William "Brut" Delbert Simms is a character in the novel Final Destination: Looks Could Kill. He is a sociopathic model and a survivor of the Coral Clipper sinking. He is also the boyfriend of Stephanie "Sherry" Pulaski.
Biography
Brut was originally born William Delbert Davis (a.k.a. Billy-Del) after his grandfather, Delbert Davis Sr., raped and impregnated his oldest daughter, Becky. He was born sometime in the summer of 1983 (according to the book timeline). After Becky accepted an invitation to a family reunion, Katie Davis wrote to her, Delbert went insane. He massacred everyone in the family before killing a cashier named Estelle Nicholls, two men inside a Circle K Convenience Store, the postmaster, and a customer who was busy delivering mail. It didn't take long before the cops showed up and gunned down Delbert, but it was too late for his family, who were all brutally killed by Delbert at the reunion, including Becky, Katie, Delbert Junior, Becky's fiancé, Beau Taylor, Lisa Davis, and many others.
It was a miracle that the cops found 18-month-old Billy-Del still alive and stowed away inside the trunk of a car. Brut was sent to a foster home for six years, where he was abused, neglected, and orally raped. It wasn't until Brut was adopted by Michael and Joan Simms that he was finally happy with his life.
However, when he heard that they were planning on sending them back to the foster home due to his behavior, he began to act nice to his foster parents, telling them he loved them. Since then, Brut used his new "talent" to get the things he wanted in life, including his girlfriend, Sherry. It didn't take long for Brut to find Pier Merlot, either, or to start his drug habit to drive his horrible past away.
One day while inside the studio, Pier announces that the models have been accepted for a line of perfume and that Sherry was the spokemodel for the job. She decides to celebrate by hosting a party on her yacht, the Coral Clipper, in Miami. Brut is about to board the yacht when his girlfriend has a terrible premonition of the boat sinking after the LookSea crashes into it.
After witnessing the horrible dream, Sherry manages to drag Brut, several other models, and a photographer off the ship before it sinks. As the boat begins to depart, the LookSea plows into it, just as she thought it would. As the boat is sinking, a fiery piece of debris flies into the air and hits Sherry on the head, maiming her face.
While Sherry is in a coma, Brut cheats on her with Rosemarie "Rose" Dupree, and after four months, the survivors host a “Welcome Home” party for Sherry and give her a mask of what she used to look like. The mask appalls Sherry, and she shouts at everyone to leave her apartment. Brut later appears at Shirelle "Shiraz" Edelstein's funeral after she dies in a tragic accident, and later again with Rose. Brut, tired of Rose groping him while he's relaxing, gets into an argument with her and makes a distasteful comment about her weight, leading her to have liposuction. She later died during the procedure, and a distraught Brut goes to a crack house, where he gets high on heroin.
After Brut sees Rose's autopsy and realizes Death is coming after the survivors, he stays inside his home and away from harm to avoid dying in a grisly way. However, he suddenly realizes that Sherry is of valuable help to the situation and leaves his apartment to go see her.
Brut is the fifth survivor of the Coral Clipper to die.
Death
After Rose, Darla "Chardonnay", Ruby "Chablis", and Shiraz die, Brut goes to find Sherry because he believes she can help him cheat Death. Spotting Sherry across the street, Brut runs across the road and falls into an open manhole and lands in the sewer. Brut only receives a minor injury, but he is soon dragged down the flooded sewer due to heavy rainfall.
As the water begins to drop, Brut suddenly finds himself hanging upside-down by a dislodged pipe. Brut, surviving the flood, thinks he is safe and has cheated Death. His horrors suddenly come back once he sees two bright subway lights heading straight towards him.
Brut screams as the lights come towards him, and he is splattered by the train as it runs into him at lightning speed.
Signs/Clues
- In Sherry's vision of the boat sinking, Brut died when Sherry let go of his hand while the ship was sinking, and he plummeted into the water and drowned.
- Hebel Federman warns Gunter Nonhoff that Azrael, the Angel of Death, had spread his wings and cast a shadow upon him and his friends, indicating they're going to die soon.
- Gunter tells Brut that he couldn't care less if he fell under a subway train.
- Brut almost died twice. He was almost killed when the taxi he was riding in collided with a bakery truck, and he nearly drowned inside the sewers during a heavy rainfall.
- The fare meter inside the taxicab was thirteen dollars.
- The street Brut was on before falling down the manhole was Thirteenth Street.
- Before running towards Sherry, he noticed an old man (Death) was standing next to her.
| Final Destination: Looks Could Kill |
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| Disaster |
| Coral Clipper |
| Survivors |
| Stephanie "Sherry" Pulaski | Sky Foster | Abigail "Cabernet" Foster | Gunter Nonhoff | William "Brut" Simms | Rosemarie "Rose" Dupree | Darla "Chardonnay" | Shirelle "Shiraz" Edelstein | Ruby "Chablis" |
| Causalities |
| Horace Fischer | Pier Merlot | Carlo | Sergei |
| Others |
| Cynthia | Frieda Dahmer | Becky Davis | Delbert Davis Jr. | Delbert Davis Sr. | Katie Davis | Lisa Davis | Jason | Jennifer | Julio |Justinian | Dr. Kronenberg | Ricky Leo | Leonide | Mandrake | Marisol | Millicent | Estelle Nicholls | Phil | Carla Pulaski | Ed Romero | Georgie Shapiro |Joan Simms | Michael Simms | Beau Taylor | Tweak | Wendy |
| Locations |
| TBA |