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[b][i][u]WHAT IS YOUR NAME?[/u][/i][/b]
"David. David Sawyer."


[b][i][u]HOW ARE YOU BEST RECOGNIZED IN A CROWD?[/u][/i][/b]
"I uh...always carry my camera on a strap around my neck. I've also got a brown leather satchel that has my other essentials, lenses and water and whatnot."


[b][i][u]WHAT IS A STRANGER'S FIRST IMPRESSION UPON MEETING YOU? HOW DO SEE YOURSELF?[/u][/i][/b]
"I... I'm not sure, I've never been asked this question before. I guess I'm a sort of...calm person? I like to socialise with others, y'know, talk about stuff we like and whatnot, but I'm not much of an outgoing type. I can talk for long hours about subjects we both like, but don't expect me to start the conversation myself. If a stranger first meets me, I guess they'll see the gruff, worn exterior and think I'm some sorta guy who's seen a lot, and frankly they wouldn't be wrong. But I'm just a man that did his job until the job made me quit."


[b][i][u]WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? WHERE DO YOU FEEL AT HOME?[/u][/i][/b]
"I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a pair of loving, doting parents that never thought I'd grow up to be a journalist. I feel most at home behind the lens of my camera, capturing pictures and telling stories through still images. To be able to show someone the story of a life, or the emotions in a scene through pictures...that's the greatest pleasure."


[b][i][u]WHO ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE?[/u][/i][/b]
"Gee, I've never been asked that question before. Truth be told, there weren't a lot of people in my life after my folks passed on and I got into journalism as a career. I would probably say... Jeffrey Nolan, my editor. He was like a brother to me, up until I resigned. We still talk regularly and I like to send him the best snaps of my overseas trips from time to time."


[b][i][u]WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION, SKILL OR LIFESTYLE? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR STRENGTHS ARE? WHAT ARE YOUR ACTUAL STRENGTHS?[/u][/i][/b]
"I am a photographer. Former journalist and international correspondent for a big Boston news agency. I've been around the world, covering many different stories, about war, famine, pestilence and death, and of life, love, prosperity and glory. I spent the last twenty or so years of my life writing stories to go with the pictures I've taken and the things that I've seen and experienced for myself. My strengths, they probably lie in observation, analysis and creativity. I know how to handle a camera, how to frame a shot. How to read people, watching for their emotional tells, knowing when is the perfect moment to push the shutter and capture a frame for eternity. I know how to write well enough to encapsulate a story, to tell the reader what is going on with a specific picture, yet leaving enough gaps for them to fill in the blanks."

"After I resigned as a professional journalist, I took up photography as the next best thing. Nowadays I don't write stories for my pictures; I let them tell their own tales. My curiosity and drive to see and document the unknown has led me to many places in search of the unreal, the mysterious and the supernatural. I let my camera speak for me and capture the moments that words fail to describe. I've traveled the country over this last year or so, letting my curiosity guide me as I document the United States of America in pictures. It's been rather relaxing, really."


[b][i][u]WHAT ARE YOUR FEARS, FLAWS AND SECRETS?[/u][/i][/b]
"I have many. Years in the life as a journalist covering the worst that humanity has to offer has left me rather emotionally traumatised. Some therapists I've seen have diagnosed it as a milder form of PTSD, and I believe them. After all the work I've done in documenting the human story, how much can one mind take? I balk at loud noises, don't feel much pain or revulsion at viewing particularly gruesome things...saddening as it may be, I've had to fortify my mind against my own emotion at times purely so I could capture those of others. To show to the world what suffering exists."

"I keep many secrets. Stories that I cannot bear to tell because of how horrible they are. Whatever you imagine is the worst of humankind, I've seen it. Locked away behind closed doors, covered by tarpaulins and buried in the ground. And no matter how much I wish to share them with the rest of the waking world, to tell someone that these things exist and something needs to be done about them...I keep quiet. I know that, if these stories are told, the men behind them will come after me and the people I know and care about. They will stop at nothing to ensure that their private lives remain a secret."


[b][i][u]WHAT DO YOU WANT MOST? WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED?[/u][/i][/b]
"I... I'm not sure. I honestly just want some rest. Being a photographer and not a journalist has done a lot to help ease my troubled mind, taking pictures of plants and animals and trees and the like. The creative mind in me desires the perfect shot with every photograph I take and that also helps me concentrate on the now, preventing my mind from drifting to the 'what ifs' and the things in my past that haunt me."


[b][i][u]IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY SUPERNATURAL ABILITY, WHAT WOULD IT BE?[/u][/i][/b]
"Out of the blue, huh? Well, maybe the ability to freeze time? To be able to catch every shot, in the millisecond that it happens, without missing a single heartbeat or movement. To be able to frame the perfect shot without having to compromise on quality or be constrained by time."


[b][i][u]WHY ARE YOU HERE IN DUSKWICK? WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF THE STRANGE RUMORS?[/u][/i][/b]
"The rumours are the whole reason why I'm here. Ever since I took up photography, my natural curiosity drew me towards the supernatural alongside the perfectly natural and beautiful world we live in. The fact that the natural order of things is being disrupted in this town is the reason why I'm here. I want to document whatever it is that's causing these problems and make sure it's remembered in human history."

"Plus...I also have a personal reason. Jeffrey, my friend? I last heard from him here, in this town, investigating a lead regarding the rumours and the recent disappearances of townsfolk and visitors alike. His last call to me was two weeks ago, and frankly speaking, I don't think he'd go that long without at least sending me a text message. I have to find him, set the record straight, and make sure whatever forces took him are exposed to the world."


[b][i][u]HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOURSELF CHANGE AND DEVELOP?[/u][/i][/b]
"That's a...weird question to ask me. I guess what I'd like to see in myself is...the ability to feel? All these years haven't been the best on my psyche, but honestly I just wish I could feel again. To empathise and to actually be able to help the people I see. Being helpless behind the lens isn't something I take lightly, and for every missed opportunity and feeling of helplessness, I lose a bit of myself. I want to help people, not just with my pictures. I want to be able to take up something and actually help for once, not just by bringing stories to the light of day."


[b][i][u]PITCH A SMALL SUBPLOT THAT WOULD BE PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOU.[/u][/i][/b]
"I, uh...that's an even weirder question to ask me. But, uh, I wouldn't mind finding a companion on my quest to set things straight. I've spent all my life alone, and the isolation's been getting to me lately. If I had someone by my side to lean on...that would be great, I imagine."[/hider]