Ernest Craven

Ernest Craven is a fictional character and a major antagonist in the Evil Lives On FanFicton series based on the Australian woman's prison, Wentworth

He is first seen in The Phoenix Rises which was the first story in the Evil Lives On series, serving as a recurring antagonist, where he was appointed as Wentworth's new Governor after it's previous Governor, Jake Stewart, disappeared due to known reasons ( The real reason was that Jake was murdered by Wentworth and Evil Lives On's main antagonist Joan Ferguson). Ernest didn't waste any time in forming an alliance with Joan Ferguson, where they plotted to take over Wentworth from all sides by disposing of Ferguson's enemies at the time and helping her to rise to the position of Top Dog, a status given to the strongest female prisoner in the general population

In the second story - War Among Prisoners, Ernest Craven was one of two major antagonists where the other was Joan Ferguson. In this story, Ernest's past and role as the Governor of Wentworth expanded pretty significantly, along with the addition of his own daughter, Scarlett Craven, being incarcerated. Ernest's control over Wentworth result in complete removal of special privileges and restricting both visiting hours and phone use for his inmates. He warned Ferguson about the arrival of a new prisoner named Rita Connors, who Ernest viewed to be as a possible threat. After giving informing Ferguson about an inmate named Sonia Stevens who had an alliance with Kim Chang, Ferguson framed Kim Chang for drug smuggling which immediately allowed Ernest to place Kim in Solitary Confinement, this, in turn, allowed Ernest to escort Kim to the basement below the prison. Once they were alone things began to turn ugly. Ernest brutally assaulted Kim on a physical level, forcing her to admit to her crimes and revealing the Governor's dark nature

Towards the end of the second story, Ernest's alliance with Ferguson ultimately broke down due to their share of differences of how to control the prison, resulting in Ernest blackmailing Ferguson into being his slave. He also blackmailed his Deputy, Linda Miles, into becoming his personal slave after using Scarlett to record Linda's voice on his phone, where Linda admitting to doing special favors for prisoners in exchange for money to fund her gambling addiction. Ernest would also force Linda to plan drugs into a locker of one of his male officers, Tom Shepherd, who he started to have problems with

He witnesses the final battle between Rita and Ferguson, where Ferguson was killed by her ally Franky Doyle ( Who only pretended to join Ferguson's crew) by having her throat cut open with a shiv when Ferguson was close to killing Rita

In the third story - Revolution, Ernest serves as the main antagonist. Picking up where War Among Prisoners left off with Joan Ferguson's death, Ernest became enraged at the loss of his former minion to help keep control over Wentworth. He knew that by losing Ferguson, his strict rules will start to crumble. Forcing his hand, Ernest goes to Rebecca Widmore, who was Ferguson's second in command of her crew and sent to Solitary after attacking Franky. However, Ernest viewed Rebecca too emotional for her own good and unreliable

Ernest would turn to Raven Logan, who was considered as the muscle and enforcer in Ferguson's crew. After learning about Raven's past and reasons for being a prisoner, Ernest sees potential in Raven and convinces her to join him. This alliance would lead to the end of Raven's relationship with Rebecca. Later on, Ernest reveals his true nature to Franky and warns her not to stand in his way or she will pay the price just as Kim did after Franky suspected Ernest did something horribly wrong to her friend

He would then visit Rita in Solitary and escort her into the basement below Wentworth just as he did previously with Kim in order to torture Rita over the loss of Ferguson while forcing Linda Miles to stand watch on the other side of the door. Underestimating her abilities, Rita fights back resulting in a brutal confrontation with Ernest and allowing Rita to see how dangerous he really was when he began to go on a tirade why prisoners deserved to be punished. Towards the end of their fight, Ernest attempted to burn Rita with a flame torch which backfired and allowed Rita to use the flame torch to burn Ernest's face

Physical Appearance
Ernest is 5ft9, and has brown eyes, and has short black hair. His choice in clothing consists of a white collared shirt with a black blazer over it, black tie, black dress pants, and black shoes. Appearing in his late forties, he had reasonably good looks before his face was horribly burnt thanks to Rita Connors. After returning to Wentworth, Ernest originally wore a see-through face protection mask  but decided to remove the mask and not hide his appearance to both his staff and prisoners

Personality
Ernest Craven is a psychotic individual who views himself as a Deity for Justice, in which he believed he was the only one capable of delivering justice towards anyone who he viewed as a criminal or those that would stand in his way and threaten his twisted plans. He is a self-righteous man believing what he is doing is for the good of society and for the universe, he never sees himself in what he is doing is wrong no how unethical his actions towards his victims might be. Having lost faith in the justice system a long time ago and seeing how the criminals are using the broken system to their advantage, Ernest does the same thing to fight fire with fire

He is also very manipulative in which Ernest will hide in the shadows and manipulate others to his advantage while secretly punishing his victims without getting caught, he can also trick others like Kaz Proctor, Franky Doyle and Allie Novak who were enemies of Joan Ferguson, and pretended he wanted to help them to save Wentworth,  when really he conspired with Ferguson to get rid of them one by one for total control

Ernest is shown to even be abusive towards his own daughter, Scarlett, for many others. Before the events of Evil Lives On begins, Ernest would always push his daughter and never be satisfied with whatever she did. He would play a psychological and emotional game with Scarlett, that relationship being strained for five years when Scarlett had enough of trying to gain Ernest's approval. Later on, when Ernest became Governor and discovered that Scarlett was now his prisoner, they managed to mend their relationship but it's become obvious Ernest is only using Scarlett for his own benefit

It's also known that when dealing with one of his prisoners on his own, Ernest will become very aggressive and sadistic when punishing them. He would often gloat how superior he was to them and how they deserved to be punished by his hand. He forces his victims to admit to their crimes and make them believe it was for their own good as a way they'll never break the law again

Ernest has even physically shoved his Deputy Linda Miles to the wall, after blackmailing her into doing his bidding and forcing her to do something she didn't want to do

Interestingly, despite his behavior towards criminals, if Ernest has discovered that a prisoner did nothing wrong or didn't deserve to be sent to jail, he won't become hostile or aggressive towards them. This happened when Ernest learned of Raven Logan's past when she murdered her uncle for molesting her and showing no remorse for her crimes