Realistic or Modern The Zombie Apocalypse

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RILEY BELLEMO

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Name: Riley Bellemo


Age: 19


Occupation: A Personal Fitness Trainor

In depth

Bio: Riley was born to both Edward and Kayla Bellemo at Chesterfield's community hospital, located in a quaint town in Arizona. Due to complications, her mother died giving birth to her, therefore, having to live with her father ever since. Riley's dad owned an automobile shop near their home, to which he made a living off. Both the girl and her father were pretty close -- basically each others best friends. As Riley grew up, her father enlisted her in many sports and activites such as Wrestling, Baseball, Football, Boxing and a whole lot of other stuff that she enjoyed participating in. During that time, her and her father also did a few other things together, like fishing and hunting and he taught her how to use weapons every week when they went camping. Around the time she entered the 6-8th grade, the brunette became very frustrated with school, thus begging her father to drop out in the 8th grade, to which Edward said yes after a lot of thinking. This allowed Riley to spend more time on her sports and home life. Right away, she knew that she wanted to become a person trainer, and luckily, her father supported her 100% on the idea.


When Riley turned 18, she came home to find her father getting torn apart by corpses. She grabbed the BBgun that she and her father both used for hunting, and shot the walker in the head, killing it on first shot. Right away, Riley grabbed whatever she was able to carry in her bag, and left, on the search for a safer place to stay. Till this day, Riley is still on the run to try and stay safe, and possibly find recruitments.


Personality: The teen is has a very tomboyish nature compared to others. Shes has a very blunt demeanor, and is very impatient. Though giving off the impression of rudeness, when starting to feel comfortable around people, Riley slightly lets her guard down a little bit, and begins to be a more relaxing and chill person to be around, though her adventurous and risk taking streak, always remains wherever she goes.


Relative/Friends: Riley has no one. Everyone she knew either disappeared, or is confirmed to be turned or dead.


Hometown: Chesterfield, Virginia

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Other: Heterosexual

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Accepted!

 

[Catharsis]

Accepted

 

[Catharsis]

Okay, everyone who is accepted may begin posting!

 

[Unrlstic]

can you tell us the setting?


like how we're all gonna be in the same housd or whatever after running away from walkers??

 

[Catharsis]

can you tell us the setting?
like how we're all gonna be in the same housd or whatever after running away from walkers??

Well there isn't a particular setting for anyone right now, since it's only a starter post everyone should be doing their own thing y'know?

 

[Ariel]

Could you give us an example? o: By posting first? I want to see how ya want it

 

[Catharsis]

Okay, since you guys sorta want a reference I'll go ahead and start writing mine, but heads up, I prefer my characters to be isolated from the rest for a while

 

[Catharsis]

It is up ^-^

 

[Catharsis]

No Information is known about this character at this time.

 

[The Mechanist]

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  Name: Nathaniel Renko
  
  
  Age: 21
  
  
  Occupation: Ex-Body guard
  
  
  Appearance (Must be realistic. No anime)
  
  
  
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  Biography/History: Born and raised by two parents, 3 younger siblings. Being the oldest sibling he grew to be protective of his family and did whatever it took to protect them. At the age of 18, he took and passed the neccessary fire arms tests and signed up for a body guard license afterwards. Prior to the infection Nathaniel had failed his first contract of two years, his client being shot by a competing business man, feeling like he wasnt really cut out for the job he tried to return to his home in texas, it was after his journey back that shit had hit the fan. His family all died to the infection, all but him. He wishes everyday that he couldve protected them, that he couldve joined them, but he refuses to pull the trigger on himself, now he looks for a reason to protect again, hopes to find someone he can protect to fulfill his self proclaimed purpose of being a guardian.
  
  
  Personality: Nearly succombed to depression Nathaniel is suffering bouts of paranoia and lacks the ability to trust most, he searches for a reason to protect others, it helps him feel better, helps him forget about what happened to his family.
  
