The Snatcher

* Serve Null and sacrifice people in his name to gain his favour and for his own amusement (both ongoing; succeeded so far)

## Characteristics

### Powers / Abilities

* Hunting skills
* Stealth skills
* Hatchet proficiency
* Marksmanship
* Criminal expertise
* Brute strength
* Speed
* Impressive stamina
* Weapons usage
* Occult knowledge
* Master of torture
* Murder methodology

### Place of origin

San Antonio, Texas, United States, Earth, Universe-2

## Professional status

### Occupation

* Truck driver
* Serial killer
* Kidnapper
* Member of the Children of Null

## Relationships

### Allies

* Children of Null

	+ Sister Lucy
	+ The Servant
	+ The Caretaker

## Other

### Headcanon voice actor

Anthony Aroya

"*I'm going to take you away where no one will find you.*"
— The Snatcher confronting Alvin and Michael.

**Samuel Evergreen**, also known as **The Snatcher** or **The Texas Snatcher**, is a minor antagonist in the *Universal Rift* series, serving as the titular main antagonist of the *Minecraft Terror* Season 2 episode of the same name.

He is an erratic, mentally unbalanced and deranged serial killer who stations himself in San Antonio, Texas and stalks his victims over the span of three nights, leaving a black tulip as a calling card before abducting them and bringing them to parts unknown to torture and kill them for sick pleasure. An extremely dangerous and utterly ruthless murderer devoid of basic human empathy, the Snatcher is also a known affiliate of a dangerous, demon-worshipping cult known as the Children of Null who worship the notorious Demon of Fear.

## Biography

### Background

Samuel Evergreen was born on June 9th, 1966 in San Antonio, Texas. Not much about Samuel's early life is know, but he was troubled from a young age, being a bully during his formative years in education and was noted for being erratic and unpredictable in his behaviour. During his teenage years, Samuel gained himself a criminal record as a juvenile for petty theft, assault and harassment. At age 19, additional burglary charges were added to his rap sheet and he was ordered by the court to be sent for psychiatric evaluation during his incarceration. He was released from prison after seven years for good behaviour and got a job as a truck driver.

It was also rumoured by his classmates from school that he would torture animals as a teenager and his hobby for taxidermy during his later years didn't help to quell those rumours. Samuel also picked up hunting as a hobby and trained himself in how to proficiently use firearms and observe his targets from a distance, preferring to hunt at night.

In 1996, during one of his hunting nights, Samuel heard rustling in the bushes and, without a second thought, aimed his rifle at the bush the noise was coming from and shot at what he believed was an animal. As he went to see the animal he had shot, he was greeted by the body of a young man who had actually been resting behind the bush after getting lost. Samuel was seemingly unfazed by the fact that he had taken a human life and dragged the body back to his house and into the basement to be buried beneath the concrete floor. His murder of the young man had significantly changed Samuel, as he felt a rush of power and control he had longed for all his life. Wanting to feel that sense of power and control again, the next night, he began stalking a woman and over the course of three nights, terrorised her. On the first night, he left a black tulip on her bed as a calling card. On the second night, he broke into her house and cracked several windows, before breaking into her home for the final time on the third night and abducting her, hauling her unconscious body into his car and driving her to parts unknown where he would proceed to torture and kill her.

For the next 12 years, Samuel, using a disguise and wearing a mask to hide his face, would break into peoples' houses. His modus operandi would be stalking them during the first night and leaving a black tulip on their beds, stalking them from a distance on the second night and finally breaking into their houses and abducting them on the third night. During his third year of killing, the kidnappings would be referred to as the acts of "The Texas Snatcher", or simply "The Snatcher". The houses of the Snatcher's victims would contain one element that linked the crimes; a single black tulip left on the victims' beds. In 2008, the Snatcher broke into the house of a victim, but when he tried to abduct her, she fought back and ripped off the mask he was wearing, exposing his face and causing him to flee. The victim provided a description of the Snatcher's face and a composite sketch was made. Before retiring from his serial killer life, the Snatcher would return to the victim's house several nights later and shoot them in the head while they slept, leaving a black tulip behind before seemingly disappearing.

A few weeks after his last murder, Samuel was interviewed by police as a suspect, but eventually dropped due to a lack of evidence, even though several officers suspected he was the culprit.

