Clyde

**"Do not trust anyone you see wearing this costume"**

> -a message warning people not to interact with Clyde
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**Clyde**, also known as **The Eastridge Demon** and **The Smiling Snatcher**, is the main antagonist of the analogue horror web series Dreams of an Insomniac, serving as the main antagonist of Volume 0; Haunted Halloween PSA and Family Photo Album, and the overarching antagonist of In Loving Memory. It is a Veldigun, a creature that evolves and adapts overtime. Its characteristics change depending on the clothing it wear and the animals and people it consume. It does not have a voice actor, but when it impersonate one of its child victims, it is voiced by the series’ creator; Zachary Gignac.

## Appearance

Clyde wears an orange onesie with dark red stripes and a yellow zipper. It possesses two horns with yellow and black stripes, with one slightly larger than the other. Its face features a huge grin, and two eyes that are irregularly angled, one with a circular pupil, and the other with a slit pupil. Its feet and tail are striped, and the tail has spikes on the black stripes.

## Synopsis

### Origin

At some point in time, Clyde emerged in a void stage and started consuming random animals and gained sentience. It would also consume some humans as well to become smarter. At some point in time, it would pair up with another Veldigun by the name of Winfrey, who had fully finished developemnt

### Haunted Halloween PSA

One night on October 6th, 1986, Clyde would break into the local Eastridge County Halloween costume store Grimmso’s, and stole an orange prison jumpsuit costume. One Halloween night, Clyde would hunt and kill six children. Witnesses would report sightings of Clyde and report it to the police. An officer named Kruger would vow to not rest to find the one responsible, and bring them to justice

Officer Kenneth Kruger would come in contact with Clyde, and would be responsible for helping with dealing with the demon. A guide on how to deal with Clyde informs the viewer about its powers will follow this account. However, he would not leave unscaved. He would develop abnormalities including discoloration of skin, severe weight loss, tightening of skin, and other painful side effects.

An Emergency Alert System, presented by the Lankmann Foundation, would present the rules on how to be safe from Clyde, such as not staying out past curfew, locking all entrances, ignoring the knocking or anyone outside, and not to trust anyone with the Orange Costume.

### In Loving Memory

Sometime in the year of 1987, it was revealed that Kruger died due to the side effects. However, the tape glitches out and reveals he died later in 1996, and is being kept alive by someone else.

### Family Photo Album

On January 6th, 1987, an unnamed father was lured out of the house by the voice of his missing child. However, it was revealed to be Clyde with a ghost cloth draped over him. The father tried to contact the police, but before they arrived, he was lured out by Clyde, convincing him to come outside, and presumably killed the father. Officer Kruger, who has not encountered Clyde yet, arrived at the empty house, and uncovered a family photo album, but the faces of the family were disfigured and unrecognizable.

## Gallery

Witness Sketch of ClydePolice Sketch of ClydeFirst ContractWanted PosterPoster warning civilians of The Smiling SnatcherThe light from Clyde's eyes glowing from behind the Unnamed FatherDitto, but with Clyde's face burnt into itClyde disguised as the father's child
## Trivia

* Clyde is featured as the channel mascot of Zachary Gignac’s Channel and online persona, PastraSpec. They stated in one of their videos, “The Many Mascots of Pastra,” the path they took to designing the mascot, as well as several rejected ones:
	+ Winfrey: He was the first choice for the channel because he was one of Zach’s earliest characters. However, they scrapped him for two reasons: His design wasn’t as expressive as Zach wanted, and they more associated the character with the series he would become a part of.
	+ SnakeBat: the first character that was designed with being a mascot in mind, and was intended to be a news anchor for the channel, reporting on random events that tie into the video game Zach wanted to talk about. However, Zach couldn’t work with the design in a similar way that they wanted with Winfrey, so they scrapped the character, as well as the news anchor idea.
	+ Unnamed Persona: The third character considered was a monstrous version of Zach, and would change color pallets with each expression. The design was scrapped because Zach wanted to go with a more creative idea for a mascot.
	+ Grimmso: This character was the closest to being the mascot because he represents what Zach wanted for a mascot; having a simple design as well as playing into a Halloween aesthetic. The reason why he was scrapped was because he didn’t fully represent Zach’s interests in horror, which is what Clyde ended up being. Grimmso would later be used as the mascot of the costume store Clyde would break into in Haunted Halloween PSA.
	+ Vincent/LANKMANN: When Zach wanted to make their channel, as well as Dream of an Insomniac, an ARG, he considered this character as a news anchor similar to what SnakeBat was going to be, but instead for the events of the series. He would later be scrapped, but he would return to the PastraSpec YouTube channel, and hijacked it to promote an ARG of his own, as well as tease the very story he was made to narrate. The thumbnail for Volume 1: Foundation Archive confirms this universe' version of Lankmann will serve as that installment’s main antagonist.
* Zach has stated that Clyde’s design was inspired by Sam from the Trick or Treat movie franchise, the Xenomorphs from Alien, and the Halloween costumes worn by Lock, Shock, and Barrel from Nightmare before Christmas.
* Clyde was named after the orange pac-man ghost who goes by the same name.
* Clyde would be used with different color pallets in some of Zach’s videos, having a green and pink colors for their zombie-based videos, monochromatic colors for their Mandela Catalog video, and Photo-negative colors for their Abandoned by Disney video.