  
  Weapons: Fathers .45 Ruger, a keepsake he took from his dads gun cabinet after burying his family. His Tanto edged MTech knife. His brothers multi tool, couldnt leave that behind. One soup can of home made napalm and a box of matches
  
  
  Relatives/Friends: Family is deceased, status of his friends is currently unknown.
  
  
  Hometown: Does it really matter where hes from?
  
  
  Other: Really loves to wear camoflauge and keeps his old college lab coat in his back pack just in case, also adores cats, hopes to find one soon. Back pack mainly consists of many boullion cubes of assorted flavors (about 300 cubes 130 chiken, 70 shrimp, 100 beef), small pot for cooking said boullion, a thermos, a simple distillation apparatus set he stole from his colleges organic chem lab, and a bag of cat food.
  
  
  

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[Catharsis]

[QUOTE="Hollowed Kadaver]

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accepted

 

[Honeybee]

Name: Clara Stewart


age: 17


about: Clara was an orphan who was abused and after adopted by a troupe of circus when she was six years old. after a fire accident in the circus in California, she is one of the survivors of the circus, now resting in a asylum. "At least it's not the orphanage." her quote about the asylum, in the asylum she became friends with Doctor Green, a kind woman.


Personality: Clara is a bit shy, but she is strong and brave despite being alone.


hometown: California.


weapon: a (stolen) pocket knife.


other: she is very skilled at catwheels and cartwheels as her number in the circus.


Relatives/Friends: Doctor Green, the circus troupe


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[Catharsis]

Name: Clara Stewart
age: 17


about: Clara was an orphan who was abused and after adopted by a troupe of circus when she was six years old. after a fire accident in the circus in California, she is one of the survivors of the circus, now resting in a asylum. "At least it's not the orphanage." her quote about the asylum, in the asylum she became friends with Doctor Green, a kind woman.


Personality: Clara is a bit shy, but she is strong and brave despite being alone.


hometown: California.


weapon: a (stolen) pocket knife.


other: she is very skilled at catwheels and cartwheels as her number in the circus.


Relatives/Friends: Doctor Green, the circus troupe


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accepted

 

[LailaxStfu]

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  Name: Vonni (Vee, or simply V)
  
  
  Age: 17, but lies about her age
  
  
  Occupation: Was a McDonalds worker
  
  
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  Scar on right eyebrow
  
  
  loose ponytail most of the time
  
  
  knee brace
  
  
  long wound on left arm
  
  
  
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  Biography/History: Not much is known about Vonni except the fact that she lost her trust for her father and began to dislike her mother. At 16 she ran away from home and moved in with her 2 year boyfriend, until their tragic breakup and he kicked her out onto the street. With no where to go she got a job at McDonalds and soon was able to afford a little apartment. Everything was alright until her parents found out where she lived and forced her to move back in with them. While doing so she met a girl she could call her best friend Dionne. Dionne taught her many things and V taught Dionne many things, which is now why V is the way she is. While giving her graduation speech beside her best friend that's when the outbreak hit, her and her best friend was grabbed going separate ways, never to see each other again. Vonni is desperate to find her best friend knowing she is still out there.
  
  
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  + Great with guns
  
  
  + Has a great heart
  
  
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  - Won't talk a lot to people she just met.
  
  
  - Hard at trusting.
  
  
  - Drinks
  
  
  - Has to eat a lot of sweets.
  
  
  Weapons: A knife,
  
  
  double-barreled .45 ACP 1911
  
  
  M-9 Handgun ( No ammo)
  
  
  M-1014 Joint Service Combat Shotgun ( She finds while searching a house)
  
  
  Relatives/Friends: Dionne ( Not Found)
  
  
  Hometown: West Virginia
  
  
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  She's carrying in her bookbag:
  
  
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[Catharsis]

Accepted

 

[LailaxStfu]

Thanks I'm gonna go post now.

 

[Drunk Dragon]

Name





Steinar Magnusson


mostly known either by his given name "Steinar" or by his nickname, "Windy".


(The nickname arose after someone took a picture of him in which his hair was being blown backwards by the wind.)


