city of the dead

NAME Danielle Moonstar

AGE Twenty

SEX Female

OCCUPATION University Student, Member of the University of New Orleans Archery Team.

BIOGRAPHY Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. Danielle Moonstar always had a love for archery. Even from a young age, her grandfather bought her a tiny toy version of the weapon, a toy she cherished throughout childhood. When she was finally old enough she began practicing with an actual bow, shooting arrow after arrow into targets until finally moving onto moving targets. A child prodigy is what her parents called her. While academics weren’t her strong suit, Dani made her way through high school begrudgingly before earning a scholarship to the University of New Orleans for her archery talent.

Upon arriving to the school, Dani was immediately approached by the archery coach and was then offered a position on their team. An excited Dani was well on her way to becoming an Olympic medalist when she met Illyana Rasputin, a friendship grew between the two girls, and it was then that Danielle realized that there was more to life than her archery. She needed friends– an actual social life. Now that the quarantine has set in, there is only one question; will Danielle’s archery be her saving grace? Or will it be her downfall?

FACECLAIM Marisa Quinn

NAME James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes

AGE Thirty-Five

SEX Male

OCCUPATION Soldier

BIOGRAPHY Ever since he was a child, Bucky Barnes always knew he wanted to be a soldier like his late father. Along the way he met Steve Rogers who became his best friend and someone he looked up to. The two fought many battles together until one day, Bucky nearly died trying to dismantle a bomb. The enemy found his body and he was taken in and tortured as a prisoner of war. 

Months later, James found himself back in the States but he was fighting another war: a battle for survival. Believing Steve to be dead because of the virus, Bucky has a vendetta against Stark Industries and vowed to make the company face justice. Still scarred by memories of what happened to him, James struggles between seeing himself as the weapon his enemies tried to turn him into and the good man he wants to be. Survival has always been something he was good at though; he survived the war, lived through torture, and now he’s determined to make it through this as well.

FACECLAIM Sebastian Stan

NAME Hayley Marshall

AGE Eighteen

SEX Female

OCCUPATION University student

BIOGRAPHY Hayley was born and raised on the bayou miles outside of the New Orleans as Andrea Labonair by two high profile employees of Stark Industries. She had to walk an hour to the bus stop and back because both her parents worked all the time and no buses ran any closer to their estate than that. She got into fights a lot and often found herself in trouble with authority because she never had to deal with it at home so she didn’t particularly care for it outside of home, either. She filed for emancipation at the age of sixteen and with all the money she’d saved from all the times her parents threw money at her to keep her happy in their absences, moved out. 

She was only a few months away from graduating when the bioweapon was tested in the bayou and rumors began to circulate. Her parents had been some of the scientists on the news talking about Stark Industries’ work and classmates began to say things to her about it. Deciding she wasn’t going to live with the judgements of her parents being pushed on her, she legally changed her name to Hayley Marshall after she graduated in order to start a new life in college. She ended up moving out of the apartment she was renting to stay at a friend’s estate not far from the campus she’d be attending.

The bayou where she was born was one of the first infected by the virus and while Hayley never went out to see the damage, she was under no illusion that her parents were still alive. If they had gotten out without getting infected, then they were probably put up somewhere downtown by the company itself and while she did love her parents, she hadn’t seen them since she was sixteen and she wasn’t going to change that just because of an infection. If she knew how bad that outbreak would end up getting not long after that decision, she might have changed her mind.

FACECLAIM Phoebe Tonkin

NAME Rebekah Mikaelson

AGE Nineteen

SEX Female

OCCUPATION University student

BIOGRAPHY Rebekah was adopted by the Mikaelsons as an infant. She grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth as one of Windsor’s elite and moved to New Orleans with her family when she was in high school. Since the Mikaelsons owned several old plantations, she didn’t see the need to move away for college, and took to staying in one of the large estates just off of campus with a few friends.

She was on a weekend camping trip with her housemates when the world as she knew it fell apart. The fighter jets zooming above her tent and distant explosions tipped her off that something was horribly wrong, therefore cutting the vacation short. By the time she made it back to the city she found that there was nothing left but chaos, pillaging and those that were very very sick. She was lucky enough to have a working vehicle, her black jeep, which got her back to the safety of the camp grounds. She stayed there for several weeks, in a certain state of denial. Eventually a hoard of walkers made it into the mini sanctuary she had created for herself, and she was separated from everyone she knew. Now she’s trying to make it back to her plantation home, in hopes that it isn’t overrun by the dead.

