OUT OF BULLETS I”M SCREAMING AT THE END OF THE SEASON FINALE IM ACTUALLY SCREAMING OMG ME AND MOM ACTUALLY SCREAMED I’M STILL SCREAMING AND PROBABLY ALSO CRYING
Imagine if Murphy has been calling 10K Thomas this entire time, but 10K hasn’t told him that his name is actually just Tommy, not short for anything, but won’t tell him because he thinks Murphy calling him by the wrong name is hilarious--
out of bullets; i have never been more upset about a spoiler for a show I don’t even watch than I am right now.
edit; i mean sad guys c’mon, im sad about this, he was one of the three characters i actually knew from the show, i was excited to see what they would do with him and stuff. wasn’t expecting this--
out of bullets; season 4 10K has consisted of either pouting or standing in the back with the horrified concern like everyone is screaming angrily in German and he doesn’t understand a word of it.
Some could claim the man was smart for dropping his gun; other’s would argue that. Either way, Ryan takes the step forward towards it, his gaze never once leaving the man’s. He kicks the rifle further away from their feet as a precaution before distance is once again made between them.
“What are you doing in Fake territory?” He barks out the question, more like a demand than anything.
A long silence, hitched breath, trying to be courageous in the face of a barrel. He looked around without moving his head, hunter’s vision keeping tabs on everything around him. Was there more? Was it just this man? He swallowed, inhaled, tried to find his nerves to speak.
He was an idiot. He was told not to wander too far from the shack, especially towards the city where gangs "claimed” land that wasn’t entirely their’s and shot anyone who spoke otherwise, but he’d been stalking that deer for a solid hour and he didn’t want to let it get away. He was an idiot. Why did he drop his gun?
“I’m hunting,”
he answered at last, feeling himself step backwards against his will. He looked over his shoulder. Where was Pa? Should he run for it?
“ That’s a cool name, innit? Better than Gavin, anyways. “
he mused, smiling a little. He wondered if that was their real name– if they were just giving him some code-name, to protect themselves. Not that he could blame ‘em. He was going to look up their background information later regardless, just for fun. It’s going to be harder with a name like that. Or easier, depending.
He stopped rather suddenly and opened the door to a rather small cafe. He’d only been there once– but the coffee was good. Tea was okay. Nothing like back home.
“ Just in here– Tell me what you want, and find us a seat. I’ll order and everythin’. “
No questions? That was nice. He wasn’t really in the mood for speaking, anyway.
He was sort of startled by the door ringing, looking up to inspect the source of the belltune as he stepped carefully inside. Eyes darted around the cafe, curiousity sparking behind cold (and melting) expression, then confusion and a vague sense of concern. A coffee shop. He’d been to one of these before with Pa.
There was a dead silence as his eyes flickered up to the menu and saw far too many options for just coffee and tea. How could anyone make up their mind in this place? He glanced sideways at Gavin and now was feeling kind of bad for just taking this guy’s generosity. But he was too far in now to be backing out.
“Just a coffee. Three... sugar, three cream.”
He stepped backwards to find someplace to sit, stopped, uttered a thanks, then continued again to a booth farthest in the corner. Set his suitcase under the table and sat quietly as far into the corner as possible.
Here, this is a shitty headcanon about Season 4 10K.
A lot of people are going on because he seems to be cursing more in the new season, he’s sort of... different. He lost his goggles, he’d been using a rifle without a scope, seems to be more inclined to smile and speak with people, talking with Lily and playfully bantering with Doc, stopped spiking his hair, and he kind of seemed to be a totally different person at the start of Season 4, which seemed to be a little jarring for a lot of people.
But, I’m pretty sure that it’s just... 10K growing up. He still has his goal, which was something that had stuck with him before he even met the group. And keep in mind that when they actually meet 10K in the series, he’s only 16. When the zombie apocalypse starts, he’s only 14. The time of identity creation and self-discovery was taken by the rising undead.
Of course, this explains his whole character. His entity identity is centered around the undead and leaving his deep mark in the world that has come to be -- the same way we do now, as millenials, who have become weirdly particular to making a purpose of our lives. (And, such, the theme of Z Nation; not just to survive, but to live.)
So, I bring us to Season 4. For the last two years, 10K has spent his time with only Red, separated from Doc, and Warren, and Murphy, and everyone else. From the age of 19 to 21, 10K has spent all of his time with a woman he loves. He has his own home, he lives off the land, kills the dead as his life goal was to be, and may actually have considered having kids -- though the idea left with Red’s reluctance after what happened to 5K.
10K is now an adult.
For the entirety of the series, 10K has been a teenage boy, who’s just trying to do his best and find a way to make a living in the world. But now he’s achieved that. He made his way in the dark world, found a way to live, muddled together some sort of identity, grown up, and settled down. He’s an adult. Which means, he makes his own decisions now. He decides now that he can curse if he damn well wants to (obviously, avoiding the f-word perhaps for his own purpose, but I digress), he can decide follow Warren to the East or go North to Newmerica (and he chooses to follow the group, even though they don’t seem to be able to make up their mind).
He ditched the goggles, he ditched the rifle sights, the leather jackets (kinda), the scarves around his neck, even refusing to spike his hair anymore, everything that was apart of teenage 10K’s identity. He doesn’t have his goggles because he’s shed away that part of his life and grown into his own, a talented young man who wants to find his girlfriend and salvage what little is left of the life he built over the two years.