Age





62


Occupation





Formerly a history teacher, now a freelance photographer.


Appearance

PS: John Hurt is awesome.





Biography/History


Steinar Magnusson was born in London to upper middle class parents, living a very uneventful childhood as the eldest of two brothers. Aron Magnusson, his father (who was Swedish), was a businessman who ran a company that made office pants, while his mother, Mary Holmes (who was a native of London), was a translator. He attended school from a young age, doing decently enough to get into an arts course at a local university. He earned a degree in philosophy, before taking a break to travel with money that he had saved.


At this time, he was 25, and throughout his time in university, he had a longing to travel, He had subscribed to National Geographic, and was impressed by the pictures he saw. As such, he had saved up a large sum of money, and the moment he graduated, he travelled around the world.


Once that was done, he returned to London, and went back to university, doing a World History course, a course from which he graduated 3 years later, at the age of 29.


By then, his mother was insisting that Steinar get a job (so that his parents wouldn't have to support him forever). As such, he underwent a teaching course, and became an English teacher at a primary school. He wasn't very fond of teaching young children, and hence, requested to be moved to a high school. The education authorities acquiesced, and Steinar was, at the age of 32, posted to a high school to teach History and Philosophy.


Here, he taught faithfully for the next 27 years, earning various awards for long service and other such achievements. During this time, he had bought himself a camera; it wasn't long before photography became a hobby for him. Whenever he wasn't teaching or marking exam scripts, he would be seen with his camera, meticulously adjusting it on the tripod and taking pictures of whatever he felt like taking pictures of.


When Steinar was 59, his 91 year old father suffered from a severe stroke that paralysed the entirety of his left side. As such, with great reluctance, both father and son retired from their respective jobs, Mr. Aron Magnusson due to his stroke (and a consistent deterioration in health thereafter), and Steinar, in order to take care of his father. (His brother, Jon, wasn't the most filial of children; he had run off to some other country upon completing his studies, and was never heard from again.)


Aron Magnusson was very well taken care of. He refused to go back into the hospital (the one time he had ever stayed in a hospital was the worst time of his life), and wanted to die peacefully, with his wife and elder son (the good one) at his side. Steinar respected his wish, and at the age of 93, Aron Magnusson passed on peacefully at 7:45pm in the presence of both of the people he loved most.


Following that, the widowed Mary Magnusson insisted that Steinar go out and do what he enjoyed most (or as she put it, "to make the most of life.)


He took his mother's advice and, with the remainder of the money he had saved to care for his late father, went on a trip around the world to take pictures. On the advice of an impressed restaurant owner (whom Steinar had shown some pictures to after his dinner one day), 61 year old Steinar decided that he could try publishing a compilation of the pictures he had taken on that trip.


It was on his 62nd birthday, just as he was planning a trip to Singapore (from another overseas city), that he found out about the new zombie disease that was ravaging the world. Being unable to travel back to London (the plane he was scheduled to take had been hijacked following the chaos of the sudden reanimation of countless cadavers worldwide), Steinar sent a message to his concerned mother, informing her that he was alright, and would try his best to get back to be with her before the inevitable came…





Personality


Steinar is known to be very patient, a trait that was useful when he was a teacher (having to deal with recalcitrant students), and equally useful when he had to take care of his bedridden father. People who knew him noted that he never got angry (the most was that he would raise his voice), which was something that they liked about him.


He is also very loyal to those whom he loves or is close to, something shown by the fact that he left his job to take care of his father.


However, he also has a tendency to overload himself with work or other things of that sort, especially as a result of his gentle nature (i.e. unwillingness to insult or burden others), and will sometimes stress himself out to a large degree, sometimes to the extent of losing sleep. In addition, he is also unwilling to reveal said conditions to other people, for fear of making them worried.


