Well Hello people, I guess I'm back. It's been two years since I have last posted on here and man has it been a long couple of years. I apologize sincerely for never updating or following through with the various OC's submitted, and I hope I can be forgiven. However, I am back now, a freshman in college, ready to start what I never did.
I have updated my characters Alan and Jenna and have created a chapter for you guys to read and get a sense of my style in advance. I am willing to accept characters with an updated format (just read the rules for submitting on the first chapter). The previous OC's will NOT be used, but if you want to re-submit them, you can go on ahead.
I have a set schedule for releasing chapters and will notify people in advance if they will be delayed. I plan on creating a chapter every Sunday starting March 10th to give me some time to evaluate the OC's and plan the story. After that, a chapter will be released every Sunday after that, similar to the television series.
I plan to create them in separate Books or Seasons, so Book/Season 1 will consist of around 10-16 chapters depending on the amount of OC's sent in. The first handful of chapters will be dedicated to a character or set of characters submitted, so if your character isn't seen for awhile there is absolutely no need to worry. After a core set of characters for Book/Season 1 are introduced, I will then accept further applications for Book/Season 2.
Onto the format:
It's been thirty days since the first signs of the disease spread throughout the nation, and possibly the globe. It's August 25th, 2018 and Boston has been under martial law for days. Who are you?
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Sexuality:
Birthday:
Occupation:
Ethnicity:
Nationality:
Religion (optional):
Height:
Weight:
Body Type:
Hair Color/Style:
Eye Color:
Skin Tone:
Physical Features:
Physical Abnormalities:
Personality (two sentences):
Background (at least two paragraphs):
Likes (at least four):
Dislikes (at least four):
Fears (at least one):
Romance:
Family:
Strengths (at most four):
Weaknesses (at least three):
Preferred Weapon (keep it realistic):
Starting Gear/Clothing (keep it realistic):
Other:
Here are the edit's for Alan and Jenna:
Alan Kyle Atkin
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Sexuality: Straight
Birthday: August 15th, 1964
Occupation: Fireman
Ethnicity: German/Finnish
Nationality: American
Religion: Agnostic
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 225 lbs
Body Type: muscular but heavy weight as well
Hair Color/Style: Brown, buzz cut
Eye Color: Green
Skin Tone: Pale, but tanner than normal
Physical Features: N/A
Physical Abnormalities: Bum leg.
Personality: Caring towards people and willing to help everyone. He is very standoffish with his emotions but can remain a stable and emotional rock towards the group.
Background: Alan grew up in a working-class family in which his father was a fireman as well. He looked up to him wholeheartedly and pledged to be just like his father and save people. Fresh out of high school, he worked his way to become a fireman. His first job, however, wasn't the best. He failed to save a young girl from the fire after she locked herself in her room after starting the fire. She ended up burning to death, and in Alan's escape his leg got stuck in a loose piece of plywood, which permanently injured it.
Alan was put on medical leave and worker's comp for his duty and has lived his life with his wife Madeline and daughter Jenna. A couple years later, Alan started swooning for another girl, and Madeline caught them. Alan and Madeline got a divorce and Madeline kept custody of their daughter. Alan has lived by himself for a couple of years in a downtown apartment and volunteering whenever he can around the city.
Likes: volunteer work, camping, hanging out with his daughter, women, drinking
Dislikes: traveling, liars, snow, people who can't handle their liquor
Fears: Scared of death and losing people who he has close relationships with
Romance: Not looking
Family: Jenna/15/Female/Alive
Madeline/48/Female/Zombified
Strengths: Motivated, Sturdy, Deep-Sleeper, Natural born leader
Weaknesses: Alcohol, his leg, easily persuaded by women, rash thinker
Preferred Weapon: Fire Ax
Starting Gear/Clothing: Light brown jacket with a Fireman's Volunteer T-shirt, backpack with pre-packaged food, two half full water bottles, a lighter, a family picture, and a fire ax.
Other:
Jenna Fiona Atkin
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Sexuality: Straight
Birthday: August 6th, 2003
Occupation: N/A
Ethnicity: German/French/Finnish
Nationality: American
Religion: Agnostic
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs
Body Type: tall but underweight
Hair Color/Style: Brown long hair with a streak of dark blue dye in the bac
Eye Color: Blue
Skin Tone: Pale, but tanner than normal
Physical Features: Freckles and Thin Frame Glasses
Physical Abnormalties: N/A
Personality: Doesn't like to talk to people and finds herself very hard to connect with. She is also a practical and methodical person who favors reason over emotions.
Background: Jenna grew up living with her mother Madeline in the suburbs outside of Boston after her father and mother divorced. Jenna understood the split and took it surprisingly well, or at least that's how she shows it. She only wanted two things for Christmas from her mother and father after they split, a guitar and BB gun. She would use both of these things to let her emotions out, by making new songs or shooting at things with her new gun. When she was eleven, she decided to shoot an innocent squirrel with her gun in which Madeline took the gun away from her.
Throughout high school, Jenna succeeded in mathematics and sciences and her teachers would say she has a bright future ahead of her. She eventual found a small group of friends how started a band together; Duck Bait. They made songs in their garage and enjoyed times together. However, these were the only friends Jenna had and this worried her mother that she wasn't branching out as much as she should be.
Likes: doing math or science, playing guitar, shooting a BB gun, writing music
Dislikes: her father for the divorce, socializing, having glasses, suburbs
Fears: Socializing and wild animals
Romance: Not necessarily looking, but if a boy her age proved himself and they connected, she would go for it.
Family: Alan/54/Father/Alive
Madeline/48/Mother/Zombified
Strengths: Quick Learner, comfortable with guns, fast, quiet
Weaknesses: Not a people person, can't win in a hand-to-hand fight, Young
Preferred Weapon: Firearms (not a master, but comfortable with them)
Starting Gear/Clothing: Camo raincoat, black "Cage the Elephants" shirt, jeans with a rip at the left knee, Handgun with five bullets, an old backpack, a plastic water bottle, her guitar
Other:
So as a reiteration of the re-introduction, I will be posting the first chapter after this one. To all of the people who wanted to read, see their characters come to life, and enjoy what The Walking Dead universe as to offer, I am incredibly sorry I took that away from you guys.
But here I am again.
