Cloven Hatch

Clown Hatch is a villain in Adventures of Blyth and the first antagonist of the series. Cloven has built a camera that allows him to capture victims in a film reel, which he then intends to use to make "life-like and beautiful films."

Appearance
Clown Hatch is a heavy set individual with a thick beard and hunched shoulders. He always wears bright and jesterly clothes, perhaps due to being a man of the stage. His hunched shoulders and posture have him stand around 165 cm. Though his physical appearence is a bit off-putting his bright clothing, vivid gestures and talkative personality make him somewhat charismatic.

Personality
Cloven is genius without wit. He understands technology and engineering but is somewhat sloppy in the execution. He can put on a face of an inviting man, but is actually sinister and obsessive as he hopes to trap people inside film to make the most realistic and beautiful imagery.

Background
Before the Series Cloven traveled around Blyth showing people his "Moving Pictures." It is never revealed how many people he has trapped inside his film reels or how exactly he utilizes them.

The Editor reveals some background information about Cloven Hatch stating that he was perhaps mocked to harshly by other film connoisseurs and it could have been a driving point to make him into what he became.

Bernard and Baldric accused Inspector Hawk to have connections with Hatch, though she revealed it was a case of the "Right place and right time."

Series I
Cloven

was using the Alabaster Theatre as a means to kidnap people via film reels. Rumors of people either going missing or the show selling out every night caused the party to gain interest in Cloven and his show. Everyone notably saw different things while watching his film and that caused the group to question Cloven but also be granted a personal showing of the film. Cloven tried to capture Bernard, Butch, Baldric, Danny, Welty, Mitch and Micheal but Baldric reversed the camera so it would instead capture Cloven.

Though he wasn't seen again, the film reel he was contained in was the subject of the whole first Series as Inspector Cassandra Hawk sent the group to an "Editor" to try and separate film from cloven and a little girl who was captured on film (which was later revealed to be a ploy to get the party to go on the adventure int he first place.) Baldric still has the film reel containing Cloven in his vault, which if he is ever put into the camera can be released if the detective chooses to.

Trivia

 * The concept of a villain capturing someone in films was inspired by a movie with the same name of the episode Cloven appeared in.
 * It was not only the inspiration for Cloven and the episode; but Blyth as a whole.