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Name: Chatsy
Age: 29
Contact: plurk: serpentcyborg
Characters Already in Teleios: Roddy Geiger
Reserve: http://teleios-mods.dreamwidth.org/1551.html?thread=2165775#cmt2165775

Character Basics:

Character Name: Kieren Walker
Journal: walking_dead_walker
Age: 23, though he died at 18
Fandom: In The Flesh
Canon Point: right after the last episode
Debt:

Class A: 33 years
Class B: 32 years
Class C: 2 months

N/A

GRAND TOTAL: 65 years, 2 months

Canon Character Section:

History: http://intheflesh.wikia.com/wiki/Kieren_Walker

Personality:

Kieren is the quiet, artistic sort. His room and home have paintings he's done scattered around them, and he mostly enjoys painting portraits of people he knows, focusing on their emotions in the moment. He's very sensitive, both aware of how the people around him feel, and hurt by how brutal the world around him is. He can sometimes be an optimist, but that only leads to him being hit down harder when he sees how bad things really are, and can take a while for his optimism to rebuild itself. He doesn't like to see people hurting, and as such, he'll do what he can to decrease possible tension. He wore his cover-up and contacts for a long time whenever he'd leave his home until Simon eventually convinced him to start going without, and while he's angry about the various pointless programs PDS sufferers (the politically correct term in his world for zombies) have to go through, he'll typically go along with them, though he will complain.

This isn't to say that he's a push over, or that he doesn't get angry. When he thinks something is pointless or he's feeling stressed, he'll quickly respond with sarcastic quips and snide remarks. While he might not see a point in outright rebellion, because that would just get him put on a non-compliance list and taken away, he will voice his discontent when he thinks something's unfair, and when someone insists he does something he finds dishonest, he will refuse to the bitter end. When injustice becomes too apparent, he will argue, he will get angry, and while he will not resort to harming other people, he will fight it any other way he can.

When there's someone he doesn't get along with in general, he will be civil, but it will be a tense civility, and if they continue to push he will get angry. Since he is a pacifist he's unlikely to initiate a physical fight, but he won't hesitate to tell them exactly how he feels, getting into vivid detail from his experiences if it will help him make his point.

He is also a good friend and very loyal to those he cares about. Even when they do things that he finds questionable, unwise or hurtful, he will stick with them until the end and try to help them through whatever they're going through. In fact, most of his motivations, both positive and negative, are spurred on by those he cares about, whether it be guilt, or going along with pretending to eat for his parents, or trying to reconnect with his sister, even when she was disturbed by the fact that he was partially deceased. Whether they be family, friends, or boyfriends, Kieren feels a strong trust and compassion for who he cares about. Even when they seem to hate him at the moment, he'll always remember the times with them when things were good between them, and he'd rather work toward bringing those feelings back than let them go.

Stemming from this focus on those he cares about is his guilt. This was true even before he became partially deceased. He blamed himself for Rick being sent off to the military, because he knew Rick's dad was trying to separate them, and so he concluded that it also was his fault that Rick died, because he wouldn't have been in Afghanistan in the first place if he hadn't been in a relationship with Kieren.

Then, after he rose and spent five years eating people's brains, once he was administered neurotriptaline and returned to his old self, he had more guilt to pile on what he'd felt before. He had the memories of eating people, as well as realizing the pain he'd caused his family by ending his life, leaving them wondering for days what had happened to him before they found his body.

Showing up in Teleios will be a terrible shock. He just came from the funeral of Amy, his BDFF (best dead friend forever), and is still devastated by the loss. He also decided he still wants to stay in Roarton and see things through, and considering that until that point he'd wanted to leave England but couldn't due to a law against PDS sufferers crossing international borders, one that had been enacted right as he decided to travel, he will feel a bit like whatever he decides is being overridden. He will miss his family and his friends, and worry about how they're doing without him. However, he will find it interesting hearing about similar events to the rising in other worlds, and will want to help those who might be going back to such worlds, both with giving them hope that things will get better, and giving them any information he can that might lead them to finding a cure.

