Arthur Dean

**Children**

* Unnamed son †

> **"I want you to promise me two things. One: that you'll never open that door. And two: that you'll never open this briefcase."**
> *-- Arthur Dean, The Girl in the Woods*
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**Arthur Dean**, also known as **A.D.**, is the deuteragonist of the 2020 short film *The Girl in the Woods*. He was the only other survivor of The Brute's attack on The Colony, and took Carrie in after finding her in by The Door. He and Carrie lived in an abandoned train car, and he trained her to fight so she would be able to defend against The Brute should it ever break out again. He was killed by the first of the Scarlet Sirens.

He is portrayed by Kal Penn.

## Physical Appearance

Arthur was an adult human man of a somewhat large build with brown skin, dark eyes, a beard and black hair. He wore a pine-green beanie cap, a plaid shirt, an army-green jacket over a grey hoodie, jeans, and hiking boots.

Before The Brute's attack on The Colony, Arthur wore the typical outfit of a man in The Colony; a blue button-up dress shirt with The Door's symbol on its left breast, a pair of dark-blue jeans, and a pair of black shoes.

## Characteristics

Arthur was a father figure to Carrie, being the one to care for her after The Brute's massacre. He grew to care about her as their time together went on, but was angry enough at what had happened to his home that he considered killing Carrie for opening The Door. However, his compassion won out, and he chose to let her live so she would be able to protect The Door after he was gone.

Arthur was extremely dedicated to The Colony and its cause of protecting The Door, so much so that he even used his dying breaths to tell Carrie to protect it.

## Background

Before coming to The Colony, Arthur was an electrician. He came to The Colony and left his old life behind (presumably faking his death), married a woman in The Colony and had a son. He got a new job among the colony members growing crops.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### The Door in the Woods

Though it is not shown in the film, Arthur and his family were present when The Brute attacked. Arthur took the briefcase with his past identity inside and fled with his family, but they were found by The Brute. Arthur was the only one of his family to survive The Brute, as it devoured his wife and son before fleeing back into the woods.

### The Girl in the Woods

After he found The Door, Arthur found Carrie passed out in front of it. After quickly chaining the door back up, he took Carrie back to an abandoned train car, where he bandaged her arm. He then left the car for an unknown reason, and found Carrie going back to The Door. As he tries to calm her down, something starts pounding on the other side of the door. Arthur explains to Carrie that The Door acts like a tear between worlds, and The Colony attempted to "put a bandage" on the tear by creating The Door. He then takes Carrie back to the corpses of The Colony, and they bury those who were killed by The Brute. As Arthur buries his wife and son, he finds a large, glowing purple rock.

That night, Arthur and Carrie adjourn to the car to sleep. Carrie, unable to fall asleep, sees the briefcase under Arthur's mattress and reaches for it, but Arthur wakes up and smacks her hand away. He then tells Carrie he will only ask her two things: that she never allow herself nor anyone else to open The Door, and that she never open Arthur's briefcase. Carrie promises, and Arthur helps her fall asleep.

An unknown amount of time later, Arthur is shown training Carrie to fight the creatures that come out of the rift. As a reward for her improvement, he gives her a robotic arm that he built for her, complete with a retractable blade made from the rocks he found near the rift. He tells Carrie more about the rift, and says that if the woman who attacked Carrie is still out there, there are likely others that they need to find and kill.

That night, Arthur comes back to the train car to find Carrie beaten and covered in dirt. He interrogates her about where she's been, which causes her to break down and reveal that she was the one who pressured her friends to open The Door, that they hadn't believed the stories of The Brute and opened it regardless of the warnings. As Carrie sleeps that night, Arthur contemplates killing her in retribution for what had happened to his family, but his compassion wins out and he leaves the car. Outside, he is attacked by one of the Scarlet Sirens, and as Carrie comes out to find him, he calls to her in a moment of distraction. As the Siren overpowers him, he screams at Carrie to protect The Door. The Scarlet Siren then stabs him with his hatchet in front of Carrie, killing him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skillset

* **Cybernetics:** Arthur Dean appeared to have enough knowledge of cybernetics to create a fully-functional robotic arm for Carrie, complete with retractable blade technology.
* **Farming**

## Relationships

### Carrie

Arthur took Carrie in after The Brute's attack on the Colony, and acted as a father figure to her. He trained her to protect The Door in his stead, as it was The Colony's responsibility to do so. After finding out that she had let The Brute out, he contemplated killing her in her sleep so she would not be able to do it again. However he chose to spare her. His final words to her were telling her to protect The Door, showing that even though he knew what she had done, he trusted her to do the right thing.

## Trivia

* Arthur has some form of connection with Monsino, the corporate juggernaut that owns and operates Monsino Farms.

## References

1. ↑ *The Door in the Woods* (dir. Joey Greene; October 26th, 2018)
2. ↑ *The Girl in the Woods* (dir. Roxine Helberg; April 17th, 2020)