Mulch Hayes

Crime lord, local agriculture king, big Farm holdout, Mulch Hayes operates a drug smuggling contraband trafficking enterprise with various New Jersey crime families. Utilizing local waterways and back-roads, Mulch takes care of New Jersey problems. Mulch's illicit employees are sometimes called simply, "the watermen" by locals.

Psychically he is scared by the death of his mother and the murder of his uncle, to say nothing of his father's toxic abuse.

Mulch enters into a bargain to kidnap his human daughter Virginia and send her to Pembroke Van Hazen, while kidnapping Marina, his half-mermaid daughter, and sending her north via boat to Boston where she will be taken to Cilia in Amsterdam. Mulch's behavior is self-destructive and driven by obsession.

Mulch possesses no known magical abilities, however both as a child and as a young man he experienced supernatural events.

His legal business ventures include farming, seed & feed stores, as well as aquaculture and aqua-farming.

Mulch has a had lifelong on and off again romantic relationship with Maria, a migrant who works in the Hayes family home.

Mr. Bill is Mulch's right hand man.