Lawrence doesn’t have a good relationship with any of his neighbours. He’s tall and creepy and scares half of them. His apartment smells weird around the door and sometimes people can hear a chair scraping and thumping around, but never a TV or anything normal and fun. His landlord hates that his apartment is always kept so damp and has told him that all those lock screw holes are coming out of his damage deposit.
He wishes he could move to a cabin out in the country but he doesn’t have enough money to move. Maybe someday he’ll get lucky!
Insects [ and any other carrion feeder ] are attracted to him, but they die when they get too close or if they stay near for too long. For them, it’s like if radiation smelled good.
Ren might be able to tell if he was more in tune with his senses and relaxed, but upon their meeting, he was too overwhelmed by other stuff to notice [ omg meeting internet friend in real life, gotta keep kidnapping plan in mind, SHIT HE’S A LOT TALLER THAN EXPECTED, he sounded so meek and small online FUCK;;; ]
The smaller the animal, the more their lifespan would be harmed. Humans would feel basically no effect to their lifespan- However- A human who stays around Lawrence will have their natural connection to The River begin to decay.
This means that if they were to die after spending a lot of time around him, they mind find it more difficult to ‘find their way’ in The River. The natural pull wouldn’t work on them and they could be lost there forever if they didn’t try to finish dying. Lawrence could also find them and pull them back out, but they will be undead/wrong after that and find that they have trouble ignoring commands from Lawrence.
Strade would slip up and not be able to deal with Lawrence.
Then Lawrence would be free except with all of Strade’s shit to make capturing and murdering people easier. Instead of staying and continuing his show like Ren, Lawrence would take his money and a bunch of his supplies, get a cabin out in the woods and make campers disappear every year.