Gerard Hawthorne/2.0 and Prior

Gerard Hawthorne is a character role-played by Striking_Fast, though he doesn't stream.

Description
Gerard enjoys casual drug use, and he lets everyone know about it.

Following a failed house robbery, Gerard was apprehended by Steele Security and nearly set on fire as punishment. Instead of setting him on fire though, Steele Security sent him on a mission to kidnap and execute a person at Garage T. He did as he was told and quickly realized that maybe he was cut out for making other people suffer like he had, even if what he had to deal with wasn't as bad by comparison.

After meeting Louis Baton for the first time, he was taken to Garage Q to be introduced to Louis's friends and was put on a trial run as a potential hire for the Lot. During his training he was given the task to be Louis's body double. He dyed his hair and changed his clothes to match Louis's appearance. Louis was not pleased with this and attacked Gerard. Gerard, not being the brightest, came back the next day and asked for the job again. He was re-hired and given his new nickname Dewey, Doius, or Dewie.

While continuing his internship with Garage Q, he was brought along on a special mission with his boss Copperpot where they were supposed to kidnap people and remove their limbs for a photo edit for a magazine. But after completely botching the kidnapping, Gerard was thrown into the mix with the other two unfortunate souls. Gerard's left forearm was cut off and he was beat with the handle of a hatchet causing him to have memory issues. This led him to return to work unaware of what his boss had done to him. After learning of his memory issues and missing arm, Copperpot and Louis wanted to help Gerard by trying to get someone else's arm to replace the one he had lost. However, the hospital refused to attach it, so Gerard gave up and decided to have a prosthetic made. Louis offered to get his own arm scanned so Gerard could have a direct copy.

Unfortunately, Louis passed away, leaving Gerard with the feeling that he was to blame for Louis's death and that he had to fill the role of Louis, which he knew would be impossible. As a result, Gerard has fully adopted the name Dewey and barely uses his old name anymore except for official reasons. Since Louis's passing Dewey has been fully hired at Garage Q as Employee #4 and has made a lot of new friends within the new hires at the Lot. He was even adopted by a resident doctor by the name of Charlie Jannetty.

Dewey also has an adoptive sister by the name of Petunia Brookshire. Dewey is still warming up to the idea of family after being treated horribly by his old family. More specifically, his dad had treated him as more of a nuisance than a beloved son. Following the passing of his mother, Dewey developed a severe hatred of his father due to him getting remarried only a month after Dewey's mother's death.

Dewey then took Petunia back home to Ohio to visit his deceased mother's grave and to finally end his dad after the years of torment he had put Dewey through. After returning home, the two were quickly met with rumors that they had become romantically involved as a couple. This was due to the fact that Dewey and Petunia have become seemingly inseparable ever since Petunia told Dewey that they were destined to be soulmates.

While still wanting to follow in Louis's footsteps, Dewey took on a job at Rooster Cab Co. as External Affairs and then as an official cab driver for the company.

Dewey has also been suffering from a blood disorder called hemophilia. This means his blood does not clot properly and any decent-sized cut could be fatal for him. Lately, Dewey has been getting nosebleeds triggered by stress. This causes him to lose a lot of blood very rapidly and leads to him losing consciousness and becoming very loopy for brief moments.