Brent Halligan

## Character Data

### Voice Actors

Stephan Schwartz (German), Roger A. Graves (English), George Caudron (French), and Petr Glanz (Russian)

### Debut

SLY

Brent Halligan is the main protagonist and playable character in The Mystery of the Druids. He's also the character with the most amount of screen-time in total.

### Appearance:

Halligan is a fair-skinned man with a bit of stubble, brown hair (ranging from a burnt brown to a lighter shade depending on the game-model) and blue eyes. As his outfit he wears a brown-coat that reaches to about knee-height paired with a a white button-up and navy blue necktie tied in a small knot with no visible clip, and brown slacks with brown shoes.

### Background:

Despite being the main protagonist, surprisingly little to no information is known about Halligan's past. A lot needs to be inferred from character interactions and his own words.

### Relationships:

###### Steve Lowry:

 —Halligan, after Lowry chastises him for his "twenty-pound suit".

Halligan and Lowry have an established rivalry from the start of the game. With Lowry being the last person to have attempted to solve the skeleton murders, and their attitudes towards each other as shown in the introduction cutscene.

Lowry's hostility doesn't seem to deter Halligan in any significant way, however. Halligan can continue to make requests, all of which Lowry rather aggressively declines to. Lowry is less than pleased with Halligan's presence, and redirects him over and over to his case file, but Halligan can keep pressing on for additional information regardless, chastising him for his unhelpfulness.

While it is definitely reciprocous, it is arguably Halligan who seems to be considerably less upset by Lowry's remarks than the other way around. He not above making outright accusations about his actions and is more than capable of making the man seriously upset or angry. Despite all this often leading to heated arguments between the two; they fortunately don't escalate further than outright conversation shut-downs by Lowry. Regular banter seems to be a common occurance. Additionally; a lot of bitterness is shown over the fact that Lowry managed to get a date with their coworker, Janet, and he wonders how someone like him could have more success. However, Halligan doesn't seem to care much for Lowry's dating advice; dismissing his claims about handling women out of hand and even making a sarcastic retort about his date with Janet that seems to go unnoticed by Lowry.

Despite the usual, bantery nature of their arguments; Halligan seems to have a great deal of sincere distaste for his outlook on certain things, such as Lowry's attitude towards the skeleton murders, and his indifference towards his evident failure.

Halligan also seems to have very little regard for Lowry's personal things in particular, and seems to be less than uncomfortable with taking scissors from right in front of him despite their rivalry. He can go back to Lowry's office to get reproached about the situation without a clear goal or reason, should the player will him to, meaning that Halligan doesn't really consider Lowry's threats to be all that serious, and is in fact rather unfraid of any repercussions he could face for his actions.

After the scissors incident, Lowry will outright refuse to speak to Halligan, no matter how much the player prompts him.

##### Melanie Turner:

Halligan first meets Melanie at the museum, after Dr. Turner (Melanie's father) isn't available, and Melanie offers to inspect Halligan's evidence collected from Epping Forest. At first they're on merely professional terms, but Halligan shows interest in Melanie's life, as per the dialogue options, though he seems puzzled by the fact that she's interested in ritual sacrifices. Despite this, they seem to build a bit of a rapport, as their connection builds on the strange likenesses of their professions and the case at hand. Though he is initially reticient, he agrees to let her involve herself in the case, and from then on, they don't see each other again until Halligan visits Arthur Blake, and tells him to contact Melanie after leaving for Carmors.

### Trivia:

* Martin Ganteföhr, one of the two writers of Druids, called Halligan a "loser on his way to salvation".

1. ↑ *"MoTD tells the story of a loser on his way to salvation, in a hostile world with absurd inner workings..."* In the Interview/article from January 2019. In the question **"Is there anything about the game you're particularly proud of?",** Ganteföhr's second paragraph;