Post by Elletnah on Nov 17, 2014 1:00:40 GMT -5
Smith, River S
I'M WAKING UP TO ASH AND DUST
I Wipe My Brow And I Sweat My Rust
Full Name: River Samantha Smith
Alias: River
Age: 23
Occupation Before the Apocalypse: Student of Entomology at Texas A&M
Hometown: Bellville, Texas
Weapon of Choice: Bow, a fairly large hunting knife and a revolver
I'M BREAKING IN, SHAPING UP
This is it, the apocalypse
Hair Color Style and Length: River has dark brown mid back length naturally wavy hair. She usually has it pulled back into a high pony tail, what left of her bangs are kept clipped back away from her face.
Eye Color: She has beautiful blue green eyes that look out from behind long dark eye lashes.
Body Type and Height: River stands at a petite five foot five. She is rather thin and athletic.
Clothing Type: River wears comfortable fairly well fitting low riding cargo pants. Her tops are usually either tank tops or layered spagetti strap shirts and she rocks knee high combat like boots, comfortable enough to wear every day but durable enough to run.
Marks and Scars: Across her right collar bone River has a tattoo that says "All The Glitters is not Gold" and on her left side on her ribs is monarch butterfly
Faceclaim: Kristen Stewart
I'M WAKING UP
I Feel It in My Bones, Enough To Make My Systems Blow
Likes: Bugs, Bow Hunting, Dark Chocolate, Big Game Huntinig, Her Family, Books
Dislikes: White Chocolate, History, living in dorms, Arrogant men
Strenths: Learned from a young age how to bow hunt. Is also a pretty good marksmen with both her bow and a gun.
Fears: Turning into a walker and killing those she cares about.
Goals: Find a good solid group that will protect her and she will protect them.
I RAISE MY FLAG, DON MY CLOTHES
It's a Revolution I Suppose
Family: River is the only known surviving member of her family. Her father and younger brother were bitten shortly after the outbreak started. Her mother fled to a refugee camp were River found her a few weeks later. Her older brother was stationed at an Air Force when the outbreak started, she hasn't heard any news regarding him since. Her mother died when a herd attack the refugee camp.
How Many Walkers Have They Killed?: Far too many to count. Her father and younger brother were unfortunately one of them
How Many People Have They Killed?: One. Her mother, she told her to.
Why?: Her Mother had been bitten, she wanted to die on her own terms and not turn and try to kill her only surviving child. River did so reluctantly.
History: River was born the middle child of a moderately wealthy family who owned a few acres of land several miles outside the town of Bellville Texas. From a young age she always had a fascination with insects, collecting them in jars and fish tanks. Oddly enough it grossed out her older brother but they bonded over something else, they both loved hunting. Their father was an avid hunter and taught his two oldest, while River took to bow hunting her brother preferred riffles.
As a gift for her sixteenth birthday her father took the family on a vacation to Africa so that they could do big game hunting which River adored also where she picked up riffle hunting, and went back again two summers in a row before she graduated High School.
River obtained a full ride scholarship to Texas A&M University in Austin Texas, after getting a near perfect score on her SAT's to study Entomology. Her older brother came down from his base just to see her graduate, his graduation gift to her was a new all black compound bow.
She first encountered a walker during a final exam in a biology class. The professor had insisted on them sitting for the exam despite reports of an outbreak in the city. The professor got a lesson taught to him when one of his students who had been bitten died, and then shortly reanimated and bit him. The professor had assumed he had fallen asleep, the poor kid was so worry about passing the class that he came to school when he was wildly ill and obviously died. Needless to say after a student ate a teacher class and pretty much school was dismissed when the dean, who had been recently turned into a walker, can running at them as they ran out of the building trying to avoid their walker class mate.
River went straight to her dorm to get her things and go home, she wanted to make sure her family was okay, and found her room mate with a high fever tossing and turning in bed. After quickly grabbing some clothes and her hunting knife that she hid under her matress, she left a cool towel on her roomates forehead and made a beeline for the student parking lot and her car. As she was fleeing the school she saw multiple students and professors running from very hungry looking reanimated corpses. The apocalypse had begun.
When turning on the radio the words zombie and walking dead was thrown around a lot, several stations instructed people to get out of the cities and to stay off the main roads, to stay inside if they had to and to not let anyone in that appeared ill.
River arrived to her childhood home shortly after dusk. The house was dark and her mothers car was gone. It looked like there had been a struggle on the front porch and a blood smear on a bannister. She yelled her for her parents and her younger brother but all she heard was banging, coming from upstairs. She pulled her hunting knife out and cautiously crept up the stairs, the banging came from two different rooms, her younger brothers and her parents.
Needless to say after nearly being eaten by first her father, and then her brother River was a little shaken up. It took her a few tries to realize a direct wound to the head would take them out. With all the blood River wondered where her mother was, or even if she was still alive. Her worries were temporarily assuaged when she found a note on the kitchen counter saying that her father and brother were dead and that she was leaving for Houston, the news had said it was safe.
River grabbed her military issue back pack that her brother had gotten her for long hunting trips, Stuffed it with a few changes of clothes some ammo, her fathers smith and wesson that her mother had left behind for the larger hunting riffle, a quiver full of arrows and her compound bow. In her bag she took what her mother had left behind, some canned good and a few bottles of water. In the freezer River found a half melted gallon of cookie dough ice cream. She took the time out of her night to eat it, all of it, she figured she had earned it after having to put down the corpses of her father and brother.
Before leaving the house River left a not of her own, for her older brother it said this:
Hey man,
Dad and Louis are upstairs, don't worry they won't bother you. Mom went to Houston, I missed her by a few hours I'm going to see if I can find her. I don't know when or if you will find this, but if you do. Come find us.
