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Player Information:
Name: Ramen
Age: 25
Contact:
Game Cast: Nobody yet! [/ugh.]

Character Information:
Name: Shane Walsh
Canon: The Walking Dead
Canon Point:
Age: Mid to Early Thirties
Reference: Walking Dead Wikia: Shane Walsh

Setting:
"When you think about it, we're all pretty much dead already."

Shane Walsh belongs to an unlucky world, a dying world. Only instead of a darkening star or any other scientific reason. Shane lives in a world where the dead have risen, there's no more room in hell and everyone around him is pretty much dead already. Set in a post apocalyptic southern united states, Shane lives in a world where he has to fight for every single day of living and it's taken it's toll.

He's used to keeping other people safe and doing whatever it takes to survive. This is a common theme for the world at large, real survivors emerge while people adapt to a world where the dead walk and people are willing to kill one another to live. The Walkers that inhabit his world are typical Romero fare, they move faster after being freshly turned before they begin to rot and begin to move slower while still being animated.


Personality:

Shane Walsh is described as a loose canon, as someone reckless and someone who adapts to the brave new world a little too easily. Joss Whedon once said however, that you can never know a man until you see him at his weakest moments. Shane is brought to his knees at least three times during the series and we learn that he is loyal, ready to kill for those who he wants to protect. We learn that he's always had a reckless streak, that when compared to others in his profession perhaps he does it for the wrong reasons. We also learn that he loves deeply and perhaps feels isolated and alone. The biggest thing however is that Shane is a product of his environment and the world he lives in. He is a different man then the one we see vaguely at the beginning of the series, going from a man who is a decent person to a man who is willing to kill his best friend and steal his best friend's wife not out of malice or hating him but because he feels that he can protect them better.

That's the tragedy of the Walking Dead. When civilization is stripped from a human being the question of where will they go and what will they become is paramount on the human mind. Society is a construct and there are some people who are willing to build it and some people who can function just fine without it. Shane is one of those people, someone who is willing to murder to get something that he wants. Had he been allowed to live it's difficult to predict how he might have regressed further, but while Rick's time on the barge would be impressed with the amenities, Shane will initially be disgusted by the barge and feel angry that the people who he wants to care about in his warped sense of mind can't enjoy the same thing that these supposed "criminals" are enjoying. That will be something that gets him through the early months until he acknowledges his own mistakes.

Shane is inherently loyal and a decent human being. In the beginning he cared about his best friend a great deal and he holds him in high esteem. His initial feelings about the man's wife are there, they did and do exchange glances occasionally but when the chips are down Shane wants to get him out of there or at least try to. When he realizes that he can't he assumes the most logical conclusion (that Rick had died). The concept of "assumptions making an ass out of you and me" cannot exist in an apocalyptic wasteland. Shane clearly acted in Rick's best interest knowing that Lori and Carl deserve to live.

The biggest relationship is between Shane and the Grimes family. Shane was a welcome guest in the Grimes home with he and Rick quietly ribbing each other and Shane performing basic tasks around the house. Shane had a close relationship with Carl, Rick's son and had a relationship with Lori as well that was friends bordering on polite interest. When the world ended they came together and Shane, immersed in the destruction realizes that they were important and that he missed out. As he tells Rick, "I thought I was keeping them alive but they were keeping me alive." It's the truth. All of his life he lived with isolation and when he realized what was really important he decided that he'd have the will to fight for it.

The reasons behind his abusive treatment of Lori has to do with his sense of isolation and inability to deal with his own screw ups. His own acknowledgement that - in short his life was wasted. Hence his irrational attachments. (something that even Rick recognizes. "You don't love her, you just think you do.") a good idea would get him to find somebody to care about, but that may not be entirely possible.

Hence his reaction to Rick returning. The two of them swim in the oldest fight known to man - my mate versus yours. Shane is an alpha male, someone who wants to take charge without the civilizing aspect. He's dangerous when things that he wants to take care of are taken away, hence his ultimate reaction and his ultimate downfall.

Appearance: Shane Walsh and Lori Grimes

Abilities:

Shane is pretty physically strong, built compact and short. He's the brawn to Rick's brain, and the two make a pretty good team because of it. Other then that Shane has the skills of a cop, sans the promotions aspect. As a deputy sheriff he's better back-up then actually making any decisions himself. (Not that he feels that way.)

Shane's claim to fame however would be making pretty consistent headshots. When he gets a hold of a gun his shots go where he tells them to with very little room for error.

Shane is also infected with an unknown plague that will bring him back from the dead if he's not shot in the head and killed as a zombie. (In this case he calls them "walkers")

Inventory:
- 9mm glock, full clip.
- Dark blue shirt, heavily sweat stained.
- Dark blue jeans heavily sweat stained
- Necklace with gold "22" symbol on it.
- Bag full of apples

In-Character Samples:
Third Person:

Shane Walsh didn't sleep.

It was too quiet, too secure. He kept reaching over to the side of his bed in the apartment he'd abandoned looking for something. Someone, sleeping in shifts. The sound of another human being. Nothing. Just an overwhelming oppressive silence. He'd roll out of bed then and drink - the bar had been the first thing he'd sought out and the bartender had looked away for just that one moment and that bottle of whiskey had become his new best friend.

It helped drown the sense of frustration at this place. These people who were enjoying services and things that Lori and Carl deserved, activities that Andrea had given up. Even Rick.

Thinking about Rick made him sit up and stare at the blankets. He ran a hand across his forehead and licked his lips. One swig of the alcohol. You're a Walsh Shane, you have a legacy to uphold.

He waved away his father and ignored the sound of his conscience. It sounded suspiciously like Rick and he hated it. If he'd managed to summon enough willpower to give a shit about anybody else in this goddamn boat he was sure that he would have found it in him to be angry on Rick's behalf about this place. These were criminals getting services. If he'd been able to summon the ability to care about them he would have seen just how hard this place was on people.

He just didn't.

He woke up at night and reached over to a space where Lori should have been and thought about Carl and Rick and the rest of the group and something tore itself up inside of him.

"To my only true friend." He tilted the whiskey bottle back, "Don't ever fucking leave me."

The last of it burned on the way down and Shane threw it hard across the room. It shattered against the wall, breaking the photograph of he and Rick at their academy graduation. He smiled.

"I beat you to it. Fucking should have killed you first whiskey bottle."

He lay back on the bed and waited for it to kick in. Something wet trickled down his cheek and he tried not to be afraid. Reaching over he grabbed for a pillow and hugged it against him as he lay back hoping to sleep and not dream.

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