Victoria Campbell

**Victoria Campbell** was a friend of Alex Bale. She is portrayed by Brianna McLean.

## Background

Victoria was born on October 10th, 1998, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a middle child with a younger brother and older sister. Her parents separated when she was young, but she remains on good terms with both of them. She is a graduate of FSU College of Motion Picture Arts. She currently lives in Orlando, Florida. Since childhood, she loved filmmaking and aspired to become a screenwriter or movie director. As a young girl, she had an accident involving swimming pool drain that left her with trichophobia, a fear of hair, specifically when it is found in unnatural places. Although this phobia has lessened after years of therapy, she is still liable to suffer a strong adverse reaction to being exposed to displaced hair in large quantities. She is allergic to shellfish.

## Happy Meat Farms

A year after graduating, she was recruited by Happy Meat Farms' marketing department, initially as a production assisstant. Although she originally intended to only temporarily work for Happy Meat Farms, she was eventually promoted to director of the Happy Meat Farms commerical department, as well as becoming the creative executive for HMF's entire marketing operation. This turn of events was almost certainly the result of a Muse.

She became a Host after having a spore implanted into her back. It is likely that this happened directly through Happy Meat Farms. Her designation is K0051.

As seen in Happy Meat Farms IT Department Files 029, Jared from the IT Department gives her a "gift" after reading up on her personnel file. He fills her house with hair, presumably from the Hair Room seen in Happy Meat Farms HR Orientation Video.

After Alex's YouTube career takes off thanks to his SpongeBob theories, he meets up with Victoria and Wesley at a local playground, congratulating him on his recent success. When Alex decides to kill his own Muse, Victoria timely arrives to check up at his house, catching him off-guard. He tells her to wait so he can put away the knife he was going to use on the Muse and takes a moment to compose himself. Alex soon realizes that he left the door unlocked and that Victoria let herself in, rushing down the basement to stop her from seeing the Muse. He does not find her and concludes that it must have already ate her, leading to him running back upstairs to retrieve his knife. As he does, Victoria appears, having just come out of the bathroom, surprised at Alex arming himself. He hurriedly tries to usher her out under false pretenses, repeatedly cutting Victoria off before she finally yells out that he doesn't need to worry about his Muse eating her and revealing that she has one as well.

In Episode 8, the two discuss the previous day's events over a cup of coffee. She clarified that the Muse just showed up at her home one day, but left as soon as she reached peak success and that it wasn't going to harm him nor other live humans so long as he keeps feeding it any meat, alive or dead. She is unsympathetic when Alex brings up how it ate his housecat Gary, but offers to be available for questions. The same night, Alex has a spore implanted in him by his Muse. When it makes him feel increasingly sick the next day, he calls Victoria while she's at work. Acting on her advice, Alex visits Wesley under the guise of asking him for feedback on his newest SpongeBob theory video, sneaking off into his garage for the Muse spore can spread to a new habitat. Feeling guilty afterwards, he goes to Victoria for emotional support, but quickly realizes that Victoria must have done the same thing to him. She justifies her actions by saying that she couldn't fight the Muse's wishes, as Alex had also found out. After he leaves, it is shown that Victoria had lied about the Muse disappearing and that it still lived in her attic.

In Episode 9, Victoria is seen scrubbing off blood from her garage floor. Upstairs, she cleans her rags at the kitchen sink when her Muse can be seen in the dark behind her. She turns around to find that instead of the Muse, a human figure was standing in the room, weakly illuminated by flashes of light from the outside. Frightened, she asks who it is and to get out of her house, but the figure never responds, while the flashes begin to cycle faster. The abruptly come to a halt, but seconds later, the figure sprints at Victoria. The kitchen is then seen empty, the tap still running.

Victoria reappears when Alex discovers that Mark Mayhew, a.k.a. the Cynical Critic, was not himself, driving up to the pair as Mark began making vague threats and ordering Alex to enter her car. Victoria explains that her Muse tried to kill her and that they need to leave town until they come up with a plan to combat their Muses, admitting that her own was still active. She gives Alex a heartfelt apology and rationalizes both her and his actions and how the Muses kept them hooked on promises of making their life-long dreams come true. By the end of it, Alex notices that her nose was bleeding. Rather than continue driving, Victoria stops at Alex's home, simply saying that they have to fetch some things. Alex sees far too late that they had a third passenger in the back of the car, Victoria's Muse, which attacks him and brings him to Alex's Muse for the next phase. Victoria is not seen again.