APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]
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				Title: <strong>APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eislynn</strong> on <strong>17-08-2012, 21:52:53</strong>
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				Players please re-post your accepted character sheets in this thread. This top post will be reserved for a table of contents once I figure out how to do that. Please no conversations here, I want this to be a convenient resource that is free of clutter. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eislynn</strong> on <strong>17-08-2012, 21:53:26</strong>
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				This Second post (Under construction) will detail notable NPCs. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Caitlin</strong> on <strong>17-08-2012, 22:15:01</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://www.wikistreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/nurse.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Caitlin Walker<br><strong>Age:</strong> 23 (21 December 1988)<br><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br><strong>Sexual preference:</strong> Bi-curious<br><strong>Occupation (Pre-Apocalypse):</strong> Nurse<br><strong>Personal Hobbies of Note:</strong> Running, fitness training, reading books, searching through the belongings of former occupants of a house and picturing what their lives used to be.<br><strong>Description:</strong><br>Height – 1.72 meter (5'9”)<br>Weight – 59 kilograms (130 pounds)<br>Body – Trimmed and fit, due to regular running and fitness training. She's not very strong, but makes up her lack of strength with endurance and agility.<br>Skin color – 3/4 Caucasian, 1/4 Asian<br>Hair color – Almond brown<br>Hair – Completely shaved below the neckline, whenever razorblades are available. <br>Eye color – Dark Brown<br>Breast size – C cup<br>Wardrobe – Typically she wears a sports bra, a long comfortable shirt, panties, jeans, socks and jogging shoes. She always carries a backpack with her, when she's on a run for supplies.<br>Weapons – She's an average shot with handguns, a danger to herself with automatic weapons, and she always carries her trustworthy crowbar with her. <br><strong>History:</strong><br><span class="bbc_u">Childhood</span><br>Caitlin was a cheerful girl, who grew up in a typical suburban neighborhood, in one of the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Her parents were hardworking people, who had jobs in Pittsburgh, and often came home late, leaving Caitlin to her own devices between the hours of getting off school and her parents coming home. Usually she would play with the neighborhood kids, but she also enjoyed reading children's books, when there was nobody to play with. After socializing, reading would always be a favorite way to pass the time. <br><br>Caitlin was a tomboy, who enjoyed playing wild games, climbing in trees and loved exploring her surroundings with friends. As a result, she joined the Girl Scouts at the age of eight, and continued to be a Girl Scout until the age of sixteen. It was here that she picked up many useful survival skills, while she enjoyed camping in the outdoors.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">Teenage years</span><br>Caitlin turned from a tomboy into a beautiful teenage girl, who scored high marks in biology, while scoring above average on subjects like physics and physical education. However, despite her intelligence, she struggled with subjects like mathematics and economics, and she had trouble passing those with sufficient marks. She tried ballet for a year, but she didn't have the patience to practice and perfect the moves. She gave up after she had a major argument with her teacher about her motivation, and she didn't attempt it ever again.<br><br>During her years as a Girl Scout, she found out that she genuinely liked to help other people. She wanted to become a doctor, but her GPA wasn't high enough for a scholarship, and her parents didn't have the money to send her to a university. Instead she opted to become a nurse, which, to her, was the second best thing. Additionally, with the nurse program she enrolled in, money wasn't a concern either, since the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center paid for all the tuition costs.<br><br><span class="bbc_u">College</span><br>While she was in college and studied to become a nurse, she picked up the habit to go running every morning with several of her friends. She took great joy in staying fit, and it was a fun social exercise. Her daily exercise resulted in a fit, trimmed and healthy body. In college she also met her fiancé, with whom she was planned to marry several months after she graduated. However, that was never meant to be. <br><br><span class="bbc_u">Career</span><br>Once Caitlin graduated, she was offered a job at UPMC Mercy, which she eagerly accepted. Her parents were catholic, and though Caitlin wasn't particularly religious, she strongly identified herself with Mercy's core values. Three weeks later, her fiancé visited her at the hospital. During his visit, he was bitten by one of the aggressive patients. What started as a simple bite infection, quickly spread and turned into something much worse. <br><br>He would never leave the Intensive Care Unit, and several hours later Caitlin watched him die a horrible death. Her colleagues had never seen such an aggressive disease before, and they were mystified by what caused it. Even worse was how more patients with similar symptoms were arriving at the hospital, the disease seemed to spread at an exponential rate. Hours after Caitlin had lost her fiancé, all hell broke loose. Despite her best efforts to help the sick patients, it quickly turned out that it was in her best interest to abandon her post. Seeing dead patients, including her fiancé, reanimate, made her decide that she would be safer elsewhere. <br><br>She went from place to place, and after she hid out in a safe house for a week with other survivors, she realized that the situation would quickly become unsustainable, as their group was running low on supplies. She tried to convince the other survivors to give up their safe location, and move to a new location with more resources, but it turned out to be a futile effort. They were convinced that their safe house was the best way to fend off the zombies, and they wouldn't even consider her arguments.