Rod Sullivan

**Rod Sullivan** is a playable character among the Horrors in Horror Brawl. He is from the *Ice Scream* franchise and the son of Sister Madeline.

## Biography and History

**Biography**: *"When he was a little boy, he got bullied in school for being a fat kid. He thought of a sinister play to take revenge on all of them: poison everyone with extra tasty ice cream until they explode. He goes around in his van, with his jingle sounding at maximum volume giving ice cream to all the kids on the neighbourhood. Be careful not to fall for his lies or you could suffer his frozen breath attack..."*

**Main Ability**: *Let's cool off...* - Reduces the movement speed of all the kids by 50% over 10 seconds.

### Childhood

Rod was born in December 1940 to Sister Madeline in Eagles' Junior High School, the nun was impregnated by Nàzrat using his magic after telling her that he can bring her daughter back in the return of following his rules without breaking them. Rod was actually an incarnation of Elisa, Sister Madeline's daughter who succumbed to a bomb blast near her home in Poland in the middle of World War II. He spent the first 4-5 years of his childhood in the school with his mother and her fellow nun colleagues. However, due to unknown reasons, he was separated from his mother when he was 5 years old and ended up with the care of Joseph Sullivan, a German American ice cream man who later raises him as his own son. It looks like Rod earlier had a pleasant childhood with Joseph as he was a happy, lively and a curious child who dreamt of growing up like his (foster) father who was a popular figure at the time. Joseph also loved Rod deeply, but had a hard time spending enough time with him because he had to handle both his ice cream parlor and factory which were located in two different sides of the city he lives in. As a result, Rod was usually alone at home.

In a cutscene of Ice Scream 5 based in April 1953, it was shown that younger Rod was an extremely skinny child who most likely had a terrible appetite since he was shown playing with Joseph's Mini Rod robot assistant by pretending that he was feeding the robot with his food that he didn't seem to have interest in finishing. He was curious about the special ice creams that Joseph made which were locked in a crate safely secured with a red lock. Joseph didn't want Rod to eat those special ice creams even by mistake so he always takes the key for the lock with him to prevent his son from opening the crate while also telling Rod in a rather nervous yet firm tone not to eat them as well. However, it was later shown that he had accidentally dropped the key near his house, Rod spots the key when he was singing outside which allowed him to access the crate and try the ice creams. Slowly, but gradually, Rod started to get obese due to the effect of the ice creams.

In a cutscene of Ice Scream 2 based in march 1954, Rod was shown as an obese child who was getting harassed by his classmates due to his physique caused by the effects of the special ice creams, which made him feel vulnerable, emotional and depressed because of this. For some unclear reasons, it is said that Joseph didn't really help Rod deal with the issue which made matters even worse. When Joseph gets killed in December 1955 after Sister Philippa runs him over with her van under Sister Madeline's command, Rod was technically orphaned since he had no idea who his mother was. Later, it was shown that Sister Madeline sends Rod a birthday letter, telling him to be strong and that she heard of Joseph's demise (though she was the one responsible for his death) and basically begging him to come back to her and starts to send birthday letters to him every year with the same request. From Rod's point of view, he either ignored the letters or threw on the floor in frustration since he had no one else to support him and his mother wasn't there when he needed her (mainly because SM couldn't leave the school for 40 years). Sister Madeline's final letter was sent to him on his 25th birthday, with the letter stating with her that she has now given up her hopes of her son coming back to her but she had also sent her ritual book to him to keep it safely as a precious asset and that it contained a secret that only Joseph knew and stole from her, while also mentioning that she had improved the formula for the secret ingredient since a lot of time had passed and tells him that he can either use it for good or take advantage of it to destroy anyone on his way. And she ends her letter stating that she will continue waiting for him and still loves him.

#### Ice Scream (1, 2 and 3)

Rod uses the nun's ritual book and eventually figures out how to make the secret ingredient that he can mix it in his ice cream to make people fat. His version of the formula is different from Joseph's as the latter's version can just only make people fat and not kill them while Rod's version would kill his victims if they take in the secret ingredient in excess. Thus, beginning the events of the Ice Scream Saga as Rod now sets to lure and catch his victims (TBC)