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hi everyone i'm hay <3 please met my trainwreck, bishop.

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full name: bishop renee ripley

hometown: flagstff, arizona

age: 26

sexuality: bisexual

occupation: cook

known family: finch ripley (twin sister)

THE BEFORE

you came out screaming, and that was perhaps the loudest you would ever be. all tiny and wiggling arms, not prepared for this brand new world. you missed the comfort of your mother's belly. you seemed to relax once your twin sister, finch was born. as long as she was close, you never found a reason to be so loud again.

the two of you grew up in between neighbors houses, seeing your parents for only a few glimpses. you followed your sister around, even though she was technically younger (maybe by 2 or 3 minutes). finch always had a friendly, welcoming aura to her. your aura was more like...grey. you tried to make friends and tried to be outgoing, but it never reall came easy to you. you quickly fell into her shadow, not that you minded in the least. you've always been shy and preferred to wait and watch in the background. at the very least you made friends in rain and raffe. with the three of them, there was never a need to branch out of your comfort zone again.

you were fiercely protective of your friends...maybe to a fault. you insisted to go everywhere with them. you never had much luck in romance, but you figured your time would come...one day. it wasn't like things could be worse.

THE AFTER

you and your friends decide to stay at a ski lodge, just a few miles from your home. it was supposed fun, relaxing, and filled with too much hot cocoa. but then everything changed. terrifying news began filling in, the sky filled with smoke. you knew deep down before checking that your parents were gone, still, by the time you could search them, they were already runners. you and finch had to kill them in the kitchen. the same kitchen were you once made lemonade with your mom.

you soon fell into a routine. for you, it was easy. you were never extremely social able, anyway. you became a cook and did your duties to help the community at the lodge. you kept a watchful eye on your sister, scared something may happen.

one day, finch, rain, and raffe decided to take the ski lift for a spin, to take a look at the outside world. you were invited, but you had more vegetables to chop, so you waved them on. you should have tagged along, or at least hugged your sister. that would be the last time you saw her-- or any of your friends .

one moment you're prepping dinner, the next, you're fighting for your life. a hoard of the infected invaded the sky lodge, taking out people you've gotten to know and trust. it was a blur, trying to get out of the kitchen and pack as many things as you could. you wanted to wait for finch, but there was no way of knowing how long she would be...or if she was coming back.

you waited for as long as you could, but you knew if you waited too long then you'd most likely get injured or die. with nothing to scrawl a note on or anything, you took a simple necklace from your sister's room and ran out of there.

the ski lodge was nearly in flames by the time you stopped running. it was cold and quickly approaching night time, but you had to keep moving. after who knows how many hours, you stumbled along an abandoned hunting lodge and passed out.

from then on, you kept moving. there was no point going back to the ski lodge. you weren't even sure you knew how to get back. you would have to surive on your own, but every breath felt like you were dying. you lost your twin, and your only friends.

for the next few months, you roamed around the united states, feeling lost. eventually you came into contact with someone-- max. they were surviving on their own, too. they had their own sad, sob story like the rest of us. you came to an uneasy truce after almost killing each other. you were both so scared. but over time, max began to heal your broken heart. you felt yourself start to trust them. you camped together, ate together, and traded stories together. you protected them and they protected you. you would be content if you had to spend the rest of your time with them.

was this the romance you were looking for all those years ago? is there even a place for romance anymore?

this week, you and max came to the city of novac. maybe now is the time to stop roaming. you haven't stopped running since that day at the ski lodge. maybe now it's time to settle down and try to live again.

Background:

TW // Drugs, Violence, Murder, Injury

-Born in Massachusetts to a loving family, but always was a little bit of a weirdo. Had too much fun starting arguments, shoving kids, and getting into hair-brained schemes. His parents assumed he was just 'precocious'.

-Incredibly bright and got his Bachelors and Masters in bio-chemistry. Worked in various labs with colleges and universities before moving on to BROOKLABS outside of Boston- a national lab.

-Met someone at the lab and hit it off. After dating for a few years, Oz realized they'd been cheating on him. While he cut the relationship off, the ex was given a large promotion and Oz was pissed.

-Oz found he could steal chemicals and equipment easily without anyone noticing, and began to siphon them off to folks through the dark web. While he never affiliated himself specifically with anyone, he did it all online anyways and things were relatively anonymous.