Due to being considered a semi-strong suspect for the killings and not wanting to risk a similar incident with a victim from repeating, Samuel retired from his life of crime and decided to live a quiet life, having gotten away with his murders. However, as the months turned to years, Samuel became increasingly bored with his life, seeking to return to the thrill of the hunt. Through unknown means in mid-2019, Samuel became acquainted with a cult known as the Children of Null, worshippers of the namesake Demon of Fear and, feeling invigorated for the first time in a decade, took up his old disguise and mask again to return to his life of murder.

### Minecraft Terror

On August 10th, 2019, Alvin Middleton and Michael Sanders, two high-schoolers in San Antonio, Texas, were out in the woods in the late hours of the evening before deciding to return home when the sky started getting dark. With Alvin's parents out of town for a few days, the two teenagers had the house to themselves, much to their pleasure. As the two entered the house, they greeted Alvin's dog, Patrick before heading to bed. As Alvin and Michael entered their bedrooms and prepared to get themselves into bed, they both noticed something on their beds; a black tulip each. Confused, Alvin asked Michael if he had picked up the flower at some point, left it at the house and forgot about it, but Michael was similarly confused and denied picking any flowers. Deciding not to worry about it, the two tossed the flowers out their windows and went to bed.

The day after, the two woke up and left the house early, packing food and water as they went back out into the woods to build a treehouse, with their construction lasting well into the late hours of the evening. By the time they had made decent progress on the treehouse, the two decided to head back to the house and rest for the night. As the two headed back home, Alvin asked Michael if there were any areas around that contained an influx of colourful flowers, still curious over his discovery of the black tulip in his bedroom last night, but Michael stated that there were barely any flower-filled areas in the neighbourhood they lived in or the surrounding woods. Considering he had lived in San Antonio for half of his life and Alvin had only moved to Texas three years prior, he decided that Michael probably knew what he was talking about as they rounded the corner and made it back home. However, as the two kids saw the house in sight, they noticed that the front door was slightly open. Concerned, the two charged inside and noticed that all the first-floor windows had been slightly cracked and the carpets ripped up. But most alarmingly, Patrick was completely absent from the house. Scared and confused the two teenagers ran outside and shouted for Patrick to come back, with their search through the nearby woods they came from lasting around 10 minutes before giving up and deciding to do something about it tomorrow. When they went back inside and to their bedrooms, they discovered the same black tulips from the previous night on their beds. Now properly frightened, Alvin and Michael, just wanting to go to bed and sleep off everything that had happened, went to bed, unaware that a mysterious figure was watching Alvin through his bedroom window.

The next day, the two teenagers went back into the woods and spent the entire day searching for Patrick, using treats and food to try and lure him out. However, their search turned up nothing and no sign of Patrick was found. As the evening dawned, Alvin broke down crying as Michael comforted him, reassuring him that Patrick would turn up at some point. Alvin hesitatingly agreed, but still decided that the best course of action would be to call his parents and tell them that Patrick had gone missing, starting their journey back home. When the two friends arrived back at Alvin's house and went upstairs to go to bed, happy that no more black tulips had turned up as they drifted to sleep.

However, after a few hours, Alvin found himself unable to sleep no matter how hard he tried by switching sleeping positions and taking off his blankets. As he tried once again to go to sleep, he heard a loud thump, jolting him out of bed. Feeling hot, he opened the bedroom window and exited his room, knocking on his parents' bedroom door where Michael was sleeping to wake him up, but when greeted by Michael, he noticed that he didn't even look like he had slept and before Alvin could ask, Michael affirmed that he had also heard a noise and decided to go downstairs to check. However, Alvin protested, stating that the best course of actions would be to go back to sleep and check out what caused the noise in the morning as he was too scared to go downstairs in the dark. As Alvin was outlining his reasoning, Michael's face turned to pure dread as he pointed behind Michael, whispering that someone was behind him. Alvin whipped his head around to see a masked figure peeking behind his bedroom door; the Snatcher, who had entered the house through Alvin's open window. As soon as he saw the Snatcher, he froze in fear as the masked man quietly, but calmly uttered that he was going to take them both away to a place where no one would find them as he opened the door, causing Alvin and Michael to scream in terror and rush downstairs, exiting through the front door and, not thinking clearly, running into the woods as the Snatcher quickly followed behind. As the two ran through the woods, Michael tripped as Alvin ran ahead, causing to briefly lose focus for a few seconds as Alvin quickly ran ahead and out of sight. As Michael climbed to his feet, he turned around to see the Snatcher with a hatchet in his hands walking towards him, seemingly savouring the fear in the boy's attempt to flee. Screaming, Michael ran and frantically navigated through the woods, but instead of ending up with Alvin, he found himself entering a cave that ended with a dead end. With nowhere to run or hide, Michael fell to his knees and stared in horror as the Snatcher approached with his hatchet in hand, stating that he was going to take him away. As Alvin heard Michael's bloodcurdling screams, he ran backwards, realising his friend had fallen behind. When he reached the cave and entered, all he found were Michael's severed feet. As he followed the trail of blood leading back to the street, he saw the trail of blood end at the back of a pickup truck, with Michael's muffled whimpers coming from the trunk as it sped away. After a few seconds of chasing the speeding vehicle, Alvin fell to his knees in defeat and wept as the Snatcher sped off with Michael. Alvin rushed back inside and called the police, his parents and Michael's parents.

