CHARACTER NAME: Sass
CHARACTER FACECLAIM: Nastya Kusakina
CHARACTER AGE/DOB: 19 (June 25, 2006)
CHARACTER PRONOUNS/GENDER IDENTITY/SEXUALITY ETC: Nonbinary, they/them, Demisexual/Demiromantic
OC OR CANON: OC
WHERE THEY ARE CURRENTLY LOCATED & ANY IMPORTANT ALLIANCES OF NOTE: Lalock, Pennsylvania (A small town in Western Pennsylvania alongside the Allegheny River. About halfway between Pittsburgh and Erie) Lalock itself is very divided, with various factions scattering across the River.
IMPORTANT CHARACTER INFORMATION TO NOTE AND SHARE: It was only five years into life that the world ended for Sass. They don’t remember much of how life was “before,” they grew up with the dead arisen and their life constantly on the line.
Five years into the end of days, as their parents called it, Sass was ten. They and their sister snuck out to play in the woods surrounding their land. They were attacked by a handful of walkers and Sass’s sister was bitten. Sass took their older sister home and was consequently made to end their sister’s life as punishment for sneaking out.
Six more years pass. Sass is sixteen and they live a militant lifestyle with their parents, alone in an old trailer set way back in the woods. They have a secure perimeter.
Their father is out hunting, it’s peak deer season and the old corn fields on the edge of their property make the deer easy pickings. He falls asleep in his tree stand and never wakes up. Heart attack. The rapture, their mother calls it. Finally taking him home. She says.
Later that same year, Sass’s mother gets sick. Sass is forced to venture off their property for the first time since they were five to seek outside help. They find Lalock in a tenuous survival, but people are untrustworthy of them– Until they mention their father, Beloved radio host, Roy Sass. Those who knew him come to the old trailer in the woods.
Sass’s mother is too far gone, they say. Sass’s mother keeps going for three weeks after they say that until she too, is dead. Sass is left with the property and a new problem– The people in town know their location now.
Forced into making an alliance with the group who guard what was the main street of the tiny town, Sass agrees to let them hunt on their land and plant the fields of their property so long as they are left alone and are given help if they ask for it.
Alliance goes well.
Three years pass. Sass is nineteen. Some rando comes along their property– calls himself Wolfgang. He wants information they don’t have. Sass agrees to let him stay awhile if he helps with this year’s planting. He agrees.
Sass finds a ham radio of their father’s and begins making broadcasts. Not of their location, ever, just vague news about the town, their life, and playing music from a battery powered boom box pressed close to the radio.
Batteries may be a precious commodity, but many in Lalock and the surrounding communities are willing to trade them to Sass (or Wolfgang, who does most of these exchanges for them) in order to request songs from their seemingly endless number of CD’s and cassette tapes.
Currently in the works for Sass? They want to acquire some solar panels from a nearby group just outside Lalock’s perimeters. It will be a tough trade.
But Sass didn’t get this far by backing down from a challenge.
ONE SONG THAT HAS YOUR CHARACTER VIBES: Balancer’s Eye - Lord Huron
ooc information:
NAME/ALIAS: Junestar/June
AGE: 26
TRIGGERS: ooc drug use, ooc animal harm/death/illness
