Chase Doe

## Description

Chase is very tall and severely underweight, with short messy blonde hair and large grey eyes. She only wears loose masculine-type clothing, and avoids showing unnecessary skin as much as possible, no matter the weather. She tends to be naïve, miss many references, and has a rough kind of voice. She is an alcoholic and in constant conflict with the bars in town because she is only 18.

## Background Information

Chase was born to an unidentified woman who died of drug overdose while in labor, which is how Chase ended up with the last name "Doe". After several years of extreme health problems, Chase was shuffled around several foster homes who couldn't handle her undiagnosed schizophrenia before being sent to the group home "Lee's Home For Troubled Girls." She stayed there until she aged out of the system on her 18th birthday. She prefers to avoid talking about that time except to mention its related to her extreme claustrophobia and that she had a cherished Burgershot-themed teddy bear.

After suffering withdrawals from stopping heavy doses of antipsychotics she found she could once again hear the voice of Gud (spelled "God") and decided to do her best to bring his message to people so people would understand she wasn't lying or crazy.

## Arcs

1: Priest Of Gud - Freshly into the city, Chase first tried to spread the message of Gud to anybody who would listen, and quickly got the reputation for being rude, off-standish, and crazy. She met Tim Burr in front of the police station while trying to figure out if a woman in a rat mask was a demon, and after attacking him for saying she wasn't a priest, somehow made quick friends with him. Attempting to prove Gud Protects, she was hit by two cars and then jumped off a building. She landed on a walkway, while Tim fell off the building trying to stop her. While in the hospital she apologized several times for getting him hurt, then assured him if he had just believed, he would have been fine too. While wandering she came across Elmo and attempted to exorcise him with holy water, which sent him to the hospital. The encounter made her realize she needed something stronger than water, and she bought a gun. When Elmo was reported to have returned to the city, she helped try to exorcise Norm, then teamed up with Glowhouse Paranormal Specialists Louie and Cupcake to rid the world of Elmo once and for all. While waiting for a showdown at the pier, she encountered a strange reporter who kept talking about his interests in the "human experience". Originally she pulled her gun on him but found it was too difficult to shoot somebody who looked human, so she threw him into the ocean instead. She was charged with aggravated assault and overdosed on Zoloft in jail.

2: Med Fiend - Chase was driven to Pillbox to recover from her med dose where she met Dr. Chloe, who was the original person to prescribe zoloft to her. Angry she had overdosed, Dr. Chloe confiscated her meds. The next day, desperate for anything to help her overwhelming claustrophobia, Chase traveled through the town, trying to find somebody with anxiety meds, trying Pillbox, the police station, before finally getting a hold of Dr. Kay the pharmacist and getting a complimentary refill. While hanging out with Tim and a new friend Beth, Chase was advised to get a stronger version of anxiety meds, and she texted Dr. Kay asking for different meds. She was offered Buspar and given a bottle while at the Satanist meeting. Unsure of what she should do with the remaining Zoloft, Chase decided to take them all as well as the 3 Buspar she was prescribed, causing her to fall into Serotonin syndrome while visiting Pillbox. After having her stomach pumped twice and being confronted by Dr. Chloe once again, Chase attempted to escape with her meds by running away from the hospital. She was caught by Dr. Chloe and an unknown person who jumped into the chase and dragged back. Locked into a patient room she began to have a breakdown and finally in desperation lied to Dr. Chloe about Tim being kidnapped and needing to do a police report. While being driven to the police station she jumped out of the car and finally got away. Scared of being caught again, Chase kept running from any medical people she recognized, which ended up with her slipping off a ladder and dislocating her left knee. Police forced her back to Pillbox but told her she had the right to refuse treatment. Meeting up with Tim later on she was convinced to get her leg treated, and was escorted for safety to the doctor. While she was getting a cast on, Dr. Chloe told Tim she was not kidnapped, that she was refusing all treatment, and needed therapy badly. After they left, Tim brought up the suggestion, and after some initial distrust, Chase agreed to go. Due to the stress and heavy drinking she had gone through, she ended up in a mild psychotic break for two days, and when she had recovered, found out several of her friends, including Tim, had been robbed and shot by a woman named Kitty. Unable to find him, she finally broke down and attempted to see the therapist Dr. Frank. She hadn't taken her meds yet, so to help her feel comfortable they met outside of Pillbox, where a random motorcyclist struck them. She wasn't injured, but Dr. Frank needed to go through an operation. Blaming herself she began drinking heavily for several days. While visiting bars trying to get more vodka, she drove up on an old woman, Granny Smathers, being shot by Tequila Tony security. That on top of more of her friends being hurt by Kitty led Chase to start working towards becoming an EMT, acquiring a medical journal from Hugh Mann. She was finally able to meet with Dr. Frank after he had recovered, and after a long session, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and prescribed a once a week IME shot and medical marijuana edibles, with the intent of making the voice of Gud go away forever and preventing Chase from overdosing again. Deciding she was done with violence forever, Chase gave Dr. Frank her gun.

