OOC INFO Name/Handle: pel Pronouns: he / him Contact:gambeson Reserve?: nah
IC INFO Name: Daryl Dixon Journal:pigsfeet Canon: The Walking Dead (AMC) Age: 48. Species: Human.
Canon Point: I'm taking him one year into the six year timeskip between s9e5 and s9e6, specifically after the events that are shown in s10e9, which is a flashback episode. This means, according to TWD's whacked-out timeline, that it's around late summer 2017. tl;dr uhhh after s9e5.
Condition: Shockingly in exceedingly good health given the apocalypse.
History: hi, i'm going to try to condense ~150 eps of a zombie soap opera into less than 1k words, if i am at any point overly concise and you need clarification, lmk.
PRE-SHOW Daryl is born in Northern Georgia to an impoverished family; he later describes them / himself as 'white trash'. They often resort to hunting and living in off wilderness to survive. The family is cruel and abusive toward Daryl and his brother Merle, who also abuses Daryl.
SEASON 1 The zombie apocalypse happens. Daryl and Merle join a group of survivors outside of Atlanta (lead by a man named Rick). Merle is wounded and left for dead.
SEASON 2 A young girl named Sophia gets lost in the wilderness. Daryl dedicates himself to finding the child. Daryl becomes close to the missing child's mother, Carol. They discover Sophia is dead, and Daryl becomes upset and isolates himself, coming out of his funk only to protect Rick's group when they are endangered; he saves Carol's life.
SEASON 3 Rick's group finds shelter in a prison. Daryl discovers his brother Merle is still alive in a rival community called Woodbury, lead by a man called 'the Governor'. Daryl leaves Rick's group to travel with Merle, but this is short-lived when Daryl's new sense of independence makes it difficult for them to operate in the (abusive) way they did before. Daryl leaves Merle and rejoins Rick's group. Merle dies in a conflict that destroys Woodbury. The Governor's body is not found.
SEASON 4 The Prison flourishes. Daryl has become a part of the Prison's leadership council. He has given up searching for the Governor. Of course, the Governor is alive, and his attack on the Prison completely destroys it and kills several people. Everyone scatters, and Daryl ends up with Beth Greene, a young girl he doesn't think much of. He is initially cruel and belligerent toward her, but eventually they become very close. Of course, after this character development, she's almost immediately kidnapped. Daryl eventually finds Rick again, and they all travel toward a place called Terminus.
SEASON 5 As Terminus has been setting up signs everywhere to lead people to it, the survivors of the attack on the Prison reunite there. Unfortunately, Terminus is full of cannibals who try to eat them; Rick's group escapes because they all have top billing in the opening credits. Once Daryl is sure everyone's basically safe, he takes Carol to try and find Beth. Because Beth does not have top billing, she dies tragically in front of Daryl. Rick's group decides to accept an offer to join another community, called Alexandria.
SEASON 6 Because Rick is the main character, he eventually becomes the leader of Alexandria. Because Daryl has become a very popular character, he becomes Rick's right-hand man. The two are very close friends and rely on each other, which is probably bad because they're both pretty violent people who decide the best course of action to protect Alexandria is to cold-blood murder a group that's been attacking Alexandria's trading partners. This ends badly! Daryl is captured by the other group, the Saviors, lead by a man named Negan.
SEASON 7 Daryl is tortured and starved in the Savior's compound. He escapes and sets about trying to convince other allied communities that they should wage war on the Saviors. This takes way too many episodes to accomplish considering it's inevitable.
SEASON 8 It's the season that's all the war with the Saviors. Through it, Daryl is bent toward revenge for his torture and avenging the people the Saviors killed (whose deaths he partially blames himself for), and becomes extremely cruel. However, when a(nother) teenager tragically dies, Daryl relents and lets some of the people who wronged him escape. He still specifically wants Negan to die, something Rick refuses to allow for [convoluted reasons that make sense in the show but are not relevant to this app]. A rift starts to form between Daryl and Rick.
SEASON 9 Daryl has been tasked with leading the remaining Saviors, which he hates. He openly advocates for killing Negan, who is held prisoner in Alexandria. He plots with friends to kill Negan behind Rick's back. The plan involves stalling Rick in a safe place while they sneak into Alexandria, but of course the place they stash Rick isn't really safe. It looks like Rick has died, but no one can locate the body.
