Day 16: Hand

This puzzle completely rides on whether the flavor text gives you the right push in the right direction. If you found it completely opaque, I apologize.

For each text, you must delete every other letter—but it's not consistent whether you delete the odd letters or even letters. Put another way, for each pair of letters, you must cut out either the right or the left one:

• BE EO RB EA NS (cut right, keep left): BEREN
• SC RA PP YT RA GI CN OH OO DO AK (cut left, keep right): CAPTAINHOOK
• AL BU MK EE PS OK AY SW EA TL IK EE AR (cut left, keep right): LUKESKYWALKER
• CO HN US BA BY SU PP ER TH EA RT SF OU ND (cut right, keep left): CHUBBSPETERSON
• WO OD RE MO TE AF IE LD (cut right, keep left): WORMTAIL
• AB OU TS ET TE RR EB EL WU NT CH (cut left, keep right): BUSTERBLUTH

The choice of which letter to cut is supposed to be consistent with whether that character lost his left or his right hand, but I don't think depictions of Captain Hook are 100% consistent and I'm just making an assumption about Beren. Anyway, these answers do not fit into the spaces provided. What fits into the spaces provided are the entities who removed the hands in question:

• Beren: CARCHAROTH
• Captain Hook: CROCODILE
• Luke Skywalker: DARTH VADER
• Chubbs Peterson: ALLIGATOR
• Wormtail: WORMTAIL
• Buster Bluth: SEAL

Here's the thing: The indicated letters spell the answer, ADDAMS.

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