Everet Strohe

"It is simple, those who do not appreciate life do not deserve the gift of life. These people have no respect for their lives, no respect for the lives around them as they continue to recklessly waste it on the precarious and impulsive decisions."

- Everet's morale beliefs and Modus Operandi

Everet Arlen Strohe, commonly known by his alias Caleb Striker is the main antagonist of The Call: Legacy and the tertiary antagonist of the The Call: Resurrection, one of the two sole recurring antagonists and the overarching antagonist. He is a wealthy businessman, the father of Henry Strohe and the overall main antagonist of The Series for his role as the mastermind of the killing sprees, as well as being indirectly responsible for the 4th spree. He was portrayed by EmperorMrArchy.

Biography
"I never killed anyone, Killing is distasteful to me, I always give my victims a chance as it is simply the human will to live. I simply give them a choice and it is the choice they make that kills them. We all have our thumb on the scale, for good or for evil. You, your friends just all went in on the wrong side of the scale, they chose the wrong decisions and they paid the price for it as they lacked the human will to live, they took their lives for granted and chose to toss the gift of life simply aside."

- Everet to Gavin

Everet Strohe was born in Woodsboro in a wealthy family. He grew up to become a successful businessman and becoming the chairman of The Ministry State Council, Everet later ascended to Secretary of State until his term ended, later serving as Director of The Department of Intelligence for D.C. Everet used his position to carry out a string of murders and sprees which were later investigated into, after the case went south and a wrong suspect was killed in an incident Everet put the blame onto the cases main investigator John Steel, Gavin Steel's father, he also coincidentally managed to frame Ashley Roberts mother Linda Roberts as the killer behind the murders. As a result Steel was fired from the Department but pardoned from his court sentencing but his reputation was ruined in which he developed a drinking problem which would later force his wife to divorce and leave him because of his alcoholism, Steel would eventually commit suicide via asphyxiation and Linda was placed into a psychiatric institution for the unstable in which she would later commit suicide as well by overdosing on her medication. Everet later went on to continue his string of murders while concealing himself through his high intellect as well as his position within the government. Everet was an ambitious and cruel man, Everet's true strength lies in his manipulation and his intelligence rather than his physical strength, although he possess immense strength he relies on his manipulation and his intelligence. Unlike his son, Henry who is both bombastic and impetuous, Everet takes swift action. His true dark nature and his much darker side were violent, domestic, horrific and truly sinister. He was the one responsible for the first 3 killing spree's of Woodsboro as well as being the indirect cause of the 4th spree as his death contributed to Henry's actions. Almost 11 years later, Henry would execute the 4th spree in continuation of his father's legacy as well as revenge for his father's death, his plan would be partially successful with Ashley Roberts being killed in the process. It had been said that Everet had an outstanding net worth of over 90.6 billion dollars. Everet has but a cunning nature, to which he may want revenge for his son death but unlike his son who Strohe does not take rash actions instead preferring the method of taking a swift action. Everet mostly spends most of his time testing the fabric of human nature. It was his belief that those who did not appreciate life do not deserve the gift of life, leading to his speculation that they wasted and ruined their lives on addicting and impulsive decisions thus he believed that those who did not appreciate their life had to die as a punishment for taking their life for granted and not as a gift that they should cherish. While not a killer, Everet gave his victims a chance to survive by giving them a series of options dependent on the ones they choose and it was in this form that should they make the correct decision then that person would be spared as a second chance to cherish their life.

The Call: Resurrection
"Jerry was just another pawn on the board, a moron only to be used like some mad dog on a leash."

- Everet remarking on Jerry's intellect Everet makes a minor appearance in the court room in which he attends after receiving news about Jerry's sentence. Initially believing that Jerry would be given the death penalty, instead Jerry was given life in prison which in turn perturbed Everet due to Jerry already knowing too much. Upon learning Jerry's sentence, he takes action to ensure that no loose ends are left and to prevent Jerry from leaking information to the police, tasks Isaac to kill him. Everet is not seen after the court scene.

The Call: Legacy
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The Call: The Final Chapter
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Modus Operandi
Everet initially targeted people who took their lives for granted and wasted it on unnecessary and radical things, Everet morally believed that the gift of life was something to be held precious for the sake of ones living and strongly believed that only ones knowledge of impending death could show if they so strongly fought for their survival, he deemed this as the element of the human will to live. Strohe did not have any taste for killing nor did he take any pleasure from it (unlike his son) and did not class himself as a killer but despite being sadistic in some ways Everet did feel but a minor dose of remorse for his victims.

Everet was more prone to test others human will to live by asking a series of questions in which he believed that their choices would have impacted how they chose to live and if they truly valued their lives, Strohe however would later choose to assault his victims (should they answer unwisely and unjustly) and believed that though they had made wrong choices that their will to live could still be proven and redeemed if they were to survive death up close, Everet deemed this as the "souls redemption to life".

Everet did not choose to class himself as a killer and did behind his indemnity feel but small remorse for his victims though Everet was also capable at displaying signs of sadism similar to his son but unlike his son who had no remorse for his victims and treated his victims intensely sadistically with brutality and took pleasure from his killings. Everet was also known for leaving the knife he used to kill his victims on their chest leaving it as a reminder that one should not take their life for granted but also to show that they lacked the will to live.

Personality
Everet was highly devoted to his work and held a genius level intellect, holding great knowledge on facts across diverse fields. Everet was both cautious, calculating, manipulative and a perfectionist, Everet had eventually married and sired a son in which he was greatly devoted to his family though there were times to which Everet and his wife argued they eventually would go on to divorce but even after this Everet still devoted his time to his wife and still greatly loved her but the divorce did however impact Everet in which he entered a state of depression. Everet's depression eventually evolved to which he entered a state of severe chronic depression following the loss of his wife to which she was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver, the result of this accident caused Everet to snap to a point he attempted to take his own life but miraculously survived the attempt, it was at this point Everet chose to test the fabric of human nature and focused on testing the will of others.

Everet passed down his philosophical beliefs to his son whom he teached from a young age, Henry would learn a great deal from his father and would soon go on to carry Everet's legacy and began his own work however Everet's legacy impacted Henry's mindset and his personality. Due to the nature of Everet's work it not only caused Henry to develop a narcissistic and sadistic personality but rendered him unable to form an identity and morale mindset of his own. This led Henry to become psychotic and unstable and this left Henry without a true identity and caused his son to develop an obsession with himself which led to Henry's unorthodox methods of his killings.

Everet was quite devious and partly narcissistic but not to the extents of his son but Everet was known to suffer with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Everet's depression would cause his personality to shape in a different way and only caused his narcissism to evolve, it also left Everet with a major obsession with his work and therefore would go to recruit accomplices but should they stray from his philosophy (much like Emma did) that Everet did have a plan to deal with them, Everet also had motions set in place to prevent loose ends but was not necessarily afraid of making his identity public.

Everet held an obsession with his work and would go as far as to shift the blame onto someone else if he needed to and over the course of a decade Everet tested the will of others by placing them in gruesome and dangerous situations, despite the immense brutality of his methods, Everet took no pleasure in them and even felt small amounts of remorse for his victims but Everet did keep emotional distance and boundaries between him and his victims so that his feelings did not affect his work, Everet's depressive and lonely mood often eased and helped with this.