Erastus Corning is a former city council building, now just a regular building. He currently resides in the Moon Row neighborhood of Blendini City. As a former member of the City council, Erastus misses those days of power very much.

He is currently very bored and wishes he was still on the City Council.

As a City Council member, he was controversial on some things that he tried to do, such as wholesale bulldozing of sections of the Jaggers neighborhood when it had gone through immense economic decline.

Voters also grew weary of the machine-style politics that Erastus enjoyed. So Erastus was finally booted out by the voters as a city council building after 30 years of service (five terms!!) and has been spending the last 10 years sitting around and being very bored.

Erastus thought that opening himself up as an apartment would spark some excitement, but now he is very bored of the tenants. He requested his current property manager to change his front-facing windows to better express his boredom. Erastus did not always look like this! It also took a lot of work to change his expression, so I’m pretty sure he’ll try to lean into his boredom now as much as possible.

The people and the buildings who voted me out thought the power of City Council went up to my head. Well, some of them did at least. They never forgave me for the demolitions that happened in Jaggers. But I believed and still believe that swift action needed to be taken to combat the Meningus outbreak. Also, yes, I had built a political machine. Yes, there was graft, the back-scratching, you name it. But we got stuff done. And I don’t think my successor has been able to do nearly as much as I did. Some have said I’m hoping to make a political comeback. Never say never.

Erastus Corning, Former Blendini City Council