Peepaw

**Peepaw** is a recurring character in Jordan King games, appearing as the main antagonist in *PEEPAW*, a minor character in *Bloodwash*, a major character in the upcoming *The Booty Creek Cheek Freak II: The De-Cheekening* and a supporting character in another upcoming Jordan King title. He also makes a cameo in *SkiFreak*.

## Description

### Appearance

In *Peepaw*, presumably due to his possession, Peepaw appears as a hunched-over humanoid with black eyes, a large mouth, claws for fingers, and a few strands of hair on his head. He wears a dark green pair of shorts.

In *Bloodwash* and the *Booty Creek Cheek Freak* sequel, Peepaw is an elderly, bald Caucasian man. He wears a dark brown, buttoned-up waistcoat over a long-sleeved white dress shirt, black slacks and black shoes.

In the pre-release screenshots of an as-of-yet unnamed game, Peepaw is a skinny, elderly Caucasian man with balding white hair. He wears black suspenders over a white short-sleeved white shirt, brown trousers and grey shoes.

### Personality

In spite of his leisure activities, Peepaw is generally good-natured, if eccentric, up-tight and occasionally cantankerous. Largely serving as comedic relief, he is known to take on a much more serious tone when asked about local tragedies, which he treats with nothing but utter respect and consideration, voicing his distaste for the unsavory characters and sympathy for the victims involved.

### History

Peepaw has a colorful, if largely unknown background. Peepaw is known to have a wheelchair-bound and incontinent wife known as Meemaw, an adult daughter, and at least three young grandchildren. He is also said to be a practicioner of dark arts, frequently dabbling in the occult, the esoteric, and Satanism, offering spirit reading services and performing unholy rituals. Séances with ouija boards in particular have repeatedly proven troublesome for Peepaw, resulting in multiple instances of possessions by malevolent spirits, due to which his oldest grandson was known to have been forced to locate and rescue both his siblings and grandmother during one such case.

Although never stated in-game, Jordan King identified Peepaw as the author of the instructional note found in the Cheek Freak's lair in *The Booty Creek Cheek Freak*.

## *Peepaw*

According to the synopsis in the menu screen, Peepaw was once again possessed after "messin' around with the ouija board", due to which the two younger grandchildren ask their older brother to help them find Meemaw and get her out of harm's way. Peepaw will stalk the house, filled with scary mannequins, other monsters, and tagged with pentagrams, during the grandson's exploration and randomly appear from the sides of the screen or enter through doors to chase after him, screaming "PEEPAW" to announce his presence. In the end, the grandson gets a cookie for saving Meemaw while Peepaw is left behind to become depossessed.

## *SkiFreak*

### Prologue

A criminal poster depicting the possessed version of Peepaw can be seen in the office of the sheriff. Interaction with it reveals that after the events of *Peepaw*, by the time of *SkiFreak* having occured the year prior, Peepaw was arrested for the attempted murder of his wife and grandchildren. Upon claiming that he had only done so due to being possessed at the time, Peepaw was found unfit to be criminal convicted and was instead sent to a mental institution.

## *Bloodwash*

Peepaw appears as the owner of Peepaw's, a mixed goods store selling, among countless other things, antiques, electronics, video games, trinkets, adult films and fish, in the Pleasant Plaza strip mall on the outskirts of an unnamed city in Mahoning County, Ohio. His shop is one of the places Sara can explore while waiting for her laundry to finish. During their first meeting, Peepaw unsuccessfully offers his wares to the potential customer and warns her that he will know if someone tries to steal any of the merchandise. If Sara enters and then exits the adult section of the store, Peepaw will appear to the side of the entrance and jumpscare Sara, initially believing to have caught her shoplifting before quickly realizing his mistake. Peepaw provides the most in-depth knowledge about the Womb Ripper after being shown the Missing Poster and, along with the Sleazy Patron, has the most information on Louis Kennedy and the West End Laundry fire after being shown the Booking Sheet.

Black Eyed Priest has confirmed multiple times that Peepaw survives the attack on the strip mall by the Womb Ripper

## Trivia

* Peepaw was named after Jordan King's grandfather Billy "Bill Buck" Buchanan (1946-2021), affectionally referred to as Peepaw by his grandchildren.
* Peepaw was in-part inspired by Mr. Hawkins (portrayed by John Carradine), a memorable minor antagonist from the horror anthology series *Night Gallery* segment *Big Surprise*.
* In his original appearance, Peepaw was voiced by MXXN, who has created audio for games by both Puppet Combo and Black Eyed Priest.
* In an April Fool's Twitter post, Jordan King named Peepaw as the main protagonist of *Bloodwash 2*, in which Peepaw must save his soul from eternal damnation after being paranormally impregnated by an ancient demon during another ouija board mishap and has to avoid the Womb Ripper until he gives birth.
* In the cover for *Peepaw*, his eyes are dark red instead of black.
* The concept of Peepaw's mixed-wares shop was inspired by a movie rental/exotic fish store in Kentucky, Jordan King's home state. Additionally, King's grandfather was a collector of various items, which made the Peepaw character fit right in as the owner of such an establishment.

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