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Name: Jack Marino
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian - English, Italian ancestry
Appearance:

(Yes, I know I get all my character pics from Lost. Don't hate the playa, hate the awesomely casted show)
Medium-length blonde, ruffled hair; hazel eyes; 5'10", 170 pounds; trimmed facial hair (he still takes time to keep up appearances - old habits die hard)
Clothing: Jeans, running shoes, a black blazer, and a black t-shirt; he also has a spare white t-shirt, a pair of khakis, and a pair of dress shoes in his belongings.
Equipment: 96 .357 Magnum rounds, 24 3.5" 12 Gauge shells, Lighter, antique chain pocket watch (if weather permits), and a Hiking backpack, with the following contents: Clothing listed above, Desmond Williams' Journal, a couple days' worth of canned food, six bottles of water
Weapons: Smith & Wesson Model 327 handgun; Remington Model 887 Tactical, Small foldable Precise Deerslayer knife
Bio/Background:
Prior to Outbreak: Jack Marino was born in Spokane, Washington, to an Italian-born mother and an American father who owned and ran a successful restaurant in the heart of the city. By the age of ten he had already begun to show political ambition, and was elected Class President for his high school class. He then went on to get a degree in Political Science from UCal Berkeley. Upon his return, and after working for a few years running his father's restaurant, he turned his attention back to politics. Over the next few years Jack worked his way through local and state government as a moderate member of the Democratic Party, eventually being elected Representative for the State of Washington. He gained some national attention, both for his middle-of-the-road tendencies (a pro-gun-rights Socialist turned quite a bit of heads) and for his own personal beliefs, having been one of the only congressional American politicians in U.S. history to not believe in a God.
Post-Outbreak: Jack found himself in Southern California visiting relatives when the outbreak struck. Conditions were extremely bad in that region, and despite his best efforts to get back to his home state, he found himself stuck. For five months he led a group of survivors in Riverside, California - outside of the death trap that was L.A.. After a raider attack compromised his camp, the group scattered and he was forced northwards alone. Moving often and keeping to himself as much as possible, over the next few months he gradually made his way up to Washington, finally making it back to Spokane. There, he found that his father's restaurant had been destroyed, and his parents dead. With a heavy heart, he searched Spokane and the nearby towns once more for supplies before heading west toward the seacoast.
Occupation Pre-Apocalyse: Washington State Representative - Democrat
Other: Jack is in possession of a notebook written by a deceased survivor named Desmond Williams, which he had found on Desmond's person in Colbert, Washington a few days after he had apparently killed himself to avoid turning. The notebook has extensive records of all of Desmond's friends, chronicling his life since departing New York, and contains all of Desmond's tips for where to scavenge, who not to interact with, and so forth. As the only piece of literature readily available, Jack has studied it pretty extensively.