Flynn Moore

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**Flynn Moore** is a main character in the visual novel Echo. He is the oldest of protagonist Chase Hunter's childhood friends.

## Appearance

Flynn is a Gila lizard with black and orange scales covering his body. He has blue-green eyes, and black spines resembling hair running down from his head to the end of his tail. He is tall and lean, and is the tallest member of the main cast at 6'7", beating out Leo by 3 inches.

Typically, he is seen wearing a beige button-up shirt (with the top few buttons undone) and black dress pants, though he also wears a black tie to work.

13-year-old Flynn (whose sprite is unused) wears a yellow tank top, blue denim pants, and has noticeably pink hair-like spines styled in a mohawk.

## Personality

Flynn has an infamously blunt and abrasive personality, not being afraid to speak his mind. Despite this, he often struggles with communicating his true intentions, choosing instead to remain snide and aloof. This often results in him butting heads with the other members of his friend group, particularly Jenna and Leo. Flynn also has strong flirtatious tendencies.

### Early Life

Flynn was born in Echo around 1990 to a very religious Mormon family. He was left by his parents to be raised by his aunt and uncle in the town; the specifics of his parents' departure are unknown but according to his aunt they didn't like Echo because of its history of mass hysteria events as well as its 'godlessness.' Flynn's uncle encouraged firearm training during his childhood, and Flynn can competently wield a rifle. Flynn has been openly gay since a young age and he became very independent early in life; Chase describes him as self-reliant by 14.

Flynn and Sydney were very close friends as children, and Sydney's death deeply affected Flynn. After Sydney's father died during a hunting accident, Flynn helped Sydney deal with both the emotional trauma and social isolation that resulted.

#### Route 65

Flynn is the only member of Chase's friend group who does not make a physical appearance during the events of Route 65. Instead, he converses with Chase through text messages.

Flynn was invited to the Day of the Dead party held at the abandoned Parson's building on November 1, 2008, though he declined to attend due to having work obligations and wanting to check on Jasmynn after her absence from school that day. Regardless of who Chase chooses to come out to, Flynn texts Chase shortly after the school day ends and informs him of the party as well as Leo's plan to attend it. This sets the rest of the game's events into motion. If Chase chooses to come out to Flynn, he is somewhat more sympathetic toward Chase in their interactions and ultimately reveals that he hoped to instigate Chase and Leo getting together by sending him to meet with the wolf at the party. Flynn is also outed to Chase as well through Chase's later conversation with Leo.

#### Later High School Years and Early Adulthood

Flynn worked in a freight warehouse roughly from ages 16 to 24 and never attended college, though he did consider joining the military while growing up and likely would have if not for his sexuality.

Flynn started smoking in his freshman year of high school, but has kicked the habit by the events of Echo in 2015. He is often described as chewing toothpicks, which helps him avoid cigarettes.

At some point, Flynn was introduced to The Smoke Room by Ryan and began to rely on the bar as a hookup spot, given the limited number of gay dating opportunities in Echo. Sometime after Chase broke up with Leo in 2012, Flynn and Leo began a sexual relationship that lasted until September 2014. Leo ended the affair in favor of holding out for Chase to return his affections once more, and shortly afterward greatly reduced his contact with both Flynn and Carl. Flynn and Carl have also been intimately involved for some time, with Flynn helping Carl explore his sexuality. This relationship is the subject of the short side-game Benefits.

At the time of the events of Echo, Flynn has held the elected part-time position of town clerk of Echo for three years, and works at City Hall under his aunt, who is Mayor. He shares a house with his roommate Daxton and enjoys fishing in his spare time.

**Plot**

#### Prologue

Flynn reunites with the rest of his friends in 2015 when Chase, TJ, and Jenna come to town over spring break. His abrasive personality quickly becomes a source of strain on the group, however, and his long-held mistrust of TJ's account of the day Sydney drowned in Lake Emma leads him to confront his friends at the riverside on Monday to determine the truth of what happened.

After Leo physically rebuffs Flynn for attempting to question TJ, he storms off back to Echo as the group breaks apart.