-While trying to fill the void of thrill-seeking with party drugs and selling lab equipment (and chemicals), Oz was looking for any other jobs he could do to make a quick buck, some of them becoming more dangerous.

-Oz began a very short stint as a gunman-for-hire. While he was good at it, he was given the wrong information for one of the hits and was badly injured while there to take out a target.

-Now has a lumbar spinal injury and uses a wheelchair and forearm crutches to get around. Oz still has feeling in his legs and feet but requires mobility aids. Can also drive a care- thankfully, because he was in Boston working for a different lab when the virus broke out.

-Oz stayed in Boston for a while. Many in his lab thought they could work on some kind of cure or antidote, foolishly. Oz mostly stayed for the enforced walls and special doors with only card access. He was afforded a higher level of safety, but soon people were picked off, buildings broken into, and Oz drove off to find some safety, finding Novac in the past 6 months.

Headcanons:

-Oz is a sarcastic and rude individual who's certainly not the first many think of as a 'friend'. However, when he becomes someone's friend, he is fiercely loyal.

-Currently Oz uses a wheelchair and mobility aids such as forearm crutches to get around.

-He was a huge partier but in his day-to-day life is NOT built for 'fun'. He also probably shouldn't be working in any 'customer service' type of job, but working on the first floor of the motel grants him something to do and despite him being an ornery little fuck, he's at least very organized.

Background:

TW // Abuse, Murder, Medical malpractice, Homophobia

Born in Ireland and raised to be a good Christian boy. Unfortunately he was a rebellious gay teen and his father had far too much influence and power.

Asa's father sent him away to a Troubled Teen home to 'straighten him out'. This didn't work, but did help confuse Asa about right & wrong, & if he was 'in his right mind' or not.

His father sent him to a mental institution after this, convincing doctors that his son was not well.

Asa was in and out of different institutions and psychiatric hospitals due to his parents for many years. This consisted of him taking medications he didn't need that messed with his brain, closing him off from society, and leaving him isolated often.

During his stay at the last institution, St. Irene's, Asa was given 'experimental treatment' which was, essentially, medical malpractice.

After getting out and being sent back to his father, he realized his father was planning to send him off to another place, and that he'd be condemned to this for his entire life if he didn't do something. He murdered his father, stole some money, and fled to the States.

There, in NYC, he began creating a case to shut down St. Irene's. Corresponding with various victims and former patients and nurses, Asa created a huge backlog of evidence and was rewarded a HUGE settlement and the place was shut down.

Had only been 'out' of these hospitals for a few years when the virus hit. Asa fled from NYC and found Novac.

Farming and gardening has always been something he's passionate about, and this has made it easier for him to connect with his job at Novac.

Headcanons:

-Asa has a residual head injury from his time at St. Irene's from their misuse of ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy). This is a small pinkish burn mark on the side of his temple. While it doesn't normally bother him, he does get chronic headaches from it and occasionally will have more issues (hearing buzzing, feeling dizzy)

-Asa is an incredibly off-putting individual, due to his time away from ‘society’. While he tries to make conversation with others, it is clear he is still figuring out how to make friends and to have relationships.

-Asa illustrates and has a ton of art from his time in the different institutions he's been stuck in.

-While he is an enigma wrapped in another enigma, Asa is a kind person. He often is thoughtful in small ways- having everyones’ favorite foods or colors memorized, giving small hand-drawn cards or little gifts for birthdays and events.

full name: matthias james dawson . nickname(s): matty,   matt, ty. age: twenty - six  ( 26 ) . gender identity: cis man & he  / him. orientation: bisexual  & biromantic   . place  of  birth: austin,  texas. date of  birth: 04 / 14 ( april 14th ) . current occupation: farm hand. faceclaim: rudy pankow  .

