forum watch the world burn (zombie apocalypse RP) (closed.)

Started May 07, 2020 by Deleted user

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(Can i join?)

(Okay so I've been stalking roleplays for a while and no offense, while you seem like an amazing person, I'm looking for someone with slightly better writing skills in this. Again, no offense, but like I'd rather someone else join, I have nothing against you this is just based on the content of this RP.)

(is my character alright?)

(Yeah)

Name: Adelard "Ada/Auntie" Bartlett
Age: 57
Gender/Pronouns: Trans woman, she/her
Orientation: Asexual homoromantic
Race/Ethnicity: Mixed Latina/black
Appearance: Ada is about average height, like probably 5'10"-5'11" ish, with short grey hair and dark skin covered in various different scars. She has a hard, concentrated look on her face at almost all times, and is absolutely terrifying if she needs to be. Ada is muscular and has a medium sized tattoo of a cross on her right forearm, and on the left is a picture of a skeletal white horse and the first verse of Emily Dickonson's poem "Because I could not stop for death" tattooed under it in fine cursive print.
Personality: Ada is a very grounded person, having a bit of a nihilistic/ "worst that can happen will happen" outlook on the world. However, she is incredibly protective of those around her, taking upon something of a motherly responsibility for the people in her life. Personality type is somewhere between wine aunt and badass murder grandma.
Brief background: Ada grew up as a "first gen", experiencing the first and worst wave of the zombie pandemic during her formative years. She studied what she could since universities were relatively safe spaces for the most part, and has the knowledge of several PhDs under her belt from years of obsessive study. She then went around the world helping found settlements for survivors of the pandemic with her wife, Martha. However, Martha died saving Adelard and getting herself bitten in the process, becoming one of the first people to be turned by the monsters as the disease that turned these creatures slowly evolved. Ada later took on an apprentice, as her health was slowly getting worse and she found herself needing a helping hand. However, she is still incredibly capable and those who underestimate her learn to regret it. Currently searching for a cure to the disease.
Skills: She's very skilled with demolitions and shooting with a gun, as well as hand-to-hand combat and baseball-bat-to-face combat, along with having good good amount of scientific knowledge and practical survival skills.
Other: the poem mentioned earlier is here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479 and this is the verse I was talking about: Because I could not stop for Death//He kindly stopped for me//The Carriage held but just Ourselves//And Immortality. It has a very specific meaning I'll get into later. Main weapons are a handgun, grenades, and a baseball bat.

Name: Arina Kortneva
Age: 32
Gender/Pronouns: Female, she/her
Orientation: No one really knows, just that she flirts with everybody but dates nobody
Race/Ethnicity: Russian
Appearance: This beauty right here. She's got glittering, almond-shaped, grey eyes framed by thick black lashes that don't need mascara. Wavy, thick, and naturally blond hair that she dyes on a regular basis to keep up the aesthetic. Plump lips painted a matte purple, a single dimple on her one cheek. 5'6, tan skin, subtle curves. Hoop earrings and a barbell tongue piercing. She has a grouping of spots on her shoulder that she calls the little dipper because it reminds her of the constellation.
Personality: Cunning, perceptive, smart, evil, selfish, arrogant, stubborn. The perfect brew for a psychotic scientific genius. Everything she does is for her own gain, never for someone else's. Money and power is what she cares about, and she'll do anything to hold that over people. She just loves knowing something other people don't, so her favorite hobby is being multiple steps ahead of others. No sense of privacy or personal space, so if she knows you and wants your attention, she will bug anything she can to keep tabs on you until she sees it fit to make her presence known.
Brief background: Not much to tell. A curious Arina grew up mostly in her room, then down in the basement where she did some concerning things with chemicals and fire. Her parents left her to her own devices, which was probably a bad idea, but keeping her from doing her thing was more effort than it was worth. As an adult, she looked into the virus because something smelled fishy to her, and came up with a conspiracy that made everything conclude that she was bonkers, though that doesn't stop her from cooking up things in her lab and searching for clues by hiring people to gather zombie goo and whatnot for experiments.
Skills: Minor tech things that gain her attention, such as bugs and hidden cameras, but her main skill-set is chemical mixtures and theoretical 'miracle' serums. Acids are also fun. Not entirely good at fighting, but she does keep some of her deadlier/useful chemicals on hand when she's out of her lab to use in a pinch. Master at the Throat Punch^TM and Wicked Grin^TM
Other: From Russia, so she has a very heavy and thick Russian accent. Loves the colors orange and purple.
Clothing: Bandanna headbands with light and airy clothing. Sports bras underneath muscle tank tops (dis) with leggings and no shoes. Sometimes she swaps out the tank tops for cropped hoodies or fishnet tops, this being her go-to fishnet top, except one of her two favorite colors. Round tinted glasses that are either orange or purple. Long acrylic nails with a smooth gradient of orange and purple.