#### Flynn's Route

If Chase insists on following him, Flynn initially acts aggressive but then relents and accepts Chase's company, and even admits regretting his behavior at the riverside. Flynn and Chase then go together to the diner. While Chase orders his food Flynn grows visibly tense and confused, as he is able to sense on some level that there is an unseen force influencing Chase every time Chase makes a decision. The route then focuses on the sexual relationship that develops between Flynn and Chase. What begins as a spontaneous mutual attraction is quickly complicated by Chase's unresolved relationship with Leo and Flynn's own emotional isolation, as well as Flynn's continuing insistence on getting the truth about Sydney's death and his growing sense that Chase is acting strangely.

After Flynn lies to an enraged Leo to keep him from catching Chase in his bed on Thursday morning, Flynn and Chase agree that their tryst is too risky. However, that doesn't stop Flynn from leaving Chase a cryptic hint that night inviting him to meet him at The Smoke Room, Echo's local gay bar and sexual free-for-all. Whether or not Chase initially agrees to have sex with Flynn in The Smoke Room, Chase soon feels overwhelmed and walks out, leading to a definitive end to their fling.

Flynn remains distant from Chase and the rest of the group until Saturday, when he and Chase escort Carl to Payton for a job interview, which goes badly. This is also the day that Flynn plans to interrogate TJ in City Hall, without Jenna and Leo around to intervene. Chase promises not to interfere, but proceeds to alert Jenna and Leo by text. When they arrive, Flynn is astonished to hear Chase suddenly claim that Flynn has threatened violence against TJ and is manipulating Chase into sex. Leo is enraged by the revelation and punches Flynn, and if Chase has not previously made Leo aware of his sexual relationship with Flynn, Flynn and Leo remain at odds for the rest of the route as Leo's rationality deteriorates. If Chase has previously been honest with Leo, Flynn and Leo initially clash but are able to put their conflict aside.

Ultimately, TJ confesses to seeing two brown-furred bodies in the lake the day Sydney died, and Flynn realizes that Chase's sudden shift in behavior has all been to prevent TJ from implicating him in Sydney's death. As the Hysteria begins to grip the town outside, Flynn hits Chase and locks him in a disused room in City Hall, then leads the rest of his friends, who are still deciding what to believe, to take shelter back at his house. Chase has a dissociative experience that allows the presence possessing him to escape his body and carry out its apparent goal of merging with Flynn. The rest of the route occurs from Flynn's point of view.

In a flashback Flynn relives the day he helped Sydney, his closest childhood friend, cover up the truth of the hunting accident that killed Sydney's father by burying the body. In the present, Carl assures Flynn that he doesn't believe Chase's accusations and Flynn promises Carl that he won't move away from Echo and leave him. The group soon returns to City Hall to get answers from Flynn's aunt, the Mayor of Echo, who has previously told Flynn she believes the mass hysteria that has recurred throughout the town's history is poised to strike again. Flynn frees Chase while a group of townsfolk led by Duke assemble outside City Hall to call for Chase to be killed to end the cycle of violence. Despite being compelled to admit that he believes Chase killed Sydney, Flynn defends Chase from the mob, now including his normally rational aunt, and helps him escape with the rest of the group by overpowering or intimidating Duke.

The drive out of Echo is interrupted by the appearance of the Socket Man, a lanky, charred figure that Carl, TJ, Jenna, and Daxton have all admitted to witnessing previously. The Socket Man attacks the van carrying the group and knocks it into Lake Emma, but everyone is able to escape to the surface except for Daxton, who has to be rescued by either Flynn or Leo. On the lakeshore, Flynn is separated from his friends and eventually finds himself in a facsimile of The Smoke Room, where he is greeted by an apparition of an adult Sydney, and the two converse while Flynn tries to understand what is happening. Sydney is revealed to be a projection created by Samuel Ayers, the force that was previously possessing both Sydney and Chase and who now resides in Flynn, and The Smoke Room is revealed to be Danicka Mine, which has been burning for several days with a fire that soon consumes Flynn.

As Flynn's body burns in the mines, he bears witness to a number of the many acts of violence committed in Echo throughout its history, and is even able to intercede in several. His consciousness changes and he becomes unmoored from linear time, and he and Sam transform into the Socket Man that Flynn and the other characters see in the other routes and have been glimpsing in Echo at times of duress throughout their lives.

#### Carl's Route

Flynn plays a minor role in Carl's route. When Chase drives to Carl's house on Tuesday he finds Flynn in the backyard with Carl, and the two appear to be at odds about Carl's eagerness to spend more time with Chase.

