“The sun loiters behind every cloud, Peggy. It just needs a little faith to coax it out.” |
Arthur Blythe is one of the protagonists of The Man in Room 1280, the third story in Fazbear Frights 5: Bunny Call. He is a middle-aged priest who tries seeing the good in places where others would be less optimistic. Arthur’s faith and optimism is put to the test when he's called to Heracles Hospital to deal with a special patient in room 1280.
Physical Appearance[]
Arthur looks older than he is due to his thick wavy hair turning mostly gray when he was 37-years-old, and deep emotions have carved lines on his face.[1] He has wide-set brown eyes that he believes to be boring and simple but others see as gentle and warm. Arthur is also short and slight. His mouth curves upward, even when his face is expressionless. He has thick gray brows and a slightly weak chin.[2] Although he doesn't have to, Arthur likes to wear a long, flowing black cassock. He also wears black leather shoes, a plain black-banded watch, and a satchel slung across his body.
Personality[]
Arthur is a man with strong faith, but is willing to exercise prudence at times too. His faith makes him kind and meek, and he doesn’t often get frustrated due to his beliefs. Arthur is also optimistic and chooses to see hope, love, and joy over pain, struggle, and sorrow. This can make him somewhat idealistic, determined to see the good in everything and do his job to the fullest. Arthur makes himself happy with a couple of indulgent flairs, although his job suppresses most of his idiosyncrasies. He also loves mystery and adventure books and movies.
History[]
As a priest, Arthur visits many places to give the dying their last rites. He has been to car crashes, airplane crashes, and all types of natural disasters. Arthur has also prayed over people missing limbs, eyes, and large chunks of their bodies. One of these men gifted Arthur a fully restored 1953 bicycle with gleaming chrome fenders and shiny red paint named Ruby. Arthur rides Ruby everywhere he goes. At home, Arthur is very close with his housekeeper, Peggy. One day, Arthur visits Heracles Hospital to met with the head nurse, Nurse Ackerman. All he is told by Nurse Ackerman is a room number before she sends him away.
A week later, Arthur returns to the hospital with Ruby right as rain begins to fall. When he reaches the hospital's portico, he comes across a young woman named Mia Fremont. Today is her first day, and she's rather nervous to start at the hospital since it wasn't her first choice and the hospital is rather imposing. The two continue to talk, with Arthur explaining what is job is, and the both enter the hospital together. Inside, Nurse Ackerman leads Arthur down a long hallway that begins to smell worse as they go. Eventually, Nurse Ackerman begins to explain the special case regarding the patient he's about to see. He was supposedly on life support for years before the state took him off, but he wouldn't die. Every time Arthur attempts to ask a question, Nurse Ackerman snaps at him.
When they reach room 1280, Arthur's taken back by the sight of the patient. Nurse Ackerman explains no family has claimed the man, he has no records, his DNA doesn't match any in existing databases, and he has brain function as shown by a monitor displaying a REM sleep pattern. That particular REM pattern indicates horrific nightmares, and Arthur notices that Nurse Ackerman smiles at that fact. Nurse Ackerman is called to room 907, leaving Arthur to fully take in the man's horrifically burnt body, cracked translucent skin, visible functioning organs, lack of facial features, and working veins that soak the bed in blood. He moves over to the window only to suddenly feel an icy rawness on the middle of his back. Nurse Ackerman returns and takes notice of Arthur's shock, asking if he felt it too. Nurse Ackerman explains that herself, Nurse Thomas, and Nurse Colton all believe that there is evil inside the man. She shows Arthur three brain scan images that show coronal, sagittal, and cross-sectional scans. The signals in all three aren't coherent, but the man shows no sign of tumors or brain damage so doctors believe each lobe of the man's brain had two distinct electromagnetic signals. This is unheard of, and the conclusion the nurses come to is that there are two entities fighting for control of the man's brain, tormenting each other.
Arthur sticks to his faith and insists that there is good in every living creature, much to Nurse Ackerman's annoyance. She leaves him to stare and pray at the patient for the next three hours. Eventually, Arthur decides to move closer to the man and notices that the beeps from the monitors become inconsistent whenever Arthur speaks. Arthur continues to communicate, and the man begins moving his index finger to spell out letters. Nurse Ackerman returns as Arthur begins to write them down, and she tries to convince Arthur that communicating with him isn't a good idea. Arthur remains persistent and writes down "FAZBENTERDI" by the time Nurse Ackerman returns with Nurse Thomas and Nurse Colton. The man spells out FAZBENTERDISCENTER, and Arthur concludes the man wants to go to a Distribution Center. He asks for a phone book to look up FAZB ENTER, but Nurse Thomas figures out it means Fazbear Entertainment. Now knowing it spells out Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, Arthur questions why the location is important to the man and learns he wants to go there. The nurses, however, tell him it's impossible.
Arthur stays in the room for another three hours sitting with the man, praying. He then goes to the assistant of the assistant of the Heracles Hospital. Despite Arthur's persistence, he is still unable to get the man in room 1280 out. After spending a total of seven hours at the hospital, Arthur leaves and comes across Mia once again. Mia asks Arthur if he believes there's evil in the hospital and if he visited a man in hospice. Arthur answers truthfully to both, believing there is evil everywhere, but before Mia can explain why she's asking her boyfriend arrives. Over the next five days, Arthur continues to go to admin and request that the man be removed from room 1280. During this time, a large number of reports of a little dark-haired boy wearing an alligator mask running around the hospital come in, even resulting in the police being called. Arthur frequently comes across Mia during his visits, and on the fifth day decides to eat lunch with her. She tell him about her sightings of the little boy, and suggests he use it to his advantage by bugging admin constantly while they're stressed over the boy.
Arthur decides to go with Mia's plan, and it works. Heavy rain begins to pour as Arthur makes hi way to the hospital, and he thinks he sees a child's head peek out from behind a statue of Cerberus. As he signs the paperwork, he begins to question if everything will be alright. As Arthur makes his way through the hospital, he comes across a worried Mia. Despite her previous aid in getting the man in room 1280 out of the hospital, she now attempts to persuade Arthur against taking him. Her efforts fail, and Arthur manages to get the man seated in his van and transport him to Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center. Although Arthur begins to question his decision, he still has the man point to where he wants to go. He points at the largest and main building, so Arthur finds a side entrance and puts the man in a wheelchair.
Once inside the man begins to violently convulse, spewing blood and tissue before collapsing. Arthur tries to pray but the man begins barfing, and then explodes, spraying black blood and a tar-like substance everywhere. His remains fall out of the wheelchair as Arthur hears something run towards the shelving area. He sees a trail of tiny footprints engraved in the man's blood and fluids. An employee appears and asks him if everything is okay. Arthur, for the first time in his life, replies that everything is not okay.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fazbear Frights #5: Bunny Call | The Man in Room 1280 | "Arthur had turned just forty-seven the previous spring, but he looked older because his hair had turned mostly gray a decade before, and deep emotions had carved lines on his face."
- ↑ Fazbear Frights #5: Bunny Call | The Man in Room 1280 | "Lips pressed into compassionate regret, thick gray brows drawn together, crinkles drawn in at the corner of his wide-set eyes, slightly weak chin tucked."