The following day, Alvin and Michael's parents arrived home and Michael was reported missing, with his case being investigated as a kidnapping. A search from the police turned up nothing except a black tulip left on Alvin and his parents' beds. While Michael's current whereabouts are unknown and the police have not been able to locate his body, it can be presumed that Michael was tortured and killed by the Snatcher as a sacrifice to Null. Michael's disappearance would mark the official re-emergence of the Snatcher and his first victim in 11 years.

## Personality

The Snatcher is the textbook definition of an unempathetic, emotionless, depraved and deranged serial killer with absolutely no regards for the lives of anyone and only caring about himself and remaining uncaptured. Even before his serial killing spree started, Samuel Evergreen was already an erratic, unstable and dangerous individual with a history of violence dating back to his youth and the criminal expertise required to pull off his many crimes. The Snatcher possesses a complete disregard for life, with the act of murder making him feel powerful, important and in control of people. When he shot and killed a hitchhiker he mistook for an animal while hunting, he possessed no remorse for the killing and instead dedicated his life to reliving the thrill he felt when he claimed his first victim. The Snatcher's love of killing and the extent of which he is willing to harm others seemingly possesses no limits, as he also has a penchant for targeting children and animals, with not even them being spared of his ruthless brutality. Even at a young age, Samuel was rumoured by his classmates in school to have tortured animals, which seemingly contributed to his love of hunting.

At his core, the Snatcher is a sadist who lives for the hunt and the thrill of killing others to feel a sense of power and control. Due to his sadism, he isn't content with just killing his victims quickly and instead kidnaps them and brings them to parts unknown where he proceeds to torture and murder them for his own pleasure. When he became indoctrinated into the Children of Null, his ruthlessness increased dramatically and he became even more merciless and cruel, being willing to mutilate his victims prior to abducting them and dragging to his pickup truck to be taken away all while they scream for help and in agonising pain. The Snatcher prefers for his victims to be suffering and in horrible pain, and actually becomes quite upset when they aren't as in agony as he thinks they should be or aren't in pain at all. If a victim fights back against him or trash-talks him, either in a chase or in the dark places he takes them to, he loses his cool and inflicts even more brutal torture on them to make them fear him. For victims that badmouth him, he often takes his anger out on them post-mortem, usually by stabbing, hacking at or shooting their corpses in petty frustration. He prefers for his victims to be weak, defenceless, yet durable and able to endure a ton of physical damage so he can draw out their torture for as long as possible.

The Snatcher is also an occultist fanatic obsessed with pleasing and gaining the approval of Null so he can see his worth and the effort he puts into satisfying the demon's need for death and destruction. He is increasingly paranoid about not being able to please Null and even cowardly to a degree.

As an active serial killer who initially started his crimes during the late 90's, combined with his knowledge of weapons and burglary from his years of engaging in criminal activities, specifically burglary, having intimate knowledge of how to navigate houses that aren't familiar to him, as well as having a lot of knowledge of how to use various types of weapons, primarily firearms such as rifles. He is a calculating and careful stalker who makes sure to keep himself out of his victims' vision and blend into the darkness to observe his prey.

