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Stump is a minor antagonist in Crossed: Volume One and a member of Horsecock's group.
Appearance[]
Stump is a bald, quadriplegic, and overweight man who is completely naked. He's always seen either being carried over Horsecock or Face's shoulders like a backpack, with a bag to defecate into, or propped up against something whenever their group rests to eat or kill someone.
Since The Crossed do nothing at all in order to take care of themselves (other than eating human flesh) since they find their own pain and suffering amusing, it's more than likely that Stump had lost all of his limbs long before The Crossed ever came to be, since he does bear surgery scars at the ends of his arms and legs.
Personality[]
For unexplained reasons, Stump seems entirely unable to speak any real words at all unlike most other Crossed, and seems to either be psychotic whereas most other Crossed are psychopathic or Stump was severely mentally impaired before he was infected which made him only ever able to communicate through yelling and screaming.
Whether it be due to a mutation of the infection or something else entirely, Stump seems to have heightened senses since he can hear, see, and smell uninfected survivors long before any of the other Crossed can, which is apparently why Horsecock and his group keep his around in order to use him as a living alarm system.
History[]
Issue #4[]
Stump is first seen along with Face as he shoves several uninfected people into a trailer filled with spears and other sharp weapons, the both of them annoyed that they don't get to watch the suffering. Later that same day, Stump is the one to alert Horsecock and the others that Stan's group is trying to get over the downed bridge by crossing over an unstable beam.
Issue #7[]
Several months after escaping them, Stump is seen enthusiastically "singing" along with Horsecock's musical chant by yelling nonsensically between pauses. Later that night, Stump is smiling and laughing with the others as they throw one of their own into a gas station fire for their amusement, but is still able to sense Stan's group even though they're at least a few miles away from them with no lights to expose them.
Issue #9[]
After Stan and Cindy briefly split from the group, Kitrick is the first one to notice they're being followed and tells both Thomas and Kelly to run while he sacrifices himself to kill as many of them as he can, and Stump yells towards him to alert the group of his location. After Face gets too carried away to try and rape Kitrick when Thomas and Kelly are still nearby, Horsecock beats Face senselessly and picks up Stump for himself.
After cornering Thomas and Kelly on the edge of a cliff, Thomas kills Horsecock by ripping out his jugular with his bare teeth and he falls back, landing on top of Stump so he screams out in pain and to alert the other nearby Crossed. Thomas helps the blind Kelly finally shoot the demented quadriplegic in the head so he can never be used again.
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