Watchmen

In this blog I am going to write about my favorite character in Watchmen, Rorschach.

Rorschach a.k.a Walter Kovacs had a hard childhood that made him into what he s now know as. His mother was a prostitute; one night he found himself coming to his mothers rescue from a man he thought was hurting her, but instead found himself a beating. He was taken from his mother in 1951 after viciously attacking two bullies who were making fun and him and his mother, and stayed in a group home. He then became a garment worker in 1956. At this garment factory, we learn about how Rorschach selected the mask that he would soon wear to protect his identity. A young girl ordered a dress made out of material that Dr. Manhattan invented. The girl never came to pick up her dress because she found the dress hideous. Rorschach took the dress home and experimented with the fabric and eventually cut it into the mask that he would wear. When the woman that ordered the dress, Kitty Genovese, died while others just watched her being raped, tortured, and killed Rorschach became almost obsessed with justice. In 1964, he took up the identity of Rorschach. In 1965 he partnered up with the second Night Owl. Rorschach experienced a dramatic change after investigating a child kidnapping. Before this kidnapping Kovacs just used Rorschach as an identity to protect his real identity as Walter Kovacs.
Rorschach is a key character in Watchmen, if not the main character. He is the one who tries to figure out who killed the Comedian, even though his initial guess is wrong about the masked killer his investigation eventually leads to him uncovering Ozymandias a.k.a. Adrian Veidt’s plan to destroy half the city of New York. It is in his point of view that we see a majority of the story.