I've been holding off on posting an application for about two and a half weeks because it has been reiterated several times that no apps should be posted before episode 3 begins. However, given that last comment about how people might not get in, I feel like I have to post it now or lose my chance.
NAME: Finn Ballast
AGE: 24
NATIONALITY: Irish
RACE: Caucasian
SKILLS: Engineering and above average fitness.
WEAPONRY: A hatchet and a riot shield.
VEHICLE: None.
BIOGRAPHY: Finn Ballast was born in a castle in Ireland. His family was wealthy, and had bought it ten years prior. He developed a fascination with architecture because of the castle. When the world went to hell, he was working on his master's degree in engineering at MIT. He was trapped, along with the other engineering students, inside their lecture hall for three days as the dead roamed the university. He found out the hard way that you didn't need to be bitten to rise up again when one student intentionally overdosed on pills. When they opened the doors of the lecture hall for a few seconds to take the body out, and then run back inside, the dead student grabbed onto the professor's arm, scratching him.
When MIT calmed down a little, the engineering students found out that they were the only people left in the university. They holed up in the cafeteria for couple of months, and then decided as a group to head further inland, reasoning that with fewer people, there would be fewer walkers. Rather than go through Detroit, the group decided to swim across lake Erie from Amherstburg to Gibraltar, approximately two kilometres. They built a small raft and put their supplies on it, but they were forced to leave while they were still preparing because a herd moved in to Amherstburg. During the chaos, Finn was separated from the group and blacked out while swimming across. He woke up on the shore in Gibraltar and saw one of his friends dead on the sand. He went to check his friend's pulse, but ran off in fear as the man's mouth opened and tried to bite his arm. He came across a corpse a few hours later that was holding a riot shield and took it from the body, and then kept on moving. Finn is not aware that there are living people who kill other living people to make a living because his group kept moving constantly and never encountered raiders/bandits or anything of the sort.
APPEARANCE: A mix of this and this, wearing a black leather blouson, a dark slate grey t-shirt, light slate grey sweatpants, black engineer boots, brown leather gloves to protect his hands when he swings his hatchet and a backpack with several straps on the back that can hold his riot shield. His blouson has a pocket that can hold his hatchet. In summary, most of his body except for his head is covered.
