Arnold Eggers

**Arnold Eggers** Is one of the enrolled students at Downing Hill public Library. He is a Lolgmololg covenant, and a member of the (fan deemed) Summer campers. Currently he is with Clara Martin and Harrow Blackletter after they left Downing Hill for an extracurricular program, and got seperated from Victoria Tepiani and Friday Rescher.

## Personality

Arnold is fast at acclimating to his surroundings. Although he acts cowardly, Arnold is shown to be one of the bravest characters in HFTH, not because of his lack of fear, but his ability to act despite it. Arnold repeatedly displays a mean streak, but acknowledges it and apologises whenever it shows. He often takes on the role of follower, not leader. He quite enjoys food, specifically things that are carb heavy. He has displayed several times that not only is he not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but also isn’t very observant. Similar to Ricou Chapman, he possesses a lot of body negativity around his more aquatic appearance, and frequently refers to his body as either ‘dumb’ or ‘ugly’.

## Description

Arnold is described as a small round boy with round eyes, and '*perpetually sticky hands*'. Legally speaking he is an adult. He is sloppily dressed, wearing a tie and collared shirt, which is 'old fashioned' by association with Downing Hill. He is described as screaming like 'monstrous frogs' as described by Clara Martin, implying that he sounds similar to the Froglins. He also whistles when he breathes.

## History

Like many students, Arnold joined Downing Hill when he was still very young. His parents made the decision to put him into the arcane program. Nothing else is known about Arnold's parents. He was a bully for many years, until his covenant manifested when he was about middle school aged, causing his frog like appearance. At some point after this he befriended Victoria Tepiani and Harrow Blackletter, forming a trio with them. None of them were very close, all being loners by either nature or circumstance.

### Season 2

Episode 56 - Thorns: Arnold has signed up for the Downing Hill Public Library summer program, along with Clara Martin, Harrow Blackletter, Victoria Tepiani, and Friday Rescher. Friday starts to allude to the program being a horrible experience where they would be tested, but Clara reassures that it would be fine, anouncing that she was '*looking forward to it*', but this is cut off by Arnold screaming at the sudden appearance of a Wondering Nightgaunt in the treeline a few meters away from where they were standing. This rightfully sends the group into a blind panic, until it becomes clear that there was a house constructed on the creatures back, on the porch of which was Winona Carline, and the group quickly pieces together the assumption that she was their summer instructor. After calming down, they climb up to the house, and Winona introduces herself.

Episode 58 - Enemies: Winona is practicing mediation with The Sumer Campers, during which she narrates instruction. She announces to "*Feel the weight of your body on the ground. Where the pressure falls on your bones. If anything hurts and where*." to which Arnold commented that 'nothing hurts him', and Friday quips that 'she could fix that'. Winona announces a lunch break, and Arnold is quick to join at her side (leaving the others behind) and ask what they were eating, to which she answers ful medames, which it a type of primarily vegetarian stew originating from Egypt and Lebanon, Arnold pulls a face at this and she tells him he'll like it.

Episode 61 - Protectors: Winona has taken The Summer Campers to The Dry Market. Besides Winona, none of the group had been there before. She announces that she was going to lend everyone in the group some money to buy some food while she stocked up on supplies. She gives them paper money, and Arnold comments on how it was '*all different colours*', then leaves with Clara. Arnold asks Victoria how to use the money, and she asks him if he'd ever had to pay for something before. Arnold tells her that he hadn't, and she tells him that outside of Downing Hill he had an option of things he could get and they all cost some of his money, so he had to choose what he wanted so he could afford it. Harrow pipes up, explaining that it was a limited resource. Arnold, Victoria, and Harrow end up buying twister potatoes covered in cheese and gravy, which Arnold announces he planned on having every day at Downing Hill once they got back. He and Harrow go for seconds.

Episode 65 - Miles: The summer campers are star gazing, and Winona is teaching them the constellations. Arnold keeps looking in the wrong direction. Winona uses this as her transition into her next lesson topic: covenants. Arnold asks Winona if she has a covenant, and she expresses curiosity in using the term 'covenant'. He says he thought that the trip would be learning about their covenants, and not 'hiking and knots and stars'. Winona asks The Summer campers what their abilities actually are, and everyone goes quiet. Clara asks if they hadn't told her at the library, but she says that she wanted to hear it form them. Arnold goes first after some resistance to answering. He says that "*Bad stuff happens when [he] touch[es] the water*...*[he] get[s] uglier*". He calls it dumb, but Winona assures him that it was a part of him, and therefore not 'dumb'. All the others also answer in varying degrees of vagueness. Arnold spots an observatory, and Winona states that it would be useful for spotting their next constellation.

