Harrison Collins
Harrison Collins is a reincarnation of Henry and a childhood friend of Mallory Quicksilver. Once a shy teenager, Harrison spirals after being involved in covering up their friend Angeline's death.[1]
Physical Description
As a teenager, Harrison is tall and thin, though not as tall as Henry. He has short red hair, blue eyes, and pale, freckled skin. He often dressed in turtlenecks.
As an adult, Harrison has a scruffier appearance, with longer, wilder hair and stubble.
Personality
Harrison is initially a shy, awkward teenager. He values his friends and enjoys spending time with them, but struggles to voice his own opinion.
As an adult, Harrison is erratic and aggressive, traumatised by his difficult childhood and the guilt surrounding his part in Angeline's death. He is prone to flying into bursts of rage, but also has more of a sense of responsibility around his past actions than Mallory does.
History
Harrison's parents had a messy divorce when he was young, and his physically abusive father, police chief Remington Collins, had sole custody of him as a teenager. He found solace in his friends, Mallory Quicksilver and Angeline, who he used to hang out in school and around town with.
Mallory and Angeline were deeply angered and concerned by the abuse he suffered, and when Mallory found her parents' hidden demonology book, they hatched a plan to summon Alcor the Dreambender to get his father out of the picture so he could move in with his mother again.
The night of the summoning, Angeline and Harrison snuck into Mallory's house while her parents and Dipper were away. As Alcor had sealed himself away, the summoning went wrong as another demon came through the circle and killed Angeline. Harrison was distraught by her death and immediately wanted to call the police, but Mallory formulated a plan to to cremate Angeline's body and pretend she ran away, and intimidated Harrison into going along with this. Though this was successful, his relationship with Mallory had been permanently fractured and the two stopped speaking.
Harrison heavily blamed himself for Angeline's death. In the following years, now friendless, still living with his father, and unable to talk to anybody about what happened without getting himself and Mallory arrested, he spiraled into petty crime and ended up in juvenile detention for breaking and entering.
Released on parole and trying to get his life back on track, Harrison was contacted by Mallory. Her family's business was struggling financially after her father's sudden stroke, and she blackmailed him into breaking into a jewelry store. She gave him an invisibility charm and intended on him slipping in quietly, but he held up the store and shot someone in a messy, public scene before disappearing and hiding out invisibly in Khady Sall's apartment, hoping to wait out the police search.
Khady, believing that the signs of Harrison's presence were due to a ghost haunting, contacted Dipper and Lucy Ann to investigate. Initially, Dipper didn't find anything, but he later returned and discovered the stolen jewels, forcing Harrison to reveal himself. Harrison, suspicious of Mallory's intentions, was furious at her brother and believed he was sent by Mallory to cut him out of the deal. However, Lucy Ann was able to fight him off before he could harm Dipper, and he fled the scene with the jewels and Khady's car.
Mallory contacted Harrison as soon as she heard that he had been revealed, and convinced him to come to her house so she could hide him; in reality, she planned to kill him so he couldn't reveal her involvement. Harrison arrived and talked with Mallory about his deep guilt surrounding Angeline's death and how out of control his life had felt since then, but Mallory refused to take responsibility and tricked him into turning around so she could stab him in the back.
Although Mallory expected Harrison to fight back when she attacked him, he cowered away from her and the scene became a messy, cold-blooded murder. Nobody but Mallory knows that Harrison is dead, and she continues to use the shadow of his presence as a persistent red herring throughout the events of 'Return, to the Scene of the Crime'.
As Harrison is a reincarnation of Henry murdered by a Mizar, this upsets The Woodsman.
References
- ↑ ToothPasteCanyon (mod T). "Return, to the Scene of the Crime" (2024). [Archive of Our Own] <https://archiveofourown.org/works/57061957/chapters/145122463>
