Hello everybody. If you didn't already know my name is giggity090 and today is the day I publish my very first story on Fanfiction. I've been trying to publish a story on the site for many years but due to school, emotional crap, and other stuff I wasn't able to. I've had this idea in my head for a HOTD story for many years now and it wasn't until recently I have been able to piece what it will be like. With this story it will cover a wide range of viewpoints from different characters who are dealing with the zombie apocalypse. It will be a SYOC so I'll be accepting a certain amount of characters. But I just have some requests and guide lines that should be followed:

Rules/Info

No overly perfect characters. That should be a given. Give your characters some flaws and weaknesses to make them human.

I need a diverse cast. Not just ethically, nationally, or personality wise (still all of these are very important). I'm talking about age wise. I can't have a cast that just focuses on just teenagers around the age of 13-18. I need adult characters, elderly characters; hell even children around the age of 6-10 would be fine. The reason I'm doing this is mostly because many of HOTD fics on the site tend to focus a little too much on the teenagers while the focus on the other ages are severely lacking. I'm not trying to insult any authors or readers by saying this. I'm just stating my observation on the matter. I truly do not wish to offend anybody by saying this. So anyway just attempt to submit some diverse age groups.

Make your Oc's very detailed. The more detailed your description about the Oc's personality, physical features, history, and other aspects the easier for to write about them. So please make them detailed.

Submit through PM. I will not accept Oc's that are submitted in the review section.

Remember this story will have different viewpoints from different people from all over the world. While the main cast will be in America, there will be other people from other countries who'll have a view point on this. Don't be afraid to send in characters that are in different countries.

Soldiers and politician's will play a significant role in the story. They have a unique perspective on how the they will handle the crisis since most people will immediately look for them for protection and guidance. It be most appreciative if you guys will submit Oc's of this section.

Can only submit 1-3 characters.

Welp, that's pretty much it for the rules and guidelines of the story. Cannot wait for the Oc submissions. I know that many of you will submit colorful and interesting characters :)

OC Sheet

Name:

Alias/Nickname:

Age:

Gender:

Ethnicity:

Sexuality:

Hair Style/Color:

Physical Build/Description:

Skin Tone:

Height/Weight:

Eye Color/Shape:

Scars/Tattoos/Piercings:

First Outfit:

Second Outfit:

Background: (The history of the character and notable events that happened )

Military Backround: (Only applies to those Oc's who are or were soldiers )

Relationships/Connections/Encounters with the criminal underworld?: ( Only applies to those who have a history with the law and or criminal organizations )

Family: ( Dad, mom, sister, brother, uncle, cousin, wife, son…etc)

Personality: ( Be specific on this one now. Need to get a feel on how the character acts)

Likes:

Dislikes:

Fears:

Goal/Ambition:

Religious Beliefs: (Christian, Catholic, Buddhist, Muslim, Athiest?)

Affiliation/Occupation: ( Current form of employment. Are they a scientist, computer programmer, politician, police officer, plumber, journalist,…etc. Go into detail on their job and what they do.)

Optimist/Pessimist: ( Are they

Accomplishments: ( Notable achievements in their lifetime )

Darkest Secret:

Love Interest:

First set of weapons:

Second set of weapons:

Fighting Style(s): ( How does your character fight? Or does he or she even fight at all?)

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Mode of Transportation: ( Type of car and what model )

Friends: ( People that they can get along with )

Enemies: ( A rival, someone or a group that wants them dead)

Prized Possession: ( Something they hold dear to their heart)

Personal Quotes: ( Something the character says often or just for the moment)

Reaction To My Oc: ( What does your character think of my Oc? Go into some detail if possible)

My Oc

Name: Luis Alonzo De'Leon

Alias/Nickname: "The Odd Jobs Guy", "The most Laziest B*** you Know" (self-proclaimed), and the "Coldest Mother *** you've met"(Self-proclaimed, but accepted by many.)

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Mexican/American

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Hair Style/Color: A classic style crew cut with a few personal touches. He lets his hair on the top grow out to a moderate degree, but keeps the other parts of his hair trimmed. As for facial hair, he sports a black faded goatee.