Weapons


- Umbrella


- Swiss Army knife


(He doesn't know how to use guns; his home country didn't allow them anyway)





Relatives/Friends

Mary Magnusson née Holmes


88 years old


Mother


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Jon Magnusson


59 years old


Brother





Hometown


London





Other


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Note: I know it's gonna be hard for a 62 y/o guy to survive in a zombie apocalypse; however, I feel like stepping outside the comfort zone of young people to give this a try. (:3)

 

[Catharsis]

[QUOTE="Drunk Dragon]
Name



Steinar Magnusson


mostly known either by his given name "Steinar" or by his nickname, "Windy".


Age





62


Occupation





Formerly a history teacher, now a freelance photographer.


Appearance

PS: John Hurt is awesome.





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Note: I know it's gonna be hard for a 62 y/o guy to survive in a zombie apocalypse; however, I feel like stepping outside the comfort zone of young people to give this a try. (:3)

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You're missing a few things, however I like what you have so far

 

[Soradoshino]

Adrian


Age 25


Occupation: Sales agent


Appearance: Brown Cowboy boots with wear and tear, Blue jeans with a hole on the right knee, black button up shirt. Average sized man aroung 200lbs<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_11/246997_224771127541518_8156943_n.jpg.e410aef08b15bcaa55171ef2a044781c.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="84254" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_11/246997_224771127541518_8156943_n.jpg.e410aef08b15bcaa55171ef2a044781c.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p>


I am just an average male man. Loving family and plenty of friends. Had a job as a sales agent for a telephone company. I was a good man and never had a problem making friends. Then when the time came, I lost my wife and kids. Got ambushed by a group of men who wanted whatever we had on us. They beat me unconscious and i woke up only to find out my family had been murdered by them. I am just wondering the world looking for the men who did it.


Personality: Paranoid and conservative. Honorable and righteous


Weapons: A Katana that was a birthday gift from a friend


Relatives/Friends: All deceased


Hometown: Somewhere in Texas

 

[Catharsis]

Adrian
Age 25


Occupation: Sales agent


Appearance: Brown Cowboy boots with wear and tear, Blue jeans with a hole on the right knee, black button up shirt. Average sized man aroung 200lbsView attachment 189857


I am just an average male man. Loving family and plenty of friends. Had a job as a sales agent for a telephone company. I was a good man and never had a problem making friends. Then when the time came, I lost my wife and kids. Got ambushed by a group of men who wanted whatever we had on us. They beat me unconscious and i woke up only to find out my family had been murdered by them. I am just wondering the world looking for the men who did it.


Personality: Paranoid and conservative. Honorable and righteous


Weapons: A Katana that was a birthday gift from a friend


Relatives/Friends: All deceased


Hometown: Somewhere in Texas

I noticed you put the bio in first person, which isn't a problem but this rp is in 3rd?

 

[TheHarlequinnCat]

Name: Ricardo James "Snake Eyes" Garcia


Age: 28


Occupation: Previously a drug dealer "public enemy number one"


Appearance:

Biography/History:


Born with Latino parents from Puerto Rico, he tans well but has not been in the sun since he moved to live in the city. He was actually one of the smartest kids in his high school, bilingual from birth, technically born in Puerto Rico, and in the top tenth percentile. He was able to get into college, but dropped out once he was able to make his own money after he got into the party scene and crime scene. He was a mystery to all kinds of people, somehow ending up having a popular male jock high school sweetheart, and disconnecting with him entirely after he knocked up his college girlfriend. She was an incredibly smart woman going through med school, and finishing med school despite being pregnant, this was about when Ricardo kicked his drug selling into full-scale. He was a middle man between gangs, grower of pure marijuana and hash, and somehow was able to get pure drugs from relatives who were already in the drug trade. He got lucky. He has a daughter who he calls "Angel Eyes", and his wife is missing after she ran out on him during one of their many high-escalating fights.


Personality: Hedonistic, protective, aggressive around strangers, but genuinely kind. Somewhat unreliable, street smart/connected, and very tight-knit/cliquey.


Weapons: (luckily knows how to shoot and fight from his time in the streets)

I mean this guy is heavily armed


Relatives/Friends: is a well-known drug trader since he connected into his family's Puerto Rican drug trades as well as establishing his own in the city.


