Personally, I'd like to see it as a survival based game; something really bad has happened, but the characters have thus far been able to avoid a horrific end.<br/><br/>I'd personally like to see the setting be more temperate than any one climactic extreme. Maybe a bit of moving around from spot to spot (for instance, maybe the game begins with them all evacuating a city? Fate conspires for them to meet up, and once they've left the city, they need to find some place that will be safe. Maybe the "safe" place they have has wild animals/demons/zombies/hostile survivors/what-have-you that need to be dealt with first, so the safe haven has to be earned.)<br/><br/>Now, as for my character.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Name: Leonardo "Leo" Carter<br/>Age: 24<br/><br/>Life before the 'family': Always yelling, always arguing, loud sounds everywhere, and flying objects. Leo's life as a child was a living hell, with his parents constantly arguing and fighting with each other. But at least their was always Fido, the faithful family dog, a German Shepherd. Fido was always great to Leo, always looked after him, like an adopted son.<br/><br/>It's a good thing, too, since neither of his parents seemed ready to take care of him.<br/><br/>As he grew older, he became an understandably twisted and bitter person.  A consummate loner with survivalist skills is what he eventually developed into. Born in one of the rare rural areas, he learned how to hunt, trap, fish, and prepare game for cooking.  He also learned how to forage for berries and other wild resources of food, as well as some medicinal plants and how to use them.<br/><br/>Smart and quick on his feet and with his hands, Leo knows that it's important to have the tools you need for a job.  Some times, however, you don't have the right tool, and you just need to make do with something else. He's good at that, too.<br/><br/>With a strong love of dogs, he has some rudimentary veterinarian knowledge (applicable to dogs only), and in fact, about two years before the crisis threw the world into chaos and disorder, he had taken in an injured wolf cub and nursed it back to health. These days, "Ripper" (http://s7.postimage.org/vg6tv1bzf/Growling_and_Angry_1024x768_ab.jpg), as he calls the beast, is fiercely loyal to the man who saved his life.  The wolf stays in step with its owner, looking to Leo as the pack leader. Ripper makes it a point to let everyone else in the world know that if they do something wrong to his master, he's going to end their existence.<br/><br/>Life with the 'family': Leo encountered them quite by chance when he made one of those rare ventures into town to gather supplies he couldn't get for himself out in his neck of the woods.  As much as he longs to head back off into the wilderness with his faithful hound, he knows that even there may not be safe. He's found out the hard way that a man alone can only accomplish so much, but a group can do some amazing things, and usually in half the time to boot.<br/><br/>Personality and relationships: Leo prefers his relationships to be simple, and straight to the point. The rest of the 'family' is there for him to used by him, and in turn, he allows himself to be used by them to deal with things the other members couldn't do. Nice and simple, at least to him.<br/><br/>Gets along shockingly well with canines, to the point that some may be calling him the "Dog Whisperer". He finds animals easy to understand and trust, while humans are superbly deceptive. He doesn't trust his fellow man very much.<br/><br/>Much like Kandie, he views sex as a casual thing; an urge that needs to be filled, but once it is, it doesn't matter, and the person who satisfied him (and he satisfied) doesn't really matter much, either. One night stands have, in the past, worked amazingly well for him, because it keeps things simple.  Granted that their will be a significant reduction in the world's female population, this may very well change, albeit slowly.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Kind of rambled a bit in there, but I think it works. Still trying to find a good picture.