3: Smiles - Being told to make friends, Chase went to a newly opened gym to work out and plan on how to meet people. While there, a car stopped, opened the door, and the man inside told her to come closer while calling her a friend. Chase did, and the stranger who had a smiling mask on stepped out with a gun. Her bat and phone was taken away and she was told to get into the trunk. On the ride up north she had a conversation with the person about the nature of friendship and if Gud was truly on her side, or if he would betray her now that she was on meds. She told him she trusted Gud completely. She tried to ask him about why he would call her a friend then threaten her, but didn't understand his answer. Once they arrived at the boat house and he let her out, she tried to offer him her friendship. He reassured her that he would try to hold back for that, then tortured her with a hammer and knife, before posting his work on twitter. Once Chase was taken to the hospital it was found she had a fractured skull, broken left arm, and cracked ribs, and ended up needed to get a plate in her head. Unable to speak and using a notepad, she tried to tell the doctor and police that his mask was like Kara Rose's but that it was a man. Nobody understood her. Frustrated she ended up leaving with Linus and staying the night at his motel. The next day she was angry and short with everyone, frustrated she couldn't understand what had happened or why, and did her best to convince everyone her injuries were due to dropping a heavy weight on her head, nothing more. Under the impression she had done something wrong to make this person hurt her, and believing the doctors that her memory was wrong, she confronted Kara to find out why she had hurt her. Kara reassured her that her first impression was right, that there was a man with her mask, and that he was called Smiles. Kara also gave Chase the name "Hughbert Janis" and a bat to stay safe. The night she finally opened up to Nolan about how she really got hurt. He asked her if she intended on finding this person, and she reassured him that she had no intention to, and that as long as she stayed away from the gym, she would never see this person again. She gave him the bat, reaffirming that she had no intention of hurting anybody, regardless of what happened. Later on she got a job as a taxi driver, then after a day of drinking, ended up in a deep sleep for four days. Linus found her and took her back to the motel, taking care of her until she woke up.

Waking up angry and disorientated, it took a while for Chase to adjust to her new disabilities from her extensive brain trauma. She went on a binge of self-destructive behaviour, including drinking heavily, driving dangerously, and lashing out at people. She picked up a job at the taxi company, but her undiagnosed PTSD made the job fraught with tension between her and her coworkers. One day while lying in the road in an attempt to be ran over after a stressful day Smiles stopped and picked her up. They rode together for a while, discussing his desires and how she didn't believe somebody like him could be real. He told her he had hurt somebody else, then dropped her off at the hospital with only the name "Maria" to find her. Chase was unable to meet with her, but Dr Chloe assured her nobody had died that night. It appears meeting up with the serial killer again helped her realize the original encounter was real and that Smiles can be spoken with. She decided the best way to save him was to remove his mask, reasoning the Smiles personality was tied to that one, while his real face must contain somebody she could be friends with.

