Name: Sam West
Age: 27
Gender: Male

Appearance: A short, boyish looking man with red hair and a smattering of freckles. Wearing a blue, button up shirt under a green jacket and bluejeans. Also wearing a backpack.

Personality: A man of entirely too open a mind for his own good and possessed by an almost insatiable curiosity. If something catches his interests it will be doggedly pursued and documented to the best of his ability. An obsessive type that loves to listen and dismisses nothing out of hand.

Universe: Original universe. 

Abilities: Sam can "step sideways" into other peoples perceptions of reality, seeing and interacting with the world as it appears to them. This allows him to physically interact with these people delusions and hallucination. He can also access what he calls "pockets of subjective reality," which are the result of a large number of people earnestly believing one thing. For example, if enough people believe that FEMA has built internment camps underneath Walmarts then he would be able to find and explore them despite the fact that they don't actually exist.

In addition, he can also bring people inside his perception. It is here that they meet the Owlman.

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The Owlman is an urban legend that Sam created, and is always lingering somewhere in his perception. It possesses superior strength and speed to any human, razor sharp talons, and will regenerate hours later if killed because it's not truly alive. The creature acts as his loyal bodyguard. Once someone has met the Owlman they will be able to perceive the Owlman for the rest of their lives.

Items/Equipment: A journal, pens, an expensive camcorder, an equally expensive digital camera.

History: Sam had a harrowing experience with a living urban legend when he was a teenager, and through that developed his ability to step into the perceptions of others to experience their reality. Since then he's been studying and, once graduating from high school, has been on an extended road trip chronicling the delusions of others through personally experiencing them and helping where he could. He stumbles upon the mansion while on the hunt for his personal white whale: the Jersey Devil.