Full Name: Sehwan Lee
Nicknames: Lee,
Age & Birthday: 43 years; September 30, 1980
Occupation: outside security for the community
Preferred Pronouns & Gender: he/him; cis-male
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Hometown & length of time in Redwood: LA & he's lived in Redwood for two years
Where they reside: a small farmhouse just beyond the outskirts of the Beckett Farm
PINTEREST | CONNECTIONS | PLAYLIST
tw: divorce, parental death, murder, law enforcement, substance abuse mention
Sehwan was raised in California by his South Korean mother after his parents divorced. His mother brought him up to be a kind, loving, young man with a strong desire to protect those around him. When he graduated from high school, Sehwan went to the East Cost to track down his absent father and to go to university. His search for his father only lead to disappointment, but it was during his education at the University of Richmond that Sehwan finally figured out what he wanted to do with his life. After working his way up the ranks of the secret service, he was assigned to the senator of Maryland. What Sehwan wasn't aware of, was that the man he was sworn to protect, was heavily involved with Global-1 and the experimentation that they were doing. He ended up falling in love with the senator’s daughter who, unfortunately, was killed in retaliation to her father’s political dealings. The guilt Sehwan felt over not being able to protect the one person he loved the most sent him in a downward spiral.
At the time of the outbreak, he was in the midst of a several year long bender, drowning his guilt in alcohol, drugs, and sex. The outbreak finally snapped him out of it, as the fight to survive now outweighed his need or even desire to drown out his feelings. He spent the next few years using all of his training from the secret service to fight for survival.
In 2040, shortly after the 'town' had officially been formed, Sehwan found his way to Redwood. He had heard rumors of it and while he's not exactly the most outgoing guy, always believed that safety lied in numbers. He joined the community, and now that he had found a more permanent residence, he even adopted a stray puppy, training it to detect if people had been bitten or infected. He was eventually roped into doing outside security for the community, despite his reluctance to have anything close to that kind of responsibility again. He still holds onto the guilt and trauma of losing the only person he's loved romantically, but has recently begun to pick up clues that he might be able to find more connections to his father in this town than he ever would have thought.
Headcanons:
He has always loved science and been so intrigued by it, but it is the one subject in school he did terrible at
He adores music but can’t listen to it at all if he’s trying to concentrate on anything.
He can’t stand tea and only drinks black coffee.
Now that he was practically forced out of his spiral, Sehwan has struggled to find healthy coping mechanisms for his trauma and guilt. In the last two years that he's been living in Redwood, he has picked up gardening as a method to deal with his feelings and has his own tiny garden