FACECLAIM Claire Holt

NAME Russell Collins

AGE Twenty-Five

SEX Male

OCCUPATION Navy, Petty Officer Second Class

BIOGRAPHY Rusty Collins grew up in Oklahoma, raised by his uncle after the death of his parents left him orphaned. His father, a sailor, had died in combat before Rusty was even born. Rusty and his uncle were never on very good terms. He was an awkward child, dealing with an anxiety disorder and a speech impediment as well as dyslexia made him secluded. His uncle didn’t like his low grades or any other problems that Rusty seemed to bring. 

When he turned sixteen, Rusty dropped out of high school and began working towards his GED. By the end of the year, he had it, and he soon left Oklahoma to enlist in the US Navy like his father had done. At seventeen, he was accepted and began his training. 

For the next year, he worked with the Navy as a recruit, learning the ins and outs of the position and training in combat. He was still awkward and painfully shy, but he was one of the best recruits in his group due to his strength and his innate skills as a leader. 

For the next few years, Rusty stayed with the Navy, continuing to rise through the ranks until reaching Petty Officer Second Class. Not long after being promoted to the rank, Rusty was stationed in New Orleans, where he stayed for a year. 

When the outbreak hit, the Navy officers stationed in New Orleans were some of the only people who were let in on how dangerous the situation really was. Because he was a generally friendly person, even if he was a bit awkward, Rusty was one of the people assigned to help keep the peace in the city and keep people calm. For the first few months of the outbreak, there were no problems with that job, and things seemed to be going generally smoothly. 

Once word got out just how serious the outbreak really was, civilians stopped staying as calm. The military put their barricade up, and because he had been inside the city helping to control the situation, Rusty was trapped inside with the rest of the city. With everything around the city devolving into chaos, he is trying his hardest to continue his job and try to keep the peace. As a member of the military, he knows that saving civilians is his priority, and he is going to do everything he can to keep the people around him safe.

FACECLAIM Eddie Redmayne

NAME Julio “Ric” Richter

AGE Twenty-Three

SEX Male

OCCUPATION Arms trafficking

BIOGRAPHY Julio Richter was the oldest son of Louis Richter, the head of the infamous arms trafficking ring, the Richter Cartel. When Julio was a young child, his father was killed during a deal, and he was raised by his uncles and his step-mother. He knew full well that when he grew up, he was expected to take over the business, and that it was very likely he might go out the same way as his father. 

When he turned 18, the rule of the business was passed on to him. He took to the leadership of the cartel easily, and by his 19th birthday, things were running more efficiently than ever. He had a knack for numbers and technology that his father and uncles didn’t, and it made him well suited to bring the cartel up to an international level. 

For the next few years, things went smoothly with the business. Julio worked the numbers and business aspect, while his uncles focused more on the actual weapons. Together, they made a great team. Every once in a while, however, a client would insist that Julio himself come to see them, since he was the leader and they would accept nothing less. 

One such client was Stark Industries, a company centered in New Orleans. They hadn’t told the Richters why they needed so many guns so quickly, or why it had to be Julio who delivered them, and the Richters didn’t ask. Their money was good, and that was all that mattered. 

Julio flew from Guadalajara to New Orleans with his merchandise and closed the deal quickly. It was only after Stark had the guns that things started to go south. While he was keeping an eye on the news, it soon became apparent that there was something more happening in New Orleans–and that Stark was at fault for it. When the quarantine of the city was set up, Julio was trapped along with everyone who lived there, left with the knowledge that the only people who had the weapons to properly deal with the disaster were the ones who had started it in the first place. 

He made a pact to himself that he would get the weapons he had sold to Stark back, and that he would use them to get himself and innocent civilians out. The people who had caused the outbreak didn’t deserve to live while the rest of them were condemned to die.

