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''Pardon me, I forgot my manners. Please, sit down!"- Richard inviting Rosemary to take a seat.

Richard Felton is one of the main characters and a stalker in Remothered: Tormented Fathers.

Official description[]

"Affected by a terrible disease, gotten worse with age, Dr. Felton left his notarial career and began gardening as a hobby. Even though he looks like a harmless and sick person at first, Dr. Felton hides a dreadful secret: his addiction to hypnosis cycles with drugs used to cure his disease and forget an uncomfortable past."

- Tormented Fathers official biography [1]

Personality[]

"When you're worn out from an incurable disease, you start having some doubts. Why is there so much life in such small but lethal creatures? An arbiter, that's all we need." - Richard on why he turned to religion

He is a patron and has always been passionate about flowers and entomology. At one point he used to be in the wine business: this changed his life forever...

Due to his medical condition, Richard appears to be a harmless old man; however, his past is murky and full of unclear events. He was on bad terms with his father but he loved his mother and he has a lot of regrets about his life. Believing he is good for nothing, he wallows in this state.

Richard didn't believe in God at first, but things changed when he contracted his strange illness. However, he believes that the success of a person is related to the failure of another one.

As a young child, Richard had a strained relationship with his father but always saw him as a good man, strict as he was. Their relationship worsened, however, after his father returned from the war in Ethiopia; an empty shell of his former self. He came back to himself quickly thereafter, but not in the way Richard had wanted.

As a stalker, Richard wears only his gardening apron, a pair of boots, gloves, and carries a sickle as his weapon of choice.

Biography[]

Early life[]

see Jennifer

Mr. and Mrs

Born Jennifer Richardine Felton, Richard had originally lived as girl before his father, who considered women weak, forced him into a new identity. Felton was forced to take hormonal supplements and Phenoxyl pills to erase the memories of his childhood and his mother and to turn him into an heir Mr Felton had always wanted.

Marriage and contracting the "Illness" (1958)[]

During his young adult life, Felton followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a notary. He was introduced to his future bride, Arianna Gallo, by his parents. It was an arranged marriage that left them both in a strained relationship for many years. Prior to her marriage to Richard, Arianna had dated Stefano Ashmann, a relationship she eventually broke off due to Stefano's abusive behavior and drinking habits. Stefano, whose love for Arianna had turned into obsession and who knew about Richard's gender, felt humiliated, so he raped Felton to teach him a lesson.

In 1958, Richard apparently contracted an affliction in Egypt caused by bacterial growth induced by moths. The illness caused him to physically age prematurely and his eyesight to degenerate making him sensitive to strong light, which forced him to be admitted to Santa Margherita Institute and eventually retire. In reality, his illness was caused by pregnancy, memories of which he tried to supress with the heavy doses of Phenoxyl that ultimately attracted the moths to him.

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Richard haunted by Jennifer

The traumatic memories Felton had tried to erase by taking Phenoxyl took form in a separate identity, Jennifer, who saw herself as an innocent little girl she wasn't allowed to be (phenomenon dubbed "porcelain memory").

Suffering from Alzheimer's, Wyman was hoping to use Felton as a host by erasing the memories of Jennifer from Felton's mind and replacing them with his own. Jennifer was proven to be impossible to erase as seeing Celeste growing up kept reminding Felton of his former self. Jennifer would sometimes appear to Richard and he saw her image even in other women.

Starting a family[]

Together happily

Richard with Arianna and Celeste

In 1958, Richard's daughter was born. Wanting to protect the child from her biological father and Wyman, Richard and Arianna lied that the girl, whom they named Jennifer, was given for adoption and they had taken a different child in her place, a girl named Celeste. In reality, Celeste was kept with the Feltons all along to be raised with Richard as her father, who had erased the memories of the girl's birth circumstances.

The family settled down into a new villa in CervoScuro in 1965. Both Richard and Arianna cared for the child immensely as she acted as a bridge between the two, bringing them closer together. Richard sometimes would affectionately call the girl "Jennifer", a nickname she seemed to like. The family went on many vacations together. Richard would take Celeste to the movies and taught her to play piano, including the song To Say Goodbye, telling his daughter that "nothing, not even time can get in away from what you truly desire".