Despite being intelligent and a capable serial killer, the Snatcher is plagued by a sense of intense superiority and the arrogant belief that he can never be caught. It's implied that his arrogance stems from his childhood, as he's always hated society and sought to rebel because it's what he enjoys doing. Coupled with the feeling of control and power his murders give him and his alliance with a demon-worshipping cult that's been able to evade detection for centuries, the Snatcher ultimately feels as though he's invincible. Even when faced with the fact that his face had been seen by a victim and drawn by a composite artist, he still decided to return back to the house to kill the victim, even though he could have been possibly injured by the victim had they woken up.

## Appearance

When disguised in his attire, the Snatcher wears a ripped up, grey, short-sleeved, buttoned up coat with a black shirt underneath, black pants, white shoes and black leather gauntlet gloves. On his head he wears a grey head mask and a white mask on his face with two large holes containing several layers of see-through black fabric.

It's unknown what he looks like without his mask on, but the testimony of his last victim in 2008 and the subsequent composite sketch from that same year shows him to be a medium-skinned man with black, greying hair and stubble.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Brute strength**: The Snatcher is a hefty man with an even heftier grip. With ease, the Snatcher can pick up and drag victims of any size for minutes on end without tiring. The Snatcher has little-to-no problems when it comes to physically overpowering his victims, as his brandishing of weapons to intimidate them into backing down is enough to give him the upper hand. His carrying strength comes from his time as a hunter, as he'd normally hoist the bodies of dead heavy animals onto his shoulders to carry or drag them by their feet back to his house.
* **Criminal expertise**: Samuel has a rap sheet for numerous petty crimes, including assault and burglary, the former of which he got away with for eight months before being caught. Even now, he's still able to apply his expertise in criminality to his current operations as a serial killer to improve upon them and help him get away with his crimes.
* **High intelligence**: The Snatcher is a highly quick-witted and intelligent serial killer who knows San Antonio like the back of his hand. He's able to expertly navigate his hometown with ease and is his prior skills he learned as a burglar have given him acute knowledge of his to navigate unfamiliar areas, especially in his hometown where most houses have similar structures. When leaving cracks on the windows of his victims' houses, he makes sure to measure his strikes against them to be light enough to make cracks, but not hard enough to shatter them completely. He does this to further instil a sense of dread and fear in his victims but making the damage to the windows not severe enough that they'd call the police, that is, if they happen to notice and pay no mind to it.
* **Hunting skills**: For most of his life following his release from prison, Samuel took up animal hunting as a hobby, primarily deer and fox hunting. He would also applied his hunting skills to his murders if his victims escaped from him. In the case of Alvin and Michael, he easily tracked the two teenagers into the woods and calmly, yet meticulously followed them by listening out for movements and/or breathing.
* **Impressive stamina**: Surprisingly, even after years of killing and going through the same exhausting routines and being well into his 50's, the Snatcher possesses a great amount of physical and mental stamina to continue carrying out the acts of dragging/carrying victims to his pickup truck and, if need be, chasing them if they escape him.
* **Master of torture**: While the exact methods he uses are unknown, the Snatcher is experienced in torturing people, preferring to use methods of physical torture in order to put his victims through extreme agony and suffering as he slowly kills them.
* **Murder methodology**: As a serial killer with over 30 murders to his name, the Snatcher is skilled in killing people. Like other serial killers that came before him, the Snatcher prefers to make his victims slowly suffer before he murders them, purposefully choosing to torture them physically and slowly, drawing out their torture and murder for as long as possible and taking pleasure in every waking second, which is completely in his nature as a sadist. He has knowledge in various ways to kill people, such as stabbing, impaling, slashing, throat-slitting, eviscerating, bludgeoning and shooting.
* **Occult knowledge**: As a member of the Children of Null, the Snatcher has knowledge of the occult, dark magic and rituals that involve human sacrifices.
* **Speed**: The Snatcher is relatively fast and can catch up to fleeing victims in a surprisingly short amount of time. Although he prefers to walk as opposed to run, he takes large steps when in pursuing his victims to gain more ground when going after them and pursues them with ruthless determination.
* **Stealth skills**: As a stalker, the Snatcher scopes out the homes of his victims prior to killing them. He prefers to stalk his victims during the night when they're asleep so he can scope out the outside area under the cover of darkness. Because of the darker parts of his attire, namely his pants and gloves, he requires minimal effort to properly blend into the darkness. Aside from his ability to blend in, he's also naturally sneaky, having used his previous skills developed from his time burglarising houses to navigate areas while evading detection.
* **Weapons usage**: As a hunter and serial killer with a history of violence-related criminal charges, the Snatcher is skilled in employing the usage of various weapons, ranging from ranged to melee weapons.
	+ **Hatchet proficiency**: The Snatcher is proficient in utilising hatchets to attack his victims by hacking them. In the case of Michael Sanders, one of his victims, he used his hatchet to cut off the boy's feet to prevent him from attempting to flee before dragging him to his doom. When torturing his victims, he prefers using his hatchet to lightly hack at his victims before becoming more aggressive until it begins to properly pierce their flesh and sever body parts and chunks of flesh. In addition to using hatchets as his preferred murder weapons, the Snatcher can use his hatchets to tear apart objects that stand in his way and inflict physical damage onto surfaces, such as breaking down the doors of his victims' houses.
	+ **Marksmanship**: Due to having expertise in hunting animals, the Snatcher is excellent at using firearms, primarily a hunting rifle which he uses to hunt both animals and humans.

