The Fool on the Hill (The Beatles)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 The Fool on the Hill 
Song/Album
 "The Fool on the Hill"/ Magical Mystery Tour EP
Act
 The Beatles
Writer
 Lennon-McCartney
Release Date
 1967


ABILITIES

Powers
-Immortality
"Day after day"
-Omniscience
"Sees the world spinning round"
-Mastery of all world's major languages
"Man of a thousand voices"
-Blaring voice
"Perfectly loud" 
Skills
-Immobility
"keeping perfectly still"
Attributes
While people can see him, they tend to purposely ignore and avoid him.
However, "they know what he wants to do."
His opinion of them is just as low, and he ignores and avoids them in turn.
This can be read as arrogance: "He knows that they're the fools"
Vulnerabilities
 Imperviousness to interaction
"Nobody ever hears him/ Nobody seems to notice"
Formidability
 Minimal, due to lack of interaction or communication
"He never listens to them"
"Nobody ever hears him, or the sound he appears to make."
Attractiveness
 Low. Has a "foolish grin."
Appears to others as "just a fool"
Source
 Detachment from daily interpersonal interaction may make him capable of sensing larger, even global, trends (speculation)


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
N/A
Amulets
N/A
Objects
N/A
Clothing
N/A 
Vehicles
N/A
Dwelling
"Alone, on a hill."
Which is "well on the way" to any destination, somehow
Milieu
stays in one place, yet is aware of events globally


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 Male
Age
 Immortal
Physique
 Is incredibly tall
"Sees the Sun going down... see the world spinning round"
"Head in the clouds"
Ethnicity
 N/A
Origin
 N/A
Ancestry
 N/A
Profession
 unemployable
Education
 self-educated
SES
 N/A
Relationships
-none
"Nobody wants to know him..." 
"Nobody seems to like him... they don't like him"
-the feeling is reciprocated
"He knows that they're the fools"
Pets
 N/A


PERSONALITY

Morality
Amoral, since he is detached from society
Intro/extrovert
Both? 
On the one hand, he's "perfectly loud"
On the other, "he never gives an answer"
Intelligence
Seems to be foolish, but may have special knowledge
"They can see that he's just a fool"
yet, he "sees the Sun going down," so he can appreciate natual phenomena and he "sees the world spinning round," so he may see so much he is rendered incapable of expressing it, yet he knows that the rest of the world, willfully ignorant of his information, blunders about: "He knows that they're the fools." 
Emotions
 Impossible to say
"He never shows his feelings"
Sanity
 Low, but not in a dangerous way
Enemies
None, as no one interacts with him


Narrative Function
Narrator
Other Notes
 (It is entirely possible that the song is a metaphor for the way society treats those with mental illness)


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