[hider=Brooke]
[b]Appearance[/b]
[i]Stands at about 5'7"[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/PHPHSFZ.png[/img]

[b]Name[/b]
Brooke İnan

[b]Age[/b] 
32

[b]Skills[/b]
Brooke has a [u]bachelor’s degree in civil engineering[/u], though such a knowledge set has provided mild use in the post-apocalypse. She is an [u]adept pianist[/u] but doesn’t much enjoy playing. She’s a [u]quick thinker[/u] who enjoys [u]puzzles[/u] and [u]logically thinking things through[/u]. She quickly learned how to use a [u]handgun[/u] in the early days of the outbreak.

[b]Bio[/b] 
Brooke was born in early 1982 to Turkish parents living in Fort Wayne. She was the youngest of her siblings and always a bit of a golden child. She was doted on most by her parents and excelled academically and was adored by friends and family. As a child, she was put through rigorous musical studies but Brooke began to distaste music as a result. She had a blow up with her parents in her teens and absolved free herself of their influence as soon as possible.

When she graduated high school, Brooke pursued a degree in civil engineering, having developed a fascination for it through a high school boyfriend. She took her time, becoming a teaching assistant and graduating in her 20s.

During a night out with friends at a bar, Brooke met Ray and the pair started a relationship soon after. They were together for three years before they got engaged, but the outbreak occurred before they could get married. They have been inseparable during the outbreak, establishing a community called Faith that was small at first, but grew into something they hold very dear to their hearts.
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[hider=Ray]
[b]Appearance[/b]
[i]Stands at about 6'1" [/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/AiQtBDV.png[/img]

[b]Name[/b]
Ray Williams

[b]Age[/b] 
35

[b]Skills[/b]
Ray taught both high school and college students and developed a strong level of [u]patience[/u]. He is endlessly [u]empathetic[/u] and [u]caring[/u] of others. Ray will always advocate talking things through before all others. He enjoys learning from others and spends hours assisting others in their hobbies.

[b]Bio[/b]
Ray grew up in Fort Wayne, a single child to a hairstylist mother and a salesman father. He was always a pretty cute kid, so his parents loved to show him off. When he was very young, his father would do in-person sales outside of the office, he often brought Ray along. It turned out a lot of clients liked cute kids, as did all the moms that came into his mother’s business. Ray loved the attention at first, but as he grew older, he developed a detachment from it. When he was no longer a kid, Ray loved to be alone.

When Ray was a teen, a group of kids from his high school beat up and nearly killed one of his teachers. When the man came back to school after the incident, Ray was so inspired by the man that he grew to admire those in the teaching profession. He wanted to become a professor himself and started working toward that goal. His parents supported him wholeheartedly.

Ray taught high school for a few years before going back to school himself in order to get the credentials required to become a college professor. He met Brooke one night at a bar around this time and the pair hit it off pretty well. They had been together for three years before getting engaged, but the outbreak began before they could get married.

Ray founded Faith alongside Brooke early into the post-apocalypse. Ray has watched it grow, though has always grieved for the old world. He is Faith’s leader alongside Brooke, maintaining a philosophy against violence.

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[hider=Danny]
[b]Appearance[/b]
[i]Stands at about 5'9"[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/IVjJIYb.png[/img]

[b]Name[/b]
Daniel "Danny" Heidecker 

[b]Gender[/b]
Male

[b]Age[/b] 
28

[b]Skills[/b]
Danny has a lack of academic skills and never attended any post-secondary education. He has some [u]hand-to-hand fighting skills[/u] thanks to some time spent in MMA. He’s good with his hands and can be [u]steady[/u] and [u]precise[/u]. He spent most of his days fixing up computers and playing video games, but these hobbies have not proven useful since the fall of society.

Since the outbreak, Danny has gained a [u]basic knowledge of firearms[/u] but is far from an expert. He’s adeptly learned [u]American Sign Language[/u] thanks to his friend, Elliot.

[b]Bio[/b]
Of his family, Danny really only developed a bond with his younger sister, Joscelyn. He was never quite on the same level as his mother and father, who always seemed to want Danny to be something he wasn't. He was just never as smart or as accomplished as they wanted him to be it seemed. In an attempt to impress his parents, Danny started getting into sports when he got into high school, taking a particular interest in basketball and MMA. Through this, Danny found it easy to get friends. Still, in his senior year, Danny started to find himself closing off from most of the people he knew. The only person who was exempt from this sudden behavior was Danny's best friend, Shannon.

The pair had met in grade school and developed their friendship over time. It eventually got the point that Danny would spend more time at Shannon's than his own house. He enjoyed being around her parents far more than his own. It had been often whispered and joked about that Danny and Shannon were a couple, though truthfully their friendship had always been purely platonic.

