`Zach'
[Male] [19] [Survivor]
"Be careful making wishes in the dark, dark,
Can't be sure when they've hit their mark,
And besides in the mean, mean time,
I'm just dreaming of tearing you apart.
I'm in the de-details with the devil,
So now the world can never get me on my level,
I just gotta get you off the cage,
I'm a young lover's rage,
Gonna need a spark to ignite.
My songs know what you did in the dark.
So light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
I'm on fire
So light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
Light 'em up, up, up
I'm on fire
In the dark, dark
In the dark, dark
Writers keep writing what they write,
Somewhere another pretty vein just died,
I've got the scars from tomorrow and I wish you could see,
That you’re the antidote to everything except for me, me.
A constellation of tears on your lashes,
Burn everything you love, then burn the ashes,
In the end everything collides,
My childhood spat back out the monster that you see.
My songs know what you did in the dark."
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Full Name: Zachary Carlton Jennings
Nicknames: Zach. Just Zach. No one ever calls him Zachary.
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Rank: Survivor
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Hair Color: Very dark brown. It looks black in the right light.
Eye Color: His eyes are gray and often wide and doey. He looks a lot more innocent than he is, which is why he's been able to live on his own for so long.
Skin Color: Fair, but he has his share of faint tan lines. He burns easily.
Distinguishing Features: Besides his large eyes, what most people notice first is the rough scar on his temple on the right side of his face. He always says it was from a fight, but that's not it. He won't tell people the real reason he has it. He's too embarrassed.
Clothing/Accessories: He usually wears jeans, sneakers, and t-shirts. Normal teenager things. He has a black jacket that he wears everywhere. It has numerous pockets for hiding things in. He doesn't wear any jewelry except for the Epilepsy ID bracelet on his right wrist. He keeps it hidden under his jacket sleeve.
Weapon: [size=85]Zach isn't much of a fighter, but he can use a pocket knife pretty well. He keeps it hidden on his person at all times. His "leaglly sanctioned" weapon that the town lets him have is a crow bar. It comes in handy.[/size]
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Theme Song: My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em' Up) - Fall Out Boy
Personality: Zach is resourceful, risk-taking, ambitious, and a bit flirty. He's not afraid to go to great lengths to get what he wants or needs. He's a hard worker but he doesn't like to take orders. He prefers to do things himself and he prefers to do them his way. He gets in more trouble with the town than most people. He breaks more than half the rules on a regular basis. He's not used to being a team player, so he usually isn't.
He gets very frustrated with the constant up and down of his life, but it's better than being in jail or living with his overbearing parents. Things are tough, but he's resilient. He can take a lot of hits and get up every time. In the metaphorical sense anyway. He's a lousy fighter. He's never even fired a gun before. He tries his best though. He's sneaky and smart, and that makes up for the lack of skill. While he's a risk taker, he's not completely suicidal. He's careful with what things he thinks are worth taking and what is too risky and he's very focused on self preservation. He'll do whatever is necessary to stay alive.
Despite all the crap in his life and the lack of time for most things other would consider a hobby, he tries to have fun when he can. He likes to flirt with girls he sees around town. That rarely gets him anywhere as most girls around here have bigger priorities than paying attention to the likes of him. They're not really impressed with him. He doesn't really care though. Who has time for a love life around here anyway?
Zach has some deep seated issues with freedom and choice. He'll go to unhealthy lengths to keep his free will and he'll do stupid things to prove that no one, no one has control over what he does. He's afraid of loosing control of his life and that makes him a bit of a control freak at times. He likes to be in the center of things. He likes to know what's going on. There are two ways to tick him off easily: either make fun of his Epilepsy or keep secrets from him. He probably overreacts a lot when people keep things from him, but he's just so tired of not having control over his own fate.
Born: April 29th
History: Zach was born with Epilepsy and was put on medication that seemed to resolve his issues fairly quickly. He was seizure-free for a long time. When he hit puberty though, things got worse. The doctors were confused and wondered if it was due to a change in his brain chemistry that was making him unresponsive to his usual medication. His parents became super paranoid after he had his first grand mal seizure in years. They started micromanaging his life to keep him as safe as possible. That combined with a few absence seizures and one petit mal seizure at school (which lead quickly to teasing and bullying) drove him insane. When he turned 13, he started acting out. Refusing to follow his parent's rules. The only thing he did right was taking his medication every day at the right times. But everything else went out the window. He skipped school. He went to parties. He got arrested once and let off with a warning. He started hanging out with the wrong people. His parents lost control completely and didn't even try that hard to find him when he ran away at 14. He found a place to live, courtesy of a friend of a friend, and started living his "life on the edge". It was scary and overwhelming at first, but he quickly grew accustomed to his freedom.
When the Apocalypse hit, he was already prepared to live alone. He went rouge for a while until he got sucked into the town and its rules. He steals any epilepsy medication he can find from the town's medicine stash, but he has to ration it and his condition isn't as well managed as it has been in the past. He knows it's dangerous to do anything risky at all with the risk of him having a seizure always looming over him, but he has no other choice and he isn't about to lie around and let other people rule his life.
Other Important Info About Your Character: As I'm sure you've gathered, Zach is epileptic. Because of his unreliable supply of medication, he never really knows when he may or may not have a seizure and he doesn't know how strong it will be. Absence seizures are the most common for him and thankfully the least concerning. (Absence seizures are where the person suddenly blanks for a few seconds. They'll stop mid sentence if they're talking and just stare straight ahead for a moment before coming out of it, often with no idea that it happened.) He's terrified of going long periods without his medication and having another grand mal seizure, or even a petit mal seizure. (Petit mal seizures are small seizures where the person remains conscious but they become unresponsive. It's like they're paralyzed. They can be characterized by slight jerking of the limbs, tingling in the arms and legs, inability to speak, and general loss of control of limbs and body systems. These may be triggered by buzzing or flashing lights. Grand mal seizures are the most commonly thought of seizures. The person looses consciousness suddenly and fall. This is followed by jerking of the body. It can last from 2-3 minutes and is followed by a period of unconsciousness.) Any sort of limb-jerking-on-the-floor-unconscious-and-out-of-control situation terrifies him. It's how he got the scar on the side of his head. When he first ran away, he went a while without his medication after he ran out since he had no idea how to get more without his parents. He had a petit mal seizure in his apartment and hit his head really hard against the coffee table. He was afraid of going to the hospital and getting caught, so he stayed put and let the wound heal by itself without any help.
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Sexual Orientation: Straight
Love Interest: None yet
Notable Family: Parents. He hates them. They're probably dead no anyway. He doesn't have any siblings.
Friends: Just acquaintances. He keeps to himself for the most part.
Enemies: Pretty much anyone who ticks him off.
Other Important People: None
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Things That Don't Fit Elsewhere: Nope.
(I might make a girl later but I don't have a lot of muse for one right now.)
