Post by Benzel Vanderlin on Apr 29, 2021 16:14:37 GMT -5
Full Name:
- Benzel Vanderlin II
Avatar Photo:
Hiroyuki Sanada
Age:
- 50
Gender:
- Male
Appearance:
- he believes he is just a normal maybe past his prime in looks, his eyes are often intense and he has a smile that wasn't bad when he smiled. soft brown hair and a beard of every shade in length, very much like his Father. oddly he got his build from his health junkie mother, while he isn't a thumper of health to those around him he has took care of himself.
Occupation:
- Benzel Vanderlin was adopted into a wealthy family, the Vanderlin clan hit oil during the gold rush and took a HUGE claim. However Benzel became the first billionaire of the family with some inventions used in everyday life before the end, his first invention came at fifteen. He was an author and musician too, masked dj oogie.
Hometown (city, state, country):
- Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan (born); Fargo, South Dakota, United States
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
- Cassandra Vanderlin, Adopted Mother, Deceased
- Benzel Vanderlin I, Adopted Father, Deceased
- Unknown, Birth Mother, Unknown
- Unknown, Birth Father, Unknown
- Grant Vanderlin, Adopted Uncle, Unknown
Weapons (currently in possession):
- buck knife
- bo staff
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
- backpack
- x3 bottle of water
- x2 military first-aid kits
- map
- clothes
- several canned food items
- x2 radios
Mode of transportation:
- 1997 Ford F250
List 3 or more good personality traits:
- Confident
- Patient
- Brilliant
- Active
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
- Selfish
- Stingy
- Pessimistic
- Condescending
List 3 strengths:
- inventor
- builder
- quick learner
- critical thinking
List 3 flaws:
- knows nothing about guns
- zero fighting skills
- hasn't lived in the new world
- has been a recluse for 8 years
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse:
- Benzel Vanderlin was born Akagi Shozo in Japan, he was abandoned by family to an orphanage until he was six when he was adopted by the wealthy Vanderlin family. His name was then changed. He was a promising and gifted young man who achieved success very young with several inventions. However he suffered from being around others, he felt above all of his peers and even teachers so his parents removed him from public school. Private school wasn't much better while he didn't care he was rich he felt again years more advanced then even his private school peers, private tutoring was his next stop.
He finished his education at 16 and with his advancement in robotics started his own company, Ichigo Robotics and Technology, it absorbed his family business and brought a brand new wealth to the family. It also brought on a new nature for Benzel, he basically began running the company from home using proxies for meetings. He became a myth and legend in his field of study. Benzel didn't stop there, he studied other things accumulating several doctrines. He even dabbled as a masked dj, DJ Oogie, and sold several records in Japan before even then fading to something new.
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?:
- being a recluse was easy and when things got worse and worse Benzel had backup's. In 1999 his family had invested millions in an underground bunker and maintained it years after the Y2K scare. Even in their elderly states the bunker remained with upkeep, Benzel retreated with his parents and a few caregivers to the bunker.
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse:
- Benzel and his parents remained in the bunker, it was a few months into the end of the world that Benzel allowed the caregivers to leave and find their own families. The bunker was made and built to provide care for more than ten years: while communication to the outside world was non-existent he had power (solar panels), water, non perishable food by the tons, gym, a lab for work, and enough medical supplies to run a hospital at a ground zero site. Three years into the bunker life and Benzel lost both his parents, discovering the truth behind what was going on outside the bunker they reanimated from their death beds. At first Benzel kept them quarantined within their care rooms unsure of how to deal with them. He eventually began to study them after having to chain them to a wall, in the process his Father almost bit him but he stabbed him in the head with a buck knife, discovering it is the head or brain that must be damaged to do so.
He kept his mother...alive...for research but it was quickly noted that without food they waste and waste but never truly die. Out of mercy he finally put his adoptive mother down and sealed his parents rooms off. Benzel continued on in his bunker for several more years....
....just recently it was his solar panels that gave way to raiders or brutes in discovering his underground bunker. Being a smart man Benzel didn't try to fight for his bunker, he knew he wasn't a fighter, so with a negotiation Benzel was allowed to trade the bunker for a backpack full of survival stuff and sent out the door with the keys to a truck. Since then with barely any knowledge of the world as it was Benzel has wandered and wandered the chaotic state of South Dakota...
