Adrian Vurtoren

The Secret in the Island

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**Adrian Vurtoren** is the boatman responsible for bringing necessary supplies to the island of Tipora. It's revealed during the 7th episode of The Secret in the Island that Adrian and Berenice Aleno are Amora Aleno's parents.

He first appeared in the 1st episode of The Secret in the Island, calling for Olivier Florence to help his sister, Amelie Florence, who got stuck in the middle of the ropes.

## Appearance

Adrian is a middle-aged man, with brown skin, hair and beard half gray and blue eyes. He usually wears a blue jacket over a shabby gray T-shirt, gray pants, and a pair of brown boots. Adrian has a large scar on his face, originated from a boating accident involving his wife, Berenice Aleno.

## Personality

Adrian is a nice, outgoing man. As one of the only residents of the island to frequently leave the region, Adrian always comes back with new stories of his adventures and shares them with the island’s children and young people, entertaining them. Despite being always in a good mood, he gets quite serious and worried about his uncle Celestino Vurtoren and his daughter Amora Aleno, he always seeks to take care of and visit both when he goes to the island.

## Biography

### Past

Adrian Vurtoren was born in July 4, 1970 in the island of Tipora, son of Roberto Vurtoren, and nephew of Celestino Vurtoren. Little is known about his past, only that he was very close to Barnabé Aleno and ended up falling in love with his sister, Berenice Aleno. The two ended up forming a couple and having a daughter, Amora Aleno.

At some point in his life Adrian became a boatman, and after knowing the world outside the island of Tipora, ended up combining with his wife for the two of them to leave together their daughter and have a life beyond the island. But during a boating accident that occurred during a trip, Berenice ended up falling and being torn apart by Adrian’s boat engine. This event shook him so much, to the point of entrusting his daughter to Barnabé, thinking that he wasn't worthy to take care of the little one.

### The Secret in the Island

#### Day 1

Adrian, still acting as a boatman, continues to help and take supplies to the island, always visiting his daughter and uncle, whom he always takes care of while staying there. Adrian was transporting the Florence family to Tipora, so that Montel Florence, the family's patriarch, could analyze the paintings of Constantino Moretti in his mansion. Accompanying them was also Cavalcante Bueno.

During the trip, Adrian has a slight problem with the boat’s engine, which had stopped because of some object, he then calls Amelie Florence to help him, but she fumbles with a rope and ends up trapped, denying the boatman’s help and threatening him. Without options Adrian seeks Olivier Florence, Amelie’s brother, to help him deal with the young girl.

After Olivier manages to release his sister and solve the engine problem with Adrian, everyone manages to follow the trip quietly. Finally arriving at the docks of Tipora they disembark on the beach, with Adrian removing all the heavy suitcases from the family, while Angelina Florence and Montel discuss. After preparing everything he approaches Amelie and asks her to deliver a lunch box to the lightkeeper.

After accepting and going upstairs the lighthouse Together with Olivier, they set off to find Celestine. Adrian begins to hear screams from his uncle from the top of the building, he quickly goes upstairs and sees the man grabbing Olivier as he screams, Adrian holds Celestino and calms him, hugging him and ordering the brothers to go down. He stays a while beside his uncle and subsequently leaves the lighthouse, finding Milo Castello and Bárbara Lima, he is happy to see his friends and welcomes them in tone of happiness, also introducing the Florence family to them. Adrian takes the delivery of fish made by Milo and says goodbye to all, going to the village and spending the night in a room in the back of the church.

#### Day 2

Adrian spends the next day at the village, deciding to stay for the Church Barbecue before departing again. During the night, Adrian gathers with the locals for the barbecue, finding Milo again, they interact and once again Adrian tells him one of his stories from the sea. After a conversation he is approached by Amora, that pulls him to talk about the cat Bisteca.

Later, during the meal, Adrian eats a lot until he sees Celestino appearing in the middle of the village, speaking nonsense and acting like a child, he quickly gets up and comforts his uncle, hugging him and taking him out of the village, being accompanied by Bartô Castello, Angelina and Montel Florence.

Arriving at the beach he calms his uncle, and takes him to the lighthouse, saying goodbye to Milo and Bárbara, saying that he will leave the island to get more supplies, since much was spent on the barbecue, and during the night, Adrian leaves Tipora.

#### Day 3

The next day, Adrian returns to the island, this time taking Wanderley on his boat, since like Cavalcante, he would analyze the mansion, and switch places with him.

After a quiet journey, the two disembark on the beach and are approached by Milo andBárbara, both introduce themselves to Wanderley and greet Adrian, who greets them and asks the young men to take the food to his uncle, and this time without any disturbance they return, Wanderley accompanies the two through the forest to the mansion and Adrian goes to the village, saying goodbye to all three.

