Kyle Tugrass (Classic Gerosha)

Kyle Tugrass is a character in the Ferris Access Channel and Dozerfleet Studios original miniseries Blood Over Water. He was portrayed by the real-life actor Kyle Mayer.

Character bio
Kyle is brought into the conspiracy by George, who needed a replacement for Vance when the latter died while trying to kill Mark. Also, Clyde Spendelworth ordered George to keep a backup; since he feared that Chris Kennal could get emotional - and may join Mark's side in the end.

Shortly after Chris murders Mark, Clyde orders George and Kyle to head over to Mark's apartment - to see if they can locate the stolen "Confidential" envelope that Chris failed to recover. Kyle soon joins George in a manhunt for Mark, when they mistake Aaron for Mark. They have difficulty believing that "Mark" survived his encounter with Chris.

The two of them set a trap to capture and kill Mark, unaware that they are actually trapping Aaron. When Aaron escapes, Kyle decides to join Chris personally in tracking him down. George prefers to stay in the car as its driver.

Just when Kyle and George both believe they've won, Chris betrays and murders both.

Personality
Kyle is considerably less comfortable with murdering defectors than is his supervisor, George. Even so, when he gets flustered and angry, he demonstrates varying forms of cruelty. He also provides the straight foil to George's more comical and cartoonish gestures, and has a fair level temperament -even about murder. This contrasts with George, who tries his hardest to play up every moment.

Development
The character's roots can trace easily back to the days of when Mackley's Wardrobe was first pitched at Ferris in the fall semester of 2009. Actor Kyle Mayer was to be given an eventual role as one of Charlotte Duvarin's friends at school. When Mackley's Wardrobe was abandoned in favor of Kozerlen, Kyle was assigned the role of Derrick "Fuzzy" Malone, a friend to Jessie Morcin. However, Kozerlen was later abandoned for what would eventually become the 2009 version of Blood Over Water. Kyle's character went back to not having a name. This not only made things complicated for scriptwriting and blocking, but also made the end credits difficult.

As the story evolved and the need to include Kyle grew more and more dire, writer Angelica McClary began to rush her way through scripts by identifying everyone other than Zach's characters by the actor names, rather than an assigned character name.

For the Dozerfleet edits, issues with Kyle's name were handled by treating him the same way as Chris was treated: first names were kept the same, and surnames were changed. Kyle's character was given the surname of "Tugrass." One early release left last names of characters out entirely, due to bickering about the surnames. In the approved-for-cable version, his surname of Tugrass reappeared, and the actor's surname was masked as "Manor." This was changed again for YouTube, where Kyle's real life last name of Mayer and fictional last name of Tugrass were both listed.

Trivia

 * Of all the characters, Kyle was one of the least altered from his miniseries to webcomic form; managing to maintain an almost identical persona throughout.
 * The original script called for him to have a family that he was "providing for" by doing what Clyde said.
 * Later versions explicitly define him as being a warehouse supervisor. In the miniseries, his exact role in the company was left ambiguous.