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Sock official art 1 — Promo art of Sock by Erica Wester.

Napoleon Maxwell Sowachowski (commonly referred to as "Sock") is the main character in Erica Wester's short film and comic Welcome to Hell. Wester first began drawing Sock without a name, and when she asked friends for suggestions she eventually decided on "Sakuryu". He has endured several name changes. Formerly he has been Sakuryu (or Saku) and Kilroy Conrad. She later chose to Americanize his initial name into "Sock", which became short for Sowachowski. A possibly defunct explanation for how Sock comes from Sowachowski is that a childhood friend, likely Jojo, couldn't pronounce Sowachowski. Read more...

Photo: Sock contemplates earlier events at his family gravesite. — Sock contemplates earlier events at his family gravesite.

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Long strings of "yeahs" and cursing are what kept Neil Morrissey in character for Mephistopheles while recording lines for the first Welcome to Hell film.
Sock had a dog named Silver. Though Sock would never harm Silver, it was "constantly nervous and edgy" around him, since its animal "sixth sense" could tell something about its owner was not quite right.
It is very possible that Mephistopheles has a Hellfile on Sock, just as he has one on Jonathan in the short film. Wester sees it as an opportunity for a "shocking reveal" about Sock if it were used in the future narrative of Welcome to Hell.
Sock's middle name, Maxwell, is a reference to the song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" from the 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road, in which a man named Maxwell commits murder with a silver hammer.

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