Clay Puppington

Clay Puppington, is a man around 40 and is tall, white skin, brown eyes, his hair is short brown combed back. He's wearing an olive-green V-neck sweater over a white shirt. He wears a dark tie and brown pants, and black shoes.

-Angela Puppington (deceased mother) -Arthur Puppington (father) -5 unborn siblings -5 unborn sisters -Bloberta Puppington (wife) -Coach Stopframe (ex-lover) -Orel Puppington (son) -Shapey Puppington (illegitimate stepson) -Raymond Hymentact (father-in-law) -Mrs. Hymentact (mother-in-law) -Hymentact Model (sister-in-law) -Hymentact Lunchbox (brother-in-law)

Clayton (initially "Clay" Puppington) is a strict, abusive, and alcoholic father who tries to keep his home in line with the 1950s lifestyle. He hates his job as mayor of Moralton, as well as his children, his marriage, and his father.

Clay is a man with a painful past and many regrets. He is a deeply depressed and frustrated individual who never learns from his mistakes. He is unprepared to deal with life's problems and takes his anger and insecurities out on his family, friends, and everyone in Moralton. He despises and fears the reality of his life and himself. He also hates being ignored and feeling worthless. He is irresponsible and immature, and often mocks or ignores anyone who tells him he's wrong, especially Orel and Bloberta. His adult life is the fruit of his spoiled and unbalanced childhood; his marriage is a lie, and everyone except Orel knows it. When he makes a mistake, he blames others to hide his imperfection. In his twenties, he seemed calm, friendly, and affable until he started drinking, which he immediately did to excess. This changed his personality and, according to Blobert, was "the manifestation of his true nature." The scars of Clay's childhood are evident in his adult behavior, where he oscillated between being his mother's doting mother and a lonely, abandoned child who mistook his emotionally withdrawn father's physical abuse as a sign of validation and that he "deserved it." After internalizing both parenting styles, Clay became self-centered and self-restrictive, concerned only with himself and with others only for how they affected him or his reputation. He despised his father for withholding affection and making him feel worthless, but he recreated the pattern of paternal abuse in the way he raised and disciplined Orel. However, this gesture is emotionally empty, as he is too devastated to truly love or care for his son. Instead, he cares only for Orel as a reflection of himself as a father and prioritizes whether his son obeys him or does not embarrass him over his emotional well-being. Clay avoids his family because of his repressed lack of trust or hatred towards them and himself.

As a child, Clay was the youngest and only surviving son of his parents, as his mother's addictive lifestyle of alcohol, tobacco, and partying caused her to suffer ten miscarriages before he was born. This is largely due to the fact that his mother spent the entire pregnancy praying for his safety; his mother was a religious fanatic who spoiled him. During his childhood, he began to develop the idea of ​​the "Lost Commandments." At six years old, his father didn't mind and even found it endearing, but as he grew older and Angela continued to encourage him, the idea irritated him. This created tension between Clay and his father, who was completely neglected by his wife in favor of his own son. Clay's life crumbled after learning of the miscarriage of his ten siblings. Disgusted, he faked his own death as a joke on his mother, causing her to have a fatal heart attack. His father never forgave him for his involvement in Angela's death and emotionally rejected his own son, telling him he was "not even worth it" after initially refusing to slap him. This deeply affected Clay, even leading him to seek abuse from his father for some kind of emotional response and validation. Eventually, his father understood Clay's abuse-seeking and stopped hitting him after he gave him the gun. The two developed a casual hatred and blamed each other for the death of Clay's mother, Angela. Arthur handed the Ol' Gunny to Clay, stating that it ended the Puppington male tradition of passing the gun to the firstborn. Clay decided to continue the tradition with Orel. The camping trips focused on strengthening the bond between father and son; as a young man, Clay seemed a gentle man who enjoyed studying the Bible and drinking apple juice.

He met Bloberta while accidentally attending a wedding, thinking it was a town hall meeting. They both attended the reception, where Bloberta asked him about his family, and Clay replied, "My parents are dead," without telling him the truth about his father's life. Bloberta then introduced Clay to alcohol, believing it relaxed people, and even used a religious justification to encourage him to drink. Alcohol caused Clay's personality to change (or his "true nature to come out"), turning him into a drunken party-goer and womanizer, before Bloberta knocked him unconscious to prevent him from flirting with other women. Bloberta then lied to Caly, telling her he had passed out and she had looked after him while he was unconscious. She then pressured him to marry her, claiming he needed someone like her to "help him". Clay agreed, but by then the damage had been done; he was a hardened alcoholic who spent most of his wedding day flirting with women, getting drunk, and was eventually arrested after the wedding for driving under the influence. Some time after they were married, Clay and Bloberta had their first child, Orel. Clay hates his family, doesn't remember his children's names or care that Shapey is involuntarily switched for another, and is quite misogynistic, believing that women differ from men in their ability to fulfill themselves solely by serving their husbands. It is later revealed that he is sexually aroused by watching Bloberta do such chores. He is close friends with Danielle Stopfram, who secretly desires Clay. It has been shown that Stopfram is the main reason Clay feeds his alcohol addiction, even going so far as to seduce and impregnate Bloberta to be near him. Ironically, Clay seems completely unaware that Danielle is Shapey's father.

He spends most of his time in his study and would call Orel to scold him for his misdeeds by punishing him and spanking him as punishment. Clay also has an addiction to firearms in his studio, including a sniper rifle.

Angela is Clay's mother. They spent a lot of time together, and Clay was a spoiled mama's boy for her love and devotion, referring to him as her "eternal lover." When he found out about his mother's miscarriages, he was upset that he wasn't her only son. So he pretended to be dead, which gave Angela a heart attack that killed her. His mother's death still affects him, as he blames his own father for her death.

-Orel is Clay's only biological son, due to his selfishness, Clay shows no true love for Orel and instead treats him like a job. The closest he came to loving Orel was when he defended him from a zombie. When it comes to love, he never says it; Clay's relationship with Orel is based on trying to mold him into what he is: a pessimistic, selfish, and miserable person. He is shown to be incredibly selfish when he feels jealous of the time Orel spends with Coach Stopframe instead of dedicating it to him.

Bloberta is Clay's wife. Their marriage is unhappy and miserable: Clay frequently drinks to cope, while Bloberta resorts to obsessive behavior, and both have extramarital affairs. They frequently argue; in public, they often feign kindness to keep up appearances.

-Danielle Stopframe: They are drinking buddies, although Coach Stopframe wishes alcohol was more of a part of their relationship, Clay is unaware of Stopframe's affair with Bloberta.

-Shapey: It's apparent that Clay doesn't like Shapey because he's not his biological son, although he wonders who the boy's biological father was. He usually gives him something to play with (usually dangerous objects) to get him to leave him alone.

-Arthur Puppington: Clay hates his father for the way he treated him as a child. Arthur ended the Puppington male tradition of hunting, but Clay says he'll keep it going. Deep down, he missed his father and perhaps longed to reconcile with him, but he pulls himself together and refuses to forgive him.

He likes to drink alcohol, smoke, read the newspaper, weapons, leave the house and spend time in his study, and go hunting.

Mayor of Moralton