All the weapons have been cleared out and I am taking whats left of the fuel. I can't stay here. I hope to see you again one day.
Love forever and always,
River
She left the note on the Fridge and locked the front door behind her.
River siphoned the fuel out of her car, her younger brothers car, her fathers nice car and the generator and stored them in a few gas cans that she put in the back of her fathers old beat up Jeep. It was beat up and reliable so she figured it would get her far.
What she didn't for see was the traffic, everyone was trying to get to Houston. She was stuck in a traffic jam for days and eventually had to abandon her car when a large group of walkers overtook the road.
She took to the woods to avoid the the herd and tried to save as many people as she could, but the bogged her down and she lost several arrows along the way. She split with the group, them calling her crazy for her to go to Houston, said that it was dangerous but she had to find her mom.
They were right of course, when she finally made it there she was nearly killed being overtaken by walkers, what the kids from the group she was with called them. She realized that if her mother had made it to Houston she was either dead or worse. So she went back to the road and her Jeep. It took her almost 2 days to get back and when she did she ran into a group of men who were scavenging for supplies in the abandoned cars, one of them was a man that she had split with almost a week before. They said they had a camp and that she was welcome to come with.
At the camp she ran into the children she had met the week before and their parents. She also found her mom. She had been in the traffic jam, several miles a head of where River had been stranded, they had just missed each other by chance.
They spent nearly 2 months trying to get back to some semblence of normal, they didn't talk about what happened at the house, that her brother and father had nearly been eaten by their neighbor and when they died her mom tucked them into bed, got some clothes food and fuel and went to the nearest city. And River didn't talk about how they nearly killed her when she went to investigate.
River went on supply runs with the other and hunted squirrels and the occasional deer. Her mother helped cook, clean and take care of the in numerous children around camp. They kept the noise down, fires small and drove cars in from the road to create a type of wall that was manned day and night by the survivors.
River went on a prolonged supply run to a town several miles away. While they were gone their defenses were over taken by a fairly large herd. Her mom was badly bitten trying to protect the children, most of them survived thanks to her.
When River made it back she was just in time and her mom told her to kill her. River naturally didn't want to, she had to kill her father and brother and didn't want to kill her to. Her mom told her she wanted to die on her own terms that she wanted to go before she turned. River reluctantly agreed but before she did her mother gave her a gift, a necklace that had a silver disk with a crescent moon and stars engraved on it, a locket, and inside was the last family photo they had taken, when she graduated high school.
After burying her mother with the other victims of the attack River decided to go back, to Bellville. She first went back to her house, the note was still there and her family was still rotting upstairs. She buried her family and left a new note, stating that she was all that was left of their family. And that she would be back, at least once a month. And that he should stick around.
And thats her story so far.
ALL SYSTEMS GO, THE SUN HASN'T DIED
Deep in My Bones, Straight From Inside
Your Alias/Nickname: Elletnah, Elle, or All Powerful Leader work quite well
RP Experience: Far too long
RP Sample: Achlys choose her words carefully, "The make didn't really bother me, it was the tension, far superior to the hand me down I used back home." She smiled sweetly. "Yes there always does seem to be a bow, though it doesn't always prove to be useful to everyone now does it?"
She regretted what she said almost the moment she said it, she had seen just as well as he had how the bow had failed last years female tribute. His Amira. She tried to not let her regret show on her face but when the escort gasped at her, she glanced at him and back to Cescil.
The table was quiet for a while as they ate their desert in silence. It was Cescils comment about her father that brought it all to a head.
Achlys smiled sarcastically as her nostril flared, her grey eyes flashing dark. "I'm sure he was devastated." she said flatly the humor from her smile never reaching her eyes.
"He was so sad to have one less mouth to feed. Its nice to know people remember him for being 'cool' and fun." The open back of her dress revealed her scar, the thin pale one that ran across her back, the one from his belt.
Taking her napkin off her lap she wiped her mouth and stood abruptly tossing it onto her plate, she wasn't hungry anymore. She nodded politely to the escort, mentor and stylist and turned on her heel and left the room, not heading for her room but for the sitting room at the other end of the apartment. Away from everyone.
The large bay windows looked over the opposite side of the training center and revealed avenues of shops that were brightly lit against the night sky. The spotlights from the other side were still visible in the sky.
Off to the side Achlys notice a door that lead to an open air balcony and she walked over and let her hand rest on the cool glass. She watched the lights play across the sky, the rain that had threatened to start before dinner had begun to fall. And the quiet pitter patter sound it made on the window calmed Lyssy as she tried not to scream at the top of her lungs. She didn't want to be here, not necesarily in the capitol but in this apartment, this place. She wanted to go play in the rain, ruin her no doubt expensive dress and let her red hair fly with wild abandon.
Trying the door she was surprised to find it was unlocked and she eased it open and stuck her hand out, the cool rain splattered on her hand and she smiled. Looking to make sure no one was behind her she quickly stepped out onto the balcony. She stood letting the cool night air wash over her before closing her eyes and stepping into the rain.
It felt amazing against her skin, and for a moment, just a moment she forgot where she was, why she was there and that she was wearing a dress whose cost could feed her family for a month. For the first time in her life she let something go to waste and she didn't care. The dress was pretty but all she had to do was press a few buttons on the wall and another similar to it would reappear for her in her room, its not like she would need it. Soon she would be going into the arena and facing certain death at the hands of the other children in the very building she was in.
Throwing her arms out to the side she spun in circles smiling as the rain fell all around her.