TIMESKIP Deeply distraught by what he perceives as a betrayal of one of his closest friends, Daryl goes to live out in the woods, searching for Rick, dead or alive. He meets a woman in the wilderness named Leah. The two form a romantic partnership based on stable foundations like mutual loneliness and unprocessed trauma. Things go sour when she asks him to prioritize her over searching for an almost certainly dead man. Daryl refuses, but comes to regret it; however, by then it's too late, and Leah has already left for parts unknown.
Personality:
Pros:
I'M A SURVIVOR: Altruism!
Perhaps because of his low self-worth, Daryl puts everyone before himself. He can be very pragmatic about the group's survival, but when push comes to shove, emotionally, he'll happily sacrifice everything he has to make sure people are safe, especially kids, children, and those without his survival skills and strength. He never asks for anything in return, and will help those in need without having to be asked, so long as he doesn't think they've wronged him or are a threat to other people he might prioritize higher.
I AIN'T GON' GIVE UP: Indefatigable!
Daryl has experienced a lot of loss and hardship, but he always eventually finds a new reason to keep going, even if it's just inertia. If life kicks Daryl down, he'll eventually get back up again. He refuses to entertain any nihilistic outlooks-- when Rick entertains that the 'real' walking dead are the survivors, who live without hope and purpose, Daryl refutes this out of hand. He doesn't think the world is puppies and kittens, but he refuses to think it's all bad, either.
I'M NOT GON' STOP: Kind!
Daryl is harsh outwardly, but he has a softer core. He delights in holding and feeding a baby, loves talking to young children, and at one point bridal caries someone with a twisted ankle. This is cute and all, but also the key to his indefatigable survival. He can always find something to cheer him up, because other people being happy is the only thing that matters to him, and people being happy in small ways-- remembering the dead, singing songs-- is enough to justify moving heaven and earth to survive.
I'M GON' WORK HARDER: Acknowledges mistakes!
Daryl is a work in progress, which is something he acknowledges. From an abusive home, his ability to cope with bad situations fluctuates, and he frequently says the wrong thing, or is just an asshole. However, given enough time (or someone flatly telling him he fucked up), he will try to rectify the situation, apologize, and make amends. While he carries immense guilt for certain actions, he never writes himself off, and tries to fix his behavior in the future to avoid the same mistakes.
Cons:
I BEEN DONE THROUGH THE STORM & THE RAIN: Tends toward negativity!
For all his hard work and kindness, Daryl is depressive by nature. He sees the worst in things, and will forget that happiness can exist until someone reminds him-- it's just (relatively) easy to remind him. But he takes setbacks hard, and can mourn for years and years, setting himself apart from others and refusing help. He's taken from the first year of a six year timeskip-- six years he would have spent alone in the wilderness, until he saw literally one teenager and rethought everything.
CLIMBED UP THE ROUGH SIDE: Not a team player!
Daryl feels awkward 99.4% of the time, and will avoid social or emotional situations if at all possible; he is a loner by nature because it's just easier. He sees himself as a kind of social blight-- not in a cosmic sense, he's just got no manners and wasn't raised like (what he perceives as) 'normal' people. Owing to his rough childhood, his early socialization was not great, and it means he's real bad at communicating with others, even when he'd like to. Daryl feels a lot, and that's great and good and endearing, sure, but he also doesn't know how to handle it and it can cause him to freak out or just refuse to engage.
AND GOT TOUGH AT TIMES: Kind of a baby!
For a guy who acts tough, Daryl is real fucking sensitive! He's incredibly watchful for perceived slights, is insulted easily, is embarrassed easily, is depressed and feels emotions intensely. While this also means he can be triggered toward positivity very easily, most of his triggers are not positive; he's liable to fly off the handle, or in some cases just get up and fucking leave, for what can seem like no reason to the other party. There's no cheat code for getting to know Daryl; you just have to watch him and be perceptive enough to pick up his patterns, because he puts zero effort into making any of the shit going on in his head clear to others. From the outside, it can look like he's just a weird, volatile redneck-- and I mean, he isn't not.
BUT I REMAIN, IF I GOT THE STUFF TO SHINE: One step forward, two steps back!
Childhood abuse and years of trauma have made Daryl extremely emotionally uneven; he can fly off the handle at a wide variety of unpredictable things. When his temper is up, he can say some real horrible stuff. Sure, yeah, he's apologize, he'll self-correct, but he can't quite stop himself from doing it in the first place. For all his hard work at self improvement, he backslides, like, a lot.
