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Name: Astrid Reynolds
Gender: Female.
Age: 23
Ethnicity: British
Appearance Description:
Birthplace: Durham, England, she had visited Belgium with a few friends as a graduation trip
Former Life: engineering graduate
Gear:
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[*] Travelling backpack
[*] pocket knife
[*] tactical Hatchet
[*] Canteen
[*] small first aid kit
[*] small set of tools
[*] multi tool  
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Skills:
Pre-Apocolypse
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[*] Physics
[*] Heavy machine repair
[*] Electrical knowledge
[*] drawing
[*] Mathmatics

Post apocolypse
[*] Knot tying
[*] Lock picking
[*] Melee weapon experience
[*] Basic water purification
[*] Fire Starting
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Likes
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[*] Staying busy
[*] books on physics
[*] salvaging parts
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Dislikes
[list]
[*] killing
[*] small talk
[*] surprises
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Personality:
Sarcastic, Passionate, Perceptive, Mellow, Introverted

Biography: Astrid was born in Durham england to a one parent household where she lived with her mom and older sister. Life was rough and there were ups and downs just like any family. Her mother worked frequently,so she was mostly raised by her sister. while her mother WAS in the picture, she could not be a mother all the time. Astrid never faulted her for that. Even though her sister had been been the one to raise her, she realised growing up at an early age was necessary. During her adolescent years,she mostly kept to herself reading and studying, which led to discovering a love for space and the space shuttles that explore them. 

She had always had a fondness for space crafts, How they work, what resources they use to fly, the distances they have to travel. She was determined to have her dream. She developed a knack for things like taking apart household items to see how they worked, of couse it goes without saying she has broken more than her fair share of electronics trying to put them back together. Most of her teenage years were spent studying physics, repair on electrical appliances like generators and other things. When the end of her highschool years came, the only thing she had on her mind was to try out for one of the space programs, but fate had something else in store for her. One of her highschool teachers coerced her into going to college to get a degree in engineering and then try out for the various programs. With all of her skills and knowledge, it still was not enough to divert the fact that there was no way she could afford college. Her family could afford basic necessities, but the cost of college may as well have been out of the question. She would not let her dream end there, so spending the next four months getting the money through various scholarships with the help of her mother and sister were of little consequence to her. 

College Graduation, she would have never guessed she would be here, even with all the work she had put in. At times she wanted to quit, the endless hours of studying, the relentess math classes, science classes, and other classes. It would have been enough to drive the most mentally stable person insane. Regardless, she made it and even managed to gain entrance into a program. The people she met and learned with, experienced with, had been there the entire way. To celebrate, they had planned a trip down to Belgium for a few days as a graduation present. It was going to be the trip of a lifetime, at least that was how one of her friends had put it. At least that was what it was supposed to be, yet those few days had turned from good to bad to horrible. It started with the quarantine and escalated from there. Half the things the news was reporting, she could not even begin to comprehend, half the footage from the prompters were unbelieveable. 

Cannibals roaming the streets, eating anything or anyone unlucky enough to get into their path. People who were seemingly dead rising only to attack the living. Those few days turned into weeks as Astrid and her what had been left of her group tried to survive. Weeks turned into months as her small group had become even smaller, until she was the only one left. She wandered aimlessly for weeks until she had been picked up by a group of survivors who had let her stick around. (I know this is going to suck, so please let me know if I should change anything)
Other: 
Mother-Unknown
Father-Unknown
Sister-Unknown
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