrible state because of being unable to continue his passion in theater due to aging. Kerr is a very desperate man and will do anything to keep his legacy alive.

Kerr is full of himself; he is very pompous. The song that plays during his speech is even titled "Pomp." He sees himself as someone who strives for greatness, while those who get in his way are merely obstacles that need to be removed from the picture. He calls himself a "thespian extrordinaire" at one point, and has written a memoir about himself, calling himself the greatest acting mind of their time. His arrogance leads to the detriment of him, as it is the cause of his downfall and mistakes that could have easily been prevented.

He is a professional actor, which allows him room to take on roles and false personalities. He is also generally good at handling the public and doesn't stray away from attention or anything related to public speaking. He loves to hear himself talk and he loves when people give him attention. When he isn't pretending to be someone else, he uses a lot of thespian phrases and it is clear that theatrics had a major influence on his life, all the way down to his speech patterns.

Mr. Kerr is terrified of Sharper Valentine and is completely submissive to him, listening to his every demand. Compared to how Kerr speaks with everyone else, he is very meek when speaking with Sharper, which is a sharp contrast to his confident and loud demeanor.

He seems to have a lot of patience when it comes to getting what he wants. He has worked under the role of William Kerr for many years and hasn't shown any sign of stopping. In one storyline, he is relentless with trying to manipulate and capture Iggy and Luka, refusing to back down. When the children attempt to destroy the Source, Kerr is horrified and attacks Iggy on impulse, which consequentially leads to them both to lose their lives after dangling at the edge of a cliff, reliant on Luka's grasp. Iggy destroying the source destroyed everything Kerr had worked for, which leads to a very intense but revealing reaction from Kerr. During the whole sequence, Kerr has a mental breakdown, refusing to let go of Iggy to let him and Luka escape. He desperately tries to guilt trip and manipulate Luka to hold on and to save them both, while Iggy insisted that Luka let go of the both of them for the better of the town. There is also a moment of Kerr being very offended by a remark made by Luka, saying that he has lived a long life already and that it would be for the best if he let go. Kerr claims that he is still young and hasn't yet lived a long life, and irrationally starts singing to prove it; this reveals that he is very insecure about his age.

Kerr uses a lot of old-timey phrases, like "oh heavens no," and the like. This could be reflecting his actual age, but it could also be him trying to make himself look more extravagant.

## Trivia

* In Chapter 6: Through Thick and Thin, one of his lines is "Give me the gift of a grip-top sock". This is from "About Socks", a tongue-twister attributed to Dr. Seuss.
* In the library while searching for Rolo, you can find a book that he wrote about himself titled "A Peek Behind The Curtain; The Methods and Ruminations of Patrick C. Montesquieu, One of the Greatest Acting Minds of our Time."
* In the game's Epilogue, the Beacon Beacon states that he goes into a state correctional facility and performs "*The Iceman Cometh*" while incarcerated. In that same article, it states how his performance moved the entire audience to tears.

## References

2. ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2141050/Beacon\_Pines\_Artbook/ Beacon Pines Artbook, page 150