4: Dreams - Hugh Mann died from brain cancer, which led Chase to finally apply for EMT as a way of honouring her friend. Shortly after being accepted at Pillbox she was finally fired from the taxi company for drawing graffiti over the main building. She spent two days drunk, where she got several new charges for speeding and drunk driving. In this time she got closer to Nolan and Linus, which led to them agreeing to adopt her to give her some stability in her life. They found this was a bit more stressful than expected with her self-destructive tendencies still flaring up. In an attempt to fix her own disability she convinced Homeless Donny to beat her in the head with a flashlight. Though she tried to explain to Nolan she asked him to do this, he angrily hunted down Donny and during their conflict accidentally ended up knocking him off a crane, almost killing him. Later on while drunk she ended up being followed by Jack Marrow, an off duty police officer she had spoken to briefly before. He followed her through the city, refusing to let her get away or get into any vehicles. Finally she ended up calling Donny to help her, and is hopeful this will smooth the conflict between Donny and Nolan finally. It was at this time she learned Donny had been attacked by a new serial killer called "The Cure". On 8/5 she was legally adopted and took the name Chastity Baxter-Kelly.

5: Consequences - When Smiles escalated, people quickly realized she appeared to have a connection with him since she met with him several times without being hurt. Happy to try to help, Chase agreed to keep in contact with the serial killer in an attempt to save him. She texted him many times and even gave him a ride up north, hoping to gain his trust so he would be open to listening to her. Unknown to her, Smiles had been told several times that she was telling people his name and number, despite her expressly refusing to do so after being told by Smiles that his name was not allowed to be said. After the murder of Joseph Valentine she became afraid for her family and started writing down everything she knew or suspected about Smiles, though she still held on to the belief she could somehow convince him to stop. Shortly before she was meant to turn in the file to Officer Cecil, she was called out to meet Smiles in Sandy Shores, where he accused her of betraying him after all due to the leaked information, then killed her.

## Jobs

She started out as a priest, moonlit as a demon hunter/exorcist, worked for a short time as a taxi driver, and was attempting to become an EMT.

## Relationships

Family

* Nolan Baxter
* Linus Kelly

### Friends

* Tim Burr
* Alistair Mulacahy
* Cupcake Garibaldi
* Louie Ritoni
* Chloe Continelli
* Skyler Guyson
* Beth Frend
* Leo Domo
* Frank Pinata
* Hugh Mann †
* Donny Gaits
* Smiles

### Rivals

* Cecil Jones
* Kitty
* Elmo Wuhtavit
* Jack Marrow

## Quotes

"I don't understand."

"It's. . .ringworm!"

"I'm training to be an EMT, let me check your injuries."

"It's CHASE. Just Chase! Don't call me. . . that other name!"

## Trivia

* Chase is mildly allergic to potatoes
* Chase believes her full name is something only Gud can call her, and becomes quickly hostile if it is said out loud.
* Chase has only said her full name twice. The first time when trying out her new name after being adopted, the second to Smiles as a way of sharing trust and finally being understood, since he hated his legal name as well.
* She lives in a burnt out bus next to the bottom parking lot of Pillbox and refuses to move from it. She will randomly hang signs telling people to stay away.
* Due to subtle conversion therapy from the group home, Chase had no idea she was a lesbian until after hanging out with Nolan for a while and trying to help him get a boyfriend.
* She gets a tattoo every time she has a serious injury to help her remember the event. She has four tattoos now, on her head, left arm, back, and left leg.
* She never eats in front of people, and only eats every other day or so. Somehow she has been steadily gaining weight since entering this neighbourhood.
* Due to her early-onset anorexia, she hasn't had a period yet, though she has gone through puberty.
* Chase takes after her father, including height.
* She is a cis female, though due to her looks and height most people assume she is a man.