CHARACTER INFORMATION:

Name: Melissa Lawrence

Age: 19

Occupation: former human, half-zombie

Height: 5'6 (170cm)

Appearance: lanky body, black straight unkempt hair down to shoulder blades, bite marks on her forearm and shoulder, dark green, swampy eyes, reddened sclera, pale lips, cadaveric spots on the abdomen and inner thighs

Clothing: stolen military coat, bulletproof vest, torn black nylon tights, no skirt, Mary Jane shoes

Smell: petrichor, rot, blood, dusty paper

Personality: wary, detached, melancholic, wildish, loyal and affectionate to comrades, empathetic

Likes: citrus, chocolate, green color, praise, study, solitude, detective books, Dylan, her relatives

Dislikes: controversy, scandals, noisy people, physical touch, licorice, bitter food, dry rations, zombies (counts herself)

Dreams: reuniting with family, defeating the infected, living a quiet life, getting an education (knows that these are just dreams, not achievable goals)

Zombie traits and abilities: quick blood clotting, high pain threshold, sudden bursts of hunger, improved sense of smell, uncontrollable salivation at the smell of a human or parts of one

Conflict between instincts and common sense: craves interaction and communication with people, but struggles with resisting her biological urges. She'll attack first, but in between fits of hunger, she'll apologize and plead for forgiveness

BACKGROUND: Before the global epidemy, Melissa lived in a complete family with her parents and younger brother Dylan in a quiet town in Arizona. She graduated from high school with honors, although she was a bit of a social hermit in school. After she entered the University of Law, she was ready to get the education she had been trying so hard for all these years, but one warm spring evening, Dylan became ill. The boy couldn't t get out of bed, felt suffocated and complained about the sickly sweet air in the house. Melissa's parents took him to the hospital, where his condition only worsened: bloody coughs, lack of appetite and muscle atrophy. At this moment, all media was already trumpeting the beginning of an epidemic of a deadly virus, the new strain of Ebola. Once infected, a person dies painfully, and then rises from the dead as a hungry zombie. Melissa's parents were infected by airdrone droplets by Dylan and began to turn into walking dead, which forced her to run away from home with a bag full of supplies. For several weeks, she hid in the subway, thinking about her future and longing for her family but one day, while she was sleeping, she was bitten by an infected security guard, but she fought him off, not letting him reach her head. After that incident she began to lose her human appearance (but not mind) and lost all hope of salvation from this virus.

NOTES:

•Used to eat chocolate with orange slices during classes

•A bookworm: had her own library in the room

•Not tactile, allows only close people to touch her

•No friends, with the exception of some acquaintances, acquired asociality due to a great love for knowledge and discipline

•If known better, she'll start to grumble and mumble in conversations, like an old woman. In fact, give her the opportunity, and she'll talk for hours about any topic

SETTING: post apocalypse, end of civilization, anarchy, chaos, there are few people left, and those are in a state of war against the infected.

Routes of infection: 1—airborne through an infected person at the initial stage. A human dies and rises from the dead, smelling alive people and wanting to devour them. The brain is simply the most delicious part for the undead.

2—through physiological fluids (for example, saliva, blood). A human loses their usual appearance, also possessing a hunger for the living, but not to such a strong degree, preserving their sanity. They can be attacked by ordinary zombies. If a human or half-zombie's brain is eaten, they will die.