Physical Build/Description: Because of his time in the Army and his current occupation as a free lancer, he is build is quite refined with muscle. Not overly buff, but definitely well taken care of.

Skin Tone: Light brown skin.

Height/Weight: 5'11 and last checked weight is around 186 pounds.

Eye Color/Shape: Most distinguishing feature is his half-lidded "dead fish eyes" ( Don't know what that looks like, Google it and type Sakata Gintoki) with piercing brown eyes.

Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: Multiple surgical scars around his lower back, front chest, right side of his thigh, and near the heal of left foot. Many due to injuries sustained in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. On his right and left arms are imprinted in small text letters of the people who had died that were close to him: PFC John Withers, PFC Carlos Rivera, PFC Ramos Manning, SPC Moses Wetworth, SPC Willy Cantos, CPL Robert Lennon, SGT Wade Martin, SSG Neil McReary, and 2LT Manny Vegas.

Anything I missed?: He wears two things around his neck. His dog tags and a rosario necklace that his mother gave him. He also wears circle shaped glasses.

First Outfit: - Luis wears a black, long-sleeved, shirt with white lines near the collar. On top of the shirt, Luis wears a light brown, knee-length trench coat, with multiple pockets. As for pants, Luis wears light grey tactical jeans, with black boots.

Second Outfit: Depending on the assignment, Luis will wear a variety of different clothing and gear. He will be always wearing a ski mask or some type of mask during a assignment and will always wear combat gloves. His typical clothing for assignments are military-grade Dragon Skin Body Armor, with multiple pockets and pouches attached to it (holds gun magazines, small gear, tools, and a small Ka-Bar Blade stealth). Wears around his waist multiple pouches that hold magazines, other tools and gear, and holster for sidearm. The camo of the equipment depends on what environment the assignment requests.

Background: History before the Outbreak: Born in Arizona, Luis was brought up by two loving parents. His mother Maria De'Leon was a DEA investigator/housewife who had brash and energetic personality. While his father, Manuel De'Leon had a lazy and go with the flow personality. Manuel was an ATF Captain who had experience as a former Delta Force member. Luis a carefree kid always had a smile on his face that would make anyone day brighten. It wasn't until his parents were asked by the their agencies to assist to help Mexican government with hunting down local drug cartel leaders and to do investigations on the cartels. Thinking that they were safe in the U.S. agreed to the job. As months passed they soon became very famous throughout the Mexican police and military due to his parents skill and teamwork. Arresting key cartel members, raiding and shutting down drug plants, exposing corrupt police officers, hunting down the gun-traffickers supplying the cartels with military grade weaponry, and exposing politicians in the government who were loyal to the cartels. They seemed like Mexican answer to their cartel problem. But the cartels saw them as a main problem to their operations. In rare turn of events, the usually warring cartels called a temporary truce in order to get rid of the couple who have been destroying their operation in the U.S. and Mexico. All of them were sick and tired of losing money, men, guns, and having their moles in the police and military being rated out. So they decided to send Los Zetas ( at that time a criminal organization that was entirely made up of deserters of Mexican special forces "GAFE") One, day while packing to go to Mexico again for another assignment, Manuel hearing shouting outside his father peaking out of his house window saw several dozens of armed men exit out of a few vans. Warning his wife to what's happening and telling her to go hide Luis somewhere safe. She ran back out of the house carrying Luis she hid him in a ravine, gave him her cross, kissed him on the cheek and told him that she loves him and ran back inside. Manuel was getting his M-16A3 out of his locker grabbing clips for the gun in a hurry and saw his wife run back inside. They both decided that no matter what they had to protect their son even if they died. The gunfire lasted for 30 minutes until it abruptly stopped. He waited in the ravine until he heard sirens of the patrol cars and ambulances. Extremely traumatized by that event in his young childhood he then became distant and quiet. It was only in his early teen years that he began to recover from his traumatizing experience. After the sudden death of his parents he was put in the custody of his grandparents who helped him during his his school years he would frequently get into fights with other kids which would get him expelled from many schools in the state. His grades were average but were nothing to be proud of. As the years went on he became very interested in the military life like his father did when he was Luis's age. He began reading books on military strategy/history, squad and tactics, other aspects on military life, and excelled in all of these aspects. When he completed high school he immediately signed up for the Airborne Crops. Using the GI Bill he attended college through the time he served.