Name: Lyn Ramirez
Age: 17
Gender: female
Orientation: ace, biromantic
Ethnicity: Vietnamese/Hispanic
Appearance: dark hair w/ bangs and undercut that goes down to her shoulder blades, big hazel eyes, light olive skin, round face, pear shaped body. She has a large birthmark on her left shoulder blade. She wears a dark purple hoodie with the words NOT TODAY, SATAN on the front, and light colored jeans with multiple pockets.
Personality: INFJ https://pin.it/51WPlEb (if you don’t know)
Background: Her mother died giving birth to her, as at that point it was difficult to find good health care. Her father taught her how to use her fists, rather than weapons, and also to be resourceful and independent. But as time went on, her father mental health began to decline, and when she was about 11 years old, he committed suicide. Lyn met Sebastian about 6 months before this happened. She was fascinated with their intelligence, talents, and wealth (since she grew up rather poor) and they became friends in spite of, or maybe because of, their differences. After Sebastian took her in she enjoyed their wealth and friendship, and they bonded over their favorite books and shows and their general shared nerdiness. After the attempted burglary, Adelard found them, and since then they’ve been traveling together.
Skills: high emotional intelligence, surprisingly agile and good with punching and kicking, good at spotting a liar, has a thing for ingenious spur-of-the-moment ideas/plans
Other: suffers from anxiety and depression, sometimes feels misunderstood, tends to freeze up in stressful situations, keeps a notebook and pencil with her at all times

Name: Sebastian Lloyd

Age: 17

Gender/Pronouns: Non-binary AMAB, They/Them

Orientation: Gender isn't a huge factor for them, but they sway more towards people with more traditionally masculine appearances

Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian. They moved from France to the US (with their parents) at about 9 years old.

Appearance: Sebastian is 5'4 (short lad) and fairly slim. No muscle or endurance to speak of due to avoiding athletics like the plague. Hopefully that will get better for outrunning zombies and the like (i've never seen the walking dead, so how fast are zombies?) but who can say? Painfully pale, they get sunburned everywhere they go– getting burnt through a window isn't even a rare experience for them. Their hair is like this, but very light blond instead.They wear light colored denim jeans or shorts most of the time and are a big fan of crop tops and pastel colors. They also wear a necklace with a small cross (see background) and two rings on their right hand: one with a braided-looking gold band and a small-ish moonstone and the other with a thick, tarnished silver band and a dark, star shaped indent.

Personality: Sebastian is an outwardly confident nerd who's self-assured nature can be quite off-putting to new acquaintances, though when they doesn't pick something up right away their first tendency is to declare said concept is stupid or irrelevant, though internally it bothers them greatly in any case where their intelligence fails. However, they are They can be condescending and insensitive and are awful in a crisis, relying entirely on those around them (often Adelard) to pull them through dangerous circumstances. Loves Lyn (platonically) more than they could ever really express. Not as greatful as Adelard as they should be, considering she practically saved their life.

Brief background: Growing up with wealthy parents, Sebastian had an early life blissfully sheltered from the crisis that's been going since long before they were born. As some wealthy people do in this changed world (if it's alright with the orig. creator, i'm just playing here) his moms (Manon Lloyd and Saoirse Loyd) were able to purchase a sizable under-ground mansion where they spent just about all of his time, studying what interested them. They met Lyn in a discord-like online communication thing (for fans of a particular show or something? idk i'll figure it out) and invited her to come live with them right off the bat as soon as they heard about the death of her father, not so much as asking their moms first. But about a year before the story opened, an attempted burglary of the home turned bloody and both Manon and Saoirse were killed and Sebastian and Lyn were left on their own. Luckily, Adelard found Sebastian (idk how– any ideas, y'all?) and the three of them have been traveling and looking for a cure together since.

Skills: Sebastian is extremely bright in topics relating to math and science, quickly memorizing facts and understanding concepts, though mediocre (at best) in any sort of combat situation, though with occasional strokes of brilliance when it comes to ways to escape. They can play the piano and violin, can speak English and French fluently, Russian conversationally, and has little bit of Latin and Greek thrown in. Likes to say they can read Japanese, but really has a pretty small amount of vocabulary memorized. Would like to learn to play the harp someday because they're that sort of melodramatic bastard. Not a bad cook! Secretly writes poetry. Abysmally bad poetry.

Other: Low-key wants their aesthetic to be this
Likes Stephen King, Donna Tartt, and still really appreciates the Harry Potter series (would never admit it tho)
Wishes they had freckles.
Brings a notebook and pen with them everywhere, a habit they picked up from Lyn.