<br><br>That evening, Caitlin stole a crowbar, packed up the last of the remaining supplies, broke through the defenses, and sneaked out. Unfortunately, one of the other survivors hadn't been as vast asleep as she thought, and when he sounded the alarm it drew the zombies to their location. Instead of defending her fellow survivors, Caitlin ran as fast as she could, and left the others to die. <br><br><span class="bbc_u">Post-Apocalypse Life</span><br>She continued to move from one safe location to another, for months on end. All this time the crowbar had been her trustworthy weapon and a useful tool to break into places. During her struggle for survival, she had also picked up a handgun, but found that ammo was hard to come-by, and she was currently down to six bullets. When she had attempted to use an assault rifle, the recoil had been far worse than she had imagined. The bullets that whizzed by her head, had nearly killed her, and she decided to stick to her handgun and crowbar instead. <br><br>Whenever she had the option between fight and flee, she would always chose to flee, due to a lack of confidence in her strength. Occasionally, that caused her to miss out on some great supplies, but she preferred to avoid taking risks whenever possible. <br><br>During the past year, Caitlin had become paranoid and wary of other people. She had survived several rape attempts, an angry cannibal, numerous gangs, and she had run from more zombies than she cared to count. Because of all of that, she had come to distrust people, and she couldn’t help but wonder what their ulterior motives were.<br><br>With most forms of entertainment gone, she picked up her old hobby of reading again, and, unless there were people she trusted available for socializing, she preferred to spend her spare time by reading a good book. Additionally, since reading didn’t make a sound, it allowed her to stay aware of her surroundings. At the first sound of trouble, she would stop reading and investigate what was going on. The habit turned out to be a lifesaver on several occasions.<br><strong>Runner?:</strong> YES
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				Title: <strong>Re: APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Mossberg</strong> on <strong>17-08-2012, 22:41:33</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://katidamo.wikispaces.com/file/view/ApocRun-Runner.jpg/357304616/ApocRun-Runner.jpg)</div>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Name:</strong> Vincent (Vin) Cheeks<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Age:</strong> 25<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Sexual Preference:</strong> Straight<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Occupation (Pre-Apocalypse):</strong> Gang member/drug dealer<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Personal Hobbies of Note:</strong> Weightlifting and video games<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Description:</strong> Vin stands at six feet even and weighs about 220 pounds. His clothing consists of jeans and t-shirts with sneakers or boots. In inclement weather he wears a medium grey jacket or a white down filled coat depending on the weather. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>History:</strong> From a young age Vin had been exposed to a dangerous life. His parents were alcoholics and drug users and as a result they stayed poor and had to live in neighborhoods with low property value due mostly to crime. Vin grew up in fear until he became big enough to defend himself from the meaner boys. Once he started fighting he realized that he liked it. And he was good at it. When Vin was fifteen one of his friends introduced him to some of the crips that he hung around with. Just a couple months later he was jumped in and became a full member. The beating lasted 60-90 seconds, and it took him 10 days on bed-rest at home to recover.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; As Vin grew older his assignments from his superiors grew increasingly dangerous, illicit and savage. In the beginning he simply ran messages and played lookout. When he started getting into his late teens they had him out selling drugs and beating people to extort money from them. His early twenties was when he had made his first kill. It had been in a drive by done by some bloods from across town. They hit one of his friends and Vin pulled out his pistol and shot back at the car. With four shots he had managed to hit the driver and kill him. After that night Vin had killed a few more people for various reasons.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Now twenty-five years old Vin is just about ready to leave the gang when the zombies come. Vin played games and watched movies and he had no illusions about what they were. Luckily he had always been a decent shot and managed to shoot zombies in the head the majority of the time. He quickly learned though that noise just brought more and switched to using an aluminum baseball bat powered by his muscular arms. At the present time he is currently holed up in a supermarket with a few of his friends.<br><strong>Runner?:</strong> YES<br>[/quote]
