The Painters

* Killer One
* Killer Two
* Self-portrait (Killer One)
* Police Sketch (Killer One)
* Cory's camera (Killer One)
* Surveillance camera (Killer Two)
* Tape (Killer Two)

**The Painters** are two of the titular main antagonists of the series of the same name.

They are a duo of a sadistic and psychopathic serial killers responsible for a barbaric string of unsolved murders who kill their victims in especially brutal and obscene ways for sick pleasure, often mutilating them beyond recognition, and a torturous individual who paints grotesque, twisted depictions of his victims accompanied by a title prior to their demise and leaves the paintings at the crime scenes as a sort of calling card to taunt authorities, the two are more than likely equally depraved.

Next to nothing is personally known about the killers. The first one’s face is usually obscured in the shadows and there has never been a confirmed name, race, background or motivation attributed to them, although brief glimpses and her own self-portraits show them to be a light-skinned woman with long, wispy black hair and no eyebrows. The second killer seemingly has another face sewn on theirs, leaving only their eyes and teeth visible.

The killer's actions throughout the series have been documented in a series of police case file styled VHS tapes that the unseen protagonist posting the videos seems to have found in their basement for reasons yet unknown.

## Personality

The Painters only speak in the episode “Meat” but it was only one of them, and they hardly reveal much about themselves, however, what can be gleamed about their personality comes from the state they leave their victims in and the titles they give each painting showcasing their corpses.

The Painters are unfathomably sadistic and deranged duo of killers and artists duo who takes great enjoyment and pleasure in performing despicable and horrific acts of violence upon innocent people, including men, women and children (as they are mostly vulnerable). They are psychopathic and remorseless, performing each kill with extreme brutality and killing in such a way that implies they want their victims to slowly suffer as they kill them. The Painters are also sexual sadists, performing disgusting, violating acts on two of their child victims to derive sexual pleasure, one of which they degraded by calling Cory a "fucktoy", as well as forcing one of their victims to be raped by a horse he force-fed sildenafil, and finally they Depicted a cat as “Pocket Pussy” showing how limitless their depravity is and how utterly devoid of empathy and morality they are.

Despite their madness and psychotic nature, the Painters are a smart and calculating killer duo, not only in how to invent creative ways to kill people, but also for how they’re able to evade authorities and stay one step ahead of them at every turn. Although their intelligence and sadism tend to border on arrogance due to their nature as a seemingly uncatchable killer who has successfully evaded the police for ages. This also causes them to slip up slightly and reveal that there’s two killers by neglecting to clean their bloody footprints.

While it’s unknown how the pair get along, it’s seemingly not the best, as one of the killers doesn’t wear shoes. It’s implied that the other killer is the one responsible for the paintings, which possibly suggests he’s a slave to the actual killer. Whether he’s a slave or an equally sadistic serial killer is unknown.

## Gallery

Official art of the secondary killer by UrbanSPOOK.
## Trivia

* It could be possible that the killers are homeless or living a transient lifestyle.
	+ Both the crawlspace in IN THE WALLS and the graffiti on the lighthouse suggest that they were temporary dwellings.
* Before the confirmation of a second killer in FAMILY, it was hinted in THE CLUE.
	+ Sean Kane wrote the number 2 in his own blood amidst his assault.
	+ The second killer appeared in a surveillance photo at the end, but wasn't said to be a different person at the time; many believed the first killer was (ironically) wearing a past victim's face.
	+ Many believed that since the murders were happening swiftly and professionally, and how unrealistic it was that only one person could be doing this, that the person behind these murders wasn't working alone.
* The first killer was confirmed to be a woman by a portrait on UrbanSPOOK's Instagram. A separate illustration of letters, hidden as a frame in MEAT, provided her name: Mona Lanius.
	+ Her name is likely a reference to the Mona Lisa painting.
	+ The last name 'Lanius' means 'Butcher' in Latin, which can be referencing her brutal ways of killing, and the episodes titled "MEAT" and "PIGS".
	+ The portrait was the final upload for Inktober 2023.
* There is a message hidden in Morse Code in the episode 'PIGS' that reads "IAMBILLCOLLINS" which could mean the second killers identity could be Bill Collins, and the reason it seems he has a missing arm is that he cut it off and put it into the barrel of mangled flesh and bones in the episode 'THE LIGHTHOUSE' to throw the police off and make them think that he had been murdered.