Name: Gavin Hunter Comfort
Aliases: Southern Comfort
Age: 42
Birthday: January 8th, 1969
Ethnicity: Texan
Birth Place: Comfort, Texas
Location: Austin, Texas
Gender: Male
Major/Minor: Criminal Justice
Occupation: Texas Ranger
Languages: English, Spanish
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 216lbs
Build: Well toned
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Skin Tone: Medium with Olive Undertones
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Several scars scattered over his body from various "incidents" - chances are he can't even remember getting them. Ears pierced. Tribal tattoo arm band on his forearm.
Gentleman * Impetuous * Polite * Intimidating
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Relationship Status: Widower
Personality: Gavin above and beyond everything else is your classic southern gentleman. Yes Ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir. He is a kind hearted man who will do anything to keep people safe. Willing to put himself on the line without a second thought. He is charming and quick to smile. Laughing and joking regularly even in the most tense of situations. Gavin is just one of the boys you want to have around. He is a romantic, and very loving. Getting close to people quickly and considering them family.
Gavin does have his downsides. He is impetuous, rarely thinking before he acts. He just kind of rolls with it. This can get him in trouble and while he doesn't have a problem with authority he will do in the end what he feels best, fuck order. Texans walk to their own beat of the drum. When he wants to be, Gavin can be very intimidating, and down right scary in his actions and words. Granted, when he gets to this point, words usually aren't the issue, his actions are. He can be quick to temper and go to dark places but he is working through some issues like all. For the most part Gavin just wants to live and enjoy life.
Habits: Biting on his bottom lip, cracking his knuckles
Hobbies: Drinking
Fears: - Jelly Fish
- Angler Fish
- Sharks
Likes: - Smoking
- Drinking
- Dancing
- Singing
- Playing Guitar
- Reading
Dislikes: - Down time
- Idiots
- Abusers
- Fireworks
- Rocks getting in his boots
- Overbearing Authoritarians
Pre Outbreak Skills:- Brawling
- Rifles
- Shotguns
- Pistols
- Hunting
Post Outbreak Skills: - Sniper Rifle
- Survival
- Water Purification
- Cooking
- Playing Guitar
- People Reading
- Scavenging
Current Supplies:- Brown leather duster, flannel shirt, thermal undershirt, jeans, cowboy boots, gold chain with a cross, socks, boxers, finger-less gloves, wedding ring, watch, cowboy hat, sunglasses
- Worn green canvas back pack
- Double Barrel Shotgun
- Wallet - picture of his family, his ranger badge, ID
- Box of shells
- Canteen
- Three MRE's
- .357 Sig - half spent
- Spare Clip - Full
- M1911 - down 2 shots
- Spare Clip - Full
- Hawaiian Shirt
- Bag from Eden Fucker - Big ass knife and sheath, guitar, unlabeled cans of food, sawed off shotgun, half a box of ammunition for shotgun
- Newnan Bug Out Bag - water bottle with built in filter, change of clothing, 9mm Beretta(full clip), swiss army knife, weeks worth of MRE's, first aid kit, book of matches, pencil, notebook, romance novel, roll of toilet paper, sleeping bag, compass, Newnan Bug Out Plan
- M24 SwS
- 7.62×51mm NATO Cartridge Magazine - Full
- James Silverado
Your First Walker Encounter: Gavin was booking a drug smuggler into the local jail so that he could transfer him back to Austin. The guy was on some new drug that Gavin was never able to find out what it was but he OD's and died in the cell. While waiting for the coroner to arrive they housed the body in the cell since there was no one else there and it was already a mess. The corpse reanimated during the wait time and tried to grab Gavin through the bars. He still says to this day that was the biggest pain in the ass prisoner he ever had to deal with.
History Before Outbreak: Gavin was born and raised in the great state of Texas and is a Texan through and through. As a child running through the fields and doing what country boys did on the farm. Never took it seriously, he was just out to have fun. He played football, who didn't in Texas? It was a religion. God, Family, Football. He was recruited in High School to play for Texas A&M and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. He was good but never good enough to be a pro football player but he didn't care.
After college he joined the Austin Police Department and worked his way up quickly. He was a bit of a problem causer but he got the job done. After eight years with the department and being promoted to major crimes he joined the Texas Rangers. During this time he met his wife Christiana and life was good. Yet a drunk driver ended up killing her while he was out on a case. He never got to say goodbye, Christiana dying minutes before he arrived at the hospital.
Gavin ended up going into a very dark place. Drinking and becoming near suicidal. he never tried to kill himself persay but he did nothing to try to stay safe anymore when it came to work. He started taking unneeded risks and nearly got his partner killed before he finally began to sober up. It was a hard climb and took several years but eventually Gavin was able to see the light again and move on. There are still twinges every now and then but he feels his wife would be proud of him with as far as he has come. He knows she would want him and be happy.
History Since Outbreak: The outbreak came quickly in Texas, they first thought it was just some out break of some South American flu or something but that wasn't the case as we know. He stayed in Austin as long as he could, working with the Ranger, the local police, and the military to try to keep the streets clear. It was just too much. The high population of Austin made it a target site. He was able to lead a large group out of Austin to his families ranch before Austin was napalmed.
For the next two years they held up at his families large ranch. Turning the main house, and guest quarters into quite the community. Farming, water from the river, it wasn't a bad life. It was probably easier than most had it for a long time. Sure there were walkers but Texans are tough and never had problems with guns. They just turned into target practice.
Gavin figured he might actually just grow old and die there but things are never as easy as they seem. The lack of cold winters in the area, hot summers, and more all lead to everything falling apart. Illness hit, a hoard came through destroying what little crops they had that year and more took out most that lived there. Gavin barely made it out with a dozen others and headed east, figuring it was better to go that way than towards the deserts to the west or the tornado torn plains to the north. Like hell he was going south. Gavin doesn't do open ocean.
Life on the road was far harder than life on the ranch, slowly one by one he lost people. It started driving him back to that dark place but he keeps pulling himself out of it each morning knowing that Christiana wouldn't want him to give up. Right now he is just looking for a new place to call home and a new group to call family.
Character Quote: - Oops
- Like tryin' to piss in a tornado and not get wet
- One riot, one Ranger
Theme Song: How Many Walkers Have You Killed: Enough to survive
How Many People Have You Killed: Enough to survive
Why: Some people are worse than Walkers
Anything Else: ~in previous CS~
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