Name: Jason O'Connor
Age: 30
Height: 5'11
Weight:180
Equipment: 1.working flashlight with about 30 minutes of battery life left
2. lighter
3. Rucksack
4. two faced silver dollar
5. Small tent.
Weapons:
1. Bowie knife
2. Ice pick
3. Colt M1911 A1 (.45 ACP)
4. Machete.
Previous Occupation: Master Sergeant, United States Marine Corps.
Appearance:
Bio:
Born in rural South Carolina just outside Newberry on May 22, 1984, Jason was the only child of an insurance salesman and a waitress. His parents died when he was two, and he was raised by his grandmother.
At age 18, Jason signed up with the Marines, and shipped out to Parris Island. Upon graduation, he was shipped out to Afghanistan for two tours before returning to Camp LeJeune, where he specialized in reconnaissance and was reassigned to the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, where again, he was shipped out to the war on terror.
Several years pass, until five months prior to the outbreak. Jason and his team are about to mount a limited raid on a suspected terrorist's home when shit hit the fan. The suspect had protection from a local warlord, intel that H.Q. failed to relay before mounting the raid. Regardless of the new information, Jason and his team decided to continue with their objective of target acquisition and rendition. Unfortunately one of the enemy threw out a frag grenade. Miraculously, Jason wasn't killed by it, though he did lose all function in his left ear, and the high-pitched whine that accompanies an explosion would be present in his right for the rest of his life, albeit only in total silence. [1]
The team was extracted, and Jason was sent to a military hospital where upon completion of his treatment he was medically discharged and sent back to Newberry, South Carolina. One month later, the outbreak started, and Jason had to shoot his own grandmother, something he still hasn't fully come to terms with. Feeling that he owed it to his grandmother to survive this nightmare, he started heading north, where he will come across a settlement.....
NOTES: 1: I made his hearing problems match mine except I wear a cochlear implant on my right and otherwise I'm totally deaf. I've never been near an explosion however. So I don't know where the ringing came from(although unlike my character it's there all the time) and I've had hearing problems since birth