Cody

**Cody**

Personal Information
Alias(es)
Punk (Grandmother)

Status
Assumed Alive

Affiliation
Dead Skeptic(?)
THEE-I-DARE (Previously)

Pronouns
He/Him
Age
Currently Unknown (Adult)
Twenties (Last Known)

Hair Color
Black

Family
Jasmine Oberlund (Friend)

**Cody** is a character in *The Blackout Club (game)*.

## Description

Cody is a previous and one of the last THEE-I-DARE Hosts who sought a missing friend in Redacre with the help of THEE-I-DARE and later vanished without a trace. Later, it was revealed that Cody was tricked by THEE-I-DARE, who lied about being sure that his friend, whose name was revealed to be Jasmine, was in the town, in order for him to come to Redacre and help in the war against SPEAK-AS-ONE. Because of the fact that Cody did not leave a Name Fragment anywhere or at least it wasn't found, THEE-I-DARE hopes that he is still alive, which was further supported by Grandmother and her claims. This later turned out to be true.

When it comes to appearance, Grandmother gave us information about how he looked the last time he was seen. He had tousled blakc hair, a white tank top, one of those old wallet chains and big black army boots, which makes her think he was a punk. THEE-I-DARE also described him as looking "FINE". Despite Cody himself feeling weak and being an addict, and his nature of being a liberator, he is very careful and smart, enough to hide from SPEAK-AS-ONE under a fake name and escape their grasp, as well as use other people to achieve his goals. He is also described to have perfect memory, never having forgotten anything in his entire life according to THEE-I-DARE, with each of his experiences and memories being extremely detailed. Additionally he never had a true surname, all of the different ones he used were disposable, used to trick his enemies.

Cody seems to be very important to THEE-I-DARE, to the point that when asked if he had any favorite Hosts, THEE-I-DARE started describing Cody. He praised his memory and that as an example of the human system, he was magnificent. He also said that Cody was one of his most ardent Hosts and that he always hopes Cody is still alive, but if we find out that he died, we should never tell him the truth. After finding out that Cody escaped Saturation Control with the help of Bells, he expressed that after he becomes whole again, he must remember to find him and tell him he is sorry for what he has done.

## History

### Before the Game

Before Cody came to Redacre, he lived in Toppenish with his friend Jasmine and survived a massacre in there, however it is unclear how long ago that was.

Toppenish was a town controlled by a Cult controlled with a Voice who spoke in images as it's leader, that with a potential help of one of their siblings threatened to expose the Voices to the public. IN-HER-TEETH decided to take matters into her own hands and came to Toppenish in order to stop them from achieving their goals. She gathered her agents and while using The Dead Skeptics as a distraction, she erased the memories of the hosts of the Voice who spoke in images, killing those beyond recovery, presumably killing the Voice itself, while leaving the other Voice who was helping the Cult unharmed. She also erased the memories of The Skeptics.[*citation needed*]

During or before that event, Jasmine fled first but THEE-I-DARE was unable to find her because the Voice who she was hosting at the time hid her from him. Shortly after that Cody started looking for her, though it is unclear if he left the town at this point or remained and looked for her in Toppenish. It was confirmed however, that Cody did not come to Redacre to look for Jasmine on his own and was instead tricked by THEE-I-DARE, who was losing badly at the time. When Cody asked him if Jasmine is in here, THEE-I-DARE told him to "COME AND FIND OUT". During The Cull THEE-I-DARE lost contact with Cody and has been unable to locate him ever since, just as he was unable to locate Bells.

### In-Game

With Cody's fate remaining unknown, THEE-I-DARE said that if Cody realised he was tricked, he might have lost faith and left Redacre. Because of this information it was suggested that Cody may have joined The Dead Skeptics, if he really survived The Cull and left the town. THEE-I-DARE quickly realised that this possibility is very likely, saying that if Cody really got into the hands of SPEAK-AS-ONE, they would know too much already. THEE-I-DARE said he would ask Staneck if she knows anything.

Later it was revealed that due to HUNT-THE-STRONG's control over her, Staneck couldn't provide any interaction and that Cody used a fake name in Redacre.. Despite that THEE-I-DARE agreed that asking Grandmother about Cody might reveal some useful information. He also said that one of the reasons he could have joined The Skeptics, if he did, is because he lost faith in him after being tricked.

Grandmother later said that SPEAK-AS-ONE are also unable to locate Cody, but they think that he is alive and is actively hepling their enemies.

In an attempt to find more information about Cody, THEE-I-DARE says that Cody knew a stage name of Jasmine, "Jazzy Shines", and that maybe we could get a clue from Devin if we made them look it up in The Skeptics database. According to THEE-I-DARE, Codu wouldn't have resisted a means of finding Jasmine and could have joined The Skeptics to use them for his search. After being told to look up the stage name "Jazzy Shines" in the database, Devin revealed some important information. Jasmine's full name was Jasmine Oberlund and she was a Burlesque dancer and that the Skeptics think that she has the ability to host more than one Voices at the same time, just like Colm Ryan can. Back in Toppenish she found out that a Voice wanted to use her for a meeting between Voices and someone else warned her that she would not exist anymore if that meeting happened, and that is the reason why she fled Toppenish. A group of people however started looking for her after she left a message that did not sound like her.

Later on, Grandmother gave the Club information about two most recent people put into Saturation Group Six, a group in Saturation Control where everyone and everything touched by THEE-I-DARE goes. She described one of them and said that with the help of Bells he and others were freed from Saturation Control, when she released a bunch of it's prisoners by coming there. She wondered if that's when Bells "caught fire" from Cody and made first contact with THEE-I-DARE. A short while after, this information was relayed to THEE-I-DARE, who confirmed that this person is in fact Cody. After being told that Colm was and is also being held there, THEE-I-DARE comes to the realisation that the reason both of them haven't been killed is because SPEAK-AS-ONE. It's because neither of them kept the fire of faith intact, Colm being tricked into hosting him and Cody losing faith after being betrayed and used. He explains that his fragments aren't created only in death, but also when he departs his hosts, for example by them losing faith, and SPEAK-AS-ONE wanted to study that process and this must be the reason for how they can scour them. THEE-I-DARE thinks that if Bells found Cody's fragment after he lost faith, it would be so emphatic and desparate it would drive her to find others and tell her all Cody had seen, giving her a massive head start on the story of The Voices. He wanted to know to know what happened to Cody and what state was the part of him he held for a long time, and now this explains why Bells was so haunted and why she didn't trust him.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Player Interaction (4 July 2021). Link to Interaction.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Player Interaction (26 June 2020). Link to Interaction.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Player Interaction (21 August 2021). Link to Interaction.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Player Interaction (24 April 2019). Link to Interaction.
5. ↑ Player Interaction (25 July 2020). Link to Interaction.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Player Interaction (2 January 2021). Link to Interaction.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Player Interaction (9 July 2021). Link to Interaction.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Player Interaction (10 January 2021). Link to Interaction.
9. ↑ Player Interaction (7 May 2019). Link to Interaction.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Player Interaction (10 October 2020). Link to Interaction.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Player Interaction (6 February 2021). Link to Interaction.
12. ↑ Player Interaction (9 July 2021). Link to Interaction.
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Player Interaction (19 December 2020). Link to Interaction.
14. ↑ Player Interaction (23 January 2021). Link to Interaction.
15. ↑ Player Interaction (22 May 2021). Link to Interaction.
16. ↑ Player Interaction (26 February 2021). Link to Interaction.