The Man (The Closing Shift)

## Evil-Doer

**The Man**, or also known as **The Stalker**, is the main antagonist of the Chilla's Art horror game *The Closing Shift*.

He is a mysterious, calculating, and violent man who stalks the protagonist every night as she leaves home and goes to work, The Man eventually attempts to kidnap her.

## Appearance:

He is shown to be taller than the protagonist having an appearance of a shady man. His body can look like an shadowy figure while in the shadows. He has a dirty red shirt with possibly black pants with wide eyes. He is also unkempt and has short hair.

## Personality:

The Stalker seems to be a very disturbed individual, but also a very deluded one. His twisted affection and infatuation for the protagonist seems to originate from their first meeting, (as shown through one of his love notes) when she had simply smiled at him, he had commented on it being like a flower — saying that just thinking about her makes his heart pound, considering it a newfound sensation, he most likely begins stalking the girl at that point in time.

The Stalker's obsessive behavior is suggested to have intensified at the beginning of the game, given that the protagonist was unaware he had been stalking her until then. It was only when she heard his phone ring outside, that she decided to give it back to him. She also did so despite his rude demeanor in returning it. He misinterpreted this as a "sign of love", and believed that she had picked up his phone and went out of her way to give it to him because she was "in love with him". This suggests that he is bad with social cues and lacks them, causing even something as simple as an act of pure kindness in his eyes to be done out of passion.

The further the game progresses, we learn that the Stalker was the one responsible for camping in the storage room to get closer to the protagonist, which only proves his sick admiration and his lack of respect for boundaries and social cues more. One of the most prominent examples is when he presses his hand against the bus window to stare at her without any hesitation and without fear of being seen. He is known for moving a lot when in her presence, especially when he's stalking her, as though he's always on the move in order to stay as close to her as possible. As we near the game's climax, the Stalker suddenly appears at the front door. His movements are becoming very erratic, his breathing is incredibly heavy, yet he remains ominously quiet. His frightening expression is filled with a terrifying obsession. When we, the protagonist, attempt to escape through the front door, the stalker strikes our body with a blunt object and causes us to drop to the ground. What occurs next is left to imagination as the sounds of animal noises and a sense of panic combined with muffled moans fill our ears. It's implied that he's assaulting the protagonist, and the monkey sounds only amplify the horror.

The Stalker's determination is highlighted in every ending of the game, where he outwits the protagonist regardless of her attempts at escaping. If she tries to go outside for help, he'll simply hit her in the head to prevent this from happening. If she tries to escape via the vents, he strategically places her car keys there. This is all with the aim to make her unaware that he's in her backseat. Even when she attempts to kill him, he returns anyway and interferes with her antenna — dropping her phone outside. The reason for this is so that she has to look for it which the Stalker could then exploit as an opportunity to sneak inside and wait in the closet for her return. It's a probable assumption that he intends to kidnap her due to his prior actions and obsession with her.

## Biography:

There's no information about his past but however in the game he had lost his phone until the protagonist gives him his phone back before leaving after that, he now stalks her, stealing stuff and living in the café every night just to look at her, when every night that the protagonist just does her job he is shown to be creepy when he looks at the camera at the drive thru one night he leaves a note about her,

At the near end of the game, he kills the detective and tries to get her when she tries to find a way to escape the café, during this he shows his true colors for her as shown to be nothing but a perverted creep who wants her all to himself.

The games endings consists of two bad endings and a true ending, the first bad ending is considered to be the worst out of the three as when the protagonist tries to escape the Stalker pops up and knocks her out to possibly do something to her, in the second bad ending she escapes the café and goes home however he follows her home and presumably attacks her. In the true ending of the game the protagonist "kills" The Stalker and she returns home but her phone mysteriously disappears and she will found it outside of the parking lot then return to her apartment and calls someone but then the Stalker jumps out of the closet then attacks her.

## Skills:

He is extremely stealthy as he has the ability to sneak into certain places without the protagonist noticing. He is shown to be physically skilled based on the fact that he managed to kill the detective. He is also a very fast runner, as this is shown when he catches the protagonist when she freely attempts to escape.