full name cole thomas hobbs . nicknames hobbs ( do not call him anything else ) . age thirty ( 30 ) . occupation co - investigator . traits perceptive , distrustful . zodiac gemini . gender cis male . pronouns he / him . sexual + romantic orientation bisexual , biromantic . faceclaim mike faist .
𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌.
cole hobbs lived with his mother , annabeth hobbs , and his brother , garrett hobbs. he always had food on the table growing up but had no idea his mother worked about three jobs so she could provide that for them. he just thought she had long hours for the majority of his childhood. him and garrett were practically joined at the hip the entire time. this didn’t last after high school , even if they were close in age , but cole and garrett had different interests and began fighting a lot.
garrett was about a year or so older than cole , always looking out for the youngest in the family while their mother was away. garrett became a degenerate while cole was prone to following everything by the book. he rarely strayed from rules , afraid to taint a clean moral slate for the longest time.
after cole graduated high school , he knew he wanted to do something greater with his life. he never anticipated a doomsday situation , never even had a thought about it , so he thought he would be stuck working a mundane job for the rest of his life and he chose something that actually interested him : surveillance. he began as an intern for a firm not too far from his house. he wasn’t getting paid but he was getting experience and that was all that mattered to him.
when he was 20 , he and his brother began separating. his brother moved to california , his mother stayed in nevada , and cole stuck with his mom for a little while longer. it wasn’t until he turned 24 that he decided to move across the country. this didn’t come from nowhere , of course , and someone had offered him a job in boston. the problem was that cole was a big spender once the money started coming in. he didn’t know how to save up and he was essentially broke. that , alone , almost made him decline the job because he feared he wouldn’t be able to afford a place in boston to stay. the person that recruited him told him about park place and cole left the next week to move into his new apartment.
he’d been at park place ever since , keeping consistent communication with his mother because he couldn’t contact his brother anymore after their falling out. he liked being able to spy on people for a living , mostly because he thought his own life was so boring and it kept things interesting.
𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏.
[ trigger warning : death , infected . ] after a breakup with his previous partner , he was returning to their apartment to retrieve some leftover belongings he’d never had the time to pick up before. cole and his partner were in the middle of bickering about god only knew what when they heard crying coming from the other room. long story short , this was cole’s first experience with a weeper ( and with any of the infected ) and the two of them ended up having to kill it. he nearly ran back to his apartment after that and locked himself inside. everything after that happened so quickly. [ end trigger warning . ]
he tried to leave after that , figuring everything going on in the world wasn’t as serious as it was … even after he came face to face with someone who was infected. when he wasn’t allowed to leave , he became envious of those that were allowed into quarantine zones. he didn’t like that he was locked in one place , unable to leave , unattached to the world and just waiting for all of their inevitable fates. this sparked his initial interest in what fedra was doing , of who they were , and what they provided. this was all well after he’d already been cooped up for almost an entire month with no idea as to what was actually going on everywhere else in the world.
eventually , he adapted to their own little ecosystem. he figured helping out around the complex would do him some good , cure his cabin fever , and keep him from driving himself mad. so he became a co-investigator , feeding into his urge to get out of his place every once in a while and actually offering some kind of helping hand. he helps with the actual drawing of the maps as well , which is why he’s a pretty decent asset to the team. he also has some hope that helping out means he’ll get early access to whatever kind of communication they figure out so he can contact his brother , who he’d been trying to talk to right before the world went to shit , but it never worked out.
𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔.
he rarely goes by his first name anymore and doesn’t really respond to it.
hobbs is notorious for his poker nights ( before and after the outbreak ) and will host them at his apartment every wednesday night. now the stakes are just a little bit higher when they play , sometimes playing for food rations or supplies. being one of the few that actually goes out , hobbs is also known to provide makeshift weapons and stuff from the outside.
hobbs has killed many infected , but has only ever seen one lurker. he was with a group of people when he saw it and was unable to kill it because it was the first time they’d ever seen anything like it towards the beginning of the infection.
his hunting rifle is engraved with his initials and he doesn’t go anywhere without it slung over his shoulder and a pistol at his hip.
the roof is one of the few places he can almost always be found , backpack used as a pillow as he stares at the clouds and waits to be summoned for his job. he used to smoke cigarettes at the beginning of the outbreak , but doesn’t anymore because supplies are limited and he’s honestly not that picky.
his apartment is almost entirely the same as it was on the day everything went to shit. he tries to keep it as clean as he possibly can because it’s one of the few things that still keeps him sane. he keeps inventory of all the things he owns so he knows if anything goes missing.
hobbs is artistic by nature. before everything went down , he used to draw a lot. this helped a lot when the infected started popping up and he became a co-investigator because he could double as somewhat of a cartographer to help with mapping out where everything is.
