Soren Baltimore

Soren Baltimore is a counselor of Cabin Ladybug at Camp Here & There.

## Background

Soren recently came into a large inheritance, and uses this money to pay Lucille a good deal of money every summer to allow him to keep working at Camp Here and There.

Fennel mentions knowing Soren for some amount of time, but it is unclear if they have an extended history with him or not.

## Character History

### Season One

In The Prophecy of Reversal, Soren is found to be missing from the Lunch Lineup. He is found by Salem after she breathes in the fumes from the bonfire. She sees him walking up the hill to The Death Fields, which is concerning because his co-counselor Fennel states that he has always had a "thing" about necromancy. Sydney and Lucille go to the Death Fields to retrieve him, and find him right at the edge of them, being beckoned by The Gravediggress. Lucille grabs him and lectures him, and he returns to camp. Once he is back, he seems either unable or unwilling to speak.

In The Norms of the World, several of Soren's books are stolen, including *Embalming for Dummies* and *Demonology for Freaks*.

In The World of Goo, Soren teams up with Fennel to lead a theoretical workshop on The Strange Magic of the Soul and Mind. He also has Sydney request that any campers that find really long stones report their coordinates to him immediately.

In The Goo of Friendship, Sydney reports that Soren is very pleased with the several long and impressive stones that have been reported to him. He states that they will "do quite nicely...yes, quite nicely indeed....heh heh. Heh heh."

In The Enemies of Labor, Soren has Sydney inform the camp that he now has "all the stones he needs."

In The Labors of Love, Soren disappears for the day, leaving his co-counselor Fennel to lead Cabin Ladybug on their own. Sydney issues him a stern warning for this.

In The Love of Mother, Soren is one of the counselors that does not need to participate in the Counselor Olympics, as he disappeared into the woods all day during the tower-building contest, which is suspicious but does not negatively impact camp spirit. When Marisol informs Sydney of a strange clearing in the woods surrounded by huge vertical stones with animal bones scattered around and a statue of a robed woman offering up a white rabbit's corpse, he wonders if this might have something to do with Soren's recent stone collection.

In The Mother of Stones, Soren hijacks the morning announcements to invite the campers to come to his stone altar in the woods after lunch and participate in his ritual of resurrection. Although no campers attend the ritual, it is successful, and a white rabbit is reanimated. Soren follows it around camp excitedly as the day continues. Jedidiah engineers a trap for Soren including a box and a carrot, but the carrot does not tempt him, so he replaces it with a worm. The worm does lure Soren into the box, but even when he is captured the rabbit continues to be animated, signifying that it is not him alone that is keeping it alive.

In The Stones in Toilets, Soren is on cabin arrest for a week due to his actions the previous day. This is the harshest punishment he can get, as he cannot be fired because he is actually paying Lucille a good deal of money each summer to work there.

In The Reality of Hallucination, the evening activity is a yo-yoing contest using yo-yo's that Soren found buried near The Death Fields.

In The Hive of Anxiety, Soren is granted temporary leave from Cabin Arrest to speak at the camp-wide meeting. He advocates for allowing the campers to remain enthralled by the beehive, as he sees their attraction to something so terrible and powerful as beautiful.

In The Anxiety of the Trees, the campgrounds are becoming unruly because Soren is still under cabin arrest and can't tend to them (a privilege he pays Lucille quite a bit for). It is also discovered that Soren's altar in the forest may still be active, since a headless dog has been wandering the campgrounds. Sydney, Joshua, and several campers go into the forest and begin to dismantle it, but the trees become upset and trap them. They begin to reassemble the altar, thinking that perhaps that is what the trees are upset about, but it turns out that they are upset about a stolen acorn instead, and so they are able to leave the shrine mostly disassembled.

In The Wood of the Caskets, while he is under cabin arrest in Cabin Ladybug, Soren notices the everyday mold growing in the cabins, and with herbal medicines from the nurses' office and a few items retrieved by his campers, he transforms the mold into a fungal agent capable of diffusing the holy effect of The Death Fields throughout camp. After the mold wreaks havoc on Camp Here & There (see Mold for further details), and Soren confesses this plan to the camp via the announcements, he is dragged away from the nurses' office by Sydney, Joshua and Rowan. Lucille sends him away from the camp, but whether or not she actually fired him is unknown.

In The Muse of the Elephant/The Elephant in the Room, Sydney states that if Soren were still at the camp, he would just flick him in the face.

## Trivia

* Soren is 22 years old, making him the youngest counselor at camp.
* Soren keeps several books in his cabin.
* Belov has mentioned that Soren "refuses to accept that necromancy is illegal (and impossible, and extremely dangerous, and did we mention against the law).
* Soren is not paid by the camp, and instead gives Lucille a large amount of money each summer to maintain his employment
* Soren recently came into a massive inheritance under mysterious circumstances
* Soren ate dirt as a kid.

## Sources

1. ↑ Season 1 Episode 14: The Stones in Toilets
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Season 1 Episode 14: The Stones in Toilets
3. ↑ Mayfield and Belov. Youtube Livestream. February 5, 2022. https://youtu.be/dbuAB-TufnY