Name: Charles "Charlie"
Age: 32
Gender: Male
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Personality: Charlie has always been competitive. Growing up in a family of 7 siblings, you gotta fight to stand out. It makes sense that he'd be Head Coach of the college football team. He's a natural leader and takes charge in any sort of situation. Some would describe him as over-bearing, he sees himself as authoritative. Charlie knows what's right even if no one else agrees.
Background: Charlie grew up in a small farming community in the Midwest. His family was pretty traditional. Church-going and beef-eating. Through high school he was a star quarterback and very popular. Because he was such a good athlete, teachers never expected him to do any work, so he just skirted on by with grades he didn't earn.
One tragic night, though, all of that came to an end. During off season, Charlie was out drinking with his friends. His parents thought he was staying at a friends house, in reality there was a huge party out at the lake. Dozens of kids were there. Towards the end of the night, Charlie was heading into town in the supped up truck his parents had bought him. His best friend and a couple of girls were with him. Charlie was far to drunk to be driving. Only a couple miles down the road, Charlie veered to the wrong side of the road and got side-swiped by an oncoming semi. The girls that they'd picked up died on impact. Charlie's friend was thrown from the car and never walked again and never talking to Charlie again either. Charlie broke both of his legs and ended his high school football career, thus ending his future entirely.
Because of the accident, half the school resented Charlie. One of the girl's he'd killed was homecoming queen. Because of that and because he was no longer a star athlete, teachers started expecting work from Charlie, which he could no produce. Having hardly done any work his entire high school career, he realized he was far behind. His grades plummeted. Without good grades or a football scholarship to bank off of, Charlie's options for college were very limited. After he barely graduated, he tried community college but dropped out in the first semester. Charlie worked construction for years after that. Became a heavy drinker and slowly started killing himself.
It took years for Charlie to clean up his act. He finally moved out of his hometown and found the motivation to go back to school. His third semester in, he met the beautiful Eve and they hit it off quite nicely. She was much younger than him, but Charlie hardly noticed. She was so sophisticated it didn't matter. After only a month of casual dating, Eve turned up pregnant. Charlie was sure this would destroy his life again, but he still did the right thing and married Eve. They worked together and both managed to finish college in a decent amount of time. Eventually, Charlie even fell in love with Eve. They had a good life together.
Upon graduation, Charlie had an assistant coach position waiting for him. In only a few years, he managed to work his way up to head coach. His beautiful wife was a phenomenal cinematographer and their darling daughter was a star pupil of second grade. Life was looking pretty good for Charlie... then everything was destroyed.
Inventory:
Duffel bag
4 cans of assorted vegetables, 1 can of spam.
9mm Revolver, a present from his conservative father
12 rounds of ammo.
Pocket knife
3 sets of clothes
Sleeping bag
Name: Sean Parker
Age: 30
Gender: Male
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Personality: Sean is a simple man who's goals in life were never very big. He wanted to own his own home and raise a family. He felt like he was very successful. But he knew that if anything got in between him and his family, Sean would do whatever he could to take care of them.
Background: Sean was born and raised here. His work mainly comprised of landscaping and construction, which is how he met Charlie. Good friends at one time, Sean and Charlie drifted apart once Charlie went to college and found his dream girl. Of course, Sean had started a family of his own long before.
Sean was a survivalist before the collapse. He thought he was prepared for anything. He was quite wrong.
Inventory:
Tent
Sleeping bags
Boxed dry food
Four wheeler (outside the complex)
12 gauge shot gun
Hatchet
3 sets of clothes
Name: Julia Parker
Age: 29
Gender: Female
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Personality: Julia has fought depression and anxiety her whole life. As a young girl, her father would drink and beat her and her mother. This caused irreversible damage to Julia's psyche. It wasn't until Julia was almost out of the house that something was finally done about it. Because of the mental trauma, Julia has had a hard time excelling in life. She ended up dropping out of high school to get a job and live on her own. Many times she's tried to go back to school, but always became discouraged.
When her and Sean got together, her life was given purpose. She took care of Sean and later took care of their children. They were never very well off in life, but Julia could never get her stuff together to improve their life.
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Name: Sam Parker
Age: 11
Gender: Male
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Personality: Sam was always a cheerful and mischievous boy. After watching his siblings be attacked and eaten by zombies, Sam has yet to recover. For days he's been in a state of confusion and denial. He hasn't been able to process what he'd seen yet.
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