Kieren is horrified by the things he's done, but is also aware that he had no control of his actions during that time. He'll see the concept of 'working off the debt' as similar to the PDS give back scheme, only on a cosmic level, and he'll be rather irritated by the idea. However, like the PDS give back scheme, he'll work, because that's what he has to do to avoid having unnecessary problems.

Kieren is also claustrophobic from waking up trapped underground. While he can force himself to stay in an enclosed space if there is imminent danger otherwise, he will spend the entire time panicking and having flashbacks to waking up in a coffin. If there is no imminent danger in leaving, he'll still panic, but he'll try to get out as quickly as possible. He can handle a room the size of a bedroom, but once the area he's in is down to the size of a walk in closet he'll get uncomfortable.

Powers/Abilities: Kieren won't be losing any powers when he comes to Teleios, because he doesn't exactly have any. Everything that might come close to being an ability is really just a physical reality of being a reanimated rotten corpse. It won't kill him if he's stabbed, shot, or beaten unless you damage his brain, mainly because most of his organs have already rotten and go unused. He doesn't feel pain because most of his nerves are unconnected, though since going on neurotriptaline he has felt bits of things here and there occasionally. However, he does still go through the physical effects of an injury. For example, if you slice up a leg muscle he'll walk with a limp until the muscles can get stitched back together, which will have to be done manually because it won't heal on it's own. Likewise, if you punctured his lungs he wouldn't die, but would likely have some difficulties speaking.

He also does not eat or drink, and in fact cannot eat or drink anything but brains, and presumably human flesh. As a rabid he had to eat brains to survive, but now that he's on neurotriptaline he doesn't eat or drink anything, though it's been shown that eating sheeps brains, at least, can make the undead drunk in his world. He also needs to have a daily dose of neurotriptaline, and if he misses a dose, he will go rabid. As a side effect of the medication, aside from occasionally being able to feel things, he's started to tremble every so often.

Appearance: Out of make-up

With make-up

CR AU N/A

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

[He walked up to the front of the room, where the woman who had given that little speech was standing. Then, with a swallow and a bit of an uncomfortable shift, Kieren began to speak.]

First off, if you're going to be keeping me here against my will, I am going to need some neurotriptaline. I am a PDS sufferer and in my untreated state I will be unable to control my actions and it could be very dangerous for everyone involved.

Secondly...[His brow furrowed, at first like he was trying to wrap his mind around something, then the furrow deepened in anger.] Secondly, what do you think you're doing, you bloody twats? Are you part of some sort of cult, is that it? I'm not quite sure how you managed...well, all of this. [He gestured out at the room.] But I can sure as hell tell you that the last thing anyone's going to care about is utopia when we've just been kidnapped from our homes.

[He shook his head, clearing his thoughts.] I just...why was I brought me here? And why now? When I just...just had decided not to run away from my problems?

Prose Sample:

When he woke up, he instantly knew he wasn't in his home. Which meant that either he'd wandered somewhere else and fell asleep in a strange place, or someone had kidnapped him. He groaned, a deep, impending dread rising up as he opened his eyes and saw...people, all around him. No one was familiar, and he only hoped they weren't the sort to panic if they saw him there, all undead without the slightest trace of cover-up or contacts to cover up his appearance. Not that he'd been bothered with that as of late even when he had the chance to put some on.

He grunted, climbing to his feet as he listened to the announcement. What was that they were nattering on about? Utopia? What sort of mad cult was this all a part of, anyway? Two words she said snapped him awake, however, and if his heart could beat, it would be pounding right then. Special needs. Oh, bloody hell. He didn't have his neurotriptaline with him, did he?

He took a deep breath. Okay, it would be fine. They said to speak to them about anything they might need, and it wasn't like anyone could look at him while doing their kidnapping thing and not realize that he'd need neurotriptaline. He'd be fine, he just had to go up there, ask where he had to go to get neurotriptaline around here, then demand to know what they thought they were doing, just whisking him away like this.

He'd be fine.