Name: Rena Richard
Nickname: NA
Age: 18
Personality: Strong willed, is able to stay calm even in the most horrible events, some might say she shuts off her emotions sometimes, but she truly feels and cares for the people and world around her.
Appearance:
[Her hair is very long, slightly wavy and light brown, so light that it is almost blonde]
Occupation before outbreak: Danced for a modern ballet studio
Weapons and other supplies: A shovel, her father's handgun and rifle and some extra bullets, a butcher knife and a small hunting knife.
A large camping backpack filled with her extra pointe shoes, ballet slippers, tutus and leotards, 6 canned goods, can opener, 12 high energy snacks, 3 bottles of water.
Background & History: Rena is an only child and had a traumatic up bringing. Her parents were murdered when she was three years old and she witnessed it. It was a break-in gone bad. She was adopted soon after and to help her channel some of her feelings, her adopted parents thought it would be a good idea to put her into dance class. She is trained in most forms of dance, but her dance of choice is ballet, even going as far as wearing some form of ballet item in her every day life, not just at school, such as wearing her ballet slippers, leotards or pointe shoes. Her feet have become accustomed to the pointe shoes and she claims, they are more comfortable than normal shoes. It is not unusual to see her doing some of her ballet warms ups when she is out and about.
At the age of 16, she was accepted into a modern day ballet dance school, where they do the typical ballet shows, but also unique ones. She spends two years at this dance studio, getting recognized and gaining sponsors for bigger and better things in the ballet world.
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During the beginning of the outbreak she was at class when the chaos started to happen around her. Only by luck was she able to run out and find shelter. As far as she knows, nobody in her class made it. On the way out, she was able to grab a few things, her backpack that is full of her extra pointe shoes and ballet slippers, leotards, tutus and bottle water, high energy snacks she keeps on hand, a pile of clothing (turns out to be from one of the male dancers) which consists of a pair of jeans and t-shirts, boxers and socks and as she passed the maintenance shed, she had the sense to grab a shovel.
There were "things" on the street. Things that were attacking other people, but they were very slow. Most people were caught and attacked because they panicked, but a calmness had come over her, so she did not panic. Maybe it was because of her control when she dances, or from the memory of her parents murder. She is very agile and is able to jump, climb and outrun, dart and dodge any of the things that notice her. She runs to her neighborhood and goes to her home. Her adoptive parents are not home, and she has sense enough to know there was a high chance that they were gone.
She stocks up and does the only thing that makes any sense, she heads out and tries to find others and a place that will be safer to live. This is how after many months of traveling, she enters the small town of Karn. She's lost and doesn't even know she is in a small country town California that is not even on most maps.
Anything else we should know?: She is a bi/lesbian(leans more on lesbian side), though before the outbreak, she was never open about the fact. Now she figures, she does not have to worry because there is probably no chance that she'd ever meet anyone anyway.