Episode 68 - Sands: Arnold and with the rest of the Summer campers, as well as their possessions, are teleported by Winona (or Winona teleports away) into a random patch of wood, after Friday and Clara confront Winona over their correct suspicions of her not actually being their instructor and attempting to attack her once she confirmed.

Episode 71 - Trials: The summer campers are standing in a circle arguing over who was at fault for their current predicament (all arrows pointing to Friday), when Arnold announces that he'd lost his library card and asks if someone could help him find it. It is quickly revealed that no one has their card, and Friday assumes that Winona stole them. This development makes the group well and truly lost. Clara orders everyone to gather their possessions and lay them out so they could see what they had to work with. Arnold takes a jab at Harrow by suggesting that The Director would send The Omen with '*chocolates and kisses from home*'. Harrow say that she didn't care about that stuff. Clara and Victoria go off for a one-on-one conversation (Friday having left earlier), leaving Arnold and Harrow to pick up the rest of their possessions.

Episode 73 - Retributions: The Summer campers are sitting around a fire after nightfall. Clara starts discussing making a plan, and Arnold comments that it was like a group project, and that he hated group projects. Arnold asks the group if Winona had sent them somewhere, or if she'd gone somewhere else and left them behind, but Friday says it doesn't matter, and that 'lost is lost'. Clara says that they just needed to stay alive long enough for someone at Downing Hill to realise that they were missing, and Arnold points out that Harrow was The Directors daughter, and that she might let the rest of them die, but not them.

Episode 76 - Lungs: Arnold is helping Victoria fish for food in a nearby lake, though he is doing his job poorly. Victoria manages to make a fishing rod, and instructs Arnold to collect a worm to use as bait. Arnold asks how to use the rod, and Victoria asks if he’d never been fishing. He says that no one had ever taught him, and that he hated ‘*water stuff*’. Victoria manages to find a worm, and she sets about teaching him how to fish. After a small while of waiting, Arnold looks up to see Victoria no longer on the shore next to him. He quickly realizes that something had pulled her into the water, and after concluding that there was no way he could get help in time, he dives in after her. The water causes him to take on the appearance of a Lolgmololg covenant (see Known Abilities). He manages to spot her comb (which she got in Episode 61 – Protectors), he approaches, and gets Victoria into sight, but she was being held underneath a lake spider the size of a construction vehicle. Arnold swallows his fear and lets out a shriek, acting as bait to lure the spider away from Victoria. Arnold attacks it with his tongue (see Known Abilities) and Victoria gets free. They both begin to swim away, but the spider bites Arnold on the arm before they make their escape. Victoria asks if he knew he could ‘do that’, and Arnold tell her yes, recalling a past incident when Victoria pushed Arnold into a pool when they were younger, and he apologises for the events of that day. He refers to his Aquatic appearance as ugly, and Victoria reassures him that he wasn’t ugly. Weird, but it was still just him, so it wasn’t ‘ugly’ or ‘gross’, using her own body dysphoria to relate to him. Arnold points out that they hadn’t actually caught any fish, and Victoria says that if Arnold was open to it, she had a new idea, implying that Arnold was going to catch fish using his ability.

Episode 78 - Runaways: The Summer campers are once again sitting around a fire post nightfall, though this time they’re eating the fish Arnold and Victoria caught. Victoria, Friday and Harrow get into an argument over why they dislike each other, and Friday throws out that Harrow was more afraid of Victoria than anyone. Victoria asks if she was scary, and Arnold says that she isn’t, but she could be mean sometimes. Victoria points out that Arnold used to bully everyone, and Arnold shrugs. Friday brings up the body in the woods they found in Episode 71 – Trials, and they discuss that until they quickly devolve into bickering, but they are cut off by the sound of a wail coming from the woods. Victoria quickly suggests that they snuff out the fire, and all but Harrow agree, Clara says it would be a good idea, stating that she’d seen ‘*some weird stuff out here*’, and begins to talk about the Froglins and other creatures that’d attacked her, but she is once again cut off when the sound begins again, this time closer. It is quickly revealed to be a deer, and the group assumes that they’re safe. The deer the opens it’s mouth to reveal that it had two jaws and that it wasn’t just one deer, but a herd. The deer attack them and the summer campers get separated from each other.