BACKGROUND .

having never met his mother after being left on his biological father's doorstep as a newborn, matthias dawson was raised in a trailer park in austin, texas by a neglectful and abusive father, always dreaming of an escape and a way out. he never imagined that it would come in the form of a zombie apocalypse.

by the time matthias was sixteen, he had learned to keep his mouth shut and his head down, scraping by at school, solely because of his desire to move away from texas, away from his father and start a fresh somewhere new after high school, and surrounding himself with friends to pose distractions.

when the news of an outbreak hit matthias was at his at-the-time girlfriend's place, and found himself rushing home in a panic before his brain could catch up with his body. he entered the trailer, coming face to face with his father, a zombified version of one of their neighbours at his neck. he was too late.

matthias felt a strange heartbreaking sense of relief at the death of his father, the man who had ruined his life and caused him so much pain and grief over sixteen years, but before he had any chance to compartmentalise he had to arm himself with the gun his father kept in the drawer and shoot his neighbour in the head. he quickly threw a bunch of supplies, the gun and a hunting knife into his backpack and fled.

in the following seven years, matthias travelled between several groups of survivors, whoever would take him in temporarily until he reached a new destination where he'd slum it alone for a while before repeating the cycle anew. for the most part, he got by without much trouble, often facing herds of zombies while in a large group capable of fighting them off, and having developed the art of being quiet and sneaky enough himself to sneak past without attracting attention ( thanks, dad ).

— BASICS

NAME:  Seraphina Lopez

AGE / D.O.B.:   26  /   tbd

GENDER, PRONOUNS & SEXUALITY:  cisfemale.  she/her bisexual

HOMETOWN: Miami, Florida

JOB POSITION:  stablehand 

EDUCATION:  currently attempting to get an associate’s degree in computer science 

RELATIONSHIP STATUS:   single.

CHILDREN:  NONE.

POSITIVE TRAITS:    alert ,   bold  ,  driven  ,  compassionate  ,  confident

NEGATIVE TRAITS:   discreet  ,   unforthcoming  ,   blunt  ,    irritable  ,  resentful

❝ 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞— 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. ❞

✦ — BASICS

FULL NAME: Seraphina Carmen Lopez

NICKNAME: Seraphina or Sapphire

BIRTHDAY: tbd

GENDER: female

HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5′5″ and 115 lbs

ORIENTATION: bisexual

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single

OCCUPATION: stablehand

❝ 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞—𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞. ❞

𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬  ,  𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬  &  𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬 : yes  /  yes  /  yes .

𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 :   the  thrill  of  late   night  adventures  ,  the  smell  of  leather   ,  drive   in  movies  ,  high fashion trends,  beauty products , and red velvet lipstick.

𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 :  liars , waiting in long lines , losing

𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬 : collecting old vinyls, writing , listening to music , and taking long walks to clear her mind

𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 : n/a

𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞  𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬 : ambitious , careful , adventurous , honest , direct , open-minded , decisive , independent , spontaneous , passionate, loyal

𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞  𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬 : impulsive , indecisive , ruthless , reckless

𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝  𝐛𝐲 :    mabel mora (only murders in the building), cher (clueless) , elle woods (legally blonde) , caroline forbes (the vampire diaries) , ginny (ginny & georgia) and jackie burkhart (that 70s show)

✦ BACKGROUND

♔ ——  Society says that girls can’t be pretty, smart, and funny all at once. Seraphina completely missed that memo. and not exactly in a girl power kind of way, more of an i’m better than everybody else kind of way. So Seraphina had an ego. So what? it’s true: she is pretty. she is smart. she is funny. her confidence in her god-given gifts grated some people, of course. but she was a magnetic force, whether you liked her or not.

♔ —— Seraphina is a tough girl who knows what she wants and how to get it.

♔ ——  Seraphina had a normal childhood. she was raised by his parents in Miami, Florida.

♔ ——  Seraphina can be described as “a girl that always gets her way, referring to how she tends get what she wants easier than other people might. Jasmine does have a dark side like everyone does. Seraphina is a bit of wild child and a rebel.

♔ —— She can be an emotional rollercoaster when it comes to her state of mind depending on the situation.

♔ —— Seraphina can be a bit fragile when it comes opening up to anyone emotionally or otherwise.

♔ —— Seraphina is a hopeless romantic but when it comes to someone she finds attractive she gets tongue-tied and stutters in front of them.

♔ —— Seraphina is very much a mess of contradictions. she loves the feeling of being wanted, but at the same time worries that people are looking at her for the wrong reasons. She loves the person she’s becoming, but deep down, she can’t quite overcome the self-hatred that has been ingrained in her.  She’s caught between who she really is and who she wants to be, and sometimes she gets a little lost in the midst of it. On the outside, however, Seraphina's is outspoken and opinionated. She won’t hesitate to tell you how she’s feeling, positive or negative. She’s fiercely protective of her friends, and extremely loyal. She’s passionate, fiery, and headstrong. those who really know her, however, might catch glimpses of her more vulnerable side. She treats those she holds dear like absolute gold and would go to the ends of the earth for them. On the flip side of that, though, she holds a grudge like no other, and finds  it hard to forgive those who have wronged her.

