(here are eddie and thomas; context and full drawing below!)
in the novelization of the 2003 movie, it’s said that the fbi mishandled everything surrounding the 1973 massacre. the government declares thomas hewitt dead and makes no mention of his family—so it can be assumed that they’re legally dead too. this is in part due to negligence and also malpractice, as everyone involved just wanted to get the case done and over with. in 1981, the hewitts’ farmhouse is bulldozed over and the basement is filled with cement. erin hardesty is sent to a mental asylum, and the baby she saved is put into the foster care system.
obviously, the police didn’t kill thomas. everyone else aside from charlie came out of the massacre (relatively) unscathed. if that’s the case, where did they go? here’s what i’m thinking!
note: this is all pretty self-indulgent and made-up by me! this is just how i choose to continue the story.
so the hewitts are left with absolutely nothing after erin escapes. no money, no home, and clothes other than those on their back. this fact doesn’t really change when you add eddie into the story. in fact, erin gets into a fight with him while in the basement and ends up shooting his left pinky and ring finger off! so fun!
they’d be on the road for a long, long time afterwards, homeless and just trying to survive. i figure that they could’ve taken two vans (they had taken a lot of cars from victims over the years, after all) and lived in them during this time, fleeing the state. they’d be starving again, and i think that’d send them back into this constant state of intense stress, like the one they were in before the killing started.
luckily, eddie would have connections to people that create false identification. prior to meeting the family, eddie had a fake i.d. made with the name “jackson hughes”—the same people who provided him with that i.d. would offer falsified birth certificates and SSNs too. this would cost a lot of money, however, so i imagine the family spent a long while lying, stealing, and begging all across the country to gather it all up. of course i’ve never gone through the process of being declared legally dead and buying a new identity in the 1970s, so i have no idea how much it would cost exactly, but let’s just say it takes three years to save up all the money.
so by 1976, the hewitt family legally does not exist anymore, having been killed off and forgotten. that same year, the “howard” family moves to the small, rural town of elksville, wyoming. here are all the name changes i came up with! (for the hewitts who don’t have canon middle names, i made those up too) (can you tell i took on a lot of creative liberty here)
thomas brown hewitt → raymond “ray” paul howard
luda mae hewitt → evelyn ann howard
montgomery “monty” lee hewitt → ernest john howard
kathryn ann hewitt → noelle helen howard
henrietta louise hewitt → virginia “ginny” lynn howard
jedidiah paul hewitt → william lee howard
eddie amar reid → eugene joseph roberts
i actually don’t think the family would fully go back to their cannibalistic, murderous schemes. without hoyt there, and after all they’d experienced, i think luda mae (who was already the head of the family before, but would now have the final say over everything) would just want to be left alone? having her first son die would really take a toll on her, i think. perhaps she’d see it as god himself coming down and trying to teach her a lesson by taking charlie away from her (and taking thomas’ arm, too). so she’d order that the family just keep to themselves. “this is our chance to start anew.”
don’t be fooled, though. none of the “howards” are normal folk. i feel that they’d have an eerie reputation among their small number of neighbors, especially since they’re known for being aggressive with trespassers (i can see them having “TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT” signs on their fence). “eugene”, their “family friend”, would be the only one consisently seen around town, making minimal social interaction with other people. even he seems… strange, when you look at him. most folks choose to keep their distance.
design/character details:
eddie would cut his hair and grow out his facial hair in an attempt to separate himself from his identity as the rockstar killer. he's a much calmer person now, sort of more grown up? mellowed out? he still deals with violent urges, but he's more restrained. he takes his anger out on trespassers.
thomas grows his hair wayyy out to better obscure his face, since he can't wear masks anymore. i debated giving him facial hair, and settled on a patchy mustache and absolutely no beard hair. as a character, i think thomas would become so much more tired. for the first couple years, he'd be quicker to anger/frustrate. with the second chance his family's been given, he doesn't really want to interact with anyone from the outside world. he's done with it.
hope you all enjoy this i've been Thinking about it for a while........ buh bye!!!
posts that portray thomas as this sex pest ready to take the reader's virginity and who fucks so good because he "just knows" are so funny to me because like. that man is 30-34 years old. he doesn't even have a single friend. he gets no play and you think he knows how to fuck? like i'm not against smut of tommy at all but c'mon. he's a little bit of a loser. do not let him lead
thomas probably wouldn’t even know how anal sex works beyond hoyt calling gay men “fudge packers” so eddie would have to do sex ed for him lowk. LMAOAOAO
And I don’t mean the ‘he has no idea how to enact it’ as in hes stupid, but because I don’t think he has any examples except besides maybe animals? Like yeah Hoyt probably has magazines but those are still images. I don’t think Thomas would know how to start sex, like engage with someone or start the act itself. Clearly he’s an adult who has gone through puberty but I don’t think Luda Mae is the type to encourage self discovery like that.
posts that portray thomas as this sex pest ready to take the reader's virginity and who fucks so good because he "just knows" are so funny to me because like. that man is a 30-34 year old virgin. he doesn't even have a single friend. he gets no play and you think he knows how to fuck? like i'm not against smut of tommy at all but c'mon. he's a little bit of a loser. do not let him lead
do y'all imagine thomas with body hair? like. a Lot of It. because i think it would make the most sense for him to be Hairy but i've seen people draw him as smooth as a seal
probably gonna make a larger post about this later but does anyone else headcanon the slaughterhouse manager as thomas’ dad. does anyone think of thomas’ dad at all actually
THIS. Because WHY did he even throw Thomas away? Because he didn’t want any connections to his workers death, I’m pretty sure dna tests weren’t a big thing yet but I digress. If the baby could be tied back to him in away way he didn’t want to deal with repercussions, why wouldn’t he have just given baby Thomas to the police or who ever deals with a dead body? Because it raises questions of ‘well where’s the father?’ I genuinely believe your onto something here, very big brain of you 🫡
RIGHT!!! like i know it was the great depression (granted, it was the end of the depression), but i don’t see why he’d jump to leaving thomas to die if he had no relation to him? and that had to have been his intention, because had luda mae not found him, thomas likely would’ve starved to death in the trash (or suffocated). it would’ve been so simple to take thomas to the police station, an orphanage, or even just a hospital, but he deliberately chose not to
The thing is I don’t think he ever truly realized who Thomas was. Surely if you knew your bastard son was about to kill you you’d say something more than “I’m your friend Hewitt.” He’d try and weasel his way out of it, maybe bring up his birth mother. He most likely thought he successfully got ‘rid’ of that baby.
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