Shaun

» PLAYER INFORMATION

Player NAME: Kel
Current AGE: Over 21
Personal JOURNAL: kelcat
IM & SERVICE: AIM, kelcat
Player PLURK: Currently N/A
Current CHARACTERS: Nathaniel Howe, noble_nate

» CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character NAME: Shaun gotredonyou
Canon & MEDIUM: Shaun of the Dead (movie)
Canon PULL-POINT: After getting past the zombie hoard and into the Winchester Pub.
Character AGE: Early-to-mid 30’s

Character ABILITIES: None. Seriously, Shaun is not a fighter, and he definitely doesn’t have any magical abilities. Prior to the Zombie outbreak, he’d likely never been in any kind of combat situation. I doubt he even works out. He does know how to kill zombies, though, and he’s got some mad DJ skillz.

Character HISTORY: Here

Character PERSONALITY: Shaun is a fairly average and boring person, living in a fairly average and boring town in England. He’s stuck in a dead-end job at an electronics store, and lacks the motivation and ambition to try for something better. Lack of motivation pretty much sums up Shaun’s whole life. His girlfriend, Liz, has just broken up with him because she’s tired of being neglected. She feels (justifiably) like he’s not going anywhere, and she’s afraid of being stuck in a boring, dead end relationship for the rest of her life. Shaun seems to have more interest in hanging out with his best friend, Ed, and drinking at the local pub than he does about having a serious adult relationship and long-term goals.

The breakup with Liz is a turning point for Shaun. He realizes that he needs to sort his life out in order to win her back. He never really gets a chance to figure out just how to do that, as the zombie outbreak inconveniently arrives before he even has a chance to sober up from a night of drowning his sorrows with his best friend, Ed.

Shaun is a classic protagonist, and the zombie apocalypse winds up bringing out leadership qualities he didn’t even realize he had. His quest to get Liz and his mum to safety causes him to wind up leading a gang of six people through a zombie-infested town and to the hopeful safety of Shaun’s favorite hangout: The Winchester. It’s up to Shaun to get everyone there in one piece, and he actually manages it rather well – aside from the fact that his father-in-law was bitten by a zombie before Shaun could get to him and his mother.

Shaun proves to be smarter than even he thought, managing to find a safe path through the zombie-infested town, even after they’re forced to abandon their car (and his newly-zombified step-father). He’s creative enough to come up with a plan to get past the hundreds of zombies crowded outside the pub, and when they make it there safely only to find the doors locked, he actually uses himself as bait to lead all of the zombies away from his friends long enough for all of them to get inside.

At the point I’m pulling him from, Shaun has yet to realize that his mother got bitten during their journey through the city, and David hasn’t been caught by the zombies yet, so he’s still feeling a bit cheerful and optimistic, despite the fact that all they have to eat is pork rinds.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: A basic club, like this. Eventually, it will evolve into a full-on spiked mace.

Chosen SKILLSET: Shaun will probably wind up being a fighter, most likely acting as defense rather than offense.

» SAMPLES
First PERSON: Bloody hell! Look, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on here, but I’m pretty sure there’s been a mistake. I mean, I’m pretty good at killing zombies, sure – but fighting in a war? Sorry, but you can count me out. I’ve got enough going on as it is.

Unless this is some sort of hallucination, but I can’t imagine how that would happen. I haven’t had anything worse than weed, and that was back in college. Maybe it was something I ate…those pork rinds did taste a little funny. I can’t be dead, I’m pretty sure I would have remembered being torn apart by zombies…

Has anyone got a cigarette?

Third PERSON: Shaun sits down on the low stone wall and grabs a cigarette from the pack in his shirt pocket. As he lights it up and takes a long drag, he can’t help but wish that Ed was here with him. Things sure would be a hell of a lot more interesting if he was, and he was pretty good at cheering Shaun up, too. Not that he was necessarily feeling down, more that he was feeling… lost.

Since the outbreak he’d been so focused on getting everyone to safety, he hadn’t had much chance to think of much else. Now he had more than enough time to think about things, and it wasn’t looking good. Liz was right: he needed to sort his life out. Or at least find some kind of purpose, beyond the whole zombie-killing thing, that is. Maybe he could find something to do here, learn some kind of skill. Then, when he gets back home he’ll be able to prove to Liz that he’s not some poor slob stuck in a hopeless rut. And maybe, just maybe, he’ll be able to get her back.

» ADDITIONAL NOTES
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