RossoGallo Incident (1971)[]

Being married to the heiress of the RossoGallo plantation, behind the scenes, Richard was secretly colluding with his father's ex-business partner Albert Elias Wyman, who was testing pharmaceutical experiments for a new drug on the farmlands, Phenoxyl 2.0., a follow-up to its predecessor Phenoxyl that had been recalled for its dangerous side effects.

Their business relationship started to crumble as the drug leaked onto the farmlands, contaminating many of the plantation's products and its consumers as well the group of cultivation workers that was living on the plantation, causing side effects such as painful ulcers and vomiting.

RossoGallo soon met its demise when the children of the wealthy prominent Ashmann family alerted the public of the illegal ongoings and the farm came under public scrutiny. The Feltons and the Ashmanns both blamed the contamination on Wyman for using the plantation as a testing ground and the farm was shut down by the authorities on October 2, 1971. The following month, before further investigations on the plantation, could take place, the Cristo Morente convent, the RossoGallo fields, and a wing of the Ashmann palace all went up in flames due to the inflammable liquid being poured into the irrigation system and the piping in the convent.

The Disappearance of Celeste (1971)[]

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Richard's addiction to Phenoxyl

Not long after the fall of RossoGallo, the Feltons' daughter mysteriously disappeared. The ordeal leads them to believe that Wyman was involved in Celeste's disappearance as an act of revenge for causing his downfall, but neither Richard nor the police found any evidence and concluded that Celeste intentionally left.

In reality, Felton himself had orchestrated Celeste's disappearance to protect his daughter from being used in Wyman's experiments. Both Richard and Arianna were left heartbroken, with Arianna sheltering herself inside the villa and Richard taking solace in a local church headed by Father Cardelli.[2] Richard was even accused by murdering his daughter by the community as the local children kept vandalizing the missing posters of Celeste he had printed. Sometimes Richard would have taken over by his other self, who would spend time making dresses in the loft or roaming around the house looking for her mother. Arianna would often comfort Richard during his downed emotional state. [3]

Celeste's return to the Felton Villa (1973)[]

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Celeste returns home.

Two years later after her disappearance, Celeste returned home hoping to save her parents, only to be followed by Gloria Ashmann, the Red Nun, seeking revenge against the Feltons. Having taken advantage of Richard’s distorted mind, who saw her arrival as a divine sign, Gloria made Felton murder Father Cardelli and eventually turned him against his family. He locked Celeste away in her old bedroom with Arianna and put metallic bars on the windows to prevent them from escaping. To comfort her sick mother, Celeste would play Lindsay's song Top of the World on her piano, the song that Felton overheard, as he remembered it years later.

During the phenoxyl-induced mesmerism sessions Celeste had been forced to endure, her memory became blurry, yet she remembered how she promised to meet Linn on “Top of the World.” Struggling to keep her memories, she left a recording detailing the plan of her escape through the attic. She tried to convince her mother to come with her, however, Arianna became too weak and unable to move. Celeste managed to escape just in time before Richard, under the influence of Gloria’s mesmerism sessions, could get to her. Before leaving, she hid her Flemmington Girls' Institute bag containing Lindsay's violin inside the piano in her room and left a message carved under the lid saying "2 hearts never lonely."

Events of Tormented Fathers (1992)[]

Richard

Due to his disease, and having ended his career as a notary, Richard took gardening as a hobby and is taken care of and assisted by his personal nurse Gloria, while his wife Arianna was left in a catatonic state, never leaving the bedroom.

In 1992, Dr. Rosemary Reed from his former place of care, Santa Margherita Institute, pays him a visit at the Villa. As Rosemary waits in his study, Richard walks in talking about the concept of religion until proceeding to talk about his illness and how he contracted the disease, and how the institute was unable to cure him. Rosemary mentions the symptoms from Richard's medical files, including the hormone deficiency and overdose of Phenoxyl which was already, and how Felton refused to go through the exams at the clinic. Tensions soon escalate when she mentions his daughter Celeste, and then the name "Jennifer" to the point where accuses Rosemary of threatening him, until kicking her out of his property without answering her question about what happened to Celeste. Before leaving, Rosemary looks back at Richard, who stares at the picture of the little girl.

