Alan Morton

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Alan Morton

Alan Morton was the brother of Obed Morton as well as the son of Howard Morton and Lucy Morton. He is the primary antagonist in Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare.

Background

Even as a young child, Alan had the gift of talking with the shadow creatures, which his grandfather considered disturbing. Reason of this was due to him being fixated with Creatures of Darkness and where they dwell more that ever since witnessing one of these creatures mauled Lucy Morton when she riding her horse until rendered blind and loss the ability to walk. Alan estranged himself from his family due to the said obsession. In Alan's notebook, he even claims that the rest of his family are scared of the creatures of the dark, which disgust him. In spite of various setbacks in his educations as he was once expelled from the boarding school in Boston before the end of his first year, Alan turned out to overcome this by became the more capable student than Obed that led him become a prominent scientist. Though his works were plagiarized by Obed out of his impression with the latter's astonishing achievements, Alan tolerate him as long as he never betray their family's secrets.

However, Obed's weak heart eventually led him reveal his secrets to Lamb, whom later help the brothers for their experiments. Thought this gave the beneficial results for Alan, he began to distrust Obed as Obed also married and likely hindered from his focus on their experiments, led him to turned Obed into a monster.

Alan experimenting on his own father

Involvement

He was experimenting on corpses in his secret laboratory beneath the chapel in the swamp on Shadow Island. He escaped from the lab when Edward Carnby enters. Later Alan was confronted by Edward, Aline and Edenshaw when he tried to open the portal to the World of Darkness, but he managed to knocked Edenshaw as he opened the the portal and entered it. Edward and Aline found him in the World of Darkness, but Alan's brother, Obed, grabbed him and jumped with him in a pit, making an undead out of Alan. Alan attacked Edward when he tried to find an sculpture of an Indian head. Edward then killed Alan with an Indian spear.

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Personality

Even in his childhood, Alan was a strange and detached child: he didn't fell connected to his family, if not for his dead grandfather Jeremy, and felt completely extraneous to the rest of humanity and to a normal life. Instead, he was fascinated by Darkness Creatures, and became very determined to study and understand them, even starting to believe Morton Family has a special bond to the world of Darkness.

Alan holds a great grudge towards his father Howard, considering him weak and coward, as the man proposed to leave Shadow Island and to integrate into the normal human society. His anger ultimately became so great he killed his own father and used him for his experiments, even considering it a merciful act and the man as his firstborn. He also shows no love towards his twin brother Obed, considering the latter a coward and useless individual, even imprisoning Obed when he discovers the latter contacting Lamb and trying to betray him, and turning his twin in a sentient monster. He strongly dislike Edenshaw as well, as the Abkanis always tried to discourage him to be involved with the world of the Darkness, and to stop him every time he could. He has also no consideration for other person, immediately attacking Aline and trying to have Carnaby killed by the creatures so he could experiment with the detective's dead body, laughing sadistically at the idea.

Alan's most prominent trait it's his fascination with the world of the Darkness and its creatures. He actually has so much interest about them he spent almost his all life to study and try to understand them, seeing himself as a pioneer and it's creations as superior beings without consciousness, remorse, doubt, pain or hope. He ultimately translated the three Abkanis' tables so he could open the gate linking the two realities, believing, after so many years light's ruling alone, it's his mission to consent the Darkness to invade the Earth, as a way to destroy the destroy the world he never felt connected to and replace it with his own.

Strategy

In order to defeat Alan, Carnby must attack him with weapons with high damage input. He must keep his distance with Alan as he could grab him and threw him on the walls, dealing moderate damage. Once damaged enough, Alan would incapacitated and Carnby must enter a corridor where when he approach the end of the corridor, the cutscene would plays where Carnby transformed into an Indian warrior just as Alan recovers. When Alan attempt to pursue Carnby, Alan ended up met the transformed Edward that immediately impale Alan with a spear, killed him.

Differences betwen Game Boy

• Alan Morton is the sole antagonist of the game, with no mention of Alan having a brother.
• He is also explicitly stated to have murdered Charles Fiske after being transformed by the ugly statue.
• Alan was a multi-millionaire who spent his money on Iandian artefacts
• In the Game Boy color, Alan was obsessed with the statue, which not only mutated anyone closes by, but was also able to create a portal to the netherworld.
• He had servants, but he made sure that they were unable to hurt the creature, even to defend themselves against them.

Trivia

• Aline compares Alan to Dr. Moreau, the character of the book The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells.

See also

• AlanShad

Gallery

External links

• External link