Okay. It's going to be a tough talk to do. Not only because subject in hands is serious (murder), but also because I can't tell a lot things to not spoil the plot. Only thing I already spoiler to you is that Andy and Baxtor become a couple. That's only spoiler I don't find harmful any way to the plot. As was said their relationship isn't only plot line on which "Going Down" is built.


As I've mentioned, Andy is a convicted spree killer, so hate towards him has a valid reason to be. He took life of 5 people, harmed 3 others*, who survived and probably destroyed even more lives of those close to that people. 

He gave himself to the police, he went through trial and was found guilty. His crimes are not some sort of secret. It was widely reported and discussed. When Story starts it is still one of topics in the media. At the time of the crimes he was 16, which allowed to use "Defense of infancy"** and  by Proxima's laws evade full punishment. Still, he was obligated to undergo medical treatment and forced into psychiatric ward under the government control. 


He is f*cked up. Maybe he is not and he is just an evil person. Still it's not that great of an excuse. 
Fact is he murdered people. I feel there is no need to sugar coat it, it was a brutal act, by probably not very sane person at the time (or sane, it's left unclear)***. 

My only words about whole thing is that "happy people usually don't commit murder", but with Andy, who seems happy about what he did... He really doesn't understand what he did. On purpose or not, he doesn't even consider that people dead. He talks to them. He attributes certain qualities of dead body to them as personal traits (i.e. They "aren't very talkative", "don't like exercise", "coach potato, lying in a coffin", "don't go outside to see him" etc.). That aren't even things he says, that are things he thinks. He doesn't lie, he quite literally considers them alive, but "changed".

Because of that, I think he never ever fully recognized his actions as harmful. He never ever felt punished or guilty. He never ever thought of consequences of his actions in a way normal person would.

His crime was really not that unique of the situation for Proxima, BUT more people learned about Andy, more media demonized him, more he himself added fuel to the fire by his behavior, more people started to hate him. 




Notes and references:

• * Out of 5 people he murdered he had connection to only one (his classmate, Kendrick Bartfield). Out of 3 he harmed - also to only one (male partner of his Aunt named Anders). His links to others are unclear.
• **In state where crime was commuted that age is 18, yet it still considered "too low", due to increased human lifespan, and averages to 21,5 across Proxima. 
• ***Out of 8 targets there were only 2 people he knew and whole thing about that killing spree is part of mystery, which will slowly unveil as Baxtor tries to figure out certain "weird" aspects of Andy's life and circle.
• Most writings on the wall use words referencing to his sexuality, because vandals aren't that creative, I guess. In a way, finding out that "That Andelswitz jerk is a f*g" gave "reason" for homophobes to show their colors under the banner of "condemning the murderer".
• Censoring writings is actually authentic - it is possibly done by Andy himself.

Commission portrait of Asgeir, necromancer for @winterelf86.

He is blind and as was said, a necromancer. I wanted to make portrait hinting his powers.

Please note, that this is  winterelf86 's character.  You can read about his back story  here  

_{Ohoi, first one of emergency commissions, I've finished while waiting for response.~}

Here you can see process gif - www.patreon.com/posts/23950474 , but it misses steps, as they were saved to old PC I'm still waiting on.