During Carl's party on Wednesday, Leo assures Chase that Flynn has apologized to the rest of the group about his behavior at the river. However, when Flynn starts to tease TJ, Jenna sharply cuts in and Chase observes that he may not be totally forgiven. In this route, Flynn is the one to tell Chase about Janice's episode on the roadside, since Chase was not there to witness it directly. Flynn gives Carl a lighter shaped like a ram's head for his birthday, which notably may be the lighter that Carl uses to burn down his house in the route's bad ending.

When everyone meets up again at Lake Emma on Saturday, Flynn is characteristically terse and sarcastic, and his argument with the group over how to best get closure for Sydney's death leads to Chase jumping into the lake to break the tension. After Chase nearly drowns, Flynn assaults TJ and is then tackled by Leo. Chase and Carl leave quickly and Flynn is not seen again for the rest of the route. In the epilogue, it is mentioned that Flynn, Leo, and TJ don't really speak to each other anymore, and that they are dealing with the trauma of unseen events that occurred during the Hysteria.

#### TJ's Route

As in his own route, Flynn in TJ's route is primarily concerned with getting an honest account of Sydney's death out of TJ. Although he scarcely appears in person before Saturday, his persistent suspicion contributes to Chase's growing paranoia and accelerates his hyper-protectiveness over TJ.

After the events of Monday, Flynn begins texting TJ to ask about the day Sydney died. The contents of these texts are rarely shown, but they badly distress TJ and are aggressive enough that Flynn feels the need to corner TJ in Carl's basement on Wednesday to apologize for sending them. Flynn seems to express remorse, but Chase soon steps in to excuse TJ from what he perceives as Flynn's overbearing behavior, and ultimately Flynn continues sending TJ hostile messages over the course of the route.

Once Chase and TJ begin Sydney's treasure hunt on Thursday, they agree to exclude Flynn because of his fixation on questioning TJ. As Chase grows more and more suspicious that the clues are targeting him and that the hunt was staged by his friends, Flynn and Carl become his primary suspects.

Flynn confronts Chase at the motel on Saturday, demanding answers about what happened at the lakeside that left Carl with a broken ankle. Flynn is bewildered by Chase's accusation that he masterminded the treasure hunt and rapidly becomes frustrated with Chase's aggressive defense of TJ. When things get physical, Chase easily overpowers Flynn and threatens him until he leaves. The next day, during a conversation with a malicious entity in the mirror of the motel bathroom, Chase begins to believe that the only way to keep his secret and protect TJ is to murder Flynn.

On Sunday, Flynn picks TJ up from Julian's house and brings him to Lake Emma for one final attempt to get closure. He drags TJ down to the shoreline but his questioning is interrupted by Chase, who inadvertently reveals the truth of how Sydney really died in an attempt to prove that Flynn set up the treasure hunt. Flynn is incensed and begins beating and choking Chase, but a distraction from TJ allows Chase to hit him with a rock and then force him into the lake. Chase pulls Flynn underwater and holds him there until he drowns, observing that Flynn finally got the answers he'd been seeking for a decade only in the very last minutes of his life.

Five years later in the epilogue, Cameron sees an apparition of Flynn's body floating in Lake Emma.

#### Leo's Route

While the group looks for Carl on Wednesday, Chase and Flynn talk outside Carl's house. Flynn says it's stupid for Chase and Leo to spend time together again and is extremely offended that they decided to rekindle their romance at Lake Emma of all places. Flynn also warns Chase about Leo's instability, calling him ‘fucking crazy,' but when Leo appears Flynn backs off. Flynn gets more and more frustrated as the search for Carl continues, and soon storms out to go look for him on his own.

On Thursday morning, Flynn reports to Chase and Leo by text that Carl has been found in the crawlspace under his mansion. If Chase checks Leo's phone on Friday, he reads messages from Flynn accusing Leo of monopolizing Chase's time and using the reunion as a pretense for getting back together with him.

After Chase escapes from Brian on Sunday, Flynn appears suddenly at the mine's back entrance to help him get away. Flynn explains that he reunited with the others at Leo's house and learned from Kudzu that Brian drove off with Chase in the direction of the mine. When Chase asks him how he knew about the back entrance, Flynn answers only vaguely and is cagey about his whereabouts for the past few days. When the group decides to hop a train to escape Echo, Flynn jumps aboard first so that he can help pull the rest of his friends to safety.

