Minus the armour, the weapon and the military outfit in general. The character will have the same face, glasses, beard, hat (without the skull logo) and the body structure in general. He will have tattoes but not the same as the one on the arms in the picture.
Name: Darren Antonelli
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Pre-Apostate Occupation: Mechanic and former car thief
Equipment: A backpack filled with: a small toolkit, a few cans of food, a thermos water bottle, a Glock magazine, a couple of books, a Cuban cigar, a bottle of whisky and a road flare. On his person, he has: a Glock pistol with one mag in it, a lighter, a fire axe, some cigarettes and a worn out picture of him and his six-year old daughter.
Personality: He has been a very uncaring man ever since ‘The Apostate’; he doesn’t care about people’s beliefs or worries. Ever since the whole event happened, he just lost his will to even give a damn about other people’s lives. He chooses to protect himself and get on with his life. He is lonely, lost and he continues to wander aimlessly around the desolated ruins. He tends to be reserved and quiet but the tiniest part of him wishes to have a motive, someone to care for (again) or a group of people to actually give a damn about. Until that happens, he’s just a quiet, uncaring loner. Deep inside, he is a good man but he has lost touch with his morals since. He also is able to resort to violence if he chooses too and he doesn’t care about your command, leadership or status. If you piss him off then he’ll punch you in the snout, no questions asked about your rank or importance.
History: Darren was born in Brooklyn, New York to a nurse (mother) and (a warehouse manager). They lived in the lower class parts of Brooklyn and they didn’t have much. Darren had no other siblings. It was a stable family household until Darren was 8 years old. His father witnessed a corrupt cop shooting another person in an alleyway. The victim was unarmed. His father was then noticed by the cop and was shot dead there and then. This devastated him and his mother. The cop was found after months of investigating and he was sent to life in maximum security prison. Even with this arrest, his mother still never found closure. She shot herself a few months after her husband’s death. After all that, Darren had to live with his aunt. The boy wasn’t even ten yet and had already witnessed some life-shattering experiences.
Darren wasn’t exactly a good kid during his teens. He would get into much trouble during them for small petty crimes and he even got kicked out of high school at the age of 17. This caused a major rift between him and his aunt. Unless he found some sort of job, he would be kicked out. Luckily, a friend of his knew a friend of a friend that could help him out. Darren eventually discovered he had a very good talent for stealing cars. He was able to break into them, hotwire them and drive away before anybody noticed that it was gone. He would steal the cars and send them to a specific drop-off point for them. He would then be sent cash directly. He was able to pay money to his aunt but he eventually moved out before she got suspicious of what he did for a living. His life was going very well until he was 24.
When he was 24, he had one car job that would change his life. He was sent to steal a basic sedan in Queens. It was nothing new; it should have been a simple job. However, he did not anticipate that it was a planted vehicle by the cops. They were waiting for him. Years of skilled thievery was destroyed. He thought it was odd that the cops were taken him so seriously, there were hundreds of car thieves in New York, why him? As it turned out, one of the cars he sold was a pink buggy that belonged to some spoilt, whiny brat that begged her daddy to try and find the car thief. Unfortunately, Daddy liked to spoil his daughter and he had major connections to the NYPD, which caused them to get off their asses and find Darren. Thankfully, they only charged him with vehicular theft of the pink buggy and the decoy sedan. They didn’t have any evidence on any of the other vehicles he’s stolen. He was given a 5-year sentence in a minimum security prison. He could get out in 3 with good behaviour. His money was kept by a friend of his. He would at least have something to go back to when he got out.
Darren eventually managed to get out in 3 years with good behaviour. He got his money back from his mate and was able to buy a new 2 bedroom apartment but there was one thing he did not expect at his door a few days later. A little 4 year old girl, standing in his doorway with a bag, a little backpack, a little plush pony in one hand and a letter in the other. It turns out that this little girl was his daughter. The letter explained that the girl’s name is Sophie and she needs a place to live. It was written by the mother and it explained that they had sex in the bathroom of a club 4 years ago and she chose to raise the child all by herself. She knew the baby’s father was a criminal and she wanted to protect Sophie from that but the mother became seriously ill and there was no one to turn too. The letter practically begged for Darren to take care of his daughter. Darren was speechless and didn’t know what to do. He eventually discovered he had deep paternal instincts and he chose to take care of her. He finally had something in life to strive for. He used the rest of his money to open a garage and became his own business as a mechanic. He is now working honestly to take care of his little sweetheart.
After two years, they were living happily. Sophie was starting school and Darren was making a decent profit from the garage but that all change when ‘The Apostate’ happened. He had discovered his daughter had vanished. He didn’t know what to do or who to call but then he walked outside and eventually discovered that nearly everyone had vanished. There was no traffic, no voices, lively city chatter. Nothing. The disappearance of his daughter shattered him and destroyed him. He was now dead inside. He begged the universe to give her back, he begged and begged but to no avail. He didn’t know what to do next. He just grabbed equipment from his garage and supplies from his house and left to find answers.
He didn’t find any answers after the first few months. No one knew anything. A military group called ‘The Children Of God’, said that it was God taking the good people into heaven and leaving the rest to die as heathens. He almost believed it but he didn’t approve of Christianity. He has never felt that it had helped anyone and this group were just glorified killers who try to believe some nonsense to justify their brutal actions. It has been years and he is just walking around, doing absolute fuck all. He had a car for the first couple of years but as plant life started invading the roads, it became much too difficult to drive over them, unless you had some sort of major off-road vehicle. Until he can find some sort of motive, he’s just a man without a plan.
Other: He will wear a worn out jacket with some old cargo trousers and some worn out boots. He will not be wearing the same military outfit like in the picture. As I said, the picture is just too mainly show what his face and body structure will look like. He is not a military man. He doesn't have the assault rifle either, only a pistol.
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