NAME: Dixie Baddingfield
AGE: 25
WEAPON(s): Baseball Bat
BACKGROUND: Before the world went to hell, one could say Dixieâs life wasnât exactly perfect. By the time she entered high school her home life had reached terminal velocity. Her father, a raging alcoholic, and her mother a condescending neurotic didnât seem to like spending much time with each other anymore. Not a surprise that in the middle of her freshman year her parents headed for divorce. Frankly, Dixie is thankful that it happened when she was in high school and not when she was in her formative years in elementary school where it wouldâve done more significant damage. She didnât blame her parents for not being able to stand each other anymore. That was life. She was a pretty pragmatic teenager, or so she was told.
It did start a streak of apathy and cynical nihilism, though.
Whispers of it being âjust a phaseâ were consistent, though it never did go away over time. Even in college Dixieâs no nonsense, nonchalant bluntness was present with her devil-may-care attitude. She was somehow less popular than she was in high school. Câest la vie. It was around that time that her mother moved halfway across the United States, specifically Denver. She hasnât seen her since. Ironically, her father wouldnât be able to lament about his ex-wife much longer on account of the liver failure that took his life three days after Dixie graduated from Virginia Tech. She arrived back home just in time to bury him. Probably for the best that he didnât get to witness the zombie apocalypse that came to be years later.
For as long as the apocalypse has been, Dixie has survived. Mostly on her own. That is subject to change.