Solomon Reed

**Solomon Reed,** also known as The Instrumentalist, is one of the primary antagonists of Season One. He is the father of Percy Reed and the husband of the now deceased Abigail Reed. He also was the employer of Olivier Song and Clara Martin through Downing Hill.

## Personality

Solomon is a commanding man, often being quite harsh to his protégés Olivier Song and Clara Martin, and transphobic to both Olivier and Percy Reed. He has repeatedly expressed distaste for anyone that does not follow the religious views he deems to be moral, resulting in him being homophobic, transphobic and generally unpleasant to be around. Additionally, the revenants under his command are treated poorly by him.

Despite this, he does care for Percy, offering to make concessions on Percy's clothing choices and searching for him after they were separated.

## Description

Solomon is an old man with long white hair and a long white beard. He also has a pair of golden reading glasses that have a cracked lens after they were broken by Riot Maidstone when Solomon, as the Instrumentalist, attacked the Scoutpost. His eyes are green.

## History

As a young man Solomon's close friend Adam confessed his love for Solomon. They were both raised in heavily religious communities, and Solomon reported this to the authorities. This resulted in Adam being sent to conversion therapy and ultimately killing himself. Solomon felt guilty about this and as a result went into a depression.

He then met Abigail, who took him out of his depression and they wed. They then had Percy, who they named Persephone, and Solomon began to study more at Downing Hill and the Church of the Hallowed Name, which meant he was away from his home for long periods of time. During one of these periods of time, Abigail sewed Percy's lips shut and locked him in his room, were he starved to death after Abigail killed herself. Solomon returned home to find both of them dead, and turned them both into spirits attached to instruments. Abigail is attached to a fife that Solomon keeps in his pocket, and Percy was attached to a grand piano. The piano was later stolen from Solomon, who searched for it.

At some point after Abigail and Percy were turned into instruments, Solomon attended dinner at Irene Mend's house and killed her. He then took her bell and assumed control over her revenants, the Mendies.

## Known Abilities

Solomon uses Solomon's Cabinet to turn people into spirits that he can attach to the instruments he crafts from their body parts - so far confirmed as skin and bones. He is able to then control these spirits and use them to hunt as The Instrumentalist.

He learned how to keep ghosts on Earth and bind them to instruments from The Downing Hill Public Library and The Church of the Hallowed Name.

## Appearances

* Episode 5 - Forests
* Episode 7 - Nightmares
* Episode 8 - Names
* Episode 10 - Songs
* Episode 16 - Crowns
* Episode 18 - Bones
* Episode 20 - Doors
* Episode 24 - Storms
* Episode 25 - Spiders
* Episode 27 - Spirits
* Episode 28 - Threads
* Episode 33 - Temples
* Episode 36 - Swords
* Episode 40 - Graves

## Trivia

* Solomon was the first character with a finalized design.
* In earlier drafts, Solomon's name was Amadeus. (although he isnt cool enough to have that name)