To continue with my seriously sleep deprived week of work, I bring you character profiles on the two leading characters in Viral Hell so far: Tomalt and Jemina Ashmore. Brother and sister.
Tomalt Ashmore
Age: 24
Class: Assault Trooper
Occupation: Leader of the Resistance
Info: Born to a single mother in Central City, Tomalt was nothing more than a simple hood rat as he grew up on the streets. His early childhood was filled with disarray, living in a rundown part of town with only his mother and sister for family. His mother worked three jobs to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. When Tomalt was eleven, his mother died of HIV that she received from working as a prostitute for years. The loss of his mother tied directly into Tomalt’s psychological trauma that would scar him for the rest of his life. After his mother died, Tomalt and his sister were moved into an orphanage located in a better part of Central City. The damage was done though and Tomalt began to rebel against everything around him save his sister. For the next seven years, Tomalt destroyed everything he was ever given, had no money to his name and was about to be sent into jail for two years for the aggravated assault of two prep school boys. The justice system decided that it wasn’t worth jailing him and instead told him to join the military or find a job before he got into even more trouble. Tomalt decided to join the army, at least there he could take out his rage on someone who actually deserved it and it was his orders to do so. During the screening process to gain admittance into the army, Tomalt was deemed unfit to carry a weapon of any kind and was unable to follow orders from anyone of higher rank than him. He was rejected. Still seeking a job in which he could hold any sort of weapon, Tomalt applied to the Central City Police Department. They rejected him stating, “He was more likely to beat the suspect to death than subdue and handcuff him”. Tomalt’s last chance to carry a weapon ever, aside from becoming a personal hitman, was to apply for a private investigator’s license. He received the license at the age of twenty and began working as a private investigator for hire. For the next four years, Tomalt did his job and did not cause any trouble in the city. He became a respected member of the community and even worked in conjunction with the police department on a number of cases. Still, Tomalt loathed his life. He wanted to be out fighting and killing with anything he could get his hands on. Then the outbreak started. It came from Raccoon City they said. That it had been quarantined but somehow got loose. It didn’t matter because the whole world was dying to a plague of people who had once been living. Tomalt was one of the few to survive in Central City. Along with his sister and her boyfriend, they started trying to figure out what had happened. There was no sign of a new day where there were no infected running around the city, so they fought back and for the future of mankind, they fought for a cure. Tomalt now leads the rebellion against the undead, and it is through his efforts, he believes, that the world will be saved one day and restored to its former self.
Jemina Ashmore
Age: 23
Class: Medic
Occupation: Chief Medic and Second-in-Command of the Resistance
Info: Born to a single mother in Central City, Jemina was the complete antithesis of her brother Tomalt. She was kind and loving where he was brutal and violent. Despite all the disarray of moving around with her mother and brother as a child, Jemina tried her best to stay happy and hopeful for the sake of her family. When her mother died of HIV when she was 10, Jemina was sent to foster homes with her brother for till they were old enough to work on their own and support themselves. She knew Tomalt was severely traumatized and that he would never be the same but still stuck with him, hoping that he would one day go back to the way he was. After Tomalt graduated high school and began his slow decent into depression, Jemina was left alone. When she graduated high school as one of the top students in her class of 721, Jemina had many offers to many colleges and universities. Despite all the offers, only one stood out to her and that was the one for special operations training in the military. When she was only nineteen she was top in her unit, and was further along in her training than anyone else. At this point she was shipped overseas with other top students like her to continue their special training in the field. It was here that Jemina first met Lea Faust. At the time Lea was only 17, but she was one hell of a fighter and quite possibly the most capable munitions and explosives expert to be given authority to fight. The two became quite close being the only two females in a twenty strong unit of men. When Jemina was 22 and Lea 18, they were shipped back to the US to further continue their training with new age weapon systems and new technology developed within the confines of the country. It was around this time that Jemina met her still boyfriend, Robert. The two met on the military base at a recruitment meeting. Robert was recruiting for counter intelligence and Jemina was recruiting for special operations. They went out that night after the recruitment meeting and fell for each other pretty much overnight. Since then they are still steady boyfriend and girlfriend, and hoped to take the next step after six months of dating. Around this time was when the outbreak of the virus began. It started in every major city some said, but it didn’t matter. All that did matter was the whole population was slowly succumbing to this horrible virus that turned the living into the dead. Jemina was stationed on a military base outside Central City when it was overcome by the plague. The whole base went up in flames due to some unknown cause and everyone was presumed dead or tainted by Jemina who had been visiting Tomalt at the time. With the military gone, Jemina follows her brother and his quest to find out what really started the horrible plague now ravaging the entire world. Jemina is one of the reasons that Tomalt has stayed so capable till now and she believes that it is her duty to her mother to make sure Tomalt stays alive. Jemina is also the chief medic of the resistance and is currently the only known technician working on any form of a cure for the virus.
Also, I decided to change my posting name to something a little more sensible instead of stealing the main character of my story's name.
-Nate-
P.S. Yes, that is my real name.
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