Deacon Billings (OC Ghostface)
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Deacon "Dea" "Ghostface" Billings
born in 1983, canon age (aka when he meets sidney between scream 3 & 4, ideally) is 27. as always, i have no idea what his birthday is, but he could be a capricorn?
5'11" and definitely has the energy of a guy who lies about being six foot one. thin, upper body strength only by necessity. brown hair bleached on top, sideburns, brown eyes. his tiredness, disheveled looks, and usually bitter expressions detract from his handsomeness
american of who's-even-keeping-track descent
die hard atheist, raised non-denominational christian
technically bisexual, but the object of his obsession is pretty much the pinnacle of his sexuality. incel tendencies.
born and raised in jacksonville, florida. still lived with his mom & step-dad there before he went after sidney. doesn't have a good relationship with his step-dad, strained relationship with his mom. no idea where his biological dad is
works at RadioShack in the regency square mall. he's always wanted a job building custom rigs, and he's really great with computers (more info on that in a sec), but he's basically just the guy who fixes your phone screen and asks you if you turned it off and on again... not a popular employee, as he's a bitch
in his free time, at first, he's an amateur hacker. he just enjoys causing chaos and being a fucking troll online with his "friends" (who are not very good friends). he can infect, brick, doxx, hack, and stalk at his leisure, but he usually uses those skills for fun or petty reasons.... at first. little shit. redditor energies. white guy podcaster energies. league player energies.
grew up hearing about sidney prescott and the Ghostface killings on the news. he's always been fascinated with stuff like columbine ... he has big school shooter energies in and after school. as he becomes more isolated, he slowly becomes more and more obsessed with sidney
him e-stalking sidney (and other girls) eventually teaches him a lot and escalates him from amateur hacker to something much darker - finally starts going by Ghostface online. he quickly figures out that he can make money from phishing, writing viruses, and catfishing/blackmail schemes. he has a deeply disturbing and intense online presence but in reality he's literally just some creep who works at RadioShack. very scary in its own way.
of course all this horrific bullshit comes from him being a fucking miserable person. he hates his life and himself. even when he feels like a big powerful guy online, in real life, he has no power, no future, no friends, and no prospects. he starts getting it into his head that he wants to be famous like billy loomis and stu macher were famous ... and if he dies while doing it, well, who cares?
decides he's going to go out in style. he drops everything and goes cross country to stalk sidney, not even telling his parents or his coworkers where he's going. they all have no clue where he could have gone, as he gave no indication that anything was wrong at all.
he harasses sidney online, on the phone, in person ... whole nine yards, he has really thought this through. honestly deep down tho? he doesn't want to kill her. at the beginning of his spree, he'd only killed a handful of people on his way cross country, and he threw up like a bitch the first couple times.
he wants her to kill him. he craves it. she's killed quite a few Ghostfaces at that point and though he doesn't go easy on her, she's a survivor.
but she doesn't kill him. when she realizes he's just some miserable douchebag who wants to do suicide by sidney, she decides not to give him the satisfaction. instead, she keeps him as a Ghostface to ward off other Ghostfaces. a decoy to either keep them away or kill them if they get too close. he knows the ins and outs of what it takes to stalk her, so he simply slams the doors behind him (as best he can)
his outfit is the typical Ghostface garb but made nicer: not polyester, a better fit, something he obviously worked on. he marks the robes with red hashmarks for every Ghostface (or other person, but sid wouldn't like that very much) he kills
very cheeky, as any Ghostface should be. taking selfies with his kills, making memes of them, posting them places, teasing the cops and his victims' families ... he loves all that shit.
I'll be posting any headcanons and stories I write with him here:
Slashers whose victim hurts their S/O
Slashers when their partner is angry
theartofmadeline
kaledo-art
discoholicmusic
pixelskylines
janainaart
jacobvanloon
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