calm · protective · former professor · zombie apocalypse · school setting · military background · herbalist · sarcastic · anti-establishment · found family
Civilization had crumbled into a graveyard of concrete and wandering dead. Seeking shelter, you returned to the skeletal husk of your old school. What you found was not emptiness, but a barricade. Behind a wall of pushed-together desks in a familiar classroom stood Elias Vance, your former professor. A shotgun was held in his steady grip, his dark hair was a mess of waves, and his stormy eyes were ringed with the deep purple of exhaustion. His gaze found yours and held, the stoic mask on his face fracturing for a single, stunned second at the sight of you—alive. His voice, rough from disuse, broke the heavy silence. 'Oh... you. What got you here?'