Darkness Falls

Character: Antagonist Profile (DF)

The Unrelenting Drive for Perfection is Rally Witt's real nemesis. As a painter of nearly flawless quality (actual flawlessness to the untrained eye), Rally was verbally programmed early in life to "Never rest on your laurels" because "There's always somebody out there ready to take your place."

Rally learned this and more from his second-grade teacher, Mrs. Karen Tumech. Every time the recordings that remind him that he is "not doing enough" to achieve his ingrained goal of perfection start to play, the specter of Karen Tumech stands before him, shaking a bony finger in his face, screaming, "You'll never amount to anything!"

The saddest part of living with Perfectionism is the fact that all humans are imperfect without the ability to be perfect on any level in this life.

Rally Witts is one of the most phenomenal artists in the HIStory of the world, yet he can never see his abilities, nor can he value them properly for being the amazing gifts that they truly are. His experiences with his second-grade teacher were at best debilitating, socially, and at worse crippling, mentally.

The resilience of Rally in his youth really must be highlighted right here. No matter how many times Mrs. Karen Tumech pointed out the minutiae of flaws in Rally's paintings, he always seemed to incorporate the pointers as teachings or core beliefs about himself and his skill, taking his art to the next level.

Rally Witts is the human epitome of perfection, but every hurtful criticism consistently takes him closer to that all-elusive level of perfection. Truly Amazing!

Whether Mrs. Karen Tumech is intentionally abusive because she hates Rally or socially-incompetent with the truest wish of good for a student she truly cares about, the results are the same. Rally grows into adulthood with an all-consuming drive to create perfect paintings to "make the world a better place in some way."

Amazingly, that goal would only be accomplished after Rally Witts lost his natural giftedness, being built back in a way the average human could never imagine.