“It” – Stephen King

Note: The cell phone drawing was not scanned in when submitted as an example.

Bill’s background is a picture that he got out of a newspaper. When he was researching the correlation between the clown and the bigger events that went on in the town, he caught a glimpse of the clown in one of the pictures. He went to grab his phone out of his bag, and just like that, it was gone from the picture. So he went to look through more old newspapers (phone ready and on hand), and eventually stumbled onto another picture of the clown taunting him from within the picture. As he quickly scrolled over to his camera, it disappeared again. Disappointed, he looked back down at the picture, and saw the clown dancing in it. It was seemingly impossible that it could dance inside a picture, but so was everything else that was related to the monster. It jumped out of the picture and as he was flailing his arms, he snapped the perfect picture, but at the cost of his sanity. He keeps it set as his background as a sort of satirical reminder.

One of the few text messages that Bill just received read: “Where are you Big Bill, we all came over to your house at 3:00 today just like we said we would. We asked your parents where you were but they said they didn’t know either. We’ve been waiting here for about a half an hour, but we’re worried. Please text back.” This really shows how devoted Bill is to this whole excursion. Not only does he push to continue to investigate It with his friends; he is brave enough to go out and do it on his own. No matter how much it really does scare him, he lost a brother to It, so he’s gone all in. 

The other message was from a subscription to a sceptics newsletter. Every week he got a text message from Derry Skeptics Weekly, so he could see if anyone in the rest of the town had caught onto It’s killings. Even if no one did, it proved to be a valuable source of information regardless because it gave locations about the strange. Everyone saw something different when they saw It, so the newsletter would get reportings of birds the size of houses, and Bigfoot. Although they didn’t know what that meant, Bill did, and went to the reported places to look for clues. This particular message read, “Woman attacked by swarm of rats. Click the link below to read more about it. Reply to this message saying STOP to discontinue the messages being sent.” Knowing Bill, he would be off to investigate this with his friends within the next day or two. Somewhere where no-one else would touch, Bill would be there looking for leads to figure out where Georgie went (at this point he still is not positive that It killed his brother).

Bills playlist consists of a variety of artist. Their genres include alternative rock, pop, R&B, and a little bit of rap mixed into all that. Most of his music is upbeat because it’s one of his few outlets to positivity. Although that is a little depressing, it’s one of the reasons he listens to the music that he does. His top played artist, was Billie Holiday. Her music was unique to most everything else at the time, which was why he decided to look into her. Other artists he listened to were Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, and Eddie Cochran.

https://www.skeptic.com/ The reason that he visited this website is probably as you would expect. He visited it frequently to search for information on the supernatural, and based on this, he planned his ventures against It (which ended up not helping at all). Another website he visited quite often was https://www.amazon.com/. Sadly, Derry didn’t have all of the supplies that the group needed on hand all of the time. So he did what any rational person would do; order everything that they couldn’t get online. This definitely wasn’t the 1950’s and they were able to do that. https://www.wikipedia.org/ is the last site most frequently visited. Bill needed everything he could get on anything. For example, once he found out that It hides in the sewers, he had to do a ton of researching on the schematics for sewers and how they are lain out. Not only that, Wikipedia is just an overall very versatile site. He used it for other purposes such as school reports, looking things up for whoever asked him to (like any person should do with a soul), and just researching on his passions (writing).