Mrs. Packerton, likely Elinor Packerton[1], was the math teacher at Nockfell High School, a member of The Devourers of God, and a resident of Addison Apartments Room 201.
Appearance
Mrs. Packerton was an aged, wrinkled and age-spotted woman, with grey hair she kept in a braid via a red hairtie. She wore teal earrings, a matching scallop-edged blouse, and short yellow pumps.
Personality
Mrs. Packerton's appearance is very brief, but she seems to genuinely care for the success of the students in her class[2]. Her apparently caring nature is also mentioned by her husband[3], as is one of her rather contradictory crimes. Despite her softness, or perhaps in part because of it, she has not only kept her vegetative husband half-alive in her bedroom (likely for years, in light of the various adult diapers strewn about), but has also killed, deboned, and fed numerous children to their peers[4]-- at least nine, judging by the missing posters on her wall.
Biography
Mrs. Packerton's heart-shaped hairstyle suggests that she grew up in the 1940s, born somewhere around the 30s, which would put her in her late 50s or early 60s at her death. Sometime in-between these dates, she would marry, nearly lose her husband in a fire[5], and go on to keep his comatose body in her apartment.
It is unclear how, why, or when Mrs. Packerton joined the ranks of the Devourers of God, only that her loyalty hadn't changed over the decades. The only task she's known to have been delegated is that of abducting and deboning children before giving their flesh to the high school as "bologna".
The day before the Bologna Incident, Mrs. Packerton's math class had a test, one which Sal Fisher passes with little effort. Packerton encourages Sal to stay awake until class finishes and tells Travis Phelps to keep his eyes on his own work (a command he reluctantly obeys).
The events leading up to the drunk driving accident that claimed her life are unclear, though it can be presumed she was murdered by the Devourers of God in order to prevent themselves from being discovered. This is also supported by dialogue between two unnamed cultists in the Phelps Temple, with one of them rhetorically asking the other if they "want to end up like the Packertons"[6].
Trivia
- Their Sins are likely a reference to Packerton's victims, as all who were abducted by the cult were skinned and deboned.
- It is not known whether there is a connection between Packerton feeding the children human flesh and the young Terrence Addison being fed human flesh as part of becoming the entry point of The Endless One.
- While standing outside her room, one can hear the sound of sawing, hammering, muffled voices, repetitive squeaking, and goats' noises. The file name, interestingly, is "sexMachine".
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References
- ↑ "Elinor Packerton X" ~"THE KNOWN CULTISTS"(?) ("Memories and Dreams"). Note: this is a list able to be found on the corkboard in the shed.
- ↑ "I know, dear. You aced it as well, very good. Just try to stay awake for the remainder of class, okay?" ~Mrs. Packerton ("The Bologna Incident")
- ↑ "We were in love once. Or so I thought. Yes, this is her doing. Please. you must help me escape the endless agony." ~Ghost of Mr. Packerton ("The Bologna Incident")
- ↑ "The Bologna Incident"
- ↑ "All of these papers are talking about the death of Mr. Packerton." ~Sal ("The Bologna Incident"); "Nocksfell (sic.) Resident Found Dead In Large Local Building Fire", "LOCAL MAN DIES IN A LARGE FIRE" ~Newspapers on the wall of Mr. Packerton's room ("The Bologna Incident")
- ↑ "Memories and Dreams"