Hometown: The Pearl, San Juan, Puerto Rico


Other:

This is his daughter, clearly has some psychological problems, age 5. Her name is Katelyn Jane, better known by her father's nickname "Angel Eyes"


Name: Mabel Nicole Jose


Age: 15


Occupation: student


Appearance (Must be realistic. No anime)

Biography/History:


Your typical young teen girl, obsessed with her small group of friends and what outfit she will wear to school. A relatively normal family, give or take a few dysfunctional relatives, in the middle lower class. She was sent to stay with her Grandmother while her parents went on vacation, just the right timing for the apocalypse, right?


Personality: Still finding herself, but so far she is stubborn, clever, quick, and quiet.


Weapons: N/A


Relatives/Friends: Unknown


Hometown: Portland, Oregon


Other

 

[Catharsis]

Name: Ricardo James "Snake Eyes" Garcia
Age: 28


Occupation: Previously a drug dealer "public enemy number one"


Appearance:

Biography/History:


Born with Latino parents from Puerto Rico, he tans well but has not been in the sun since he moved to live in the city. He was actually one of the smartest kids in his high school, bilingual from birth, technically born in Puerto Rico, and in the top tenth percentile. He was able to get into college, but dropped out once he was able to make his own money after he got into the party scene and crime scene. He was a mystery to all kinds of people, somehow ending up having a popular male jock high school sweetheart, and disconnecting with him entirely after he knocked up his college girlfriend. She was an incredibly smart woman going through med school, and finishing med school despite being pregnant, this was about when Ricardo kicked his drug selling into full-scale. He was a middle man between gangs, grower of pure marijuana and hash, and somehow was able to get pure drugs from relatives who were already in the drug trade. He got lucky. He has a daughter who he calls "Angel Eyes", and his wife is missing after she ran out on him during one of their many high-escalating fights.


Personality: Hedonistic, protective, aggressive around strangers, but genuinely kind. Somewhat unreliable, street smart/connected, and very tight-knit/cliquey.


Weapons: (luckily knows how to shoot and fight from his time in the streets)

I mean this guy is heavily armed


Relatives/Friends: is a well-known drug trader since he connected into his family's Puerto Rican drug trades as well as establishing his own in the city.


Hometown: The Pearl, San Juan, Puerto Rico


Other:

This is his daughter, clearly has some psychological problems, age 5. Her name is Katelyn Jane, better known by her father's nickname "Angel Eyes"


Name: Mabel Nicole Jose


Age: 15


Occupation: student


Appearance (Must be realistic. No anime)

Biography/History:


Your typical young teen girl, obsessed with her small group of friends and what outfit she will wear to school. A relatively normal family, give or take a few dysfunctional relatives, in the middle lower class. She was sent to stay with her Grandmother while her parents went on vacation, just the right timing for the apocalypse, right?


Personality: Still finding herself, but so far she is stubborn, clever, quick, and quiet.


Weapons: N/A


Relatives/Friends: Unknown


Hometown: Portland, Oregon


Other

Accepted, just keep Ricardo from being too over powered :3

 

[TheHarlequinnCat]

@Lonelytaco Where should I start? Also Ricardo has his babygirl he's more of a flight instead of fight guy, he's pretty much armed to the teeth to just hide out somewhere and keep her safe

 

[Catharsis]

@Lonelytaco Where should I start? Also Ricardo has his babygirl he's more of a flight instead of fight guy, he's pretty much armed to the teeth to just hide out somewhere and keep her safe

Just read the latest few posts and jump in. You don't have to start off involved with anyone, we'll all eventually group up site he way.

 

[Drunk Dragon]

Okay, my app has been completed.


Just a question, though; what city is the group in at the moment?


EDIT: I've reposted everything here, and added in some extra information.

Spoiler

Name





Steinar Magnusson


mostly known either by his given name "Steinar" or by his nickname, "Windy".