Inventory:
- A whole ass look (button-down shirt, rain poncho, fingerless gloves, motorcycle jacket, underpants, pants, boots, socks, leather belt, various bits of string to keep things like his holsters in place and his pants up). - A red rag. - A black bandanna. - A crossbow. - 14 crossbow bolts, hand-made (5 target point, 9 broadhead). - 2 large bowie knives. - 2 leather knife holsters. - a backpack full of shit that, for the sake of everyone's sanity, I'm going to severely limit the contents of: one roll of twine, an altoids tin full of deer fat for crossbow maintenance, one day's worth of deer jerky wrapped in old cellophane, two plastic soda bottles half-filled with clean water, two fish heads in a ziplock bag, seven shoelaces, 14 hand-rolled cigarettes in a ziplock bag, more paper to roll more cigarettes (not in a bag), crushed and dried tobacco (in a plastic bag), a No. 2 pencil, and a single nickle.
This is the minimum amount of stuff I could realistically see him traveling with, but he is a survivalist character in the apocalypse. If any of this seems like too much, feel free to make him 'lose' it in the ocean or whatever, I'm good. He comes complete with the ability to make his own tools, for the most part, so he'll get along fine. I only ask that you let him keep his crossbow and motorcycle jacket, because those have sentimental value to him and he'll take it badly if he loses them straight out the gate.
Powers/Abilities:
Daryl is an excellent tracker, hunter, and all around outdoorsman. In canon, he tells the story of how he survived for himself in the wild at the age of twelve, meaning he has long experience with survival before the apocalypse even gets started. He also knows a fair deal about motorcycle maintenance and upkeep. He has excellent aim with a crossbow and gun, in general preferring the former but can work with the latter in a pinch. He's also picked up close-quarters combat and likes using large knives. He's lived out in the wild full time, and at this point can reasonably mend his own clothes, though they don't look great when he does. He can live off the land and provide for himself in terms of food, getting enough protein that he can maintain a fair amount of muscle. He's physically fit and very strong.
*note that all his survival knowledge is based around America (Georgia and Virginia specifically), so he will have a bit of a learning curve in the Rainforest Cafe you have set up here.
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IC INFO
Name: Daryl Dixon
Journal:
Canon: The Walking Dead (AMC)
Age: 48.
Species: Human.
Canon Point: I'm taking him one year into the six year timeskip between s9e5 and s9e6, specifically after the events that are shown in s10e9, which is a flashback episode. This means, according to TWD's whacked-out timeline, that it's around late summer 2017. tl;dr uhhh after s9e5.
Condition: Shockingly in exceedingly good health given the apocalypse.
History: hi, i'm going to try to condense ~150 eps of a zombie soap opera into less than 1k words, if i am at any point overly concise and you need clarification, lmk.
Daryl is born in Northern Georgia to an impoverished family; he later describes them / himself as 'white trash'. They often resort to hunting and living in off wilderness to survive. The family is cruel and abusive toward Daryl and his brother Merle, who also abuses Daryl.
The zombie apocalypse happens. Daryl and Merle join a group of survivors outside of Atlanta (lead by a man named Rick). Merle is wounded and left for dead.
A young girl named Sophia gets lost in the wilderness. Daryl dedicates himself to finding the child. Daryl becomes close to the missing child's mother, Carol. They discover Sophia is dead, and Daryl becomes upset and isolates himself, coming out of his funk only to protect Rick's group when they are endangered; he saves Carol's life.
Rick's group finds shelter in a prison. Daryl discovers his brother Merle is still alive in a rival community called Woodbury, lead by a man called 'the Governor'. Daryl leaves Rick's group to travel with Merle, but this is short-lived when Daryl's new sense of independence makes it difficult for them to operate in the (abusive) way they did before. Daryl leaves Merle and rejoins Rick's group. Merle dies in a conflict that destroys Woodbury. The Governor's body is not found.
The Prison flourishes. Daryl has become a part of the Prison's leadership council. He has given up searching for the Governor. Of course, the Governor is alive, and his attack on the Prison completely destroys it and kills several people. Everyone scatters, and Daryl ends up with Beth Greene, a young girl he doesn't think much of. He is initially cruel and belligerent toward her, but eventually they become very close. Of course, after this character development, she's almost immediately kidnapped. Daryl eventually finds Rick again, and they all travel toward a place called Terminus.
As Terminus has been setting up signs everywhere to lead people to it, the survivors of the attack on the Prison reunite there. Unfortunately, Terminus is full of cannibals who try to eat them; Rick's group escapes because they all have top billing in the opening credits. Once Daryl is sure everyone's basically safe, he takes Carol to try and find Beth. Because Beth does not have top billing, she dies tragically in front of Daryl. Rick's group decides to accept an offer to join another community, called Alexandria.