Upon arriving in the village he leaves to visit his daughter, but ends up discovering through Barnabé that Amora had disappeared, getting that information Adrian is worried and along with Barnabé, Evandro and Otávio starts looking for Amora, going to the mansion and questioning if the residents knew anything. When alerting everyone about the little girl’s disappearance, Adrian returns to the village, worried and anxious.

Later he sees Milo and Olivier arriving from the forest with Amora, Adrian is relieved and is glad to see his daughter well, he approaches and Milo calls to talk alone, Adrian accepts and receives the information that they had found a corpse on the beach, near where Amora was, Adrian gets scared and catches the attention of other residents, who gather and accompany him, with Adrian going to the place to check what happened.

On the way to the village everyone talks scared about the possibility of someone having died on the island, and people arrive at the beach and Evandro and Wanderley try to stop them, but without success, Adrian sees the body of Cavalcante Bueno with a hole in his face, he goes into shock and becomes astonsihed. After a while, the crowd of people leaves the place in fear, leaving only Adrian, Barnabé, Evandro, Návia and Wanderley, they discuss what to do from now on, until Evandro picks up the key to Adrian’s boat, warning that no one would leave the island until the case is solved, Adrian agrees and frightened back to the village, sleeping again in his church room.

#### Day 4

Early in the morning Adrian wakes up and on request of Evandro, he goes with Otávio to the painter's mansion, to question the residents, and also warn them about the rally that would take place in the church. Arriving there he sees Lívia leaving the mansion irritated, while Bárbara follows her, the two are confused and are approached by the Florence brothers, Otávio then warns about the interrogation he would do and takes Amelie to the room next to the hall.

Adrian enters the kitchen and finds Wanderley cooking, Adrian helps him and makes a large omelet, while talking to the agent about the day before, and warns him about the rally that would take place in the church. He stays eating and talking with the young people who arrived, as Bárbara and Milo, while Otávio talks to the Florence family. After eating and warning everyone, Adrian leaves in front of Otávio, saying goodbye to them and going to the village to prepare for the meeting in the church.

Already in the afternoon, Adrian goes to the church and sits waiting for Evandro to start talking, Milo arrives and sits next to him, staying there throughout the speech of the delegate. Until during the discussion that began, Bartô attacks Evandro, punching him in the face, everyone gets scared and start running away from the church, with Adrian going after the children who were running scared.

During the night, Adrian was talking to Barnabé in his home, the two are approached by Wanderley, they have a brief conversation, but Adrian sits on a couch inside the house, and naps exhausted. Later, Adrian gets up and goes to the church, going to his room and sleeping again.

#### Day 5

Adrian wakes up in the afternoon, hearing the gunshot noises inside the church he leaves his room confused and frightened, seeing Amelie, Olivier, Francisco, Vagner and Wanderley, confused he asks what happened, and Wanderley replies that some uncontrolled animals attacked the village, but that now everything was under control, Adrian is quite worried but ends up being convinced by the group to calm down, he then helps everyone to make some barricades in the church, advises Vagner to take Francisco to the police station and remains with the group to open the mysterious locked door of the church.

As they open the door they see a large completely old room, dirty and burnt, with nothing more than a painting thrown on one of the walls, after arguing about it, and Adrian being confused about why they were so afraid to look at the painting, everyone leaves Wanderley alone, since he insisted on seeing the painting alone. After a while outside they hear Wanderley screaming and go inside, seeing that now the painting was completely melted. In that strange situation Adrian does not quite understand what to do and decides to leave the church, being accompanied by the others.

They leave the church and spot Barnabé worried, Adrian questions him and Barnabé says that Amora vanished again, Adrian is outraged and quickly prepares to look for her, asking Olivier where he had met her last time, so they all leave for the beach. And getting there, they see no sign of the little girl, only finding something not very common, the entrance to a cave in the trees, Adrian is surprised to have never seen it and, along with the others decides to go inside to look for Amora, but while investigating the small cave they find no sign of her, deciding to go back and look elsewhere.

They split up and Wanderley and Amelie go to the mansion, while Adrian, Barnabé and Olivier look for her in the village. Upon arriving there, Adrian sees Amora leaving the house, being relieved and going straight to meet her to see if she was okay, however, while worried about his daughter, he also hears noises and screams coming from the police station, he leaves with the others until there, where several people were sheltered, and again hear screams coming from inside the cell room. Adrian and Vagner break down the door leading into the cell corridor, and witness a terrifying scene: the dead body of Bartô, with a hole in his face, sitting next to a painting containing the same scene, next to a creature, at that moment, everyone goes into despair, including Adrian, with the feeling that they would die the next day.

Adrian runs out of the place and at the same time looks for the children, finding them and leaving the two with Barnabé, also seeing that Wanderley was arriving with the young, he realizes that Milo comes running towards him, desperate about something, Adrian tries to hold him and prevent him from seeing the scene of Bartô, but without success, the boy passes and enters the corridor, witnessing the scene. After he was calmed down by Bárbara, more people start to leave and enter the police station, with Adrian taking Vagner away from the scene, as the lumberjack was obsessed with Bartô’s painting. In a moment he is approached by Bárbara, who tells him about Celestino having killed her mother, with the chaos of the moment, Adrian doesn’t seem to process information right, ignoring it.