#### Jenna's Route

Flynn helps coordinate the group's search for Carl on Tuesday, and calls Carl's parents to inform them that their son is missing. Flynn takes Carl's phone away from Chase and accuses him of snooping, and Chase guesses that Flynn is trying to conceal the messages he previously sent to Carl about what happened at the riverside. Flynn also clashes with Leo for arguing with Chase about their breakup instead of looking for Carl, resulting in Leo shoving Flynn and walking out. After finding signs that Carl has been ramming his head against the wall near the crawlspace in his basement, Flynn suspects that Jeremy sold Carl some laced weed and instructs Chase to go talk to him about it.

Flynn finds Chase and Jenna on the couch in Carl's house the next morning and brings them homemade lunches. They all debrief together about the ongoing search, and Flynn explains that Carl has been getting high more often and was afraid his house was haunted. As they discuss Carl's fate, Chase remarks that Flynn is showing anxiety and concern that he rarely expresses. Flynn, Chase, and Jenna then visit Jasmynn Street again and are able to get Heather to tell them about the last time she saw Carl. Flynn trades barbs with Micha, and when Jeremy constructs a false story to cover for Brian that includes Carl using meth, Flynn is incredulous and suspicious. When a crazed Clint arrives and threatens the group, Flynn quickly leads his friends back to his truck.

Flynn does not appear again until Sunday, when he arrives at Heather's house in pursuit of a hallucinating TJ. When the group eventually finds Carl and Heather subsequently holds them at gunpoint, Flynn stays outside and aims his rifle at her.

In Jenna's bad ending, Flynn shoots and kills Heather on Jenna's orders. Flynn is shocked and horrified by what he has done, and remains badly shaken for the rest of the route. In Jenna's good ending, Heather escapes and flees to the dam and Flynn is relieved to see that Carl is safe. Flynn resists Jenna and Micha's insistence that they pursue Heather, thinking that she is not a threat, but quickly relents and drives the group to the dam. He again takes up a vantage point with his rifle while Jenna calms Heather down and manages to stop her from flooding the town.

In Payton, Flynn comforts Carl while he recovers from his ordeal. He tries to contact his aunt, who has presumably been killed during the events of the Hysteria like she is in Flynn's own route, but is unsuccessful.

## Relationships

### Chase

During his tirade at the riverside, Flynn derides Chase's bland personality and accuses him of sexually objectifying the members of their friend group.

Despite this, Flynn seems to have harbored a strong sexual interest in Chase for some time, and the two quickly begin an intimate relationship during Flynn's route. Flynn later berates himself for the intensity of this attraction after more of Chase's secrets come to light.

In the later parts of both Flynn's and TJ's routes, Flynn comes into bitter conflict with Chase as he grows more suspicious of the circumstances of Sydney's drowning and Chase grows more secretive and paranoid, with Flynn working to uncover the truth and Chase trying to frustrate his efforts by any means necessary.

Uniquely among his friends, Flynn is able to somehow sense the influence that Samuel Ayers exerts on Chase's decision-making, and quickly grows wary of it as his route progresses.

### Carl

Flynn frequently mocks Carl for his weight, his drug habits, and his general purposelessness, but the two share a very close bond and have come to rely on one another for emotional support even as the rest of the group has drifted apart, especially following Carl's departure from college and return to Echo. In particular, Carl is the only one of his friends that Flynn feels truly comfortable confiding in about his anguish over Sydney's death.

Prior to the events of Echo, Carl instigated a sexual encounter with Flynn that elevated their close friendship into that of one with benefits.

### Leo

Leo's protective nature often causes him to intercede whenever Flynn attempts to press TJ for information about Sydney's death, which repeatedly brings the two into conflict. Likewise, Flynn's flirtatious attitude towards Chase during Flynn's route quickly enrages Leo.

Flynn and Leo were sexually involved following Chase and Leo's breakup. Flynn has little patience for Leo's lingering attachment to Chase, characterizing it as an obsession, and he accuses Leo of using the group's reunion as a pretense for rekindling his relationship with Chase long after its natural end.

As the oldest ones among their friends, Flynn and Leo often shared the responsibility of looking out for the group while they were all growing up, and when they can put aside their differences the two still readily support each other in carrying out this implicit duty.

### Jenna

Flynn accuses Jenna of leaving her family behind Echo and mistrusts the sense of aloof superiority that he associates with her desire for higher education. In turn, Jenna criticizes Flynn for his acerbic façade and his unwillingness to open up emotionally to the group, and disapproves strongly of his treatment of TJ. Chase considers Jenna exempt from the 'unspoken pact' among their group to 'let Flynn's dickishness slide.' Though he hides it, Flynn is hurt by the fact that Jenna disliked Sydney when they were kids, and deeply resents the possibility that she may have even been relieved when he died.

