Name: Dr. Erik Reznov
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Former Occupation: Family Physician
Appearance: Wardrobe Style: Before the Outbreak, Erik's clothing was very formal and fastidious, typically consisting of a black, gray, or navy blue single-breasted suit and tie with a white or light blue button-down shirt underneath and brown leather shoes. Even during casual periods, Erik would simply discard his sport coat and tie, showing a need to remain somewhat meticulous.
Opting to choose function over form since the Outbreak, Erik's clothing nonetheless remains tasteful and neat. His typical outfit on a day-to-day basis consists of a polo shirt, button-down or turtleneck of various colors, which he keeps neatly tucked into a pair of trousers with brown or black leather shoes. During colder weather or as an added layer of defense, Erik will wear a
brown leather jacket over his regular clothing.
Height: 6’0”
Weight: 162 Pounds
Scars/Tattoos/Other: Has a small scar just above his lip, no tattoos or piercings of any kind.
Past Affiliates: Lost his wife and two children to the Virus when it hit South Carolina. Unknown whereabouts of any friends or family, as much of his extended family lives in Germany.
Current Affiliates: Briefly traveled with a small group of survivors as a medic, but currently travels alone.
Skills: Despite being rather mild-mannered and modest, Erik shows a variety of talents that make him invaluable in a group setting. The most prevalent of these skills, perhaps, is his medical training. Having spent much of his adult life running a small medical clinic, Erik has experience dealing with a wide variety of injuries and ailments; ranging from the simplest of cuts and bruises to compound fractures and serious concussions.
Secondly, having been in the Boy Scouts in youth, in which he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, Erik remembers much of the outdoor skills he learned: from starting a fire, to building a shelter, to treating water and navigating his way out of the woods, amongst other skills.
Thirdly, Erik is highly observant and resourceful, able to scan an environment or setting and pick up on the tiniest of details. He can use seemingly insignificant items to his advantage and utilize them for a variety of purposes, dependent on what the pressing need is at the time.
And lastly, Erik's medical training and fit physique make him a somewhat capable hand-to-hand fighter. While not being trained in combat, he exercised rather frequently before the Outbreak. This, coupled with his knowledge of the human body give him a slight advantage in close-quarters, though he can be easily defeated by opponents with actual combat training and experience.
Strengths: Erik is a quick learner with a passion for history, medicine and literature. As a result, he shows an ample amount of knowledge in these subjects and is fond of sharing such knowledge with others. Erik is a highly compassionate individual, which can function as both a strength
and a weakness. Though he keeps a close eye on other survivors he meets, his trust is quickly won over if he believes the individual is righteous and good-natured. Erik is an avid reader of books, showing a preference for classic literature, Medieval Fantasy, or Science Fiction. As such, he can be found more often than not reading a book in his spare time as it helps draw his mind away from the Outbreak. Being a physician, Erik displays a high amount of focus and patience in stressful scenarios, being one of the first to try and strategize as opposed to running around blindly. Erik is adept at reading people through facial expression and body language, able to pick up on the slightest emotional cues with rather high accuracy.
Weaknesses: Sadly, Erik 's compassion is as much a strength as a weakness. Due to spending much of his adult life helping others, Erik is far more open to helping or accepting other survivors, even if their methods/goals are far more ulterior in nature. Nevertheless, Erik isn't a fool and will quickly shun away those he deems as being unrighteous or ill-natured. Erik is very disclosed about his past, revealing very little aside from basic details such as his birthplace and schooling; though he still wears his wedding ring, he makes almost no reference to his wife or children.
Erik suffers from a variant of Phonophobia, specifically the fear of loud noises. Sounds like a loud sirens, gunshots, a balloon popping, or even dogs barking is enough to cause heavy breathing, anxiety, or even panic attacks in more severe cases, with a pressing need to escape the source of the loud sound as quickly as possilbe. Nevertheless, he will temporarily overcome this fear in life-or-death situations where survival takes precedence.
Also, Erik suffers from chronic nightmares from time to time, though whether this an underlying mental condition or simply a side-effect of the traumatizing Outbreak is debatable.
History: Erik Reznov was born in Berlin the single child of Klaus and Claire Reznov, his mother being American while his father was a full-blooded German. The small family moved to the United States when Erik was less than seven years old, settling in his mother's home state of South Carolina.
There, Erik got an ample amount of both American and German culture, as his father felt it necessary to instill Erik with an idea of his heritage. Erik lived a fairly normal life, both his parents were loving both to him and to each other and he made good grades in school, enough to graduate high school with honors.
Showing a passion for medicine since he was a young boy, Erik was accepted at Stanford Medical University, where he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degree before moving onto an internship.
By the time he was in his mid-twenties, Erik established his own small clinic in Greenville, where he had just enough notoriety to be on the map while still being considered outpatient. It was around this time that he met his future wife,
Amelia, a fitness instructor who he first met after she came into his clinic for a sprained ankle.
The two of them began seeing each other after that, transforming from close friends into a romantic couple, which soon crescendoed into marriage.
The two of them lived an enjoyable, though not exactly
excitable life, which they were both alright with. Over the next few years, Amelia gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl named Nicholas and Anya, respectively. Life seemed to go on normally for the Reznov family until late October 2013, when a dangerous virus that first appeared in South America hit the United States.
Erik was astounded and terrified by the Virus' sheer lethality and infiltration ability, as even highly-trained scientists were unable to come up with an explanation. Erik engrossed himself in his work, studying as much as he could to see if he could find a preventive, a way to halt the virus' progress. But then it claimed his wife and children.
Now left alone in a world filled with chaos, Erik spent the next few months of his life wandering, doing whatever he could to survive, even joining up with another small group as the team medic before eventually leaving to go off on his own again, never staying in one place for long.
One fateful night when he was kept awake due to terrifying nightmares, Erik received a broken transmission from a small radio he had found in a convenience store, a transmission that spoke of a place called The Towers, a place that had food, shelter,
safety.
Gathering what little supplies he could, Erik set off once again, in hopes of finding the sanctuary he so desperately needed.
Other: Erik is bilingual, and can speak both English and German fluently. Despite being a man of peace and a doctor, he does carry a Luger Po8 sidearm as a weapon, which he is capable of firing with capable accuracy and precision; though he dislikes shooting or even drawing it, due to his Phonophobia.
