Dennis

Dennis' official portrait

**Dennis** is a major character and the main protagonist of the *Dennis* series. He is an artificial human created for the sole purpose of experiencing a nightmarish reality known as "The Quiet World", although his exact origins are unknown.

## Biography

Dennis is an artificial human being genetically engineered by an unknown individual with an unknown motive beyond sticking their creation in The Quiet World to experience its surreal, nightmarish, black & white world, starting in a place called House Zone One. Waking up on a strange bed in unfamiliar surroundings due to only having some basic knowledge of life, Dennis would try and exit the bedroom he found himself in, only to be spooked into remaining inside by a dog. After mustering up enough strength to leave the room, he took a shower in his clothes. Afterwards, a spontaneously dry Dennis rather grumpily entered the kitchen to give himself breakfast, going so far as to try and choke himself with a cereal bag. Subsequently, unsatisfied with his long hair, he gave himself a haircut, seeing visions of a redheaded Canadian man and an identically dressed individual with a black Jason Voorhees-style hockey mask on, banging their head against the table.

At an unspecified time, Dennis wound up in the Shadow Zone, unable to share his experiences beyond some unidentifiable ruffling sounds. At an unknown point in time, Dennis managed to escape back to House Zone One, where he successfully relaxed in a dressing gown and prepared to watch SpongeBob with some biscuits, cola and a sandwich. However, Green Man and the dog interrupted, causing Dennis to let out a yell as Green Man screamed autistically and proceeded to cover himself and roll around in biscuit crumbs, leaving none left for Dennis as he seemingly vacated the room with his sandwich, spilling his cola in the process. Although the exact outcome of the situation is unknown, it is assumed Green Man left shortly afterwards, leaving Dennis to clean up the mess.

An unspecified amount of time later on a sunny day, Dennis, mentally scarred from the Green Man experience, ate some Starburst and played with some marbles while singing his favourite song, "You Are So Beautiful", with the dog making pattering sounds in the background. Later on in the afternoon, Dennis attempted to eat a pizza, but was interrupted by a strange-looking woman and a shark with braces screaming like a woman, causing him to angrily slam the pizza on the plate, slap it and leave.

For unknown reasons, Dennis was later transported to House Zone Three, waking up in panic and confusion over his new surroundings. Disgusted by the mess of his new 'home', Dennis picked up some clothes, put a Mandalorian helmet back on top of a shelf unit, hung up a jacket, reorganised some hats, took the garbage out, cleaned the living, put the dominos in their box, put the dishwasher on, and went to bed, leaving him with a more tidy, happy home in a dark, cruel world.

After waking up, Dennis rather nervously bathed the dog, initially being disturbed by dropping the shower head, which caused a pain so severe it made his perception red. Throughout the bathing process, Dennis would see visions of a park and a streetlamp in the middle of the night, as well as a Photo-Negative Mickey Mouse, ignoring them to focus on his current task. After successfully drying the dog, Dennis would run away, only to be pursued by the canine, causing him to scream.

Presumably the next day, Dennis brushed his teeth, becoming increasingly unsteady, even seeing visions of other versions of himself as they go through the process. Dennis, now naked, changed his outfit, and would attempt to go outside, but became scared, not going anything further than peering through the letterbox and a crack in the door before slamming it, which resulted in him waking up in the middle of Park Zone Fourteen, a semi-industrial park with shipping containers, a large field, sports equipment, a brick building and a flooded path, the latter being the very same one he saw in his vision. After eating some stones that caused him to vomit milk, Dennis would navigate through the park, only to become lost as it became pitch black. He wound up on Street Zone Eleven, nicknamed Newland Road. The lamplight would glow orange, sending a disturbed Dennis home, stomping an apple on his way. Visions of a man with a smaller head on his forehead, a screaming animal, Dennis going to punch something, and a screaming man accompany Dennis as he returns home, glaring at the outside world before closing the door very firmly, leaving the dog, who was outside, locked out.

Winding up in House Zone One a second time, Dennis found and consumed a strange milk-like substance in a wine glass, causing him to become violently intoxicated. After struggling for a moment, he collapsed and fell unconscious, seeing very disturbing, flashy hallucinations of child molesters, demonic creatures and surrealist imagery, with accompanying screams a glitchy sounds. That very same evening, Dennis, still recovering from the experience, made the hasty decision to end his own life, eating a tidepod out of the dishwasher based on a video he watched on the Internet, killing him almost instantly.

## Personality

Dennis is a shy, awkward, mostly mute individual with little personality traits beyond this. He is scared of almost anything and everything he comes across, be it a small, seemingly harmless dog, or simply going outside, hinting he may be somewhat cynophobic and agoraphobic. In spite of his apparent anxiety, he also seems to have a curious mindset, admiring the simplicity of a single cheerio and his own haircut. There are suggestions he may be suicidal, the primary example being when he tries to choke himself using a plastic cereal bag. He does seem to become somewhat more relaxed as the series goes on, but the increasingly bizarre experiences he goes through, as well as signs of a weak or straight up unbalanced mental state, continue to suggest he remains full of the same negative emotions and feelings he had at the beginning of his unusual adventures.

In spite of his negative traits and erratic behaviour, Dennis almost always dresses very formally in shirts, trousers, belts, ties and waistcoats, only occasionally toning his outfits down to trainers and shorts in order accommodate more relaxed situations, such as eating pizza or singing to himself on a sunny day. He seems to have a sense of keeping things organised and today, given the almost three and a half minutes he spends thoroughly tidying up London Zone Two, and the fact that the locations he messes up are usually clean afterwards.

Given Dennis has only ever actually spoken once (while singing his favourite song in the midst of an apparent mental breakdown) and let out a yell on another occasion when scared by Green Man, and has never been in a normal situation where he's had to interact with other people in a normal way, very little can be said about his actual personality and behaviour on a base level, with any observations ultimately only being speculation. He does appear to be very gluttonous, considering he ate a whole pizza and an entire bag of cereal when given the chance.

## Appearances

* **Season 1**
	+ *All episodes*

* **Season 2**
	+ *All episodes*