FACECLAIM Gael Garcia Bernal

NAME Sally Blevins

AGE Twenty-Three

SEX Female

OCCUPATION Biochemist at Stark Industries

BIOGRAPHY Sally Blevins was born and raised in New York by Bill and Matilda Blevins. She was friendly, she loved being around other people, and she loved her life. Until, that is, the night that her father killed her mother and was arrested for it. Sally was thrown into foster care the next day, and from that point forward she didn’t have a stable home for more than a couple of months. 

Sally lost most of her interest in other people; her father had shown her the ugly side of the human race, and she didn’t want to encounter that again. Secluding herself was easier than trying to make friends only to be disappointed when they left or she had to move houses again. She threw herself into her studies, and ended up graduating high school early. 

She went to a state university in New York, majoring in biochemistry on a premed track and with a minor in women’s and gender studies. While working on her senior thesis, she caught the attention of Stark Industries, and soon had a job set up with them for once she finished school. 

At 21 years old, she moved from New York to New Orleans, and began her job at Stark, putting her thoughts of becoming a physician to the side in order to help people with her new job by developing cures for common diseases and improving vaccines. 

Sally was not part of the team that created the virus, but she heard about their work. When the effects of their virus started to spread, she became aware of the rising tension and worry around the company, but she wasn’t high enough up to know what was happening, having only worked there for two years. 

Soon, the barricade was put around the city, and the team who had created the virus needed to come clean to the rest of the company. She and a few other employees knew that they needed to try and fix the mess that they had started, and they set to work on a cure, jumping from safehouse to safehouse with as much equipment as they could carry, helping survivors and trying to use their help to figure out a way to create immunity to the terrible virus.

FACECLAIM Lulu Antariksa

NAME Tabitha Smith

AGE Twenty-Two

SEX Female

OCCUPATION Mechanic

BIOGRAPHY When Tabitha Smith was 4, her mother ran away in the middle of the night, leaving her with her abusive father. Her father told her for the next several years that her mother was dead, until she completely believed it. She never bothered with going to visit her grave; they were a poor family, and could barely afford a funeral, let alone a nice grave marker. That was what her father told her. 

When Tabitha Smith was 14, she learned that her mother hadn’t died. Instead, she discovered, she had left Virginia and gone to New Orleans to try and start a new life. That night, Tabitha did the same thing. It had been ten years since her mother left, and she knew it was likely that she would no longer be in New Orleans, but Tabby had to try.

For the next several weeks, she made her way from Roanoke to New Orleans, by walking, hitch-hiking, and bus. Once there, she bounced around between homeless shelters, trying to pick up any news possible of her mother.

Tabitha continued to live on the streets of New Orleans for the next few years, getting work wherever she could to support herself and pay for food, clothing, and sometimes shelter. It was hard, but as far as she was concerned, anything was better than having to go back to her father. 

Her luck turned around when she started living with a few other homeless girls in a junk yard. The man who owned the land saw her working on a car, fixing it over the course of several days, until she turned it from a total junker into a working vehicle. She sold the car for more cash, and began working on the other cars in the lot. The man who owned the land approached her, telling her that he knew of a garage that was looking for a new mechanic with her level of skill. After a few calls, Tabby had a job at the garage.

She was only 18 still, and her boss, Frank Beyonder, was uncomfortable with the idea of her living on the streets or in a junkyard. He offered her the guest room at his house, and the two soon started a relationship.

They continued to work the garage together, and everything was going well for the business. They had earned a reputation for Tabitha’s skill, and everyone knew that was the garage to go to.

When the outbreak occurred, Tabby wasn’t worried. She thought it was drugs, or a publicity stunt–there was no way it could be real zombies. That was stupid. She quickly changed her mind when the zombies attacked the garage, killing Frank and the other mechanic. Tabitha managed to kill the zombie who had bit them with a piece of pipe off one of the cars, but in that time Frank and the other man had revived, and they turned on her as well. She barely managed to escape with her life, and is trying to find other survivors.

FACECLAIM Jena Malone

NAME Katherine Anne Pryde

AGE Nineteen

SEX Female

OCCUPATION Physics and engineering student at the University of New Orleans

BIOGRAPHY One of Kitty’s first memories is of kicking a ball around with Illyana in the backyard of her family home. She was born to Theresa and Carmen Pryde and Deerfield, Illinois, named Katherine but nicknamed Kitty when she was barely about to talk. She had been six years old, already bright, bubbly and outspoken, already taking dance and gymnastics classes, before the Rasputins moved next door. Her family had gone over to welcome them to the neighbourhood, and she had been attached to Illyana ever since. 