For reasons known only to Danny, he had started acting out at home. He was never quite on good terms with his parents, but never to the degree of actively yelling at them. For a while, Danny's home life was a mess. When he realized this was negatively impacting his relationship with his sister as well, he started making plans to move out and live with Shannon's family. After a major falling out with his parents, Danny was quick to finalize the move. He lived with Shannon and her family for about a year, keeping in contact with only his sister. At 18, Shannon and Danny moved to a different state to live with Shannon's pen-pal, Monica.

While Shannon went to school, Danny ended up doing mostly dead-end jobs. Fast food worker, cashier, assistant manager at Wal-Mart. He never quite developed any particular skills through his various jobs.
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When the apocalypse started, Danny and Shannon were forced to separate from Monica. The pair fell in and out of separate groups, where Danny ended up meeting a deaf boy named Elliot and the pair became pretty close in the early days of the apocalypse. It’s around this time that Danny developed some level of handiness with rifles, but he was never a big fan of them and has never been able to become anything like an expert. After many hardships, losing new communities, new friends, and Shannon, Danny and Elliot ended up wandering into Fort Wayne where they joined the community of Faith.
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[hider=Elliot]
[b]Appearance[/b]
[i]Stands at about 5'10"[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/5snlmcw.png[/img]

[b]Name[/b]
Elliot Morris

[b]Age[/b]
23

[b]Skills[/b]
Elliot’s always had an interest in film and went to college for film production. He has an [u]eye for detail[/u] and is particularly [u]methodical[/u] in his approach on most subjects. He is adept at [u]reading lips[/u] but it is rather difficult and never perfect, so Elliot prefers to communicate via [u]American Sign Language[/u].

[b]Bio[/b]
Elliot was born deaf and grew up in a pretty normal, loving home for the first eight years of his life. However, such a normal, nuclear family life didn’t last forever. His father lost his job and left the family rather unceremoniously. Elliot’s older brother, Richard was eight years older than him and had to step up to help provide for the family. Richard was like a father figure to Elliot and took care of him a great deal, even after the apocalypse began.

Richard never left Elliot’s side, helping others they met communicate with him and teaching new friends ASL. A community the pair joined seemed to become their permanent new home, but Elliot realized it was easy for others to write him off as useless due to his inability to hear. He ended up becoming close friends with Danny through this community and the two stuck together even as they had to move on. 

Elliot lost Richard and was only able to get through it thanks to Danny. He had lost his friend as well and the two eventually had only each other to rely on. They eventually found their way to the community of Faith and have been there ever since.
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[hider=Sarah]
[b]Appearance[/b]
[i]Stands at about 5'5"[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/1Dr5weg.png[/img]

[b]Name[/b]
Sarah Ziegler

[b]Age[/b]
24

[b]Skills[/b]
Sarah’s practical skills are few and far between. She is a [u]self-styled mechanic[/u], having learned a bit from her dads but learning more after the world fell. She has some skills as a [u]musician[/u], having enjoyed many nights playing guitar for her friends. She never learned to fight but has gained a knack for [u]hiding and sneaking[/u] around the undead. She’s spent a lot of time alone, so has learned to [u]tolerate loneliness[/u].

[b]Bio[/b]
Sarah grew up in Tennessee and had a pretty normal childhood. Sarah was always a bit of a wild girl who loved to party growing up. She had two dads who were pretty easy-going in their parenting style and Sarah found she did a lot of growing up in her teenage years. She knew her limits and her interests earlier than most. Still, she had a hard time settling down and found that school was never a good fit for her.

Sarah went to a community college for General Arts and Science when she was 18, moving out of the house to live communally with a bunch of her friends, at least two of which were on-and-off boyfriends for her. It was not long before Sarah dropped out and lived mostly off her friends and roommates for a couple years. She had a few odd jobs here and there, but her most stable career came when she started working at a fabrics store.

After everything started to go bad, Sarah and her friends honestly believed nothing would happen if they all stuck together. They isolated themselves and partied, not realizing the world just got worse and worse without them.

A couple of months in, a bunch of Sarah’s friends were killed on a supply run. None of them had the experience needed to face the new world. What remained tried to move on, but one of Sarah’s friends died via suicide, reanimating in the night to kill all of her friends. Sarah managed to escape, but she was only one.

Sarah ended up finding shelter at an old car dump. The office provided good shelter for her and she learned how to hide very well. Sarah spent her days alone, eventually practicing her mechanics skills on some of the broken vehicles. She eventually found an old school bus that was pretty intact. She fantasized about driving off and finding people again. It grew to the point where Sarah could not handle it any longer and she just started driving North.

All Sarah has wanted since then is to find a community to call home.
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