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Richard begins to chase Rosemary

When Rosemary managed to sneak into the Villa at night she sees a deranged Richard conversing with the corpse of Arianna and tenderly calling it "Jennifer". The ex-notary then roams the halls armed with a sickle searching for the intruder, and Rosemary realizes she has entered a deadly game of cat and mouse. Managing to avoid detection, Rosemary comes across a film depicting Richard during a hypnosis session under the influence of the drug Phenoxyl. During the session, Felton confesses that he and Arianna were supposed to be protecting Celeste from someone. He then reveals that Celeste had in fact returned to the Villa after her disappearance, but she had changed somehow and became "Jennifer," whom Richard "kept wanting" despite his father hurting him. Before Rosemary gets to the end of the video, Richard ambushes her from behind, tying a catchpole loop around her neck and hanging her against the wall.

Richard burns the film and keeps pleading his innocence, claiming he never touched his daughter for she was the only bond between him and his wife. However, he soon realizes he did seemingly murder Celeste in her bedroom, as he was told by a mysterious figure who promised to free him from torment. Rosemary is shocked and disgusted, but Felton insists he had no choice as it was the only way to stop "Jennifer." Then the old notary unveils a painting kept upright the desk, depicting a red-dressed nun, before which he devoutly bows. Rosemary uses the opportunity and manages to free herself from the loop but, right before she gets to the studio doors, she is assaulted by the same nun portrayed in the painting, swarming with moths and speaking with a hoarse and broken voice, calling her "Sister", which causes Felton to flee in fear and hide.

The True Identity[]

see Jennifer

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Rosemary discovers Richard was a girl born as Jennifer Richardine Felton

Reed eventually realises the truth behind Felton's identity when she discovers Jennifer Richardine's birth certificate.

When Richard was scared away by the Red Nun, it allowed Jennifer to take control and she even helped Rosemary before she was angered by her. When Rosemary tries to escape from Gloria, Felton re-appears and knocks her out. Both are then taken by Gloria to a mesmerism session, where Felton questions Rosemary's real motives in a dream-like sequence, Jennifer is seen swinging while slowly fading away in the distance explaining how she often can't tell apart between the photographs of Celeste and hers. As both Felton's identities start to merge, Richard regains the memories of his childhood and Jennifer accepts Celeste as her daughter.

Death[]

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Gloria after cutting off Felton's tongue

Gloria angrily interferes and cuts off Felton's tongue. While under the influence of Phenoxyl, Felton is subdued once again and is manipulated by Gloria to burn down the house with himself and Rosemary in it. However, Rosemary manages to free herself and sets Felton on fire. When Rosemary wakes up, she sees Felton's burnt body and contemplates their tragic fate, blaming Felton's father for ruining his daughter's life.

Felton's picture is seen in a news report detailing the events that occurred at the Felton Villa and revealing the truth about his identity.

Legacy[]

Celeste rejected Stefano Ashmann, who tried to impose his authority as her biological father on her, and reaffirmed that Richard would always be her real father, despite his gender. She continued to use "Felton" as her last name in her later life, honoring the memories of her parents.

Abilities[]

Whether because of the disease caused by a proliferation of Archerontia moths inhabiting his body, or some other strange forces, Richard displays a remarkable set of abilities.

  • Enhanced endurance:  Even taking copious amounts of damage (such as being stabbed by numerous sharp objects in the shoulder) and healing from it in a short amount of time.
  • Enhanced physical strength: Richard displays remarkable strength being able to drag and effortlessly lift Rosemary off the ground.
  • Inhuman durability: Richard can get hurt but he is able to recover very quickly.
  • Enhanced stamina: Richard displays remarkable stamina, being able to chase down Rosemary Reed throughout his manor without any signs of fatigue.

References[]

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