Episode 82 - Failures: Arnold managed to escape the deer by diving into the nearby wetland. He quickly spots Clara and Friday, who were talking off the side of a cliff, and is also quickly impaled, mauled and torn into pieces by a Deer that’d run up behind him, which then proceeds to make his ‘corpse’ its dinner. This is implied to have been a direct consequence of Friday’s Void Knife breaking. The Deer then attempts to attack Clara, but is teleported away by Harrow. Clara gets Harrow to check if Arnold might still be alive. Harrow confirms that they didn’t think he was, and that he was ‘all in little pieces’. There is a slight time skip of a couple of hours after Clara, the pov character, passes out During this time Arnold’s dismembered body parts have spread out, his hand washing up on the shore beside Clara and Harrow, and producing a green foam from where it had been torn from the rest of the body, twitching all of its fingers. This implies that Arnold is miraculously still alive.

Episode 88 - Broomsticks: Arnold (or Arnold's severed hand) had been picked up by Harrow and wrapped in a cloth, which Harrow is holding as if it were a baby. Arnold's hand is consistently moving and wriggling in the cloth, trying to wriggle it's way out. Clara and Harrow discuss how the hand might be moving without a brain attached to it. Harrow suggests that Arnold might have been "all brains" but Cara says that was unlikely for Arnold. Clara leaves Arnold and Harrow alone to try and find her some help or her way back to Downing Hill, and tells Harrow to keep the fire going so she could easily find them again.

## Known Abilities

* Whenever Arnold gets wet his Lolgmolog covenant shows. His skin begins to pale and green and pucker, and a thick layer of slime forms over his body. He develops extra eyelids that act as goggles to he can see, and his eyes become buboes and pop out of his skull. His hands become enlarged and knobby, developing webbed fingers and toes, and his legs become stronger and more adapted for swimming, also allowing him to jump to superhuman heights. He possesses both lungs and gills while like this, though he cannot talk underwater, and has been shown to get mixed up on which he should be using at a given moment. He can, however, let out a shriek that can easily penetrate the denser sound barrier of water. He also develops a longer (roughly 10ft or 3.04m), sticky tongue, similar to chameleons or certain frog species, that he can spit out and retract at will.
* When he begins to dry all the aforementioned changes go back into shape, which can be a rather painful process for Arnold.
* Arnold was able to survive being torn into pieces, although this might only be an ability he can use while he is using his covenant. It is unknown if Arnolds severed hand has any memory of being Arnold Eggers, but it shows familiarity towards Harrow.

## Relationships

### Harrow Blackletter

Arnold’s relationship with harrow is vague and undefined, but the two seem to be closer and more involved with each other than Arnold is with Victoria

### Victoria Tepiani

Arnold is friends with Victoria in current day, although Arnold used to bully Victoria when they were younger. This ended when Victoria pushed Arnold in a pool in retribution for him making fun or her mustache. This resulted in his covenant’s manifestation being revealed in a very public way. They have since made up for the events of that day. Victoria has become a massive supporter in Arnolds problems with his covenant and his hatred of it, using her own experience with her difficult covenant to relate to him and his struggles. Despite this, Arnold does point out that Victoria has a tendency to be rather mean.

### Friday Rescher

Arnold has had no one-on-one interactions with Friday, though he does display a healthy dosage of fear towards her.

### Clara Martin

As with Friday, Arnold has had not one-on-one interactions with Clara, but he acknowledges her as a leader in the group, and often follows her instructions without comment.

### Winona Carline

Arnold seemed to have gotten along with Winona on a personal level a lot better then anyone else in the group when they were still traveling with her, and, similar to Clara, often mindlessly followed her instructions. It is unclear if this is why she also seemed to get along with him, or if she generally found his air headedness endearing.

## Trivia

* Arnold doesn't know his left from his right
* Arnold has read '*Robinson Crusoe*'

## Episode Appearances

* Episode 58 - Enemies
* Episode 61 - Protectors
* Episode 65 - Miles
* Episode 68 - Sands
* Episode 71 - Trials
* Episode 73 - Retributions
* Episode 76 - Lungs
* Episode 78 - Runaways
* Episode 82 - Failures
* Episode 88 - Broomsticks