Bin Folks
Everyone I know is either dead, bankrupt, humiliated, or horribly injured. You know, the last person who had your job ran into a comically realistic painting of a tunnel on her way home one day and has been trapped there ever since. I spent a week afterwards hunting down the culprit— caught some rabid coyote with a paintbrush in its mouth. The blasted thing painted a door on the wall of its containment cell and hasn't been seen since! Anyway, where was I? Right— point is— don't ask too many questions about me.Bin Folks is the administrator of the Anomalous Containment Foundation, overseeing the foundation's various day to day operations, including; funding, managing, hiring, and the occasional— personal— hunting down of various anomalies. He is a man driven largely by vengeance, and his vengeful pursuits have been both a boon and bane for the ACF.
A Troubled Past
The family curse
The Folks family has been afflicted by a curse for generations— after the ACF's founder, Jim Folks, had walked repeatedly beneath an anomalous ladder along his way to school each day as a youth. In fact, the young boy thought it to be a game, and was noted by his mother (who later died under the hooves of a sentient rocking horse) to chant "I'm Jim Folks, I'm so tiny, if bad luck is real— curse me and my whole fam-i-ly!" Starting with Jim himself, all subsequent Folks have been cursed— to find everyone around them cursed. Those that get close to any of the Folks gain a supernatural magnetism to anomalies. This results, most commonly, in inconvenience, bankruptcy, humiliation, injury, death, or worse.No man knows my history. Including myself.Bin would spend much of his days in isolation, in fear of the curse that afflicted him. It was only when he met a friendly fairy in the forbidden woods, that he started to venture out into the world once more. Together they would find a talking and not at all irritating baby squirrel and raise it as their own. The fairy would later justify his previous fears by "leaving me in a world without sunshine." Bin and the squirrel would then travel the world in search of the holy grail, until Bin's father died at the "pathetic, withered, snake-like" hands of bigfoot. After this, Bin would take up his father's mantle as the administrator of the ACF. Interview ends here, as the interviewer was trapped in a painted tunnel that evening. In the following years, Bin would work to increase both the size and strength of the ACF— and ensure that no anomaly could hurt anyone ever again. Occasionally, he would leave his post to hunt down an anomaly that had hurt someone close to him, causing many a panic, and mess to cover-up for the ACF. All this, until running into the unfortunate and cosmic truth that "things cost money." Radical changes to the ACF began shortly after this, such as the adoption of corporate sponsors, and the creation of the APRA initiative.
Personality
Personal vendettas
Throughout his life, Bin's curse has struck time and time again— hurting any who get close to him. In many of these cases, Bin has personally hunted down the responsible anomaly as revenge. His office and home are both gaudily decorated with trophies from his victories.The Manana
A recent incident having begun early in his life, Bin staged an entire gala with the "Womanana" as a guest performer, in order to lure out the dreaded Manana. The anomaly had, in Bin's childhood, killed a close friend of his while they were playing in the woods.Time Traveller
In his early teens, Bin had fallen in love for the first time— with a girl who loved horses more than she would ever care for him. Unfortunately for all parties involved, an anomaly would cause the famed Genghis Khan to spontaneously travel to the future— right where the girl was standing.Old Visage
Bin's grandmother would escape her retirement home in a daze one night, alongside the facility's other aged residents. Together, they would stack atop one another to form a human statue that looked a lot like the visage of former United States president Ronald Reagan.We'll wrap it up as gaudy political advertising. Bin, do not dig up Reagan's grave to make sure he didn't do it.
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Haha I love the different bits of backstory that are obviously lies. I laughed a few times whilst reading this. LOVE the portrait too. :D
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Thank you! They were fun to write!