The Man

"I'm not there yet!"
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## The Man

### Status

Living

"*[Evie] played a good game of Russian roulette... It was a shame she didn't have my skill.*"
—The man on Evie, *Rushing Roulette*

**The Man** is a minor antagonist in *The Adventures of Evie and Mya*. He is a prideful player of Russian roulette and a friend of Skelly.

## Appearance

The man is noted to be tall and lightly-tanned. He has small hairs on his chin and amber eyes.

## History

### Season 2

#### *Rushing Roulette*

"*Here's a tip for you, darling. Just take some breaths. It helps those lucky and unlucky. And why don't you close those precious little eyes of yours? It would help you block out the faces in the corner.*"
—The man's advice to Evie

After Evie is thrown into a chair and chained to a table, she finds a tall, lightly-tanned man looking at her with orange eyes. She questions what he is doing, and he repiles that she, Mya, and Winter are only pawns in the game he wants to play, pointing out that Mya was the perfect bait. Evie demands for him to let them go, but the man warns her that if she tries to leave, they will die - revealing that he's bound Mya and Winter together - and making Evie think carefully about her decision. Finally, she speaks up, agreeing to play the game and inquiring as to what it is named. He states it is Russian roulette, much to the ire of Mya and Winter, and Evie fearfully recalls what she knows about the dangerous game of chance. While tempted to refuse, she continues on and wishes to play, and the man praises her. In one quick second, a revolver appears in his hand, and he fiddles with the gray trigger. He sits up, placing a phone into the table and playing *Money* by Pink Floyd; he then moves to Evie and places the muzzle of the revolver by her forehead.

She tries to resist, but he reassures her that if she dies, she won't feel a thing. He covers Evie's mouth so she won't scream or cry out, counts to three, and pulls back the trigger of the revolver. A click is heard, indicating that she has lived through round one, and the man screws around with his gun more. Evie asks for him to get round two over with, startling Mya and Winter, and he polishes the revolver with a rag. He then pushes it against Evie's head again, advising her to breathe and close her eyes so she is more at ease, and she obliges. The man pulls the trigger back, counting to three, and a click becomes audible. Evie has now gotten through the second round, but there is still one left. He throws his revolver up into the air, making her shudder, as it will fire if it is correctly configured. The man presses the muzzle against her forehead, and Evie commands him to pull the trigger, wanting the situation done and over with.

The man merely chuckles, telling her to have patience, as that's all part of some roulette. He goes on to say that she should pray, and Evie then realizes a disturbing truth - the man has never lost a game of Russian roulette, and he is about to kill her. In less than a split second, he will fire and take her life, and she asks him to pull the trigger with a tear falling from her eye. He doesn't reply to her, but he crouches down, and she instintively closes her eyes and breathes. Smiling, he pulls the trigger back, and white light fills the cabin. The man lets Evie go from his grasp, and she immediately hits the table, suppposedly dead. He blows off smoke from the revolver, walking over to Mya and Winter and saying that Evie played a good game; she just didn't have his skill in the end. He lets his hostages go, commenting that it's a win-win, and he leaves the cabin. When it is revealed that Evie lived, she adds that the man missed and fired through her hair, and she faked dying so he'd think he had won.

#### *Traitors!*

In Shetani's personal notes, she says that Skelly's friend captured three girls and played Russian roulette with them in a cabin, supposedly winning. However, she then adds that he lost, but she'll make sure they're dead.

#### *Devil's Dungeon*

Evie reminds Shetani that her attempt to kill them with a Russian roulette-playing man didn't work.

### Season 3

#### *Welcome to Hollowleaf Mansion*

As Evie worries over Mya's disappearance, she remembers her kidnapping at the hands of a strange man. After returning home, Winter recalls Mya being held hostage by the man. While arguing with Mya, Winter cries that she was kidnapped by a man, and she can't let that happen again.

#### *Rising Tensions*

Winter recalls how terrified her family was when Mya got kidnapped by the strange man.

#### *Warbringer*

Evie remembers the day she played Russian roulette to save Mya's life, seeing the mysterious enemy man have a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.

### *Little Miss Perfect*

Evie recalls playing Russian roulette against a strange man in order to save Mya and Winter, and her voice is shaky while talking to her parents, as she is about to confess that she was nearly killed by a stranger. Later, it is revealed through one of Shetani's notes that she was the mastermind behind the roulette game, having had one of Skelly's friends play Russian roulette with three girls.

## Personality and Traits

The man is very devious, intelligent, and clever. He is an excellent planner, successfully being able to use Mya as bait to lure Evie and Winter to the cabin without being caught or identified. He takes pride playing Russian roulette, despite it being very dangerous. He is very experienced and laid-back, not once shying away from the fact that he is terrifying his opponents and about to potentially commit a crime. While he has an antagonistic nature, the man is very reassuring, as shown when he creepily passes down his advice to Evie. He is not overly boastful, and after "killing" Evie, he comments that she put up quite a good game even though she couldn't beat him. The man also chooses to not torment his hostages, showing that he only cares about who he plays against, not who he holds prisoner.

## Trivia

* The man is voiced by Angus Cloud.
* He is not related to Skelly, though he is a friend of him.
* He is slightly based off Fezco from *Euphoria*.
* When asked why the man didn't kill Evie despite pointing the revolver at her forehead, Av said that he deliberately shot away from her at the last second, taking pity on Evie because he didn't want to kill someone so young. When Evie faked dying, he actually believed he shot her.