♔ —— more to be added

✦ WANTED PLOTS

mutual crushes

friends with benefits

frenemies

her ride or die

STATISTICS

name: rafael luis de la vega nicknames: raf age: thirty-two dob: december 22nd, 1990 hometown: burlington, vermont residence: novac, new mexico occupation: law student (former), maintenance worker height: 6'1" hair color: brown tattoos: psalm 71:6 on his ribs. "i walk in the strength of the lord god" mbti: isfj

HISTORY

the neighborhood says that rafael de la vega is the type of guy you'd want to take home to your parents.

a paramount golden child, feeling the heavy weight of responsibility on his shoulders from a young age from parents who resented their own station motivated much of his own life.

raf excelled in everything he did, it seemed like the world came easy to him. he was handsome, smart, successful, athletic. quarterback of the football team and burlington high's prom king his senior year.

he had the kind of old fashioned sensibilities you only find in fifties movies. opening a car door for a girl and bringing her flowers every time they went out.

but underneath his polished exterior he lived in a constant state of self-deprecation and turmoil. nothing he did ever felt good enough, even absolute perfection didn't offer him relief from his own anxiety.

the only thing he couldn't find it in him to criticize was his little sister who seemed to have all his positive traits and lacked any of his negative ones.

to him, she was the heart and soul of their family and he felt intensely protective of her.

he had big aspirations for himself and for her. he'd accomplish the dream his parents never had and provide a better life for them. he was in law school with dreams of making it big as a criminal lawyer, maybe even a district attorney one day

but when the apocalypse hit it seemed like burlington, vermont was the rest of his life. ever the filial son he stayed dutifully caring for them until they died from natural causes

after that he wasn't sure where they would go but he wanted somewhere better, when they entered the boston qz he felt the weight of that decision lay heavy on him. personally responsible for the trauma they endured living under the military.

novac seemed like a dream, like-minded people who wanted to live peacefully. from that first he was there he promised himself he'd do whatever it took to protect the peace that they'd created there.

PERSONALITY

STATISTICS

name: amphai saengkaew nicknames: phai age: thirty-one dob: october 29th, 1991 hometown: new york city, new york, usa residence: novac, new mexico occupation: cybersecurity specialist (former), server height: 5'4" hair color: brown tattoos: a sunflower doodle on the inside of her left wrist, a dolphin on her right shoulder blade mbti: enfp

HISTORY

phai has never been the type of woman to do what's expected of her, a trait that brought mostly chagrin and disappointment to her parents.

born on the upper east side to new money social climbers in the pharmaceuticals industry her parents desperately wanted to find their ranks among the old money elite of new york who had no desire to accept them.

phai, their eldest child was no help either. whether it was spilling wine all over a white tablecloth or speaking her opinion far to freely to someone who didn't value it she was a constant slew of mistakes in her family's mission to climb the ranks of society.

her only redeeming quality in her family's opinion was her mind. she was especially clever and her grades consistently were the best in her pampered private school crowd

she buzzed along behind those pampered kids like a favored pet. never entirely ostracized but never truly respected either. a funny thing to keep around, a running joke that they let tag along just for the hilarity of it.

in her later years after finding some better friends she developed a penchant for lavish partying. desperate to feel accepted and normal for even a moment.

phai enjoyed spoiling her friends, taking expensive vacations, desperate to endear them to her before they could grow tired of her and leave

her foray in cybersecurity came from a terminally online kid growing up in the beginning of the computer age

computer science just seemed like the easiest subject to major in and she happened to be especially good at it

eventually she made her own money doing cybersecurity for shady paramilitary companies and trying not the thing about the moral implications of her work

after the apocalypse she was rocketed right back to uselessness when terrorist cyberattacks became the very bottom rung of concern for americans

vacationing with her friends in vegas and stranded from her family phai had no way to get back to them despite her attempts. she supposed they didn't really care if she made it back one way or the other. after all she'd never been the kid they were proud of.

now endlessly dedicated to her friends, her chosen family she's felt immeasurable loss since the apocalypse started. finding novac has offered her some measure of peace but still left her feeling hollow in the wake of the end of the world.

PERSONALITY