Father Allred

"Don't be afraid, Mr. Martin. The Lord's servants are here."

**Father Allred** was a priest who acted as a mentor to protagonist John Ward. He's a minor character who's first mentioned in notes in Chapter I and physically appears in various nightmares in Chapter III. On September 21st, 1986, Allred and John attempted to exorcise a teenage girl called Amy Martin. Unfortunately, everything went wrong.

## Appearance

Allred was an elderly man with gray hair and eyes. Similar to John, he is only seen wearing clerical clothing. In his overworld sprite, he is shown to be wearing a lavender-colored stole, but otherwise it looks like he's wearing a trench coat in rotoscope animation. He always keeps his crucifix with him.

## Personality

Father Allred was a man of God, who is willing to risk his own life to get the job done and defeat the forces of evil. He's an experienced priest and exorcist who's been associated with the Catholic Church for a long time. He is shown to be stern to his apprentice, John, but also caring. In his last moments, he left his crucifix to John, asking him to continue Amy's exorcism in his place with his own blood, further showing his dedication to his work.

## Biography

### September of 1986

Sometime in September, a man named Bob Martin returns to his house after finishing his servicing months in Nicaragua as a missionary. When he gets home, he sees his wife, Cindy, mentally unstable and his daughter, Amy, silent and standoffish. Cindy's mental state has noticeably worsened and fully believes her twin sons, Nate and Jason, are still around and encouraging her to look for "replacements". However, Bob focuses entire on Amy's condition, thinking that something supernatural has taken over her. With no other choice, he and Cindy contact the Catholic Church to see if an exorcist can arrive to help Amy. **Father Allred** is hired to do the job since he's experienced. Analyzing the situation and making some visits, Allred realizes that Amy's possession is stronger than what he's used to, so he contacts the Catholic Church for an assistant. John Ward, a priest who's never done an exorcism before, is assigned to take on the grueling task. Father Allred decides to have the exorcism done on the 21st. He was hoping to have the exorcism performed away from the house, preferably an old shed nearby, because he knew how a demon can afflict close family members. However, Bob and Cindy were adamant on having it done inside the house so that they can check on Amy.

### September 21st, 1986

In the night, Father Allred and John drive to the Martin House to perform the exorcism.

Trying to spark a conversation and getting to know him, Allred reminds John that the exorcism was a top secret and if he's ever done an exorcism before. John's on-the-edge and gives one-word answers like, "No, Sir." Noticing his nervousness, Allred reprimands him that it's 'Father' not 'Sir' and reassures him that everything will be ok if he follows his directions. Additionally, Allred gives him advice that he should not trust what he sees or hears. Reaching the destination, the two park outside, open the door, and Allred introduces himself and John to Bob and Cindy.

John and Cindy remain quiet, and Bob's a nervous wreck, shamefully telling the two that he had to tie Amy in the basement. Walking downstairs, Amy stares at John and Father Allred coldly as Allred tries to ask how she's doing. With no response, Allred demands the demon's name in Latin, and her demon remarks, "HELLO, PRIEST." Father Allred begins the exorcism.

John does nothing but stand still while Father Allred tries to exorcise her. As the session goes, Amy does nothing but kick her feet and laugh. Annoyed, Allred demands John to recite the prayer of exorcism from a nearby book. Upon reading the fourth verse, Bob and Cindy walk downstairs to see the commotion. Sensing Cindy's horrified silence, Amy's demon tries to call out to her. Allred demands to take the two back upstairs since her demon was trying to afflict them. As John relocates the two, Bob tries to spark a conversation and says that whatever was going on with her daughter was not her. Lacking human cadence, John says, "...I don't know what to tell you." He instructs the two to wait upstairs while he goes back down to assist Father Allred. Walking back downstairs, John sees Allred unconscious on the floor and Amy missing. Red words were on the floor that says, "Take it" and "Save her". John picks up Allred's crucifix and says, "Don't worry, Amy. I'm coming."

It's unclear if Allred was killed while John was upstairs with the parents, but for now we're just going to say that he's knocked out and Amy nearly killed him. With his last remaining strength, he wanted to make sure Amy was exorcised and gives John his crucifix to complete the task.

Looking around the house for Amy on the 1st Floor, Bob and Cindy were missing as well. However, he occasionally spots Cindy hiding behind furniture and sees Bob seemingly trapped in a mirror in the master bedroom. Going to the 2nd Floor and into the attic, he spots Amy standing motionlessly and the entire room was cold. John urges her to go back downstairs to restart the exorcism, but her demon starts to tease that his deceased mother was in the room with them. John ignores the goading and calls out for Bob and Father Allred. The demon mocks him again that nobody was coming to rescue him. With no choice, John attempts to restart the exorcism.

