Edwin Deforest

> *It's business, kid! I used to run the business myself before this whole damn deeds started.*
>
> Edwin Deforest talking with Jameson Sanders about the concert at "Yellow Tuna" club

**Edwin Deforest** (Edwin "DeFarst" D'Borsky) is a character in *Jameson's Door*. He is a young and energetic man who apparently has a position of power in the town where the game takes place. Appears only in "Jameson's Door" as a minor character - this is his first and last appearance in Sightless Highland Franchise.

Throughout the course of the game, you will learn that he is not a simple young guy, but a big boss and in some way a member of the mafia group.

## Appearance

His exact age is never given. He appears to be in his early twenties, has short black hair, and his eyes are permanently hidden by impenetrable sunglasses.

He is dressed in a gray-blue T-shirt with white and red stripes and light brown sports shorts, on his feet are sandals of the same color.

Edwin is very cheerful guy, although he has a kind of daring boyish frankness that can offend an intelligent person, but for peoples of a street warehouse, he is The Same Politeness. He is not a fool to drink, but he has never hit alcoholism.

## Personality

From those hints that are given to us in the game, we can judge that Edwin was born in the family of a hereditary aristocrat Kylde Shempton - his father was rather cruel with him, practically did not let him out of his room and kept him in a black body.

When Edwin grew up, he left his father's house and the first thing he did was change the hated surname Shempton to D'Borsky - according to him, he scooped this surname from his favorite adventure novel.

His head is teeming with ideas that he splashes out while staying in a provincial town. Natives were so uneducated that he first introduced himself to them with the surname "DeFarst" (so that they do not puzzle over the pronunciation of his last name), and then people in town simply called him "Deforest" - he put up with this, and the nickname stuck to him like a name given from birth.

Less than a year later, he got into the confidence of the city authorities and introduced reforms, of which it was worth noting the sale of weapons, prohibition, and so on, which led to both an increase in money circulation and an increase in the crime rate - but this gave Edwin support represented by the best criminal authorities of most of the mainland.

Prior to the events of the game, Edwin had problems with the fact that the supply of bananas from the Bahamas was sabotaged by mysterious intermediaries - not least because of this, W.S. Hargrove is passed away.

## *Jameson's Door*

Edwin Deforest will be the minor character in "Jameson's Door", a main game project in Sightless Highland Franchise. He will be a kind of mentor for the protagonist, he will give the hero some advice and help in many ways, at least until the moment he disappears in an attempt to escape from the town.

## Quotes

* *"You fool. There was no live performance. This club just had a license to his melody, and under this record there grimacing a dude who looked like this guitarist.* [about concert in "Yellow Tuna" club]*"*
* *"And you, I see, are not averse to sniffing out my affairs! It won't work, dude!"*
* *"Listen here, kid, I'll share the secret of this rotten place that I accidentally discovered."*
* *"Darling, can you give us a lift to Dreamland, huh?"*
* *"So careless, Walton. So. Careless... Understand me at last, Mr. Hargrove, that you should never discuss your boss, especially in public!"'*
* *"Do you know how to load boxes and bales? Just took it, carried it, delivered it to its destination and dumped it in a heap. But bananas are delicate things, they need a special approach! After all, they are so soft, there is so much juicy pulp! This is not some iron weights for you! If you throw them, then everything - a heavenly meal goes to the ass! You will no longer enjoy delicious fruits!"*

## Trivia

* Appearance of Edwin Deforest draws strong inspiration from the character Eddie Dombrowski from Silent Hill 2.
* The character's lifestory draws inspiration from Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser's "The Financier" and Edwin Lefèvre's "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" (from the latter author this character even got his name).
* You never see Edwin Deforest without his sunglasses - for this reason, the color of his eyes remains a mystery.
* Early drafts of the game's story had Jameson Saunders working for him at his firm, but this was later cut for unknown reasons.
* It's funny that despite being half the age of the forty-year-old Jameson Saunders, he calls the latter "kid" and generally behaves like a person higher in position than the protagonist.