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				Title: <strong>Re: APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>TheRedFear</strong> on <strong>17-08-2012, 23:54:02</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g393/theredfear/MaleCharPics/n581712354_509597_7066.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Dominic "Deus" Vasquez<br><strong>Age:</strong> 24<br><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br><strong>Sexual Preference:</strong> Hetero<br><strong>Occupation (Pre-Apocalypse):</strong> Movie Stuntman/Fight Choregrapher<br><strong>Personal Hobbies of Note:</strong> Mixed Martial Arts and Parkour<br><strong>Description:</strong> You know the routine. Tall. Dark. Handsome. Etcetera, etcetera. About the only thing worth noting are the crisscrossing knife scars on his back. He doesn't talk about those. <br><br><strong>History:</strong> Dominic grew up in an unhealthy living environment. One parent was a drunk. The other was a pill-popper. Both were violent when under the influence. So he found every excuse to stay outside. But he didn't get into trouble. He saw where that leads everytime he went home, and he'd be damned if he was going to set a single foot down that path. <br><br>Dominic found a relatively good crowd of thrillseekers to fall in with. One internet video later they formed a group of free-runners and started having a blast. Granted much of what they did wasn't particularly safe, but it wasn't criminal either. Well, maybe the occasional act of tresspassing in their search for challenging new environments and minor acts of vandalism but that's as bad as it got.<br><br>His athleticism caught the eye of a guy who ran the local fight gym. Dom couldn't pay for lessons, so he gave Dom a mop and a job, and started teaching him how to fight. One day he looked in the paper and saw an open casting call for male dancers in a music video. He showed up, impressed the producers with his moves, and the rest was history. <br><br>Dom legally emancipated himself from his parents when he was 16, got his GED, and began a career in the film industry. Before long he was one of the most in-demand fight choregraphers in the business, and even had a few small starring roles himself. His movies were low budget and direct-to-video but each had a cult following do to the incredible fight scenes and his growing reputation as a man who performed all his own stunts. He had just signed the contract to have a relatively major role as the villain in a big budget summer blockbuster. His agent was practically doing cartwheels, assuring him this was going to be his breakout role. He was well on his way to becoming an A-List action star. <br><br>Then some jackass let the zombies loose...<br>&nbsp; <br><strong>Runner?:</strong> YES(Number 2 if it isn't claimed yet)<br><br>Marko Zaror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfmkeivhyxk#ws)<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOgetfCd0w#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOgetfCd0w#ws)]Marko Zaror Demo 6-2010
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				Title: <strong>Re: APOCALYPSE RUNNERS (A 'Zombies, Run!' Spinoff) [Accepted Characters]</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Lyria</strong> on <strong>18-08-2012, 05:29:32</strong>
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				<br><div class="floatright">(http://i2.listal.com/image/307339/600full-michelle-rodriguez.jpg)</div> <br><strong>Name:</strong> Catalina Flores<br>&nbsp;<strong>Age:</strong> 20<br>&nbsp;<strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br>&nbsp;<strong>Sexual Preference:</strong> Curious about both sexes, experienced with neither<br>&nbsp;<strong>Occupation (Pre-Apocalypse):</strong> None, street rat, petty thief<br>&nbsp;<strong>Personal Hobbies of Note:</strong> Origami<br>&nbsp;<strong>Description:</strong> 5’2, 125 lbs. Catalina is muscular and well-toned throughout the torso and limbs, with the subtle curves. Her hair is dark and wavy, falling to her waist, and usually wears it in a loose ponytail or a side braid. Her eyes are a very dark brown, almost black, with thick, naturally arched brows framing them.&nbsp; The shape of her face is heart shaped, with full lips and high set cheekbones. She dresses in what is available, and what she is free to move in, preferring close fit tank tops and baggy cargo pants. There is nothing particularly girly about Catalina, she is a tomboy through and through. She wears no make-up, and her nails are short. Catalina rarely smiles, but when she does her face lights up and dimples appear in her cheeks. <br><br><strong>History:</strong><br>Catalina grew up on the streets with her brother Marcellus. When she was an infant, her brother the age of six, her young teenaged mother brought them from Mexico to America after their father died in a farming accident. Their mother was unable to cope with two small children and the realization that America was not the instant land of wealth she thought it was going to be. She fell into prostitution and drugs to try and numb her own pain and disappointment and resentment of being stuck with two small children and what she perceived to be no future. She was very abusive and neglectful in general, but Marcellus usually managed to steal enough from her to keep Catalina and he fed at least once a day. <br><br>Then one storming and thundery night their mother sent Marcellus out after dark, actually giving him a few dollars to run to the gas station a mile away so he could by some canned soup. He knew there had to be a reason she proactively gave him the money she did…but ultimately the rumbling in their stomachs made him leave the roach filled apartment their mother traded her body for each week. He hated leaving his sister behind, but she was too young to take out after dark in the slums. The apartment was frequented by druggies and Johns, but the small room off to the side that Catalina and Marcellus called their bedroom was usually ignored. <br><br>Half way to the gas station he felt a tingle on his neck and knew he had to turn around and go back home. He ran as fast as he could, and when he burst into the apartment he saw Mama holding more money than he had ever seen, and more money than his mother’s haggard face could ever bring in. <br>Bursting into the bedroom he saw a man crouched near where his young sister was screaming and kicking. Their mother had tried to sell Catalina instead of herself, and Marcellus had returned just in time.