Ben Tobin

Tobin is the priest dude. I find Tobin interesting... just like every other character in the book. But he's particularly interesting because I question if he even existed. Judge is definitely implied to be a supernatural force of sort. Tobin is the other character, along with the kid and the idiot, whose end is ambiguous. Here, I drew Tobin:


tobin lol "For the love of god.."

I gave him glasses for character variety lol. He's likely more book learned than the rest of the crew if he's been studying to be a priest so might as well make him stand out and give him better teeth. I also made him older and weathered looking, so it contrasts the Judge's juvenile features. In the book, Tobin has a beard and smokes his pipe a lot, and he carries two revolvers. Has prisoner's number tattoo to show that he's a criminal.

When I was trying to find a design for Tobin, I thought of Dustin Hoffman's character Louis Dega from the movie Papillon. I don't know why but it stuck lol so I sort of based it off of him.




The Development of Tobin - "I was never a priest"

Tobin seems to be under Holden's spell like the rest of the gang. He's the one who noticed Glanton making a pact with Holden. He seems to be the type who has fallen from grace, now he just hauls along with the "sinners". Glanton takes pleasure getting Tobin to bring hoes to the crew.



(I was never a priest.)
(Holden: what have you not given me?)
DAE realize that he's called an expriest only until he defies the judge during the showdown? Then suddenly he's a priest. And then he's expriest again. Okay then.

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