Meet Brian Wagner

He's a Greencastle native. He teaches English at the Greencastle High School. So I suppose at some point I'll be writing a chapter where he and Luke cross paths.
ANYway,
He's one of those laid back 'non-traditional' type teachers. He's not afraid to come to work/school in faded blue jeans and a t-shirt. In fact, he seldom ever wears slacks(dress pants, chinos, whatever you want to call them) He's relatively friendly with his students, encouraging them to do the work they're asked because they'll learn from it, not because they ~have to~.

When we first meet Brian, he's bumming a cigarette from Kenny Overmeyer, a student in his Junior English class. It's suggested that Kenny's mom, Margie, has 'issues' and did something to her husband Randall that was quite drastic, but Randall forgives her still. This is something we can develop later. I'd like Margie Overmeyer to be a 'quirky' or possibly 'neurotic' character, in the way that Nadine Hurley was in Twin Peaks. Only, perhaps not on the domestic front like Nadine.("Completely silent drape runners!") I don't know. But I want to make her odd/unique.

Okay, this is supposed to be about Brian, non? Back to it.
Brian's a naturalist. I'd like to see his behavior and attitude to reflect the ideas in Walden, as this is his favorite book. He's also a Faulkner fan.(A unique breed, indeed) Which will require a lot of reading on my part. But hell, I love to read.
ANYway-- Brian's parents retired and moved to Florida a couple years ago and left Brian the house. The opening scene puts Brian in the High School Parking lot, so we have yet to see him in the home setting. But we'll get there.