David’s faceclaim is LUKE NEWBERRY and he is AVAILABLE
Ever since David could remember, he’s always been dubbed, ‘the dude with the accent’. His family moved from Ireland when he was 6 years old, taking up residence in Boston, Massachusetts, but still clinging to the culture they loved back home. Soft spoken, shy and kindhearted, he often suffered at the hands of his peers and became known as something as a push-over. He excelled in his classes, and it became apparent that he had an affinity with home economics and art, as well as science. He decided from an early age that he wanted to do something with medicine, finding joy in helping those he could.
As he grew older, he started attracting the attention of one of his high school teachers, a married man who thought little of his intelligence and merely noticed his 'pretty face’. David, an innocent 16 year old, was flattered and overwhelmed by his teachers attitude towards him, unused to kindness outside of his home. The teacher would later take advantage of this. Afterward, he began treating David harshly, blaming him for what happened and David, terrified of what people would say remained silent. Two years later, David finally told his mom and the guy was arrested. Although the man was gone, the effect he had on David lasted a long time, causing him to have an even quieter and unsure nature.
He decided to study medicine in college and when there tried to create a new life for himself, accepting the invitation to a freshers party. He hadn’t thought about how loud it would be and spent most of his night in a panicky state, pushed into the corner of the main room. That’s how he met Matthew, who noticed his unease and dragged him outside, before shoving a bottle of water in his hand and talking him down from the impending panic attack with kind words and a gentle smile. From that point on the two were inseparable, they were polar opposites, Matthew being loud and excitable and David quiet and collected but Matthew understood him better than most and slowly started to help him become more open and confident.
When Matthew was asked to live with another 3 students, he asked David to come with him and David, who may or may not have been enamored with Matthew at the time, jumped at the chance.
David was cooking when he got the news and will forever mourn what he expected to be the goddamn best pie he had ever made in his life. All he hoped is that the fire caused by their temperamental oven took a few of them out with it. He remembers Matthew coming in, moaning about how awful his day was, saying something about the end of the world. So he’d started making him his favorite meal in the hopes of making it a little better.
Of course then the world did actually decide to end and they were forced to escape in a car that said it could fit 5 people but certainly didn’t feel like it. Jac was talking hurriedly about a safe house in New Jersey, but David was worried for his parents. After a brief dismissal by Matthew, which upset him more than anyone else in the car, after all his parents were nothing but supportive, the group decided to go straight for the safe zone.
When there, his medical skills were quickly put to use. Being one of only two people with medical knowledge in the entire camp made him pretty valuable and his cooking skills became handy more than once. He quickly became far more accepted in the community than he had anywhere else and appreciated the fact that he could be useful and do the job he had always wanted to, even if the circumstances were less than satisfactory.
HOME STATE » MASSACHUSETTS.
Positive → Sweet-natured → Cooperative→ Friendly.
Negative → Pessimistic → Easily persuaded → Nervous.
Strength(s) → Medical Knowledge → Fast thinking.
Weakness(es) → Speed → Agility → Communication.
