You're most welcome! I has many HC, but I must mull them over first. None of the characters in dbd are cowards. And Dwight is definitely not one. In the beginning, he may have hidden in a locker to collect himself, but he ain't going to sit in there and let others get hurt. Small spaces can sometimes help with anxiety attacks, they give an illusion of security. Like the feeling of being hugged. They use something like this for animals with severe anxiety. No doubt, Dwight is a fighter.
HCs are so hard, specially when lore is being released so it might collide against some things we might think could be true!
Lockers are given for a reason: to hide. Hiding in a locker doesn’t mean anything bad, and Dwight definitely knows how to hide so if he hid in one he would most likely not be found.
As a leader, he has to make sure his team is doing the best they can so he has to show them that he is a fighter so they don’t ever think of giving up!