Character Profile: Halmberg

Basic Statistics 

Name: Alan Halmberg
Age: 43
Nationality: Scottish
Hometown: Doune
Occupation: Police Commissioner
Siblings (describe relationship): One sister, strong relationship, weekly contact via phone
Spouse (describe relationship): Strong
Children (describe relationship): Strong
Relationship status: Married


Physical Characteristics: 

Height: 1.86 metres
Weight: 81.3kg
Race: White
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Ginger
Glasses or contact lenses? None
Distinguishing features: Faint scar on forehead.
How does he/she dress? Dark overcoat, smart shoes, white shirt, black trousers.
Mannerisms: Paces often, doesn't make a lot of eye contact when conversing with large audiences.
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.) T-total for 10 years. (no alcohol or other substances for ten years)
Health: Healthy Lifestyle
Hobbies: Football with his children, fishing
Favorite Sayings: A trip to a dangerous murder site might seem exciting...
Speech patterns: Officious, confident, evenly-spaced
Disabilities: none 
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): Confident, not necessarily any class division within him
Greatest flaw: Has to finish things. This is often seen as a perk, but in terms of the narrative, becomes his flaw. He is addicted to his work.
Best quality: Devotion to work and family.


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes 

Educational Background: Degree in Law
Intelligence Level: Fairly high
Any Mental Illnesses? none
Character's short-term goals in life: To work towards a major bonus within his line of work.
Character's long-term goals in life: To earn money for retirement, to focus on his family.
How does Character see himself/herself? Right for the job above him.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? As a confident and capable individual.
How self-confident is the character? Quite strongly self-confident.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? Emotional attachment to his line of work.
What would most embarass this character? Being taken off the case he is working on.


Emotional Characteristics


Strengths/Weaknesses: Confident, but emotional attachment to his job leads to anger issues when pursuing it further.
Introvert or Extrovert? Extrovert
How does the character deal with anger? He is seen to take it out on suspects within the case, and relatives of suspects and victims, as they merely are in his way in the path of solving the case fully.
What does the character want out of life? A high role within the police service (which would mean moving to the city), and a healthy family lifestyle.
What motivates this character? His family.
What frightens this character? Losing his career through dangerous judgments in cases
What makes this character happy? His family, and achieving great successes at work.


Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God? Beliefs change as he explores the case he has further.
What are the character's spiritual beliefs? These develop upon searching further into the murders, with the ultimate shift being when he is attacked and killed by a creature that he can't describe. The actions made in the final moments of his scene are indescribable to him.
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? Not greatly.
If so, what role does it play? Not highly pursued, left in his subconscious.


Relationships with other characters:

1. Oskar: -- (Describe relationship with this character and changes to relationship over the course of the narrative). Oskar only knows Halmberg as the  police officer from the TV. But as we have set this in a small village/town, they soon come into contact with one another. The relationship changes from merely an officer to an enemy of Oskar, as he tries to look after Eli whilst Halmberg pursues the case further. The final moments with one another are when Oskar threatens Halmberg with a knife, as he knows too much and will soon discover the murderer, who he once thought was the body without a heartbeat in the chest in Eli's apartment. This is where Halmberg's life comes to an end, as the 'body' awakens and kills him.

2. Hakan: -- (Describe relationship with this character and changes to relationship over the course of the novel). Halmberg chases down Hakan as the murderer. However through Hakan's lack of communication, and some more research, Halmberg realises that Hakan has not been working alone, and searches further into the case, which becomes his downfall.


How character is different at the end of the narrative from when the story began:
At the start, he is merely an officer trying to do his job. A police commissioner looking to further his police career by getting promoted to work within the city. But from pursuing the cases of murder within the village/town, he soon becomes emotionally attached, and addicted, to the point where he is taken off the case by using his own personal views to take the case in a certain direction. He continues to search for answers however, to finish what he started, which leads to his downfall. It is hard to determine whether Halmberg is a good or bad character. In terms of morality, he is 'good', as he just wants to support his family, he is a family oriented man. He is also merely doing his job, however the audience are somewhat aligned to the murderer in Eli, as she has a connection within the harmless, innocent child that is Oskar. The alignment with Oskar has been established, and it is soon made clear that Eli is Oskar's saviour from the bullies, his parents and everyone else around him.