(The nickname arose after someone took a picture of him in which his hair was being blown backwards by the wind.)


Age





62


Occupation





Formerly a history teacher, now a freelance photographer.


Appearance

PS: John Hurt is awesome.





Biography/History


Steinar Magnusson was born in London to upper middle class parents, living a very uneventful childhood as the eldest of two brothers. Aron Magnusson, his father (who was Swedish), was a businessman who ran a company that made office pants, while his mother, Mary Holmes (who was a native of London), was a translator. He attended school from a young age, doing decently enough to get into a Philosophy course at a local university. Shortly afterwards, Steinar graduated and earned his first degree.


At this time, he was 26, and throughout his time in university, he had a longing to travel, He had subscribed to National Geographic, and was impressed by the pictures he saw. As such, he had saved up a large sum of money, so that he could travel the world "when I have the time".


For now, however, Steinar remained in London, pursuing a second degree in World History course, a course from which he graduated 3 years later, at the age of 29.


By then, his mother was insisting that Steinar get a job (so that his parents wouldn't have to support him forever). As such, he underwent a teaching course, and became an English teacher at a primary school. He wasn't very fond of teaching young children, and hence, requested to be moved to a high school. The education authorities acquiesced, and Steinar was, at the age of 32, posted to a high school to teach History and Philosophy.


Here, he taught faithfully for the next 27 years, earning various awards for long service and other such achievements. During this time, he had bought himself a camera; it wasn't long before photography became a hobby for him. Whenever he wasn't teaching or marking exam scripts, he would be seen with his camera, meticulously adjusting it on the tripod and taking pictures of whatever he felt like taking pictures of.


When Steinar was 59, his 91 year old father suffered from a severe stroke that paralysed the entirety of his left side. As such, with great reluctance, both father and son retired from their respective jobs, Mr. Aron Magnusson due to his stroke (and a consistent deterioration in health thereafter), and Steinar, in order to take care of his father. (His brother, Jon, wasn't the most filial of children; he had run off to some other country upon completing his studies, and was never heard from again.)


Aron Magnusson was very well taken care of. He refused to go back into the hospital (the one time he had ever stayed in a hospital was the worst time of his life), and wanted to die peacefully, with his wife and elder son (the good one) at his side. Steinar respected his wish, and at the age of 93, Aron Magnusson passed on peacefully at 7:45pm in the presence of both of the people he loved most.


Following that, the widowed Mary Magnusson insisted that Steinar go out and do what he enjoyed most (or as she put it, "to make the most of life.)


He took his mother's advice and, with the remainder of the money he had saved to care for his late father, went on a trip around the world to take pictures. On the advice of an impressed restaurant owner (whom Steinar had shown some pictures to after his dinner one day), 61 year old Steinar decided that he could try publishing a compilation of the pictures he had taken on that trip.


It was on his 62nd birthday, just as he was planning a trip to Singapore (from another overseas city), that he found out about the new zombie disease that was ravaging the world. Being unable to travel back to London (the plane he was scheduled to take had been hijacked following the chaos of the sudden reanimation of countless cadavers worldwide), Steinar sent a message to his concerned mother, informing her that he was alright, and would try his best to get back to be with her before the inevitable came…





Personality


Steinar is known to be very patient, a trait that was useful when he was a teacher (having to deal with recalcitrant students), and equally useful when he had to take care of his bedridden father. People who knew him noted that he never got angry (the most was that he would raise his voice), which was something that they liked about him.


He is also very loyal to those whom he loves or is close to, something shown by the fact that he left his job to take care of his father.


However, he also has a tendency to overload himself with work or other things of that sort, especially as a result of his gentle nature (i.e. unwillingness to insult or burden others), and will sometimes stress himself out to a large degree, sometimes to the extent of losing sleep. In addition, he is also unwilling to reveal said conditions to other people, for fear of making them worried.