- Benzel Vanderlin II
Avatar Photo:
Hiroyuki Sanada
Age:
- 50
Gender:
- Male
Appearance:
- he believes he is just a normal maybe past his prime in looks, his eyes are often intense and he has a smile that wasn't bad when he smiled. soft brown hair and a beard of every shade in length, very much like his Father. oddly he got his build from his health junkie mother, while he isn't a thumper of health to those around him he has took care of himself.
Occupation:
- Benzel Vanderlin was adopted into a wealthy family, the Vanderlin clan hit oil during the gold rush and took a HUGE claim. However Benzel became the first billionaire of the family with some inventions used in everyday life before the end, his first invention came at fifteen. He was an author and musician too, masked dj oogie.
Hometown (city, state, country):
- Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan (born); Fargo, South Dakota, United States
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
- Cassandra Vanderlin, Adopted Mother, Deceased
- Benzel Vanderlin I, Adopted Father, Deceased
- Unknown, Birth Mother, Unknown
- Unknown, Birth Father, Unknown
- Grant Vanderlin, Adopted Uncle, Unknown
Weapons (currently in possession):
- buck knife
- bo staff
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
- backpack
- x3 bottle of water
- x2 military first-aid kits
- map
- clothes
- several canned food items
- x2 radios
Mode of transportation:
- 1997 Ford F250
List 3 or more good personality traits:
- Confident
- Patient
- Brilliant
- Active
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
- Selfish
- Stingy
- Pessimistic
- Condescending
List 3 strengths:
- inventor
- builder
- quick learner
- critical thinking
List 3 flaws:
- knows nothing about guns
- zero fighting skills
- hasn't lived in the new world
- has been a recluse for 8 years
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse:
- Benzel Vanderlin was born Akagi Shozo in Japan, he was abandoned by family to an orphanage until he was six when he was adopted by the wealthy Vanderlin family. His name was then changed. He was a promising and gifted young man who achieved success very young with several inventions. However he suffered from being around others, he felt above all of his peers and even teachers so his parents removed him from public school. Private school wasn't much better while he didn't care he was rich he felt again years more advanced then even his private school peers, private tutoring was his next stop.
He finished his education at 16 and with his advancement in robotics started his own company, Ichigo Robotics and Technology, it absorbed his family business and brought a brand new wealth to the family. It also brought on a new nature for Benzel, he basically began running the company from home using proxies for meetings. He became a myth and legend in his field of study. Benzel didn't stop there, he studied other things accumulating several doctrines. He even dabbled as a masked dj, DJ Oogie, and sold several records in Japan before even then fading to something new.
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?:
- being a recluse was easy and when things got worse and worse Benzel had backup's. In 1999 his family had invested millions in an underground bunker and maintained it years after the Y2K scare. Even in their elderly states the bunker remained with upkeep, Benzel retreated with his parents and a few caregivers to the bunker.
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse:
- Benzel and his parents remained in the bunker, it was a few months into the end of the world that Benzel allowed the caregivers to leave and find their own families. The bunker was made and built to provide care for more than ten years: while communication to the outside world was non-existent he had power (solar panels), water, non perishable food by the tons, gym, a lab for work, and enough medical supplies to run a hospital at a ground zero site. Three years into the bunker life and Benzel lost both his parents, discovering the truth behind what was going on outside the bunker they reanimated from their death beds. At first Benzel kept them quarantined within their care rooms unsure of how to deal with them. He eventually began to study them after having to chain them to a wall, in the process his Father almost bit him but he stabbed him in the head with a buck knife, discovering it is the head or brain that must be damaged to do so.
He kept his mother...alive...for research but it was quickly noted that without food they waste and waste but never truly die. Out of mercy he finally put his adoptive mother down and sealed his parents rooms off. Benzel continued on in his bunker for several more years....
....just recently it was his solar panels that gave way to raiders or brutes in discovering his underground bunker. Being a smart man Benzel didn't try to fight for his bunker, he knew he wasn't a fighter, so with a negotiation Benzel was allowed to trade the bunker for a backpack full of survival stuff and sent out the door with the keys to a truck. Since then with barely any knowledge of the world as it was Benzel has wandered and wandered the chaotic state of South Dakota...