Rusty Crantz

Rusty Philip Crantz is one of the principal protagonists of As The Orb Turns. He lives in Wacovia, DW, Orbin Federation, with his mother. He attends Wacovia High School.

Bio
Rusty was born to Mr. and Mrs. Crantz on January 22, 1973. His father has been in and out of jail various times for posession of marijuana, so his mother raised him when she wasn't working, and left him with his grandparents when she was.

When he was about five years of age, he was with his grandmother, who had to bring him home from the store after he pitched a fit because she wouldn't buy him a 1-pound bag of candy. She placed him in the living room and turned on the TV. This was when he saw the film Nicki The Witch, and was immediately enthralled.

In Two Secrets, he flat-out stated that he would use playing Starcrushers with Gilbert as an excuse to physically abuse him.

In summer 1990, he, Gilbert, Chrome Bumper, and Susie, started a band (Chaotic Order). However, Rusty hijacked the band and took control, causing a creative split that leadto Susie, and ultimately Chrome Bumper, to join Clarence Roland in forming another band (Peaceful War). In the end, though, they reunited and performed as a single large group under the Chaotic Order name at an end-of-summer festival.

In early spring 1990, he suffered chemical poisoning on the site of the former Mavis Rubbers and Plastics factory, which eventually sparked a significant socio-political scandal regarding government handling of abandoned industrial plants.

In September of 1990, he ran for student body president against Vivian Clemmons. During his campaign, he used smeer tactics, saying numerous untrue (and unbelieveable) things about Vivian, such as saying that she created HIV as a biological weapon to exterminate black people, and that she was responsible for the Exxon Valdez crashing and spilling oil in Alaska.

The following summer, he led his friends on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot and a couple weeks later secretly bought a copy of Nicki The Witch and felt very embarrassed about it, until Vivian consoled him and they all watched the film together.

He and Gilbert both use Marijuana frequently, but somehow manage to avoid getting caught.

He often wears a tattered, red t-shirt with the face of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with the words  ASSASINATE TRUDEAU on it.



Meta-info
Rusty Crantz is named after the character Rosencrantz from Shakespeare's play Hamlet; Gilbert Stern is named after Gildenstern.

Nicki The Witch is a parody of the film Kiki's Delivery Service. The Spanish dub renamed her Nicky, hence the source of "Nicki"