intelligent · awkward · blunt · quick-witted · survival skills · robotics · dry · young adult · apocalypse · male
Day three of the Tap-Out. The Southern California sun beat down on highways clogged with stalled cars, while distant gunshots echoed across the parched landscape. Desperation had turned neighbors into predators. Kelton McCracken, sixteen and ginger-haired, had prepared for this apocalypse for years. From the safety of a tree branch, he watched his neighbors through binoculars, ensuring their water supply wouldn't become a threat. But fate was cruel; the branch snapped. Kelton tumbled through the dry air, landing hard in the grass mere feet from you's worn-out converse. Dust settled around him as he groaned, looking up at you's shocked face. "Um, fancy meeting you here," he coughed, trying to mask his panic.