- "Maybe she was with one of the other groups that came down before... Stu's group, I think. Ah, but Stu and them got captured."
- —Chaps' intel on Stu and Maria Santiago.
Stu was a Stranded who lived under Mount Kadar.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Not much is known about Stu's early life other than before Emergence Day, he went camping many times in the wilderness and found it an enjoyable hobby.
Locust War[]
Leading Stranded Group[]
Stu was unable to enter the Jacinto Plateau before the Hammer of Dawn Strikes in 1 A.E., but he survived, making him one of the many Stranded. After some time, Stu formed and led his own group outside of Jacinto City. Stu was allied with Franklin Tsoko and his group, and was good friends with one of the members, Chaps.
Among Stu's members was Maria Santiago, the wife of famed Gear, Cpl. Dominic Santiago, who suffered from severe PTSD after the death of her children on Emergence Day and left her husband to find her children, who she believed were still alive. It's unknown if Stu and Maria had a romantic relationship, but Stu cared greatly for Maria and protected her for over twelve years.
Post-Lightmass Offensive[]
In Gale, 14 A.E., the Coalition used the Lightmass Bomb to destroy the Outer Hollow in an attempt to destroy the Locust Horde in what was known as the Lightmass Offensive.
However, the Locust returned with greater numbers, desperation, and strength. They brought with them a force to sink entire cities. Following the sinking of Tollen and Montevado, and increased raids on the surface, many Stranded groups, including Stu's, came to the conclusion that the surface was no longer safe anymore.
Under Mount Kadar[]
- "We've been down here for weeks now, was real creepy at first, but now it's kind of like camping. Well, camping with a fear of Locust killin' you, so maybe's not really like camping at all. I actually liked camping. I don't like this crap. Weird as triplets that we're in the Hollow, but the surface got so hot [and I mean hot like dangerous hot, not skillet hot] we really had no choice but to come down here. Chaps is supposed to come down here soon too, that'll be good. Could use that ol' geezer's sense of humor right now, sure could..."
- —Stu's personal journal entry.
Stu's mugshot
Stranded groups then believed that the Hollow might be a safer place to reside, since the Locust were looking for humans on the surface and wouldn't think to find them underground. Thus, numerous Stranded groups began to migrate in the Hollow of Sera, away from major roads and installations of the Locust Horde.
Stu and his group made an arrangement with Chaps and his group to meet in the underground caverns of Mount Kadar. Stu and his group first entered Mount Kadar and set up camp in an ancient Locust ruins on the shore of an underground lake. Chaps and his group later arrived, but witnessed Stu and his group being discovered and captured by Locust and taken as prisoners to Nexus.
Stu and his group were taken to a prison on the Nexus Highway, where they were imprisoned, enslaved, and tortured. Maria Santiago was also tortured and later lobotomized by the Locust.
Death[]
It is unknown what happened to Stu, but due to the state of one of his own: Maria, Stu was either also tortured into a vegetative state, killed, or died when the Hollow was flooded following the Sinking of Jacinto City. His personal journal was found by Sgt. Marcus Fenix[1] and helped lead Cpl. Dominic Santiago to reunite with Maria, but then euthanized her due to her lobotomy.
Documents[]
Stu's Journal
We've been down here for weeks now, was real creepy at first, but now it's kind
of like camping. Well, camping with a fear of Locust killin' you, so maybe's
not really like camping at all. I actually liked camping. I don't like this
crap.
Weird as triplets that we're in the Hollow, but the surface got so hot [and I mean hot like dangerous hot, not skillet hot] we really had no choice but to come down here. Chaps is supposed to come down here soon too, that'll be good. Could use that ol' geezer's sense of humor right now, sure could...
Stu
Appearances[]
- Gears of War 2 (First appearance) (Photo only)
Behind the scenes[]
- Stu seems to be friends with Chaps. He also thinks that he has a good sense of humor, and before he was captured, wished that he had it with him.
- You can see written on Locust runes "danger, Leviathan" in Stu's journal image.