Amy's demon was far too strong and temporarily knocks John unconscious. After a while, John tries to find Amy again, vowing to never go back inside the attic after what he witnessed. Looking for her in her bedroom, John was horrified to find Cindy's strangled body nearby a doll. Amy apparently gutted her and strangled her with her own intestines while John was unconscious. Walking down to the master bedroom, he also finds Bob's strangled body. By this point, John was scared and feels like he needs to get out of the house immediately before getting killed himself. However, he doesn't want to leave Father Allred behind since he was merely unconscious, so he musters determination and ventures to the basement again. Investigating the area, he hears Father Allred saying, "Everything will be alright, Father Ward. Please come quickly!" Going back to where the exorcism initially begun, he finds Allred's body tampered and has hollow eye sockets. Allred begins to speak again, but suddenly, Amy appears and has his head on her lap. She opens Allred's eyes, and they begin to bleed. She continues to manipulate Allred's body to ask for John's help. She then stands up and crawls on all fours to rush John. Suddenly, she cuts off the lights, and the entire house goes dark.

Alone and terrified, John has reached his breaking point and freaks out if he will never escape the house alive. Seeing the corpses of her parents, her raw demonic power, and mimicking Father Allred's voice was all too much to bear. He prays for God to come rescue him. With no response, he then pleads for anybody else to come. Suddenly, a white entity manifests before him. The entity asks him what he wants, and John pleads to just go home. The entity reminds him that, if he swears upon it, Amy's possession will have a stronger hold on her, implying that she will never get exorcised if he makes the deal. Exhausted, John repeats himself that he just wants to go home. The entity makes him swear on it, and John obliges. With this, he's free to walk out of the house without getting killed by Amy. Outside, he walks towards paramedics and the police.

#### Aftermath

Although Father Allred was simply knocked out while John was looking around the house, he was killed when John was unconscious in the attic, likewise for Bob and Cindy. You can tell that he's dead because Amy gouged out his eyes and isn't writhing in pain. John and Amy were admitted into Yale Psychiatric Institute since they were mentally unwell when they left the house. Additionally, the police found the bodies of Father Allred, Bob, and Cindy, so John was heavily speculated to be the murderer since a teenager like Amy seems unlikely to kill three adults. After a month of counseling, John was released from the institution and was able to go back to his wife, Molly. In the series, the Catholic Church has odd authority over the press. The murder case was deemed to be an accident and Amy was charged with the murders; the reason for her killing was that Allred was using old church rituals that were thought to dispel evil and her parents were too controlling. She serves her sentence at an institution. The organization did not want the public to know that two priests were outmatched by a demon, so they denounced John as a priest. If he ever blabs about what truly happened in that house, it will look like John was going mental and whatever he's saying sounds uncredible.

### September 21st, 1987 (Chapter I)

Roughly a couple weeks prior, John has a vivid dream where Amy requested him to return to the Martin House on the anniversary of the failed exorcism to finish what he started. John woke up from the nightmare, retrieved his priestly outfit, Allred's crucifix, and prepared to return on the 21st.

Shortly before John ventures to Snake Meadow Hill Road to complete the exorcism, he felt it was courteous of him to leave a letter behind to Molly. In the letter, he tries to tell her the true version of what happened a year ago, hinting that if he never returns, the Catholic Church will tell her their own version of what happened to him. He recaps that Amy strangled her own parents and killed Father Allred with her own hands. He ends his letter that he loves her (Molly) very much and is sorry, implying that he's expecting to die in the house and his mission is like an elaborate suicide.

When John parks on the road, unlocks the front door, and enters inside, he can pick up notes that he left behind during the first exorcism. Otherwise, Father Allred won't be mentioned for a while.

### October 28th to 30th, 1987 (Chapter III)

We cut to over a month later and John begins to have vivid nightmares where he relives his first exorcism. However, we can tell that all of these nightmares are from his own memories and believes whatever happened in these nightmares truly did happen, which is concerning because John is not mentally all-there. There's evidence of this because he cannot enter the Martin Twins' room at all because, "I don't remember anything further." and there's a drawing of Snake Meadow Hill Church signed by Amy. It would've been impossible for Amy to even know about the church considering her age. Each time John sleeps at his house, he goes through various nightmares where he tries to assist Father Allred with the exorcism.

#### this is where it lives

Father Allred doesn't become important until much later in the Daycare Center. After John slumps over from a drug-induced rampage, he experiences another nightmare where he has the choice of either checking on Allred or leaving the house. Canonically, John investigates the basement where he sees Allred dead. However, there's a unique ending if John doesn't do that in his dream.

### October 31st, 1987 (Ending I "A New Purpose" Bad Variant)

We cut once again to the last couple of lines before this ending. Normally, John and another priest called Father Garcia failed to remove a seal over an entrance called the Crucible. John had no choice but to bring down a slab that's hovering over the Crucible to temporarily block demons from getting out. The pair would've walked outside and recollect at Garcia's car. John solemnly sits down and opens about how he unknowingly made the deal with the Devil. Garcia encourages him that God is real and the two shake hands in compliance to take on the UNSPEAKABLE.

However, the dialogue is slightly different if John did not check on Father Allred during his nightmare and tried to walk outside. In this version of the nightmare, he turned around and saw Amy giving him a sly look before a human hand emerges from her mouth and shuts off the lights.