The two of them went through elementary school and, middle school together, though not always in the same classes. Kitty had exhibited a high level of intelligence from day one, but it wasn’t until middleschool when she was allowed to out-pace her peers and take on work far beyond the capabilities of her classmates. The fast-tracked education she received put her two grades above what her age would have dictated, but she still spent every break, every minute after school, and every weekend with Illyana. They were enrolled in fencing and dance together -- ballet and modern -- together, and were constantly sleeping over each other’s houses, or camping in the backyard together. A vacation Kitty’s parents had taken her on to Japan had been agony for both of them. 

It was made even worse when, despite all the plans they had made for high school together, the Rasputins travelled back to Russia in the summer before they could start their first semester. So, for the first time, Kitty started high school alone. Although she made friends quickly, she was bitter and angry, and holding onto a hope that Illyana would come back. They texted each other constantly, with Kitty taking up casual work at an arcade to pay for the hefty phone bill that came with, and would stay up late to talk to each other when they could. It was a hard year, made harder when Kitty’s parents announced their divorce. For as long as Kitty could remember, they had fought, and it had gotten steadily worse over the years until, unbeknowst to her, they had stopped sleeping in the same bed. They separated, Kitty’s mother moving out, and after their marriage was legally ended, Kitty remained with Carmen in her childhood home.

The divorce, coupled with Illyana’s physical absence -- made worse because they had finally admitted their feelings for each other -- and the melodramatic woes of puberty, crippled Kitty. Seeing this, Kitty’s father was only too quick to agree to host Illyana at their house when she came back to the USA on exchange, to finish high school in America. They applied for colleges together, and decided to attend whatever college accepted the both of them. That determination not to be separated again eventuated in their enrolment in the University of New Orleans, with Illyana on a softball scholarship, and Kitty on an academic one that could have gotten her into the most prestigious universities in the country. They moved into a dorm room together, and Kitty started her degree from it’s second year, having gotten credits from doing college courses before finishing high school. 

FACECLAIM Ellen Page

NAME Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin

AGE Nineteen

SEX Female

OCCUPATION University student

BIOGRAPHY Illyana moved to Chicago, Illinois from Siberia, Russia with her adoptive family and her biological brother, Piotr -- who she was all but insperable from -- when she was six years old. They lived next door to Carmen and Theresa Pryde and their daughter, Kitty. The two became close pretty quickly and having a friend her own age helped Illyana adjust to her new life in the States. Piotr was a big help, too, and she often relied on him for safety and comfort because he never hesitated to protect her if the need arose. 

Growing up, Illyana took dancing and fencing classes with Kitty that continued into middle school, where they eventually joined the softball team. It was also around that time that Illyana discovered her knack for film-making. It was a project for an elective class in eighth grade requiring her to make a short documentary-style film about something in her life. She chose her move from Russia to the States and her adjustment to life in a new country and after getting excellent feedback on it, she begin considering the idea of actually doing something with her new-found talent. 

She was all set for it, too, signing up to take a film class a photography class at the local community college along with her first year of high school. But that was ruined when an emergency with family members in Russia saw her family packing up to move back. Illyana was devastated. She didn’t want to leave her life in the States behind, especially not when it meant moving away from her best friend --- who, over the recent years, she’d developed feelings for -- and putting off her future career goals. Nevertheless, the move still happened.

Back in Russia, she completed what would have been her first year in high school had she still been in the States. Through the year, she kept in contact with Kitty daily through Skype, texting, anything. They still spent the majority of their time together; even thousands of miles away, they stayed as inseparable as they were when they’d been neighbors. Somewhere along the line, they admitted their feelings for each other, too. 

Before the next school year began, Illyana entered into an exchange program that allowed her to return to the States and finish out the remainder of high school while living with the Prydes. She re-enrolled for the film and photography classes and picked up softball with Kitty again which eventually lead her to a scholarship. She chose to stay in America for college, applying to many different ones and looking through offers given from the universities seeking her out for her athletic skill until she and Kitty eventually decided on the University of New Orleans. Piotr moved back to the States for her graduation and moved to Louisiana with the two of them, where Illyana settled into the dorms at the school and attended classes until the quarantine began.

