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He decided the easiest way to deal with it was to give Goodway a token job or position, so he made her ‘Mayor’. He could have dealt with her too of course, but he did have an affection for her that, not only irritated him, but also just wouldn’t let him do it. On the death of his mother Ryder really didn’t want to have to deal with the deranged ‘auntie’ that had lived in the tower with them. This affliction would manifest itself by her replacing the chicken with a new one whenever Chickoletta ‘got sick and had to rest’, which was actually quite frequent. The distraught Goodway just could not cope with this, and in her obsession began to believe that Chickoletta was still alive, and would never die. Chickens, however, don’t live all that long, especially when kept in a bag and only periodically fed on a diet of nothing but sweetcorn, so ‘Chickoletta’ quickly died. She grew such an attachment to one chicken in particular that she used to carry it around with her everywhere in a bag. In fact, the chickens were her only company for many, many years. Named ‘Goodway’, she was kept inside for pretty much most of her childhood, only allowed outside to tend to the allotments and to look after the chickens. Instead she kept it herself, and brought it up in the tower. She couldn’t be labelled a baby-murderer, that’s the kind of thing that causes rebellions. She disappeared soon afterwards, obviously, but Ryder’s mother kept the baby. The lady claimed to have never even met a black guy before, but the evidence was there for all to see. When the town was run by Ryder’s mother (before he was born, and long before he murdered her of course) one of the women of the town had a baby that caused her some issues. There wasn’t a lot of diversity in Adventure Bay, and that was not overly surprising as the population was heavily controlled, using forced marriage and other eugenic systems. She’s born and bred in Adventure Bay, and has never left the area, hence why she’s completely bat-shit crazy. I have been somewhat berated for not doing enough with her character, but I think if you knew a bit of her background, you’d understand a bit more…

It seems to me that there is a lot of hatred for Chickoletta around.

This was my response, it also explains a bit about Mayor Goodway too: I wrote a really stupid and silly story about what really 'goes on' in Adventure Bay (I was bored one lunchtime), but I got a lot of grief for not doing anything nasty to Chickoletta in it.