So, I guess, I must admit, while 10K’s new goggles are exciting to see and stuff, they sort of worry me, because 10K seems to have trouble with... separating from the past. In episode 4, he still hears Red and 5K screaming even though he’s alone, he still seems to suffer from his own visions from over two years ago. While his hate for Murphy quelled a bit, it still remains. Being around the Z Nay crew again seems to be bringing back the old 10K identity that we were familiar with in Season 3.
And truth be told, I don’t know if that’s... a good thing. When you grow and develop yourself a grown identity, to go back to the way you acted as a teenager can be... I dunno. Harmful? Maybe bringing back old habits? Maybe it’s Red’s disappearance that’s making him revert to the way he was in Season 3. Maybe it’s starting to open up the wounds he thought he was healing from. I mean, this is 10K we’re talking about, he doesn’t really open up or show pain all that easily, so anything could be the case here.
I’m just saying that 10K’s change in Season 4 is very natural, when you consider the circumstances. And I’m sort of nervous of what his reverting growth might mean for his character (probably nothing, I’m more than likely reading way too into it -- but hey! It’s my job to overly analyze my muse in his show), but mainly, I just enjoy that 10K is growing up. Like a person does in their life.
The state between consciousness and unconsciousness was gut-wrenching and familiar to Murphy - he remembered all too well the last time he was laid on his back, vision flickering, helpless as the Zona ship descended onto the clifftop. For several long moments, he figured he must be reliving that moment as some God-awful dream meant to punish him. In stiff silence, he waited to hear Lucy’s scream, before the deafening silence that would surely come after.
But he didn’t, and, eventually, he came to his senses. He remembered the fight, the Zona soldiers, being knocked upside the head, half-dragged away, until someone had dropped him before taking off running. He sat up, still disoriented, trying to regain some sense of direction as he rubbed his head.
He looked up, grimacing as he heard his name. 10k’s lone figure approached him, unaccompanied by the rest of the group. Not without apprehension, Murphy grunted something incomprehensible as the boy approached him.
“Where are the others?” he asked, still sitting by the road. He didn’t want to get up. He was too tired.
Damn Zona bastards, he thought. They were worse of a nuisance than the zombies themselves.
A shrug, which would’ve been nonchalant if he wasn’t looking over his shoulders with such concern. Trying to grasp more memory without avail. Somehow, they’d been left behind. Zona had left them alone -- and 10K really didn’t want to stick around to find out why.
“Do you think Zona took them?”
Perhaps the question was stupid, but maybe he was remembering everything wrong. All of his memories were still white. More tiny ice pick pricks drilled pain in his skull and he rubbed everywhere around his right eye in a vain attempt to soothe it.
“Dammit...”
Inhaling, he finally turned his attention to Murphy, maybe angrier than he intended to, pursed lips and furrowed brows, but he didn’t bother to fix his expression. Could he stand? 10K may have sort of considered ditching Murphy if he was injured, but he wouldn’t. No, if Warren and the others were taken by Zona, then Murphy would most likely know where.
“If Zona took Warren and the others... where would they take them?”
Run by apathy than kindness, 10K’s evil version is shockingly similar to his natural self. Still silent, quietly watching from the back, he offers little opinion to most situations and prefers action to speech. He is far more blunt, distrustful, and sarcastic, often unflinching in the face of dark humour or topics.
He doesn’t blink when he wipes life from the face of the planet, but he doesn’t really relish in any unnecessary suffering. He prefers straight-to-the-point methods, sniping from a distance or a knife in the head, and doesn’t like to waste time.
tldr; imagine the way 10K acts to zombies but at humans.
this verse is an add-on type and can be added to other verses or played with. makes best with GTA!AU or any assassin verse (which still needs to be made tb h lol)
skyrim verse (crossover)
Born and raised in the corner Eastmach and the Rift, along the river, Tommy is a Breton hunter who has spent a lot of his time hunting deer, farming, and otherwise surviving in the Skyrim wilds.
He and his father unknowingly lived near Bonestrewn Crest, a dragon lair, and, when the dragons came back to Skyrim, his father was killed in a dragon attack. Tommy has decided to wander. He started with raiding Draugr dungeons and has come to particularly dislike them. (As well as any undead creature that tries to kill him. So, guess what he’s trying to 10 000 of.)
He currently possesses a Dwarven Bow of Fire (which he found in a Draugr dungeon), iron arrows, leather armor, two daggers, and a gold pouch containing 50G.
10K currently cannot cast any spells, as both his mother and his father were aptly against it, but he has very strong archery, stealth, and one-handed skills. He is adept at light armor, smithing, and alchemy. His lowest skills are speech, heavy armor, two-handed, and any magical skill. He has mediocre pickpocket skills.
messiahrisen replied to your post: out of bullets; I had a weird dream last night...
DONT KILL THE TEAM.
ooc; TO EXPLAIN FURTHER, it was a faulty headlamp that was going to explode (the bad guy put it on my head for some reason?) and I tried to throw it over a fence (sort of out of bounds in the game) but everyone ran towards that fence to keep it standing?? So, when it blew up, everyone ended up dying and I was just, “OH. Shit. Oops.”
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