Willard Knight

Willard Knight, Jr. was an infamous crook and Mothman's father in Supermen: The Musical.

Birth
Knight was born in a particularly bad neighborhood right outside the Industrial Center of Lower Capital City on December 24, 1900 to Agatha Larkin, a prostitute.

Childhood
Knight had ten siblings growing up, all of different fathers, but by the time they reached adulthood most of them had died off, run away, or been put behind bars. He never knew much about his own father, except for what his mother told him—that he was a one-time customer of his mother's, that his name was Willard Knight, and that he worked in the Financial District of Upper Capital City.

Adolescence
 When Thomas was sixteen, he dropped out of high school to support his family by working long hours in the Meat Factory. When money ran tight, he was seduced by the promise of riches from a budding criminal organization led by the corrupt Upper Capital banker, Tommy Jinx. Jinx admired Knight's cunning and ambition, and decided to take him in as an apprentice. He taught Knight everything he knew about the business, passing down his own philosophy of economic Darwinism. Following his death, Knight received his inheritance, as if Knight was his surrogate son.

Career
 In his absence, Knight succeeded his mentor and became the new head of the company. The handsome young business tycoon soon attracted the attention of the Capital media and the American public, most notably that of the lovely Lady Beatrice Blake, daughter to the wealthy millionaire and heiress to the Blake Fortune.

Marriage
 When the two star-crossed lovers met during the annual Capital Ball, it was love at first sight. But since her father did not approve of Knight, considering him deceitful and dishonorable, the marriage was forbidden. Against her father’s wishes, the two were wed, and immediately afterward her father disowned her, cutting off her inheritance.

Death
Their first year together, the couple moved south from Upper to Lower Capital City where she bore him a son. When Willard Jr. was only four years old, he witnessed his father’s arrest for fraud, as it was discovered he had been deceiving his clients in an elaborate scheme the Capital Chronicle denounced the “Knight Scandal”. He spent the rest of his life in Capital Prison, where he died old and alone at the age of seventy-three.