After a while, Adrian gathers the elders of the island, to decide what to do, since Evandro Eiland had mysteriously passed out and only he knew where the keys to the boat were, Adrian wanted to get everyone off the island before the next day, to prevent everyone from being killed by the creature. During the conversation Adrian reveals to Wanderley about his wife, saying and venting about his guilt in having her "killed" accidentally, they separate and Adrian goes along with Barnabé to gather everyone in the church to protect themselves from the monster.

#### Day 6

All the inhabitants of the island are together and afraid inside the church, where they stay all day, until at night, Wanderley screams from behind the door, warning that he was there and knew what to do from now on, hearing this, Barnabé gets strangely suspicious and starts trying to stop the group from entering, until an argument breaks out. Adrian was restless until called by Wanderley, who tries to calm him down, remembering that he should not blame himself for the death of his love, and tries to bring Adrian to his side, but Barnabé shouts in front of everyone about how Adrian killed his sister and blames him, accusing the boatman and throwing it in his face about how he agreed to take care of his daughter, Adrian is devastated and decides not to help Wanderley.

After an intense discussion, a large number of people join the group and manage to open the door, however, they barely have a chance to enter and Barnabas turns and removes the handkerchief from a picture hidden behind him, all look frightened to that painting, containing a hooded and bizarre figure, having no face, with all the terror concentrated in the picture, a creature begins to emerge, the Imaginary Friend pulls itself out of the paint, appearing in front of everyone.

As soon as this happens, Wanderley again calls Adrian’s attention, shouting for him to help get everyone out of the church, Adrian was confused and scared, but still hears Wanderley’s call, removing some barricades from the large church door, until he is held by one of the creature’s tentacles, he quickly grabs Wanderley who was in front of him and both are pulled. But Adrian continued fighting and avoiding being taken to the creature, realizing this, it gets angry and shoots the boatman away with one of its tentacles, hurting him greatly and making Adrian faint in the process.

#### Day 7

Adrian wakes up with the dawn entering the church, he sees the empty place and the creature dead on the ground, he looks for someone and sees several bodies thrown, witnessing that massacre he comes across a small body thrown in the corner, his daughter Amora Aleno, he catches her and sees that her neck was broken, Adrian goes into denial and takes her in his lap, carrying her to the doctor’s house, he sees only Amelie and Olivier, asking the two with trembling voice where Návia was, for the doctor to help Amora, the two mourn for her and cry at the sight of the scene, Adrian collapses in tears while holding the body of his daughter.

Adrian takes the keys to his boat and along with the surviving residents departs to the docks, deciding to take everyone safely out of Tipora, there they wait for the Florence family to arrive, as soon as everyone meets, on the horizon the inhabitants they see a speedboat arriving, with Arthur Cervero and Walter, the big man who accompanied the masked man approaches the residents and tries to calm them down, realizing that Adrian was in tears and restless. After this, the two men depart into the island, while Adrian turns on his boat takes all the people out of Tipora.

## Relationships

* Amora Aleno: Adrian and Amora were very close and had a relationship of friendship and protection, although Amora did not seem to know the truth about Adrian and Barnabé, she still treated him well and always spoke excitedly around him, calling him "uncle". Adrian always sought to protect her and know if his daughter was well, often letting his extreme concern show, being more anxious than Barnabé himself.

* Barnabé Aleno: Barnabé treated Adrian as an old friend, with the two talking several times about the most varied things, Adrian had a respect and a slight fear of Barnabas, being subject to his manipulations for feeling the guilt of having "killed" his sister.

* Berenice Aleno: Adrian had fallen in love with Berenice for a long time, but it was obvious that the two cared for and cared for each other, with Adrian feeling extremely guilty for having some guilt in his accidental death.

* Celestino Vurtoren: Adrian always sought to take care of his uncle when he was around, due to his age and to appear to be already beginning to become more dependent with time, Adrian showed much affection for Celestine, hugging him and consoling his uncle when he needed.

* Milo Castello: Adrian and Milo had a very strong friendship relationship, with the two treating each other as great partners in all interactions, calling each other nicknames and playing with each other. Adrian was very proud to see how the boy grew up.

* Wanderley Nascimento: Adrian and Wanderley, although they had known each other for a short time, always treated each other well in their conversations, with an atmosphere of friendship increasing as the two interacted more.

## Gallery

* Arts
* Tokens

Drawing of Adrian made by Milo Castello

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## Appearances

 The Secret in the Island - Episode 8 - "Florence" | Present

## References

1. ↑ The Secret in the Island - Episode 8 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h26m53s)
2. ↑ His first appearance in The Secret in the Island - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 6m44s)