Dirk Hastings

Hastings, Dirk

Appeared in Portrait in Death (August 8-15th, 2059) and Obsession in Death (December 27-31, 2060)

Personal Information

• Description: “Why would I kill someone I don’t know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and haven’t killed any of them?”
• Age: 40
• Hair: None
• Eyes: Muddy (Brown?)
• Height: 6 feet, 3 inches (190.5 cm)
• Weight: 280 pounds (127.01 kg)
• Relationships: Matilda Zebler (girlfriend of 18 days in Obsession)
• Address: 358 West 108th Street, fourth level
• Occupation: Photographer and Owner of Portography

Description

• Wide of chest, thick of arm, with hands as big as serving platters; dead ugly with small muddy eyes, a wide, flat nose, and flabby lips.
• According to Charlotte Mira, he was fascinating, irascible, contentious, irritable, amusing, and brutally honest.
• Leeanne Browning described Hastings as a temperamental soul.
• In Obsession, he was described as big and burly, with beady eyes the color of mud.

Interesting Facts

• Owned Portography. His living quarters were on the fourth floor and his studio on the third.
• Eve questioned him about the cameras he used including the Rizeri 5M, the Bornaze 6000, the Hasselblad Twenty-First, and the Hiserman DigiKing.
• Hastings had been busted twice for stalking.
• He photographed Rachel Howard at a wedding. He liked faces but despised people.
• He used LCs for sex as it was clean, it was professional, and there was no baggage. He didn’t like personal connections.
• His current employees/assistants included Lucia Duberry, Tourmaline, Dingo, and Liza Blue.
• He employed Gerald Stevenson once, briefly, as an assistant.
• Lottie Roebuck stunned him in Obsession, but his girlfriend came out and threw a bottle of pinot noir at her so Lottie wasn’t able to complete the kill.
• He was able to provide a good description of Lottie, including that she was female.