Andrew Hotchkiss

Andrew Hotchkiss is usually portrayed as 18-19 years old, and very clueless. He has the unique ability to respawn after death, though occasionally he loses control of the ability and skips tens or hundreds of years without even aging in-between deaths. His original backstory/lore, dubbed "Lamplight", has a synopsis below.

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In the beginning of Lamplight, Andrew is seen speeding through a local road near Tongass National Forest, Alaska, some time in 1993. In a freak mix-up were he and a terrorist transporting drugs have similar cars, Andrew is killed by Special Forces. They cover up his death, but he wakes up in the nearby forest, and escapes. Strangely, it's now 2013, he hasn't at all aged, and he remembers nothing. He flees to Kentucky to start anew. His childhood friend and local detective in Alaska, Daniel Nowak, is personally invested in his friend's case, but the trail runs cold after he sees Andrew's burnt and eviscerated body. Following a terrorist attack involving a dirty bomb in Tennessee, Andrew is seen as one of the survivors on national television, though is glossed over by a camera. Both the national government (secretly) and Daniel are convinced he's somehow still alive, and the two race to recover him, one aiming to get him out of the country and the other to kill him. Meanwhile, Andrew fends off against special agents, SWAT, and more, barely getting away each time as the U.S government tries to cover up his death by force. In the end, Andrew "dies" after being burned alive in a collapsing building (set on fire by Special Agents), once again waking up somewhere else, this time, an alleyway, having forgotten the whole thing. The U.S government, satisfied and thinking he's dead, stop their assault, but Daniel isn't convinced. Unfortunately, Daniel never finds Andrew, and lives on the rest of his life depressed.