Daggett Smith

Daggett Smith is a minor character in A Trick of Light.

Description
A bonafide hatemonger-slash-internet troll, Dagget is pugnacious, bigoted, and obnoxious, and bolstered with aggressive patriotism, Dagget's derogatoriness holds no bounds. Always looking for a way to gain popularity, Daggett uses his right-wing accusations to capitalize on stigma and provoke people against liberal action, discreetly boosting his image while spreading his conservative views. Armed with his own envoy of social media followers that spread his hateful slander, nicknamed "Dagget's Maggots". Daggett exploits his following to attack anyone or anything he wants to be suppressed.

Before A Trick of Light
Daggett was once a shock-jock radio host who was banned for sexual threats toward a politician's sixteen-year-old daughter, but found a new venue on YouTube to channel his bigotry to the troll demographic. One of his more egregious offenses was criticizing a gender-swapped version of West Side Story for converting children into the "Reformed Church of the Genderfluid Social Warrior"; the severity of the threats culminated in shutting the production down, then a bomb-threat search, which Dagget praised as a victory for "truth, justice, and the American way."

A Trick of Light
After finishing a report on accusing the government of smuggling smallpox into the country, Daggett returned to his show when Nia secretly hacked into the studio equipment and made a motion-capture Daggett appear in Daggett's place. The fake started acting effeminate and saying emasculating jibberish to mock Daggett. Daggett ordered the crew to cut the feed, but the camera continued broadcasting the fake Daggett and the event went viral. Daggett proceeded to fire the crew, only to be informed by his producer that everyone left their job and that Daggett himself was fired. With national disbelief and the revelation that Dagget was hacked on a global scale, Daggett faded into obscurity. His incident was soon filed by OPTIC.