Weapons


- Umbrella


- Swiss Army knife


(He doesn't know how to use guns; his home country didn't allow them anyway)





Relatives





Steinar has few relatives whom he knows. Apart from his parents and his brother (who left the rest of the family very early), Steinar does not come into contact with any of his other kin.

Mary Magnusson née Holmes


88 years old


Mother


Mary Magnusson is the mother of Steinar Magnusson. She had always been very close to Steinar, and vice versa. He always attributes his full head of hair and his physique (both very good for a 62 year old) to the fact that she breastfed him (rather than give him chemical-laden powdered milk) and, as he grew up, spent time cooking nutritious meals for him.


She was always supportive of whatever Steinar planned to do in his life; to her, the most important thing for her son (the good, filial one) was that he did something that he enjoyed, rather than slave away at a high-paying but tiring job.


Following the death of her husband, Mary encouraged Steinar to pursue his dream of travelling the world as a photographer.


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Jon Magnusson


59 years old


Brother


Jon Magnusson is the younger brother of Steinar Magnusson. After completing a degree in Mathematics, Jon took his savings and flew to the United States; since then, Steinar was completely unaware of his whereabouts, though he heard his father mentioning something about "that extravagant heathen".


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Friends





Steinar does not have a very large number of friends; however, those whom he knows are close, despite the fact that he seldom gets the opportunity to meet them face to face very often.


He used to be in a romantic relationship with one Rachel Dawson when he was an undergraduate; however, they never got engaged, and subsequently lost touch with each other.


Due to his wide travelling (and other reasons), many of Steinar's friends come from around the globe, though the majority of them were born in the UK. The most notable ones are listed below.

Yes, it's Alexander Alekhine.





Victor Tiurin


Виктор Тюрин


50 years old


Friend


Victor Tiurin, a Russian-English accountant working and living in London, met Steinar at a café when the latter was 55. As the establishment was extremely crowded, Victor was forced to share a table with Steinar. They had a long conversation with each other, and subsequently decided to remain in touch.


Since then, the two of them have met up regularly in the park, where they had lengthy chats about politics, movies, books, and just about anything that they could think of. Upon Steinar's announcement of his intentions to travel the world, Victor became a vocal supporter of his friend's endeavours, promising to buy a copy of his book once it was published.


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Jason Selkirk


63 years old


Friend


One of Steinar's friends in university, Jason often went to watch movies and plays together with him. They became quite close to each other, and while Steinar decided to enter the workforce as a public student, Jason remained in academia, earning a doctorate in Bioethics.


The two maintain regular correspondence, but seldom meet up face to face.


When news of the zombie apocalypse got out, Selkirk invited Steinar to move to Switzerland, where he owned a large private mansion cum fortress in the Alps; Steinar politely refused, citing the fact that, before he could do anything else, he had to go back to London to ensure that his mother was alright.


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Richard Wang Rui-Jie


王瑞杰


27 years old


Friend


Steinar met Richard Wang during his time as a high school history teacher in the UK. (Richard was a student in the school in which Steinar taught.) They grew close to each other, and after Richard graduated, the two maintained correspondence with each other by sending letters and, after much technological advancement, email.





Hometown


London





Other


- Aside from photography, Steinar also enjoys playing the piano. He used to have formal training as a child (under the ABRSM syllabus), but stopped after reaching Grade 8.


- He suffers from mild podagra (foot gout), which he inherited from his mother.


- Steinar enjoys eating fish, especially salmon, which he likes best when grilled. However, he refrains from other kinds of seafood, especially cuttlefish. He also avoids red meat, due to his gout.


- Being concerned about his own health, Steinar makes it a point to go jogging thrice a week, and to lift weights once a week. Though he never seems to make any progress in the latter, 15kg is enough, since, as Steinar notes, his job and lifestyle doesn't require him to lift anything above that weight.


- Sex was not something that had ever concerned Steinar; however, he had a brief relationship with a girl of the same age when he was doing his first degree in university. Upon graduation, they lost touch with each other. He has not heard from her since.


- Steinar enjoys playing chess, though he is (self-admittedly) quite terrible at it.