Name: Nathaniel Clarke
Age (DoB): 19 (02 February 1999)
Nationality: American (ethnically Filipino-American)
Appearance: 170cm, 75kg
Occupation: College student
Immunity: None
Equipment:
- Backpack
- Water flask, 1.5L (full)
- 3 x 12oz cans of corned beef
- 3 x granola bars
- Sleeping bag
- Flashlight
- On person
- Wallet
- $100 in cash
- Family photo
- Father's credit card
- Mother's credit card
- Mid-range Android cellphone + charger
- Crude spear, 1.5m long (basically a kitchen knife tied to the end of a broomstick)
- Wallet
- Clothing: black t-shirt, denims, father's boots, knee-length socks, hoodie
Skills:
- Craftsmanship - His father used to be a carpenter, and he learned from occasionally helping his father in his father's carpentry shop. This is what inspired him to take up a carpentry technical-vocational course in the Chicago Vocational High School. Nathaniel, at present, is a fresh graduate of CVHS, with a certificate for carpentry. His carpentry skills would prove useful in the construction of defenses and, to an extent, improvised weaponry.
- Attention to detail/meticulousness - while this skill of his also comes with the downside of frequently missing the forest for the trees (which I'll discuss in the Weaknesses portion later), his attention to detail means he can spot small mistakes and nuances easily.
- Culinary arts - His mother used to be a sous chef in a local Chicago restaurant, and has also taught Nathaniel basic cooking skills. Nathaniel thus knows how to make simple but tasty dishes from foodstuffs that his fellow survivors could gather, a skill that would provide a morale booster for his fellows.
- Excessive attention to detail - this is where the "missing the forest for the trees" part comes in, as Nathaniel could become so meticulous and detail-obsessed about a specific situation that he forgets the larger situation around him.
- High-functioning autism - being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of 4, Nathaniel suffers from the nerfs that come with autism, such as below-average social and interpersonal skills, imaginative activity, repetitive mannerisms, and in the worst of situations bouts of sensory overload anxiety and panic.
- Survivor's guilt - Having had to kill his entire family - his mother, father, and two elder siblings - after they turned into infected, Nathaniel carries a huge weight of survivor's guilt on his back, and is starting to exhibit symptoms of PTSD.
Personality: Creative, Analytical, Introverted, Melancholic
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Biography: Nathaniel is the youngest and only surviving child of Jonathan Clarke (born 09 November 1965) and Mariana dela Cruz (born 21 April 1972). His mother's family migrated to the States at the ending days of the Marcos dictatorship, seeking better opportunities for living as the Philippines succumbed to the fatal consequences of the Marcos regime's corruption and ineptitude, while his father comes from a long line of craftsmen in Chicago and owns Clarke and Co. Carpentry.
His family, save for him, were infected at some point in time, turning them into what were effectively zombies. Survival meant having to kill his entire family of infected, looting his family's larder of what he could bring in a backpack, and fleeing home, never to return again. He would eventually find himself hiding at the Chicago Public Library after nearly two weeks of wandering aimlessly around the city.
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