### Equipment

* **Black tulips**: Black tulips are a type of flower that the Snatcher carries on his person at all times in his pockets, using them as his calling card to both alert his victims of his presence and to leave them behind at the houses of his victims after abducting them to claim responsibility for the crimes.
* **Hatchets**: The Snatcher carries at least one hatchet with him when going on the hunt to abduct his victims on the third night in case they fight back or try to escape, as well as using it during his torture sessions as his preferred weapon of choice.
* **Rifles**: Similarly, the Snatcher has a collection of various types of hunting rifles in his house and carries at least one when going out to hunt for people in case they try to escape him or put up a fight. When out doing actual animal hunting, he carries an assortment of different variations.

### Weaknesses

* **Sadism**: The Snatcher is a profoundly sadistic and bloodthirsty serial killer who barely even qualifies as human considering just how inhumane his crimes are. Unfortunately for the masked murderer, his sadism can act as a detriment in the case of victims running away from him, as although he chooses to walk rather fast, he can still fall behind if his victim is significantly faster while running, allowing them to escape as treads behind to savour their terror. Additionally, his modus operandi of leaving black tulips on his victims' beds, smashing their doors in, cracking their windows, tearing up other parts of the house in minor ways and even kidnapping their pets just to evoke a sense of terror for his own satisfaction can ruin his setup for the following night if police are called and mark the area as a potential crime scene, messing up his plan and causing him to either target a new victim or wait for the police to leave.

## Relationships

### Allies

#### Children of Null

The Children of Null is a dangerous cult that worships the fear demon, Null, of which the Snatcher is a member of and has been since mid-2019. The Snatcher is aligned with the cult to secure himself protection from law enforcement, believing that the cult's nature as an organisation that's existed for decades makes them knowledgeable in how to evade the police and remain uncaptured. For the most part, the Snatcher is indifferent to most of the cult's members and sees them as co-workers with similar goals to commit murder and go about their crimes unscathed.

#### Sister Lucy

Sister Lucy is another member of the Children of Null and compared to everyone else related to the cult, is the only person that the Snatcher views as more than just a co-worker, being able to strike up friendly conversations with the dark nun and often hang out with each other in the cult's headquarters when they can't killing others.

### Other

#### Null

Null is the Snatcher's master and, as the serial killer views him, his god. The Snatcher is extremely devoted to serving Null's every whim and has a habit of flying into rages directed at his victims if they disrespect and badmouth Null. In addition, most of the Snatcher's current victims are offered as human sacrifices to Null, further showcasing his devotion and fanaticism to the demon. Evidently, however, Null's presence in the Snatcher's life has only made him more unstable by making him overly paranoid about failing and disappointing the Demon of Fear.

## Quotes

"*I'm going to take you away now.*"
— The Snatcher confronting Michael before attacking him with a hatchet.

## Trivia

* Samuel committed his first crime when he was 15, which was assault.
* While Samuel was a suspect for the murders, the people who knew him only ever got glimpses of him or were told of his erratic behaviour by people who had lived in San Antonio since Samuel was a teenager. Subsequently, while the composite sketch was somewhat accurate, the hastiness of the attack on the victim who saw Samuel's face made it difficult to produce a perfect sketch.
* There have been several copycat killers/kidnappers that emulate the Snatcher's modus opperandi to little success. The Snatcher is insulted by such copycats and takes time to ensure that he gets the credit for the crimes he committed, believing that taking credit for other peoples' crimes for the sake of one's ego is "intolerable".