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Chad Bowinger is a resident of Night Vale and a former intern at Night Vale Community Radio.
He is first mentioned in Station Management, when Cecil sent him to report on the Used and Discount Sporting Goods Store. He did not return, and Cecil announced his condolences to Chad's family.[1]
At the time of his internship, Chad lived alone in an apartment in the Shambling Orphan housing development [2]. He had several hobbies that, according to the Faceless Old Woman, mostly involved consuming: playing video games, reading books by comedians.[3][4]
Chad did eventually return from the Used and Discount Sporting Goods Store, but he returned a very different man. He devoted himself to a summoning ritual: sewing red robes, filling the apartment with candles, hiding an amulet in his refrigerator. The Faceless Old Woman is horrified by Chad's summoning, declaring that she no longer lived in his home because "something else is living there now."[3]
Chad appears to regret his decision to summon the sinister beagle puppy. He wrote into Hey There, Cecil saying:
“Hey there, Cecil! I have made a terrible mistake, and it consumes me. My life was once a life, and now it is an uncorrectable error. The arrival wakes each day, and feeds. It gives, and it takes. And it takes, and it takes...I would cry, but I don't think there's enough of me left anymore to make tears. What do I do? What do I do? Signed, Terrified in Shambling Orphan.”[5]
Chad is the boy in the hoodie who has been accompanying Maureen who Cecil has referred to in the episodes After 3327, Skating Rink, and others.[4]
References
- ↑ Episode 3 Station Management (episode)
- ↑ Episode 59 Antiques
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 53 The September Monologues
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Episode 85 The April Monologues
- ↑ Episode 75 Through the Narrow Place