Brent Yorming (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Officer Brent Yorming is a minor character in Blood Over Water. An elaborate plant, he and his fellow Gleeful-N'-Young associates infiltrate the Big Rapids Police Department, with Brent himself infiltrating Ferris' Department of Public Safety, to aid in suppressing local authorities' abilities to investigate any case which may adversely lead back to Sleet Mountain, Clyde Spendelworth, any of Clyde's associates, or with Gleeful-N'-Young.

Character bio
Yorming was put into his position by Clyde as early as late May of 2009, in order to ensure that the Gleeful-N'-Young venture would go largely undetected. Once the police in Big Rapids were infiltrated, the next move was to put saboteurs in local media outlets - to gaslight the news into gaslighting everyone else into not noticing, remembering or acknowledging Gleeful-N'-Young or anything tying it to Sleet Mountain or to Clyde.

Brent worked quietly behind the scenes during most of this. His first effort to cover things up came when the Hebbleskins came to town to meet in secret with Clyde about a merger of Gleeful-N'-Young with Shiny Horizons - the Hebbleskins' dummy company. While up there, the Hebbleskins couldn't resist searching the last known location where it was rumored that the Flippos had visited - on the faintest of hopes of catching the Flippos outside of Gerosha.

Brent's work didn't see much additional attention until after the murder of Vance Lingolin - wherein which he convinced media outlets to run a story on suspected insurance fraud. Vance still became a "missing person of interest," but Brent took pains to ensure it wasn't reported as a potential homicide investigation. Blood at the scene of Vance's death was cleaned up, and evidence of it destroyed - except for that which was first collected by Monica Shelly.

Brent ensured that Clyde had access to illegal silencers, designed for maximum muffling. This allowed Chris Kennal to assassinate Mark Stefflin without alerting the entirety of Hillcrest Oakwood Apartments to the murder. However, when Aaron Stefflin went out in search of answers, it was Brent that was manning the front desk of DPS that sent Aron away frustrated.

Later on, Brent would help organize the sabotage of Meceola Dispatch's security systems, allowing Clyde to send in his Gleeful-N'-Young army to assassinate everyone inside and destroy the dispatch center - leaving the local region with no way to call 911! In the ensuing chaos, Brent's only point of frustration was that he was unsuccessful at finding anything to officially charge Monica with. He noted that her curiosity was more than that of most, and feared she was a liability. He also feared Aaron would be a liability; but a no-knock raid of Aaron's home revealed nothing incriminating. (They forgot to check under the mattress of Aaron's bed for the missing envelope.)

In spite continued efforts, he was unable to keep the media from catching on to the disappearance of Annabelle Shelly in Howard City. Rumors that the Straggele were seen in the area only further prompted locals' curiosity.

Brent continued serving Clyde right up until Aaron and Meredith in Tennessee were able to successfully go to the FBI. Ashley joining them further solidified matters. Yorming, upon exposure, was arrested. Fearing a federal death penalty for his complacency in what all happened, Yorming agreed to testify against his former benefactor. Clyde then had Yorming tortured and murdered in prison anyway, using his reach and connections. Even so, a national manhunt ensued for Clyde - as well as for Chris.

Personality
Brent is not shown to display much personality throughout the story. However, he does seem to have a talent for social engineering. He is able to redirect and gaslight police and DPS employees with relative ease, making evidence disappear and shutting down efforts by locals to report activities wherein which their revelation would harm those he is truly loyal to. Even when finally exposed and apprehended, Yorming seems to show very little emotion.

Trivia

 * This Yorming is taken from his Classic Gerosha counterpart, who is only briefly given one appearance in the first episode of the original miniseries.