After Flynn's transformation into the Socket Man he seems to become very protective of Jenna, and consoles her throughout her difficult upbringing. Even with his monstrous appearance, his manifestations in her childhood bedroom are frequent and benevolent enough that she comes to think of him as her 'guardian angel.'

### TJ

Flynn enjoys poking fun at TJ's sensitive nature, and he has limited patience for what he perceives as the lynx's immaturity. He additionally expresses disgust and exasperation at the way the rest of the group defends TJ from his questioning. He believes TJ is hiding something about Sydney's death, and is willing to put TJ through significant emotional distress if it means getting closure.

### Sydney

Flynn and Sydney were very close during childhood, and Flynn considers himself to have known Sydney best out of any of his friends. Though Flynn sometimes encouraged Sydney's aggressive and mischievous tendencies, he also took his position as practically a surrogate older brother to the otter very seriously and did his best to provide Sydney an outlet from his difficult home life.

Years after Sydney's death, Flynn is still sensitive about any mention of him and objects to his friends even coming within a quarter-mile of the lake where he drowned. Chase observes that Sydney's death "fucked us all up, but Flynn most of all." Flynn additionally confesses that not knowing the full truth about the day Sydney died has been a nightmare for him, and he is willing to effectively jeopardize all of his friendships and put himself at personal risk to get the truth out of TJ and later Chase.

### Daxton

Flynn and Daxton have been good friends and roommates for several years and they cohabitate well, though they often keep to their separate living spaces. Flynn doesn't always relate to Daxton's nerdier pastimes, while Daxton considers Flynn brusque and hard to get to know and is mildly perturbed by Flynn's more overtly sexual side.

### Mayor Moore

Flynn was raised by his aunt, the Mayor of Echo, and values her wisdom, especially in more esoteric matters. Presumably the two enjoy a familial relationship and work together closely at City Hall. Flynn is disgusted by his aunt's turn towards irrationality as the Hysteria grips the town, but he is nonetheless deeply upset by her death in both his own and Jenna's routes.

### Samuel Ayers

Flynn appears to have a preternatural sense of Sam's presence and notices the way he influences Chase, but knows nothing about who (or what) Sam is or what his motives are. Sam seems uniquely interested in Flynn for reasons that are unclear, but presumably they are connected to this sense. In Flynn's route, Sam eventually possesses Flynn and is evidently able to gain an insight into Flynn's relationship with Sydney and his trauma over Sydney's death. This culminates in Sam creating an illusory version of Sydney to converse with Flynn at length. In this conversation, Sam criticizes Flynn for seeking solace in anonymous sex but seems impressed by his dogged pursuit of the truth behind Echo's secrets.

At the end of Flynn's route, Sam and Flynn are combined into a single entity by the fire in Danicka Mine, and their melded consciousness lingers across timelines in Flynn's burned body as the Socket Man.

## Trivia

* Flynn's ancestors, Beckett and Porter, both appear in the Echo prequel game, The Smoke Room.
* Flynn is venomous, much like real Gilas.
* Flynn thinks his reptilian smile is creepy, and tries to avoid smiling when he can help it.
* Flynn hasn't eaten at Echo's diner in years, since the greasy food upsets his stomach, and prefers to buy groceries from nearby Payton and cook them himself. As such, he is a capable chef.
* In the short side-game Benefits, which focuses on the sexual relationship between Flynn and Carl from Flynn's point of view, the in-game cursor takes the shape of a fishing rod to represent Flynn, instead of an anchor for Chase like it does in Echo.
* Flynn's appearance changed throughout Echo's various builds, with his "hair" originally being pink rather than black. Flynn's pink "hair" can still be seen in certain pieces of artwork, such as the title screen, early CGs, and during the events of Benefits.
* Flynn is the only Gila monster character known to have hair-like spines. Both his aforementioned ancestors have bumpy skin more akin to that of the actual lizards, and his aunt wears concealing clothes and a hat that make it unclear whether she has them.
* Flynn claims to never dream. Considering the symbolic and often paranormal nature of dreams in Echo, this may be related to the unique and specific relationship to the supernatural he innately seems to possess.