Dylan

## Dylan Miller

**Dylan Miller** is the main antagonist in *Deadly Night*.

## Description

### Appearance

In the present day, Dylan is a large-built tall adult Caucasian male he stands anywhere from 5'11" (180.3 cm) - 6'2.5" (189 cm) large, tall, bulky with light brown thinning hair. He wears a dark brown, wooden mask with two eye holes, a white tank top soaked in blood, which reveals his sparse chest hair and several circular burn marks, brown suspenders, light grey pants and brown shoes. In his right hand, he carries a sickle.

As a child, at around toddler or pre-school age, Dylan had dark brown hair and wore a red shirt, brown pants and white shoes.

### Personality

Although mute since early childhood, Dylan's actions clearly show that he is a deeply disturbed individual. He kills randomly and only to needlessly cannibalize a few of the bodies. Presumably as a result of a lifetime of eating human meat, Dylan is deranged, unreasonable and completely unpredictable, showing few, if any signs, for higher cognitive function beyond a primitve instinct for killing. One thing that seems characteristic for Dylan, however, is his fixation on hunting, brutalizing, and ultimately murdering people as if they were quarry, a trait which he only drops in regards to Carol, with whom he spends much more time toying with and keeping her alive right until he catches her trying to escape. He seems to be poorly socialized and extremely aggressive, as if he were an overgrown child, running with an awkward waddle and breathing heavily while making nonsensical sounds.

### History

Born to an unnamed couple, Dylan was the younger of two children. His parents were abusive alcoholics who would lock him in a closet as punishment and forced his older sister Carol to prostitute herself to pedophiles. Dylan seemed innocently unaware of this, believing that the adult men were merely her and their mom's "friends" and would leave their shared bedroom whenever they came to "play games". Eventually, Carol burned down their home and succeeded in killing their mother, inadvertently injuring Dylan, who was also trapped in the house. Despite getting treatment at a hospital, he suffered traumatic brain damage and disfiguring burns, due to which he started wearing a mask to cover up the facial scars.

Shortly after, both were placed in foster care and given into the custody of Mr. Miller, a reclusive farmer who moonlighted as a serial killer. Carol would eventually be permanently adopted by a couple, while Dylan stayed with Mr. Miller. He kept diary of his first months there, which revealed that Mr. Miller was keeping him on a diet consisting solely of raw human flesh, reacting violently when he threw it up on one occasion and throwing the remainder of his possessions down the well he trapped his living victims in, with Dylan only managing to hide his beloved Handheld Console. Within a few weeks, Dylan became accustomed to the meat and began to join his foster father on his "hunting trips", being taught how to prepare, process and store the flesh and maintain the underground tunnels the living victims were kept inside of. In combination with his naivete, the brain damage and being an easily impressionable child, Dylan imprinted on Mr. Miller and came to see the Miller Farm as his true home.

When Mr. Miller died years later, the now-adult Dylan took it upon himself to carry on his twisted legacy, but lacking the subtlety and planning ahead of his foster father, he was much less discreet, as his murders were carried out in the open. He still continued to subsist off of the meat his victims provided him, which he kept in massive piles around the house.

## *Deadly Night*

On the night of August 17, 1987, Dylan attacked a gas station along the nearby highway. During his attack on the PetroPlus, he killed a cashier and a customer, having barely missed Carol, who left her wallet there after being left behind by her ex-boyfriend.

### The Motel

Whether coincidentally or not, he followed her trail to the Highway Hotel, murdering the owner, Mr. Shiny, and abducting Carol when she attempts to flee, either by knocking her out after physically ambushing her or by hitting her with his van as she runs down the road.

### The House

He brings Carol back to the Miller Farm, where she manages to undo her restraints and searches for a way out while Dylan patrols the farm for her. Carol ends up knocking out herself when she jumped into the well to escape his grasp, with Dylan dragging her unconscious body off to a table for unknown purposes, where she is eventually discovered by Susan.

### Ending A

If Carol managed to find the keys to his van, she and Susan are able to flee. As she didn't alert the police, Dylan remains at large and is last seen menacingly standing behind a tow truck driver who had found Susan's car.

### Ending B

If Carol managed to find the keys and called the police at the motel, she and Susan will find that the engine won't start, leaving them sitting ducks for Dylan. At around the same time, a cop will discover the murders at the PetroPlus while responding to Carol's call and search the area after not finding her at the motel. Dylan attempts to kill him when he enters the farm's property, but is shot dead by the cop, who brings the women to a hospital. A later TV report states that several remains have been found beneath the Miller Farm, but that Dylan's body had disappeared by the time authorities arrived.

### Ending C

If Carol didn't find the keys, she and Susan will attempt to flee by foot, being found by Dylan almost immediately and killed on the spot. If Carol previously called the police, the cop will arrive, but is too late to save the survivors, and faces down with Dylan. The cop kills Dylan just like in Ending B, but is dumbfounded by the sight of a large red eye forming in the sky.

## Victims

* At least 20 victims, remains hidden in tunnels underneath the Miller Farm (likely shared with Mr. Miller)
* Two unnamed victims at the PetroPlus convenience store
* Mr. Shiny
* Susan (determinant)
* Carol (determinant)

## Trivia

* Dylan is inconsistenly portrayed in Carol's flashback, sometimes appearing as a young child of 4-6 years, while other times, he is depicted as a swaddled baby. This might be a part of Carol's guilty conscience, with her imagining that Dylan was as defenseless as a newborn during the fire.
	+ Additionally, Dylan appears to be much older than Carol, who still looks like a woman in her 20's or, at the oldest, in her mid-30's. This could be attributed to Dylan's unhealthy lifestyle, obesity, and premature balding.