Military Backround: 503rd Infantry Regiment ( 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 1st Battalion ): 2 year service made rank of Master Sargent. Saw heavy combat in Iraq. Spoken highly by superiors. Won the Distinguished Service Cross for providing covering fire so that wounded soldiers could evacuate, after being caught in a Insurgent ambush. Also won the two Purple Hearts during that same engagement.

-Transferred out of the 503rd after being ambushed by a Taliban force numbering in the hundreds, which killed most of his squad.

United States Army Special Forces ( 3rd Special Forces Group ): 2 year service made current rank of first lieutenant. Primarily served in Afghanistan as a recon sniper, search/destroy missions, and teacher for the Afghanistan Army. Infamous for through out the Taliban ranks being called the " ميست الاحمر " which mean's ( Red Mist ). Unofficial kill count estimated between 160-220 KIA. He was traumatized when he accidentally called an airstrike on civilian Afgan village which killed 40 people. He retains numerous nightmares about the bombing. It hurts him even more because he knew many of the civilians that were killed in the bombing.

Relationships/Connections/Encounters with the criminal underworld?: After his parents were killed he was sent home to his grandparents to live in Arizona. But the area he grew up in was in a ghetto surrounded by common street gangs. Luis grew up around gangs and has some sort of connections with them, but never got directly involved with them. But as he left the military he became in desperate need for money seeing as he didn't want to keep on living in a rat infested hotel for the rest of his life. So he began to work loosely with organized criminal organizations when he was in need of cash. He only did the following kinds of jobs: Repo, bank robbing, car theft, body guarding important people, and during select times vice. While working with them he would never take a job that involved him killing another person seeing that was to low for his standards. It was bad enough he was working with criminals in the first place he was not going to become a hitman for some chump organization. Luis would never work for any gang that had affiliations with the Cartels in Mexico. He currently has no major enemies in the criminal underworld but that can soon change in heartbeat. Luis can and will at any time betray his clients in order to get what he wants and will not stop until he does. But he will only do it if its morally right.

Family/Friends: Lia Ramirez: Luis's little cousin, 7, has longish brown hair tied in a ponytail, has blue eyes, light brown skin, and has mastered the art of the puppy dog eyes. Has an innocent view of the world, likes to see the best in everybody which can make her a bit naive. She can be surprisingly astute depending on the situation and can read between lines better than most adults. She likes to try and make Luis smile anyway she can, because in her words "He's always such a grumpy pants." Luis tries to shield her from what he does for a living.

Alberto De'Leon: Luis's Grandfather and the father of Manuel De'Leon. Age 67, Most of the hair on the top of his head is gone leaving a little bit of brown hair in the left, right, and back of his head. Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret. In short Alberto is a bitter, sarcastic, and brash old Mexican; frequently cussing at people, animals, and things that piss him off. Even though he acts like this with people in general, he acts softer towards his family. Despite his old age and slowly aging eyesight, Alberto is still a crack shot with a gun.

Molly De'Leon: Luis's Grandmother and the mother of Manuel De'Leon. Age 65, Has long red hair with gray spots which can be very apparent. While the passage of age has been apparent to Molly; she has still been able to give off a certain aura of happiness and youthful energy. She deeply cares for her family safety, well being, and will support them anyway she can. Despite her usual calm and kind demeanor, Molly will not hesitate to put people in their place if they upset her or do anything despicable. With out raising her voice, she promptly gives off a sickening sweet smile and politely asks them to apologize or behave themselves. Alberto, out of pure fear, dubs her smile as "The Smile of Grim" because if one looks hard enough they could make out a a hooded figure hovering above her.

Furio "Wizard" Kymani: Is Luis's friend and technical partner. Age 26, Has Jamaican styled dreadlocks, skinny but with some muscle, has a rather pudgy nose, and two small silver earrings. Speaks in heavy Rasta slang, which can be troubling to understand. Has a go with flow kind of attitude, never worrying about much except when it comes to computers. Jamaican born, Furio is a computer genius. Hacking, coding, programming, you name it, Furio could do it. Furio met Luis after; Luis saved him from mercenaries who were trying to kill him. Being a hacking genius does leave quite a number of enemies. After that Furio became Luis's go-to guy for jobs, contracts, information, military grade equipment, and among other things.

