Stranger

**Stranger or Mysterious Stranger** is an enigmatic and mysterious character and the overarching antagonist of the OutStander series. The Stranger's identity and motives remain unexplained.

## Appearance

The peculiarity of a Stranger is his appearance and habits. The stranger's clothing consists of a long raincoat, a fedora strict tie and a shirt. In general, his clothes are similar to the clothes of a detectives of the 40s and 50s. The stranger most often appears to us with his revolver - Colt M1917. This weapon has extraordinary damage. As a rule, one shot from this revolver is enough to kill a human, a demon, and even a Deva. Also, during some of his appearances (most often early ones), his hand is bandaged.

## Appearances

For the first time, a Stranger appears in front of Hope Byrne in her own house and just a few seconds later kills Deva, who appeared to warn Hope about Bert Ratsen. The stranger warns Hope that he will be watching her very closely. Later, Stranger appears in Hope's dream and pushes her to come to meet Karim. During the battle of Outstander and DEVA-stator, a Stranger watches the battle on TV. After destroying the DEVA-stator, when Kali looks through the Wall of Divination, she notices that a Stranger is depicted on the wall. It can be seen that Kali is considerably nervous about this fact.

At the beginning of the second part, a Stranger appears in Jody Ratsen's dream, killing his imaginary family. After that, he tells Jody to find his father as soon as possible. When Hanuman later meets Bert Ratsen, he warns him about danger "that he himself is not fully aware of."

## Personality and skills

A stranger is a very mysterious person, if you can call him a person at all. Almost nothing is known about him, except for vague hints given by different characters. Most of the characters who know a little about the Stranger are afraid of him, or at least afraid of him. Even the almost omnipotent goddess Kali and the demon Cali don't seem to want to face him. Kali knows more about the Stranger than anyone else, and has even claimed to know about the ones whom he represents. Сali also seems to know what the Stranger is, but doesn't take him seriously because of his arrogance.

The Stranger's goals are not fully understood either. However, it is safe to say that he wants to take advantage of the discord between the Indian Gods and wants to capture the demon Сali for unknown purposes. At the same time, the Stranger tries not to contact Bert Ratsen and meets him for the first time only towards the end of the third part. His most frequent contact is with Hope Byrne.

By his nature, Stranger is very cruel and cold. His very presence can frighten people and even put them in a stupor. His speech has a distinct New England accent, which was most common in the mid-twentieth century.He also has demonstrated a dry sense of humor.

The Stranger's abilities are supernatural. It can appear in different places in a matter of fractions of a second. Also, apparently, he loves to appear at an unexpected moment and scare people. Also, judging by the way other characters react to him, we can assume that the Stranger's abilities are much more impressive. For example, Hanuman said that a stranger is probably impossible to kill.