Sgt. Norm Allen

Norm Allen first appears in Chapter 3, and accompanies Phonegingi on their trip back to Dialtown.

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Appearance
Norm is male, and wears a paperbag over his head (expressing via virtue of the sticky note on it). He is dressed in astronaut attire, with various cowboy accessories, such as a hat (with the American flag on it) and a gun holster. He is always carrying a revolver.

Information
Norm is the last known human to not be affected by The Dialup and downright refuses to be. He was exiled from Dialtown because of Mayor Mingus, who preached normality and against divergence from it. He meets Phonegingi after their own exile, when Jerry points them to his shed.

Personality
Upon meeting him, Norm is standoffish and aggressive. He is inconsiderate and very honed in on his own goals, being to get revenge on Mayor Mingus for what she'd done to both him and Phonegingi. Although he seemed to dislike Phonegingi initially, as the route progresses, he becomes more attached to them. As he meets the dateables throughout the route, he has a change of heart, reconsidering his "Dialtown is all-evil" mentality. He begins to care for the town and for Phonegingi, becoming protective of them, aswell. He's a patriotic, God-fearing man...or atleast, was the latter. He is a Veteran and a Theoretical Astrophysicist.

Backstory
Norm was born at the very onset of the Great Depression, growing up in a small unincorporated township in Arizona. For most of his adolescence, he worked as a ranch-hand, supporting his mother (who fell ill from polio) after his father had left. Norm struggled to provide adequately for him and his mother, and as a result, begun to resent politicians and big business. During Norm's deployment to the Korean War, he would send money back to his mother, but shortly after his return, she passed from her sickness. Shortly after her passing, he was offered an army scholarship and took it, unable to bear the silence of his old home. Norm earned a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics--a feat he keeps secret, due to his general distaste for Ivy League Academic Environments.

Norm had a loyalty to Callum Crown, recognizing him from the prosthetics company who had developed the braces his mother used to walk. He grew attached to Callum, recognizing he was from a small town, as he was, and held a similar distaste for elitist power structure. Due to Norm's hardheadedness, he'd likely never admit that some of Callum's ideas made him deeply uncomfortable, mainly the Dialup and the expansion of government control. Norm champions Callum as a populist hero with a strong and uncompromising moral character, as a self made who climbed out of poverty using only his own mettle, but deep down, him and Callum are likely as unalike as any two people could be.

Norm had been chosen for a mission in which he would be travelling through a wormhole. In doing so, he travelled far into the future, leaving his wife and kids behind, and in that future found that every living thing's head was replaced with a piece of technology. Mayor Mingus, when he refused to become an object head, evicted him, as he went against her idea of normality. He built a shack in the woods and hermited himself, believing that Dialtown was full of a bunch of bigots. In his isolation, he planned to murder Mingus for what she had put him through, and her corrupt leadership of the town.

Norm is alive today because Phonegingi had faith in him. Sometimes all it takes is a little faith.

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