Pets: Monty ( German Shepard/ Husky, 3, loves women and children, but growls at men with Luis being the exception.)

Personality: He has a "go with the flow attitude" never worrying about anything. Has a bored look on his face and has a habit of picking his nose in public. If the definition of lazy and uninspiring had a face, then undoubtedly Luis would be its top candidate. Can be rude to people by calling them names due to their physical or personality flaws. He has a "problematic" thing with gambling which sadly most of the time he loses. He is very stingy when it comes to money and do anything for a quick buck. Luis is a big coward and will always run away from a fight when possible (only applies to comical situations). At times he can be a huge perv casually asking women if he can touch their "assets" which in turn gets him red hand print on his face. Has many childish personality traits despite his age, calling himself a child in a man's body. One such trait is his extreme love of sweets. At times he can be a sadist when the situation calls for it, getting a kick out of seeing people in distress. Why? Because he's an asshole like that. He is merciless if someone tries to harm him with the intent to kill. Will not show any quarter for someone whose pointing a gun in his face. Despite Luis's many flaws he is very kind heart and will always do the right thing in the end even if it means he suffers for it. When he gets angry Luis will become very violent and attempt to kill anyone who hurts someone he cares about. He will never take a job if someone else suffers for it. Luis will do anything to aid his comrades even sacrificing himself so that others could live. He strangely is good at giving out extremely good advice.

Likes: being a perv, oranges, busty girls, weapons, reading about psychology,sleeping in random places, he is very skilled with the guitar, specializes in playing spanish songs and rock n roll/blues, and is excellent at cooking Mexican food.

Dislikes: Doctors, ghosts, horror films/games, and anything related to the supernatural.

Fears: Becoming a monster like the men who had killed his parents, his family getting hurt because of his profession, and becoming alone.

Goal/Ambition: Have enough money and settle down and start a family of his own.

Religious Beliefs: Agnostic

Affiliation/Occupation: He takes no side when it comes to any kind of conflict. But if anyone comes between his definition of right and wrong and happen to threaten someone he knows. Then that person or group has a demon after their heads. Even if he does take a side with either group, it will probably have to involve him being paid in money or sweets. But even though he is a greedy b***, Luis would never take a job if it involves hurting innocent people physically or emotionally and will betray his client whose sent him on that mission (usually in a funny and embarrassing kind of way).

Optimist/Pessimist: In general he is a Pessimist but he has his moments where he can be an Optimist.

Accomplishments: Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Two Purple Hearts, and is an accomplished mercenary.

Darkest Secret: During his time in Afghanistan he was called in and airstrike on supposed enemy position. What turned out to be an enemy position was actually a Afghani village. The airstrike killed over 40 people and he was responsible for all their deaths.

Love Interest: He is currently engaged to his girlfriend Alina Ismael ( another Oc character that I'll send in soon ). Despite the daily arguments (only for comedic situations) they love and care about each other very much. To Luis, she is one of the main reasons that he has not strayed to dark path.

Weapons: As for weapons Luis takes a sophisticated approach when it comes to that. Due to Furio's connections, Luis is able to acquire military grade hardware. He will only take two weapons with him at a time and leave the rest in their containers.

-Hk 416 Assault Rifle (Main Rife)

Action:(Semi-Auto)

Barrel: 10.4(CQB), 14.5 or 16.5(Mid to Long)

Sights: EOTech Holo sight or ITL Mars sight (CQB), G33 Magnifier or ACOG (Mid to Long)

Ammunition: 30 round magazine, 6.5 Gremmel Rounds

Attachments: Vertical Foregrip, angled foregrip, dual magazines, laser sight, tactical flashlight, and suppressor.

-Kimbler Custom (Main side-arm)

Action:(Semi)

Sights: Green dot iron sights

Ammunition: 9 round magazine, 45. ACP rounds

Attachments: Laser sight

-M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle (Main Sniper Rifle)

Action:(Bolt-Action)

Barrel: 24 inch

Sights: Leupold Mark 4 6.5–20×50mm ER/T M5 Variable Scope

Ammunition: 5 round box magazine, .300 Winchester Magnum

Attachments: Suppressor, bipod, and notebook to record and calculations.

-Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (Designated Marksman Rifle)

Action: (Semi-Auto)

Barrel: 20 inch

Sights: Leupold Mk 4 3.5-10x Variable Scope

Ammunition: 20 round magazine; 7.62x51mm NATO rounds.

Attachments: Suppressor, bipod, flash hider, and log book.

- Custom "Busse Argonne" Trench Knives (Main Melee Weapons)

Description:(A re-invention of the famous WW1 knives.)

Fighting Style(s) When it comes to real people he will always approach everything tactically. He will always a come with plan to deal with a larger force who have him outgunned and outnumbered. He uses trickery and unpredictability as his strongest asset and will always look for an upper-hand in a firefight. He will use his marksmanship and his wits to get him out of sticky situations. He will be relentless when dealing with enemies and will not show mercy to those who target him and his family. Likes to analyze everything and take note of everything around him because in his mind it may serve him when some hit squad comes after him. When dealing with "them" he will always try to take them out from a distance and will never try to take them head on due to their immense strength.

Strengths: Has superb marksmanship, used to hectic situations, keeping a calm head, average skills when it comes to martial arts ( studied Krav Maga with the Israel Shayetet 13), is skilled with his trench knifes to a point he can go toe-to-toe with loger weapons, and is almost unmatched when it comes to tactics and strategy.

Weaknesses: Loses focus easily because of his ADHD, not very flexible and can't do extreme martial arts, loses his anger and will thrash anything in his way, suffers post traumatic syndrome due to the war, suffers numerous nightmares about his parents deaths and his experiences during his time in the military, and when panicked can't think properly and will make mistakes.

Mode of Transportation: Ford Mustang 2007

Friends: His wife and his family. Doesn't really have many friends outside of his family.

Enemies: La Familia Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, has a shaky relationship with corrupt officials in the CIA, and is on the hit list Solntsevskaya Bratva the largest Russian mafia organization in the world. ( Reason why he has so many enemies will be explained later in the story)

Prized Possession: His mothers Rosario that she gave him when she was killed.

Personal Quotes:

"Oye!, pendejo are going to stand the're with your ** on the ground or what?"

"I-I-I n-n-not scared of n-no ghos- ( hears something slam and insert girly scream here )."

"Pinche gringos... ( crossing arms like child ) always making a chicano work his butt off..."

"Don't you EVER insult my family like that again, ( brown eyes for a moment become violent red full of killing intent ) or else you will find wishing to be eaten by those "things" out there."

"I may be partially insane, but does not mean I'm a bad guy to hang around with... mostly."

"I always'd wondered why God would allow this to happen. But then I realized that he left us a long time ago..."

"Weep, and call out for help. Lean on me with a runny nose. Cry when you feel like crying. Laugh when you feel like laughing. When you start tearing up with an awful look, I'll cry along with you with an uglier one. When you start laughing so hard your stomach aches, I'll laugh even more like an idiot. And that's the way it should be. You know why? Because I love you." ( He tells this to Alina )

"Fighting for your country?"... "HAH!" "What a bunch of crap that is... Let me ask you something. Is a pinche Tali pointing a gun to your head? No? Well then you don't fight for country. Huh? What did I fight for? Well... ( He looks down and thinks about this ) I don't know".

ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ...(a few hours later ) ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,...b***,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ,ZZZ."

"I may be b***, an idiot, a pervert, a j***, a monster and a...killer. I may be all those things. But the one thing I'll never be is a traitor."

If you've got enough free time to fantasize about your beautiful death... Why don't you just live your life beautifully to the end?"

"B*** who mess with my things, whether it's a general, space pirates or meteorites, I'll crush them!"

"What's the use of fighting a futile fights? Do you really intend to lose more of your friends for something like that? I'll pass on that, as long as I'm alive I'll live by my own rules. I'll live how I see beautiful and protect those I hold dear."

"You know, in our lives we are not readers but we are writers, the least we could do is change the ending"