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| “ | You wouldn’t believe how much money is in the industry. I mean, my dad was a smart man. And he knew we didn’t have anything of value to sell and back then the Prescott’s were dirt poor, out of work miners just like everyone else in town. He first got the idea when he sold my older brother off to pay for the legal fees to fight the city. I mean, some people will pay five figures for a newborn, you know, even back then. And the organizations that buy them, well, they buy in bulk. But we still make a killing off them. And our overhead is very low. | „ |
| ~ Prescott explaining the origins and profitablity of Drisking's human trafficking operation. |
James “Jimmy” Prescott is the main antagonist of the 2015 creepypasta/novella Borrasca and the secondary antagonist of its sequel Borrasca V. He is the son of Thomas Prescott, the founder of the human trafficking operation in Drisking, Missouri and was the second-in-command of its leader, Sheriff Killian Clery, until the latter’s murder by Sheriff Walker.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
James Prescott was born in Drisking, Missouri to Thomas Prescott and an unnamed mother. Initially a mining town, the mines eventually became unprofitable after running out of iron ore and thus were collapsed using explosives. However, the explosives accidentally broke into the water table and caused the drinking water to become contaminated. This led most of the tonwspeople to become infertile and unable to bear children. The Prescotts solved this by impregnating women from other places and impregnating them, a idea Thomas Prescott got from selling his older child to pay for legal fees. He eventually began selling some of these babies to rich couples and traffickers, and the idea for a human trafficking operation was created. This operation evantually became the main means of income for the town. When Thomas Prescott became senile from age, his son James placed him in Golden Elm nursing home in Cape Girardeau and took over the operation.
Borassca[]
Before appearing in the story, the Prescott family is briefly mentioned as Sam, Kyle, Kimber and Parker walk towards the tree house, the Prescott family was a fairly powerful family that owns almost more than half of Drisking's businesses.
Finally James appears at Sam's school along with Wyatt and Kathryn to give a presentation on the history of the town, meanwhile Kimber and Kyle in the audience find it strange that Jimmy is giving the talk, since his father, Thomas Prescott, was the one who gave a presentation every year until that moment. However, Mike, another boy at school, tells the boys that Thomas had become crazy and senile due to his age a year ago, then Kimber mentions that James always seemed like a creepy guy to her and that Thomas was nicer, since for the boys he was a kind old man. Once Prescott tells the story of Drisking and his family, he asks the students if they have any questions, Sam raises his hand and Prescott invites him to the stage, there Sam asks him why the town's mines closed, James, upon meeting Sam, welcomes him to the town and comments that he met Sam's father at the Sheriff's office. He mentions that the mines closed because the iron deposits were exhausted and since that was Drisking's source of income, the town almost became a ghost town, but thanks to him and his family they were able to improve the state of the city thanks to years of "work." Then he sends Sam to the other students, hoping that he has answered his question.
In a time jump of several years, Sam was working at a sandwich shop (which curiously is owned by Prescott) and just then James appears at the door. He wakes up Sam (who was sleeping on the table) and has a little chat with him, telling Sam that he also worked at this same store and that he installed the bell on the door to avoid falling asleep and jokes that that won't work with Sam. He then places his order and asks Sam if Meera (Sam's boss) was here, then asks Sam if she is here to bring her with him. Sam goes to look for her and Meera tells Sam that he can leave early, since Prescott is the only customer who comes to that place anyway. Sam leaves through the back door of the store, so as not to have to see Prescott since he found his appearance a little disturbing due to his yellow eyes and his attitude, since he said he was an idiot.
Once reunited with the boys, Kyle asks Sam why he left work so early, to which Sam replies that it's because James arrived at the place. Kimber, disturbed, says that Prescott has been seeing her since fifth grade, to which Kyle responds that he would protect her from that guy if James continued with that attitude.
A few days later, Sam goes to work, where he finds Meera crying. At first it seems that she is crying about the sandwich shop, since Meera says that James doesn't let her put up posters of the business for advertising because according to him they are ugly. Sam then calls Meera's husband, Owen. There Owen explains to Sam that Meera is not really sad about the store, but that it is because Meera cannot have children and that makes her really sad since she is the only one left of her family, because her uncles died in the mines and Meera's father could only have her. Owen was going to say that they only had one option to have a child, but before he says anything, Sam interrupts him and asks about how the McCaskeys (Meera's uncles) died, and asks about the skinned men (Which is an urban legend that children believe are the reason for the disappearance of several people, mostly women) and Borrasca. A confused Owen asks what Borrasca had to do with this but is interrupted by Meera who tells him that she called someone (presumably Jimmy or Clery) about a mysterious matter.
Then Sam and Kyle went to The Historic Preservation Society of Drisking to find out information about the McCaskeys and see if they are related to the disappearances in Drisking. There they discover that the brothers' bodies were never found after the mine explosion, and that the Prescott family (more specifically Thomas Prescott) were closely related to the McCaskey family, and that they had a dispute with the town, to find the brothers' bodies. Once the information was obtained, the boys left with more questions than answers, about why the Prescott family cares about the town, knowing that it turned its back on them in the search for the McCaskeys, so they decide to go together with Kimber in search of the now elderly Thomas Prescott.
When they go to visit Thomas, Kimber talks to the old man, and lies saying that they are Meera McCaskey's children, in an attempt to gain Thomas' trust and tell them what is happening. Thomas just responds, that Kimber is rightly not in "that place" and continues ranting about how he saved the town. Thomas gives revealing information, about how people say that that was bad, but Prescott responded that it was necessary to do "that", then when he mentions something about "triple tree", Prescott explodes and believes that James is ruining the entire business and the town, so he desperately asks that they call Jimmy to talk to him. Even after leaving the room and the asylum, the boys continued to hear Thomas shouting to call James.
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Personality[]
Prescott presents himself in public as a polite, friendly, if somewhat pompous man who is active with the community of Drisking and a frequent customer of many of the local businesses in town (including the many he owns). However in reality he is a ruthless, perverted, heartless, and greedy criminal mastermind who will stop at nothing to ensure the human trafficking business that is the main source of revenue and new children for Drisking stays active. He shows no remorse and even takes sadistic sexual pleasure in impregnating the girls that are the source of newborns for the twisted operation. His only redeeming quality is that he seemed to have a genuine desire to provide a service in the form of giving children to the sterile townspeople of Drisking, however twisted the method of doing so is. This is shown when he enlists the help of Sam Walker to kill his father after he became the head of the Drisking human trafficking operation and began running it as a sex trafficking operation. Much like Sheriff Walker, in private he is a quite vulgar and profane individual, as well as an outspoken misogynist. Even before his revelation, the young people of Drisking always saw Prescott as a creepy and disturbing subject, Kimber even mentions that Prescott has been staring at her creepily since fifth grade, hinting that perhaps he had a fixation on her before the Sheriff.
