Edmund

Edmund is a major antagonist in Red Haze. The janitor of the abandoned Lighthouse Apartments, he has discovered a new inhabitant of his home, a young woman in a red hood, and is very intrigued by her.

Appearance
Edmund appears to be a tall, deformed man with a jagged grin across his face with black hair perched atop his slightly stretched out head, and wears a janitorial uniform. In his mutated form, his neck grotesquely elongates, nearly doubling his height, with the addition of throat sacks growing out of it. In this new state, Edmund can unhinge his jaws and swallow people whole.

Before Edmund's transformation he was just a old balding man with glasses.

Background
It is said that Edmund was bullied a lot as a child by other children, and it is indicated that he was the typical victim due to an implied intellectual disability. He studied very hard in school but could reflect this in his grades. Despite these hardships, it is indicated that Edmund was supported very loving and well-liked mother, who baked cookies for him and seemed to stay by him through his struggles.

As an adult, Edmund landed a job as the janitor for the Lighthouse Apartments, working for one of his childhood bullies, Norman. Norman continued to mock and mistreat Edmund, giving him harsh deadlines to uphold and consistently insulting his intelligence and threatening to fire him if he stood up for himself. It also seems that Norman greatly liked Edmund's mother, using the fact that she made cookies for him, a former bully, to further get under Edmund's skin.

Edmund would stay out of sight within the Lighthouse Apartments' tenants, sticking to the shadows and typically avoiding the other employees. It is implied that at some point Edmund snapped and started killing some of the other residents and his coworkers, having been hurt and abused by them for far too long. There eventually came a point where he was one of the sole inhabitants in the apartments, save for homeless drifters taking refuge in the gradually twisting building.

One day, Edmund met and befriend a mysterious being living in the basement well, Pale Smile. It is implied that after the creature made Edmund "happy" (by gradually mutating and twisting him into something beyond human), he started bringing people to its well so that Pale Smile could "play" with them. Edmund's behavior seemed to change in addition to his appearance, starting to slowly think less and less like a human being.

At one point during his rounds, Edmund spied a young homeless woman in a red hoodie named Rockette. Quickly becoming interested in her, Edmund started spying on Rockette during her stay at the apartments, becoming more and more infatuated (and eventually obsessed) with her, believing that they were alike in many ways. Edmund also seemed to take notice of Aunti G and Starry living in the apartments, but did not appear to take great interest in their presence beyond occasionally peering in on them.

Red Haze
In Red Haze Edmund wanders around the Custodian Closet, The Freezer, and the West Wing Hallway. If he is successful at catching Rockette he will then drag her to the basement and throw her down the well. After a while, Edmund's prolonged exposure to Pale Smile results in him mutating even further, altering his cognitive behavior and heightening his agility. While in this state Edmund will not bother with sending his captives, even Rockette, to Pale Smile and instead devour them, resulting in instant death.

Ending E: After Rockette refuses to play a game with Pale Smile, Edmund locks her in a prison cell in the basement. Rockette instead of escaping accepts her fate as captive and the two begin to develop romantic feelings for each other. Later Edmund, now a happy father, is shown along side his wife Rockette who is pregnant with their child.

Is This It?
This future Found Horror Game 11.exe game features the life of Edmund long before the events of Red Haze occur.

Edmund was born into a unhappy family of obese, unintelligent, reclusive, balding people that fought constantly. His only friend Norman was not that good of a person, and he ended up becoming the boss of Edmund's job, a job which he hated. In this game you guide Edmund around his home and survive supposed horrors.

"Edmund just wanted to become happy."

Trivia

 * In Close Me, a mysterious entity referred to as the "Facestodian" appears in a hidden room of the game. Though greatly resembling Edmund, it is unclear if there is any connection between the two.