FACECLAIM Claire Holt

NAME Jean Grey

AGE Thirty

SEX Female

OCCUPATION Bartender

BIOGRAPHY Growing up in a small town in Louisiana, she lived with her small town doctor father, John, a stay at home mother, Elaine, and her younger sister, Sarah.

Dr. John Grey was a religious man who strides to be the pivotal man in God’s graces, and as time went on didn’t believe in the outbreak, this would ultimately be his downfall. His overbearing ways of course made Jean annoyed, so she rebelled often during high school.John and Elaine had a hard time dealing with the common calls from the principal, and even at times the town sheriff. After graduation, John sent Jean away as soon as possible. Jean began making a living by working at a hotel, but after turning twenty one she began working at a lively bar in the nearby city.

Over the next nine years, she rose in the ranks at the bar until finally becoming the manager. Jean stayed in touch with her sister and mother, but failed to really communicate with John. One day, Sarah called her; notifying her that she and her family would be visiting their parents, and she wanted Jean to stop by. Jean of course, made up some excuse and went on her business, not knowing that that very day would change her life forever. She had been keeping up with the news of the lies of their safety, so she really didn’t want to go traveling off just in case. She was just finishing training the new bartender when the real hell began. 

Seeing the chaos in the city, Jean drove her jeep out of as fast as possible towards her old home.

Arriving to an absolute bloodbath. Sarah’s two young children had been outside playing when they were attacked by the infected. One was feasted upon while the other received a few bites and had died soon after. John and Sarah’s husband were out there trying to revive the bitten child when he reanimated and bit both men. Sarah and Elaine had been watching from afar, Elaine holding tightly onto her young daughter as she screamed. Jean ran up to the pair of women as soon as both men dropped dead, ushering them inside, she moved as fast as she could, grabbing a metal pipe from the shed.

When both men reanimated, she began trying to talk them back to their senses to no avail, and when the two began descending upon her, she swung the pipe into both their skulls, killing them, doing this without knowing that Elaine had been watching from the window. Elaine marched outside with a gun, Sarah trailing after her screaming even louder than before. Elaine was in a fit, yelling about how she killed her father and upon seeing her dead husband's skull bashed in turned the gun towards herself, shooting one bullet into her head.

The sound of the shot began bringing more zombies towards the house. Taking a few moments to think about what she had done and what she had witnessed; she began looting her childhood home for supplies while an eerily quiet Sarah sat down. Loading her jeep up, the last item she stored in the vehicle was the same pipe she used to kill her father and brother-in-law.

She ran back inside to retrieve Sarah, but all she found was the lifeless body of her sister next to an empty bottle of pills. Swallowing her guilt, she left in a hurry, her jeep rolling down the packed highway as fast as she could, needing to get somewhere more safe. Now that she has just made it to New Orleans, she’s hoping to find a group that would not only keep her safe, but also accept a bartender who killed her own father with a metal pipe.

FACECLAIM Joanna Garcia-Swisher

WELCOME TO HELL

A man-made virus that transforms the living into the undead has swept across New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving a trail of disaster in its wake that only gets worse by the day. The military has barricaded the civilians inside in hopes of containing the infection, trapping the remainder of the living in with the walking dead. Their only choices are to fight, survive and find a way out --- or become one of them. ( read the full plot here ).

REGULATIONS

ALL FANDOMS ALLOWED.

This verse is 18+ due to content. This verse can and will be extremely NSFW heavy given the subject matter and we would prefer all muns to be over the age of eighteen.

No duplicate characters. Cis swaps are accepted and do count towards this rule (e.g.: there can’t be a Kitty Pryde and a CS!Kitty Pryde).

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No, you can’t join as a zombie. You’re free to NPC them, obviously, but we don’t allow anyone to join as a zombie, sorry.

Yes, you can be an antagonist. We actually encourage this. Feel free to be a part of the corporation behind the outbreak or as someone who is simply looking out for themselves, etc. You don’t have to be a “good guy”.

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