&nbsp; <br><br>Marcellus, then age twelve, took his six year old sister and fled, but only after beating the man with a chair, and then with a chair leg once the chair shattered. He might only have been twelve, but he was strong and wiry and guided by love for his sister and years of pent up anger. <br><br>The experience for Catalina was beyond traumatic. The large looming man, the anger in Marcellus, the blood, the thunder and lightning...it scarred her. To this day she feels panic and fear when a thunderstorm strikes. She does her best to hide it, to fight it, but the knot in the pit of her stomach makes her hands shake and her skin pale. <br><br>They lived on the streets as isolated from others as they could manage. Marcellus was suspicious and wary of authorities. Neither of them had been born in America, and he feared the possibility they would be sent back to a country Catalina didn’t remember at all, and that he barely recalled. He was also fearful they would be separated by ‘the system’, and did everything in his power to keep them independent and on their own. That meant no school, no government assistance, and no help from anyone. <br><br>The only means of survival became theft.&nbsp; As Catalina got older, she tried to only pickpocket from those that looked like they could afford to miss a few dollars, and tried to rotate what stores she shoplifted from so they didn’t take too much from one place. She hated stealing, but knew no other way to survive. <br><br>They had no real home, and crashed in abandoned buildings, moving every few weeks so no one would take notice. But they had each other, so no matter where they were, for no matter how short of a time, it was home to Catalina. <br><br>Since they could not attend school, Marcellus did the best he could to teach Catalina what he knew, learning as much as he could along the way. He was able to teach her basic math skills, which she took too quickly. He kept her fluent in both Spanish and English. She was smart, and picked up ideas quickly. But she never was able to read. No matter how hard they tried, or what books they went through at the library, she just could not get it.&nbsp; What neither of them knew is that Catalina is dyslexic. She has always been ashamed of her inability to read, and considers it a fault. Marcellus always tried to tell her she wasn’t stupid, but she has always felt that way since she can’t read. <br><br>They had no TV, their trips to the library often included watching movies and listening to stories. Despite the fact that she couldn’t read, the library was her favorite place. The librarian never seemed to notice their dirty clothes and bare feet, and gave them juice and cookies. <br><br>And it was at the library that she discovered origami. <br><br>Living in a concrete jungle, Catalina saw very little beauty. Everything was grey and hard and dirty.&nbsp; But with Origami she was able to bring to life the scenes in the movies and in the stories at the library. She made her own flowers and animals out of bits of paper here and there. There was always trash around; it was easy to find things to fold. After a while her skill had grown beyond what she could find in the instructional pictures in the books at the library. She made her own patterns, and spent hours perfecting her creations. <br><br>Marcellus told her she couldn’t be stupid if she could build a rose out of trash. She almost believed him. But what good was her skill? They couldn’t eat anything she made. They couldn’t sleep in it. They couldn’t hide in it. It was a useless skill, if not one that calmed her racing mind and eased her temper. <br><br>Parkour, though she didn’t know the skill had a name, was also a way to calm her mind and ease her temper. Honing her skill was also a means of survival.&nbsp; Beyond having to sometimes run from the law, or some shop keep, they had to be very wary of gangs and often had to run from them as well. As Catalina matured and grew into a young woman, the threat grew even larger. Constantly they had to avoid attracting attention of any kind.&nbsp; Marcellus could be killed for not joining a gang, and Catalina raped for just being a female. <br><br>Running, parkour, hiding…it wasn’t a hobby or sport for Marcellus and Catalina. It was life. It was survival. For as long as she can remember, Catalina has been running, hiding, scaling buildings, avoiding people, and stealing what she needs to survive. Anyone could run through streets, but it was by using their vertical environment that Marcellus and Catalina had the edge they needed. <br><br>It was ironic when the thing that was normal for them…lack of food, lack of shelter, concern for safety, became hardships for the rest of the world. Marcellus almost took a sick sort of satisfaction knowing that all of the middleclass and rich people of America were now having to live almost like he and his sister had been living for a very long time. Catalina never had that satisfaction. She just considered it sad. <br><br>Marcellus did the best he could to raise Catalina, but in his desire to protect her he sheltered her from everyone else. She never had other friends, never had a boyfriend, and Marcellus was her world. He was a brother, a parent, and her best friend. <br><br>Then he became zombie food; sacrificing himself so she could live. That knowledge haunts her and weighs her down with more grief and guilt than she ever thought imaginable.&nbsp; <br><br>Now Catalina is alone for the first time in her life. She knows how to survive better than most people around her, but had no idea how to befriend any of them. <br><br><strong>Runner?:</strong> Yes<br><br>
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