Because Rick is the main character, he eventually becomes the leader of Alexandria. Because Daryl has become a very popular character, he becomes Rick's right-hand man. The two are very close friends and rely on each other, which is probably bad because they're both pretty violent people who decide the best course of action to protect Alexandria is to cold-blood murder a group that's been attacking Alexandria's trading partners. This ends badly! Daryl is captured by the other group, the Saviors, lead by a man named Negan.
Daryl is tortured and starved in the Savior's compound. He escapes and sets about trying to convince other allied communities that they should wage war on the Saviors. This takes way too many episodes to accomplish considering it's inevitable.
It's the season that's all the war with the Saviors. Through it, Daryl is bent toward revenge for his torture and avenging the people the Saviors killed (whose deaths he partially blames himself for), and becomes extremely cruel. However, when a(nother) teenager tragically dies, Daryl relents and lets some of the people who wronged him escape. He still specifically wants Negan to die, something Rick refuses to allow for [convoluted reasons that make sense in the show but are not relevant to this app]. A rift starts to form between Daryl and Rick.
Daryl has been tasked with leading the remaining Saviors, which he hates. He openly advocates for killing Negan, who is held prisoner in Alexandria. He plots with friends to kill Negan behind Rick's back. The plan involves stalling Rick in a safe place while they sneak into Alexandria, but of course the place they stash Rick isn't really safe. It looks like Rick has died, but no one can locate the body.
Deeply distraught by what he perceives as a betrayal of one of his closest friends, Daryl goes to live out in the woods, searching for Rick, dead or alive. He meets a woman in the wilderness named Leah. The two form a romantic partnership based on stable foundations like mutual loneliness and unprocessed trauma. Things go sour when she asks him to prioritize her over searching for an almost certainly dead man. Daryl refuses, but comes to regret it; however, by then it's too late, and Leah has already left for parts unknown.
Personality:
I'M A SURVIVOR: Altruism!
I AIN'T GON' GIVE UP: Indefatigable!
I'M NOT GON' STOP: Kind!
I'M GON' WORK HARDER: Acknowledges mistakes!
I BEEN DONE THROUGH THE STORM & THE RAIN: Tends toward negativity!
CLIMBED UP THE ROUGH SIDE: Not a team player!
AND GOT TOUGH AT TIMES: Kind of a baby!
BUT I REMAIN, IF I GOT THE STUFF TO SHINE: One step forward, two steps back!
Inventory:
- A whole ass look (button-down shirt, rain poncho, fingerless gloves, motorcycle jacket, underpants, pants, boots, socks, leather belt, various bits of string to keep things like his holsters in place and his pants up).
- A red rag.
- A black bandanna.
- A crossbow.
- 14 crossbow bolts, hand-made (5 target point, 9 broadhead).
- 2 large bowie knives.
- 2 leather knife holsters.
- a backpack full of shit that, for the sake of everyone's sanity, I'm going to severely limit the contents of: one roll of twine, an altoids tin full of deer fat for crossbow maintenance, one day's worth of deer jerky wrapped in old cellophane, two plastic soda bottles half-filled with clean water, two fish heads in a ziplock bag, seven shoelaces, 14 hand-rolled cigarettes in a ziplock bag, more paper to roll more cigarettes (not in a bag), crushed and dried tobacco (in a plastic bag), a No. 2 pencil, and a single nickle.
This is the minimum amount of stuff I could realistically see him traveling with, but he is a survivalist character in the apocalypse. If any of this seems like too much, feel free to make him 'lose' it in the ocean or whatever, I'm good. He comes complete with the ability to make his own tools, for the most part, so he'll get along fine. I only ask that you let him keep his crossbow and motorcycle jacket, because those have sentimental value to him and he'll take it badly if he loses them straight out the gate.
Powers/Abilities:
Daryl is an excellent tracker, hunter, and all around outdoorsman. In canon, he tells the story of how he survived for himself in the wild at the age of twelve, meaning he has long experience with survival before the apocalypse even gets started. He also knows a fair deal about motorcycle maintenance and upkeep. He has excellent aim with a crossbow and gun, in general preferring the former but can work with the latter in a pinch. He's also picked up close-quarters combat and likes using large knives. He's lived out in the wild full time, and at this point can reasonably mend his own clothes, though they don't look great when he does. He can live off the land and provide for himself in terms of food, getting enough protein that he can maintain a fair amount of muscle. He's physically fit and very strong.
*note that all his survival knowledge is based around America (Georgia and Virginia specifically), so he will have a bit of a learning curve in the Rainforest Cafe you have set up here.
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