At the end, everything is normal. Garcia and John recollect what happened at Garcia's car. As Garcia is about to request to John that he needs spiritual warriors like him, John stands up and says that he's probably not the one he's looking for. He says that he feels weak and that he's done some horrible things. He asks for time to figure everything out. Angered at his cowardice, Garcia spits his cigarette and says that it wasn't a request. He reloads his shotgun and aims at John's face, demanding him to get into his car. Garcia drives John to an unknown destination.

From this dialogue, it proves that all of John's nightmares were attempts of him remembering what happened during the first exorcism. In this variant, John believed that he selfishly neglect checking on Father Allred and tried to walk out the front door. In the end, John felt what he did was horrible and didn't want to keep fighting. Father Garcia knows how much untapped potential John has and doesn't want him to back down because of his past. However, Garcia tends to use unethical tactics to get what he wants.

## Quotes

### First Nightmare - Driving to the Martin House

* (In a nightmare, Father Allred drives John to the Martin House)
* (The screen displays the words, "September 21, 1986" and it cuts to a cinematic of Father Allred driving)
* "I don't need to tell you that this assignment is top secret."
* John: "Yes, Sir."
* "Based on what I saw during my previous visits..." "...we could be in for a very long night."
* "Is this your first exorcism?"
* John: "Yes, Sir."
* "Are you afraid?"
* John: "I don't know, Sir."
* "That's 'Father' to you."
* (Father Allred pauses briefly)
* "I'll give you a word of advice:"
* "Follow my instructions with exactness."
* "Don't trust what you may see or hear."
* (The screen fades to John and Father Allred walking to the house)

### Introduction

* "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. Martin."
* "This is my assistant, Father Ward."
* "Shall we begin?"
* (John, Cindy, Bob, and Allred walk to the kitchen)
* Bob: "She's in the back, I had to tie her up."
* "I understand."
* "Don't be afraid, Mr. Martin. The Lord's servants are here."
* (Bob pauses and the two walk towards the basement)
* Bob: "If you say so."

### Approaching Amy

* (John and Allred approach Amy, who's idly sitting down in a chair)
* "Hello, Amy?"
* "Can you hear me, Amy?"
* "RESPICE AD ME, DAEMONIUM." (Translation: Respond to me, Demon.)
* (Amy tilts her face up)
* Amy: "HELLO, PRIEST."

### Second Nightmare - Exorcism

* (Screen cuts to Amy laughing and kicking her feet)
* (Allred paces around and points his crucifix at her, John stands by)
* "Don't just stand there, Father Ward!"
* "Get the book and recite the prayer of exorcism!"
* (After John reads the fourth verse, Bob and Cindy appear)
* (The demon calls out to Cindy)
* "Get them out of here! It will use the girl to afflict them!"

### Fourth Nightmare - Allred in the Basement

* "Father Ward!"

* "Father Ward! Please come quickly!"

* "It's going to be alright, Father Ward."

## Trivia

* Based off a tweet from Airdorf, Father Allred was visually inspired by a movie still of actor Andy Garcia.

* Alike Father Garcia, Father Allred's background is a mystery, and we don't know too much about him. Additionally, nobody else in the series ever brings him up besides nightmares and notes from John. If it weren't for one note in Chapter I where John confirms that Father Allred died, it would've been speculated that he was still alive and decided to give up being a priest.
* In early versions of Chapter III, Allred's crucifix is nearly bigger than his head and his stole is colored. In the final, the crucifix is smaller to match the size from previous chapters and his stole is gray to match the nightmare's color theme.
	+ Strangely, Allred's stole is colored when John checks on him in the basement. This seems to be an oversight. Otherwise, we'd never would've known what color his stoll was.
	+ In the files of Chapter III, there's a still of a mockup when Allred and John introduce themselves at the front door. Allred has his stoll on, it's colored, and generally looks older. John's facial structure looks different, there's no whiteness in his eyes, and is giving more of a nervous than a frowning look.
		- Additionally, in the final, Allred is missing his stole in the animation where he opens the door. Generally, there's inconsistencies with his stole, but this is probably due to the fact that Chapter III was slightly rushed since it missed it's intended release date of September 2022.

## Gallery

### Overworld

Father Allred's idle frame.Holding up his crucifix.Cruisin' with John to the Martin House.Incapacitated when Amy broke off her ties. However, he's still alive.When John ventures to the basement, he sees Allred's eyes gouged out and his body tampered. Somehow, he's still talking.
### Animation / Other

Father Allred drives John to the Martin House.Allred introduces himself and John to Bob and Cindy.Amy mimicks Allred's voice and toys with his corpse.
### Other

The mockup when Allred and John greet the parents.Slowed down version of Allred greeting the parents.A mockup of Allred holding his cross. His stole is colored and the crucifix is much bigger.Ditto, but now with a filter!Allred expresses his artistic prowess and writes "Take it" with his blood.Self-explanatory, Allred is a good artist.Cropped still of just Allred.