Crane Wilmoth's Questionnaire

Crane lives in the wilderness of Point Pleasant, a city in the state of West Virginia, along the Ohio river. Even though it would make sense to leave and be rid of all the hunters and tourists out looking for him, he finds that the idea of leaving is difficult because he has grown to be sentimental and has formed a strong attachment to the nature and creatures of Point Pleasant. He also is yet to document and study all of the local wildlife in the area. Crane finds himself situated in an old, abandoned watchtower in the woods along the Ohio river. In this watchtower, Crane collected clothes he had taken both for food and to wear himself and documents of all the animals he has studied and collected the information of. 

Currently, anything that Crane may want or need, he either gets from the land or from stupid humans he passes by who happen to be easy licks. He usually attempts to do it while staying out of sight but sometimes, to his own dismay, he gets partially seen despite wanting to stay out of the way of annoying people. Even though he feels this way, he will most likely continue stealing the possessions (especially clothes). But when he doesn't feel like interacting with humans, he will most likely live off the land, gathering flora and berries and such for food. 

In life, one of the main things Crane strives for is absolute peace. This is mostly because of poor experiences Crane has around humans since he was born in 1940, especially somewhat recently having his wing shot by a hunter. Overall, this has made him completely ambivalent and mistrusting towards humans. Due to this, he isn't particularly against killing people if he needs to. In fact, it probably wouldn't even have to be necessitated for him to do it, he'd probably kill a bitch ass Tuesday three o'clock. He also has a strong ambition to study as many creatures as he can. Since he developed his distaste towards people, he's found comfort in the animals he feels more of a kinship with. Humans are cruel but often animals just be, without the capacity for this cruelty. And so this is why he watches animals and learns as much about as many of them as he can. Usually from afar as, at the end of the day, he's still anti-social and has a difficult time getting close to them.

Before the contracts, the most important moment of his life was November 15 1966 as this was the first time any human spotted him. Even before he got bombarded by humans looking for him and trying to find him for who knows what reason (often, most likely, hunting), Crane was quite the shy and timid lad and so when he started experiencing harassment from humans, this became the day that made his life a living hell. After then, Crane had to constantly hide and sneak around to have any peace of mind. This made him even more of a recluse than he already was.

Hunter Schaefer- 

Hunter is, ironically, a hunter who is apart of Virginia's Hunter Society and has seemingly made it his life mission to find and kill Crane. It seems like Hunter's intrigue in Crane comes from both an interest in the mystery and the thrill of hunting what is, to him, the rarest creature on planet Earth. Due to this Crane takes extra precaution to stay out of the way of him and the Virginia's Hunter Society.

Sneako the snail-

This snail has been a close friend of Crane's for the better half of a year. Crane knows that Sneako is oblivious to the world and even Crane himself and yet Crane still enjoys his company anyway. 

Grebber-

Crane and Grebber don't know each other very well but Crane somewhat appreciates them more than the average person as, one time when the VHS were prowling about the woods of Point Pleasant, Grebber distracted them so they wouldn't find Crane.

As a young larvae, Crane's childhood wasn't especially interesting, for the most part he didn't have very many major experiences until later. For most of it, he was hidden in an alcove in the woods of Point Pleasant. He would mostly just spend his time wriggling around and eating leaves. With his nature as a moth, he never experienced regular human things like parents or an education. Obviously he had parents and has learned things, but his parents didn't exactly stay to raise him and most of what he learned was learned of his own intuition and effort. Due to this everything he has learned has either been things that are significant to his survival or things he has found interesting. This means that, for example, he has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of local flora and fauna but very little knowledge of global geography. He doesn't even really know much of the United States outside of where he lives.

In the romantic sense, no. Crane has never and most likely never will experience any romantic attractions. One reason for that is that Crane just doesn't see any point in any of it and just generally doesn't seem to have those feelings and also because one time, someone accidentally dropped some Epicurean writing which Crane read and was somewhat influenced by. Epicureans believe the main goal of life is pleasure and one way towards this is living a simple life. Epicureans often interpret part of this as living a life without romantic love due to the strong negative feelings it can cause but Crane has interpreted this as shunning all unnecessary interactions with others in general. Other than this, Crane does feel a strong love for the Earth itself and it's nature.

Crane's worst fear, above all, is humanity itself and all that humanity does and is capable of. The great amount of terror and evil they put into an otherwise perfect world in Crane's eyes absolutely terrifies and angers him. The pain they cause the planet, the creatures of said planet and even each other has completely ruined any hope of Crane being among humans wilfully. He especially fears that, compared to the blissful unwitting neutrality of animals, humans will know that they are committing a horrid atrocity and still continue with the act despite this. This knowledge of morality and surpassing of it absolutely perplexes and terrifies Crane, along with the possibility of this tainting the natural world that Crane loves and holds dear so much. As well as this, Crane has a strong fear of being captured against his will. Death is one thing, just a painful instance that leads to an eventual end, but in Crane's eyes even the most painful death would be preferable to living a life of capture. Being subject to another's will and confined in a space due to said person is something that Crane never wishes to experience, and doesn't believe is deserved of any other as well. 

Crane Wilmoth's most prized possessions include his books of studies on wildlife and nature. Crane does not have a strong connection to physical possessions outside of what is needed for his day to day life. Due to this, the possession he cares about most is the physical copy of Crane's day to day studying of the environment around him, sometimes even including fauna and flora from outside of Point Pleasant. This is because it represents and is a part of Crane's life goal of observing and preserving nature, which is the most important thing for Crane. There are many examples of animals he has studied as he attempts to study as many animals from each branch as he can. for example, some major studies of his has been animals like the Virginia big-eared bat, the black bear, the eastern cougar and the coyote in the mammal family. This is just a select few examples of the many studies he's done.