Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 21:44:33 GMT -5
Full Name:
-Dean Matthew Abernathy
Aliases:
-Garbage Man
-Hollywood
Avatar Photo: Ben McKenzie
Age:
-26
Gender:
-Male
Appearance:
-Dean has boyish good looks and a winning smile. He often comes off as non threatening and easy going. His body language doesn't really suggest hostility moment to moment. Dean is a good actor though and can portray many emotions and feelings from subtle changes in body language and posture and facial expression.
Occupation (studies and job before the outbreak):
-Movie star
Hometown (city, state, country):
-Hollywood, California, USA
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
-Drew Abernathy - Little brother - Status unknown
-Gene Abernathy -Older brother - Status unknown
-Donald Baskins - Stunt double / Look alike - Status unknown
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Weapons (currently in possession):
-Crowbar
-Pocket knife
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Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
-prop gun (9mm pistol) It's actually a cigarette lighter highly detailed
-Backpack
-Bottle of water
-Cigarettes
-Deck of playing cards
-Copy of Harry Potter in the sorcerer's stone (Last three pages are ripped out, he doesn't know yet)
Mode of transportation:
-Walking
List 3 or more good personality traits:
-Kind hearted
-Funny
-Genuine
-Empathetic
-Loyal
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
-Clumsy
-Unobservant
-Sometimes irritating
-Socially clueless
-Foolish at times
List 3 strengths:
-Acting - Uses his acting to bluff his way out of danger
-Undying optimist that never gives up
-Good memory
List 3 flaws:
-Reckless nature gets him into dangerous situations often
-Dean has a hard time realizing when he is grating on someone's nerves .
-Awkward around women in romantic situations, often says or does the wrong thing
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse:
-Before the apocalypse Dean was happy. He was living out his dream in Hollywood. He wasn't just another handsome face desperate to make it into the movies. He had made it into the movies. He wasn't a high profile name, but he had a nice niche little fan base. Dean stared in mostly low budget movies like 'Aliens Took My Wife." Or "Killer Kittens From Hell" Low budget horror cheese that was almost cringey to watch, but most had become cult classics for how bad they were.
Dean wasn't the type of celebrity most people would recognize. Sometimes he was recognized though. He was known for his hammy overacting his movies, but that's the way the director always wanted him to play the characters. Dean was actually a very talented actor with emotional range far greater than his low budget resume would have you believe. Dean wanted to break out of his niche low budget horror sub genera and move on to bigger and better things. He never got the chance because the world ended.
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?:
-On outbreak day they were filming the sequel to Alien's Took My Wife. The movie was called Aliens Took My Wife Again. Really original stuff. Dean was missing from set. He had mostly filmed all his scenes and what little they had left to shoot they could have done with out him. He was the star of the film, but his stunt double was glad to step in. Donald something was his name. Donald was an odd guy. He was always eager to talk to Dean in that creepy fan boy stalker kind of way that made him uncomfortable. When the world ended Donald would go on to assume Dean's identity completely. Donald had figured Dean was dead so why not.
Donald assumed Dean had called into the set claiming he was sick. Honestly he didn't want to show up for post production. Donald assumed Dean had been bit and was sick because he was dying. On outbreak Day Dean was just playing hooky. He would miss the walkers that crashed onto the movie set in a speeding car. Dean would miss all the excitement of finding out the world had gone to hell. Instead Dean a young guy of 22 at the time sat at home in his underwear playing his PlayStation. He was sitting in his boxers playing Rainbow Six Siege and talking smack to twelve year olds online. "Boom headshot! I think I left a nice you shaped bloodstain on the wall. You guys even awake? I'm leading the team with 2 kills come on where's my help?!? Am I gonna have to beat these guys by myself??" His teammates voted to kick him because he was kind of annoying. Dean got kicked from the game and sighed.
Scratching his head he put the controller down not really feeling like getting into another game. Today just seemed like any other day. Only for once he had some free time. He was going to enjoy it. He sat back and turned on Netflix. He started on watching some of his older movies that had made it to the digital catalog. His movies were terrible in the best kind of way. They just made you laugh, even though they were meant to be scary. Dean made it halfway through his movie The Troll That Ate Manhattan before he was asleep on the couch. Dean slept through outbreak day in his underwear. Had he gone to work like he would have he would have been running for his life.
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse:
-Since the end of the world Dean has been around. He's traveled a good distance. He started the apocalypse in California... He's spent time in Oregon and Wyoming. Eventually he moved from those places after he saw people in his groups die around him. Dean didn't cause his groups to get killed. It was just a series of unfortunate events that cause him to always be the last one alive. It was honestly pretty lonely. He was damn lucky. Several times his clumsiness had nearly cost him his life, but here he was... Still breathing and still surviving.
In Louisiana his stunt double Donald had died. He was still claiming to be the real Dean Matthew Abernathy. He accidently blew his own head off with a shotgun. He got one thing down cold. Dean's clumsiness. He must've been a method actor. Dean never knew that the creepy guy Donald had basically been living his life. Or at least some hollowed meaningless apocalyptic version of it. Dean didn't know that there were people out there who mourned his death or even cared that he lived at all, but they were out there. They were out there thinking that the clumsy idiot was dead, he was dead but that wasn't the real Dean...
Dean had made it from California all the way to Michigan. He had no great plan of where he was going. He had no notion of what to do next. Dean was just existing in a state of flux. He was just moving from place to place hoping that one day he didn't goof up huge and end up getting killed because of it. Dean found his way into Detroit. There a whole manner of craziness was happening. There were people getting kidnapped and a nasty flu going around...Dean was about to inadvertently find himself in the middle of all of this chaos...He was about to run into some familiar faces that he had never met. They had met his stunt double... And he was going to be completely confused by their reactions.