Allen Keller's appearance strongly reminds me of a creep I knew in summer of last year: a drunken, partying type who pretty much had no respect for the community we were living in. Within the context of only 4.5 months, he developed a reputation that was at best polarizing, at worst plain horrible. He got warning after warning (including from me), basically from the beginning, to get his act together, but he never did with full seriousness. (And yes, he got into one barfight that I'm aware of during his stay.)
He took so much more than he could ever give, including a human being from the community; what I mean by that is he was in a romantic relationship with a woman (with preexisting problems involving boundaries, relationships, and alcohol); the woman, who was a long-time seasonal employee, simply got swept up with him so meteorically that he was her priority, all others be damned, including her job and her community. She was fired from the job she had for so many summers because she was drunk (or drunkish) too often at work, from what I hear. And he clearly had an influence in that. The man-boy she knew for not even three months became more important than the job she had for six summers, and the community that made it possible. (This is a rough summary of the course of events. There's no serious need to go into further minutiae here, at least at this time.)
She betrayed the community to be with and enable a disgusting man who never cared for the community at all. The only serious stance he ever brought to the town was to extend and enforce his own sense of privilege and entitlement, and to shove a fake bad-boy persona down anyone and everyone's throats. They did not love each other, in my opinion; what they had was a mediocre, toxic, mutually infatuate narcissism. I am not convinced they are still together, or even that they stayed together for very long past her firing.
I can hear, in my mind at least, the exact same loud, raspy, "rude dude with a 'tude" voice coming from Keller as I did from the small-town invader I knew. I wonder if Keller is also a biker. I loathe him just by looking at that picture of his, because, other than having a larger beard, he looks just like that scumbag I knew. And his face is also just as punchable.
I hope that Odin reaches safety soon.