okay so boom. i already posted on tiktok but i promised i’d do it here too. was gonna make it aesthetic and shit but i’m sick as a dog and ain’t nobody got time for that rn… i’m 25 in this dr. i’m an aquarius. it’s 2019 and the outbreak started in august 2014. it’s currently june in the dr as well so beginning of summer. i live in chesapeake va and that’s also where my group lives as well. i’m only gonna talk about my background and future because this is a group dr and i wanna respect my friends privacy 🙂↕️
but basically i’m a real southern gal like grew up raised by my grandparents who had a farm and such. both taught me how to live off the land and gave me useful knowledge for the apocalypse tbh so i never really struggled (apart from the loneliness). my grandparents did pass during the outbreak (not because of the virus but because my grandma didn’t want either of them living thru that and neither did i so i essentially put them out of their misery before they could suffer).
that also kinda brings me to how the virus works. in my dr, we’d already been privy to the virus because the company that engineered it (accidentally) was being sued and it was all over the news for weeks. the thing is, the company also hid important documents that very explicitly stated the deceased individuals infected with said virus were reanimating so erm… you know how shit travels so yeah. before we knew it, everything was being overrun. now since i lived on open land in the country, we weren’t really too scared about getting infected just because but when people began running further south and looting and such, it was clear that this situation wouldn’t be containable. plus our government is shit so.
5 years post outbreak, the country is still in ruins but there’s enough survivors with enough skills that we’ve made a sort of new system of living. va specifically is kinda ruthless in terms of large communities. there aren’t many “good” ones, most are corrupt and that’s actually where a few of my group escaped/got kicked from. i removed myself from an early community within the first year because i didn’t wanna abide by anyone else’s rules. i also didn’t go back to my grandparents farm and traveled further south (to where i am now in chesapeake) because i couldn’t bear living there without them. i do still carry a pic of my grandma with me, and i have my granddad’s shotgun and his cane (which has a katana in it! and my cr grandpa had a similar cane so i thought why not). i ended up finding an abandoned cabin in the woods near water, cleared out any walkers that were there and have been living there for about 4 years or so. inspo pics:
i only travel when i need to. for supplies mostly. and occasionally a survivor will pass by my territory so i’m not completely alone. also, i’ve recently come into possession of a dog. i call him dog. he doesn’t have a collar but it was clear to me that he was trained and an adult so it made no sense to try to rename him. he comes with me when i do supply runs. here’s dog!
here’s some personality info about me that i copy and pasted from my script lmfao: at my core, i’m not reckless or chaotic for no reason. i actually care deeply about loyalty and building a community, and that desire guides all of my actions. i plan months ahead and i need stable people around me otherwise i slowly start shutting down. i don’t like wasting my energy on pointless drama or impulsive decisions. i’m the kind of person to make sure everybody’s good before i can relax. i can be unnaturally calm when things are going to hell. i may seem not all there but i’m deeply logical when it comes to jumping into action. i can also become stubborn as hell when i think i’m right or when i’ve already invested into something or someone. i don’t give up easily, even when maybe i should.
around the group, it’s sometimes hard for me to be vulnerable. i adapt constantly depending on everybody’s moods and needs but don’t take time to manage my own. i’m seen as dependable and emotionally intelligent. i know exactly how to influence people when needed. i know what to say, how to calm people down, how to redirect conversations, how to make people trust me. there’s a part of me that feels responsible for keeping everything in order.
i’ve built a bit of a reputation. people see me as difficult to control but highly competent. i’ve adapted so deeply to this world that normal life before the outbreak almost feels like a long lost dream to me now. i’m comfortable in danger in ways that would horrify old me.
now when it comes to how i dress i’m usually in denim, a tank, and some boots. i’m not super extra and i don’t wear accessories. va is pretty temperate/warm aside from the thunderstorms usually so i also don’t mind having my legs out usually. and because i don’t live near a bunch of walkers, i’m not usually layered up the way some of my other group members would be. example of a summer fit:
now let’s get into my s/o’s because i got two here but i don’t meet my second for quite some time whereas my first comes thru relatively quickly. it’s logan and erik (xmen) and yes i’m tweaked. now logan was apart of this old stupid ass community and he was growing tired of them bc they was hella strict and also not empathetic towards mothers and children. so when chaos broke at the group (alarm bells for walkers went off) his dog got lost in the chaos and ran off and he went after him. now, if you remember from earlier i mentioned how i came into possession of a dog. and yes, the dog was logan’s! that’s how we meet. he tracks his dog back to me a few weeks after he ran off. and ofc, because he’s a stranger with a big gun walking up on MY porch, the interaction isn’t the kindest. but we compromise and i let him stay for a few days because we need muscle anyway.
now for erik. i don’t have much info on his background but i believe erik worked at the company that created the virus. he wasn’t high up but he was a whistleblower of some kind and he knew about the classified shit before anyone else. now 5 years post break he’s running his own community and has a nicely built community. when we run into each other it will likely be a year or so after my initial shift in point. and we do have tension as well. he doesn’t like the way i run my group and i don’t like the way he runs his. but because we’re now occupying the same territory we’re either gonna have to go to war over it or find a middle ground.
both logan and erik have similar personalities to their canon counterparts. this is how i imagine them to look in the dr (my pretty middle aged men ugh) and i got some tropes for yall HOLLON!
logan and i’s tropes: 9 of swords, 10 of cups, 8 of swords, the emperor neutral, the star, page of swords, 2 of pents, the sun, the devil, ace of swords, 10 of pents.
beauty & the beast, break up to save them (my side), enemies to friends to lovers (kinda, more just defensive initially), yearning, protector, slow burn, emotionally constipated man x emotionally avoidant woman, everyone loves a bad boy, forced proximity, i hate everyone but you (his side), lovers in denial, opposites attract, sworn off relationships, will they or won’t they, touch her and die (YES GAWDDD), soulmates
erik and i’s tropes: death, 5 of wands, page of wands, knight of wands, 9 of pents, the hanged man, the moon reversed, 10 of cups.
dark past, enemies to lovers (like actually lmfao), forbidden love, opposites attract, love/hate, emotionally intelligent woman x emotionally intense man, protector, mutual fascination, you see through me, we keep finding our way back to each other, political/philosophical tension, redemption, sworn off relationships, star crossed lovers
in terms of survival and shit, i’m not super worried because it has been 5 years and most of these zombies are gonna be decayed asf. but there will be the occasional new zombie that we run into and we’ll be able to tell bc it can run and shit. there’s about 65% of the population that’s not immune then 25% that are immune and about 10% that aren’t immune but have a delayed transformation. so basically, they won’t die immediately from being scratched or bit, BUT they now carry the virus within them and once they die, they’ll turn. those ones are the scariest ones bc we’ll end up coming across quite a few people who claim immunity and we won’t truly know until they die. but me and my group are immune. women aged 21-34 are also mostly likely to be immune/resistant (idk why we just scripted that okay) and yeah! if y’all got any questions pls ask them, i love talking about this dr!!! ciao!
