Keagan Redford Infected Divi Leader

<sub>Character Name: Keagan Redford
Nickname: Keags, Red, Little Red Corvette (bonus if you get the reference)
Age: 25
Birthday: August 5th, 1987
Blood Type: AB-
Infected status: Infected. Cage Infected
Class: Infected Counseling
Status: Division Leader
Division: Infected Division
Gender: Male
Sexual Preference: Asexual. Cause LOL he’s infected
Hair Color/Style: Half shaven blonde, other half red streaks and long.
Eye Color: Black with grey rim around the pupil. Grey rim is highly reflective in light
Height: 6’
Weight: 150 lbs
Distinguishing Feature: Well other than the lack there of skin on his chest, break apart ribs, spores on his ribs, bone spikes that can occasionally come from his palms. His hair, his eyes, oh those fang/razor sharp teeth in his mouth. His various piercings on his lip and ear.

Stats: 80 (ctrl is not included)
STR: 8
DEF : 8
SPD: 14
INT: 13
CTY: 15
AWR: 22
CTRL: 22

Personality: Ohohoho. Move out the way. Keagan is highly extroverted, highly charismatic, and extremely generous. He’s extremely kind and open to those he meets, a terrible judge of character really he loves everyone and welcomes them with open arms and doesn’t think twice about it. He’s very quick witted, and fast to think of a solution. He’s very adapt to problem solving. He’s extremely creative, and self-confident. Unfortunately his self-confidence can come off as egotistical and he can be prone to bragging granted the setting is right. He doesn’t just willy-nilly boast but get him on a topic he excels in and he will boast you into the ground. He’s very courageous and brave. He won’t let his fear show, he can also be impulsive he’ll willingly throw himself into danger for someone he cares for to keep them safe. He generally remains positive in mind frame and has a willpower that almost can’t be matched, granted he doesn’t get bored of what he’s doing which can happen easily. He’s very honest, ask him what he thinks and he’ll tell you but he’ll try to do so gently if he feels what he’s saying could damage your pride in the least. He’s very compromising, as he hates to see people around him upset so he’ll often break down and try to find a solution so all can be happy. This can often lead to him exhausting himself mentally and leave him extremely beat by the end of the day. He has a quick mind and generally thinks big picture and leaves others to get the details which; can often lead to situations where his plans completely fail him. This can come off as impatient and irrational depending on the situation and in some situations that might be the case; he tries to avoid being irrational and impatient. Sometimes when faced with issues he won’t take them one issue at a time and he’ll try to tackle them all at once, which can lead to depression he keeps inside of him, and exhausting him. On the outside he’ll seem positive and happy but on the inside he’s about ready to press a gun to his head and end it all. He also tries to shortcut everything in life, not having the patience to not take things in steps.

With all this being said he’s a born leader, so this position he’s been thrusted into is perfect for him. He’s very aggressive but due to his infection he’s had to learn to maintain a calm demeanor or his ribs will start to arrange to release his hallucinogen. He’s a diehard adventurer, sometimes he can get into deadly situations because all he wanted to do was explore and face a new challenge. Sometimes he does things senselessly, it’s very hard for him to break this habit, only if it involves others will he try to act sensibly and not rush into a situation. He adores helping people all he wants to do is leave his mark and his legacy; he wants to be known for his bravery and kindness so he tries his hardest to live by these. Especially in this world he wants to make a difference it’s his goal to get some form of plaque or statue in his name for making this world a better place, he gives everyone his all which also tends to leave him worn out and exhausted by the end of the day. Because of this he can tend to seem arrogant, and when he’s exhausted himself he becomes extremely moody and sensitive. Not like he’ll sob if you call him a name he’ll get defensive and look to throw down.

He loves to feel important and like someone cares, he’ll do anything to feel important (he can come off self-centered and attention seeking because of this). He also wants to be known for being daring, and original ideas. To most he’ll come off aggressive and sure of himself, which he is he’s highly confident and won’t let anyone push him around, he’s comfortable with himself for the most part. However, at the end of the day he’ll look back on everything he’s said and done and tear himself apart. He can be his own worst enemy if given enough time to think and reflect. He’s not the most tactful man and can sometimes be overly blunt without realizing it, even though he tries to watch this sometimes he just impulsively says what’s on his mind and can hurt other’s feelings or set them on the defensive. He still has issues keeping his calm in situations that involve those he cares for. If the situation seems grim he’ll act without thinking trying to help or save the other person which can either make it better or make it worse leaving him to mentally destroy himself for failing. He’s got an extremely ragey-side which, takes a lot to unleash since at this point in his mental frame he’s weakest and his infection can take over and drive him to do things he wouldn’t normally do.

Character History:
Keagan’s family descends from the Cherokee American Indians, Mongolians, French, British, German, Irish, and Grecians. He was born in Washington D.C, at the age of 6 his family moved to Tennessee into the Appalachian Mountains. He was born with severe ADHD and a minor chest infection set in from the coal dust in the air of the mountains as a child. For these he took medications for quite sometime. At the age of 7 his father started taking him camping and showing him how to shoot a gun with his other older brothers (who came from separate fathers ex’s of his mother) His childhood was good; filled with innocence, love, and stability everything a young child could need to properly develop. This, however came to an abrupt end when his father was killed in a car accident during an extremely foggy night on his way home from work and the driver coming at him was loaded full of moonshine.

His mother was devastated; she shut down emotionally for a while as she continued to work her job to support her 3 boys. It was a quiet life, and he tried the best he could to make his mom happy. He made her flower crowns and picked wildflowers and presented them to her as gifts thinking that would lift her spirits. None of this helped, so he joined sports teams in his elementary to try to make her proud by winning. This didn’t work, but it did do something. It brought his mom out of the house and around other single men. He noticed her spirits start to lift slowly but surely. And in time his mom started dating and her confidence bloomed. He was happy to see his mother smiling again and thought that life would return. Unfortunately his mother had just as poor a judge in character as him, her first boyfriend was physically abusive. He would come home drunk beat on her and then the boys, this continued for a year and a half until Keagan and his older brothers decided they had seen enough of this man beat on their mom. One of his brothers was close to 18 at this time. And when the cops were called both his brother and his mother’s boyfriend were carted off and jailed.

Without his father’s second source of income his family didn’t have the money to bail out his brother. And so his brother remained in prison for 5 years to serve for assault. In a years time his mother got back out on the market and met another man. For the time they dated he was everything this broken family needed. At this time he had his mother stop giving him medicine for his ADHD, and promised he wouldn’t cause problems in school and that he’d keep it under control. For bit he got into fights, but quickly learned to monitor himself les’ he be put back on the meds. By sheer will and determination to want to be normal he controlled his ADHD. But after they married and the knot was well since tied, he became a different man and directed his anger towards Keagan who was now 13 at the time and his other brother 16. Because it was only verbal and directed to them they kept it a secret from their mother, only wanting her happiness. To get out of the house Keagan joined his high school football team where he could let his inner speed demon out by playing as running-back. And the other sport he joined archery, where he found out he had impressive aim and a good eye. He received mediocre barely passing grades even though he was in Honors and AP, he could have easily have gotten straight A’s he just didn’t care enough, the only thing he cared about was passing so he could stay on the sports teams to keep him out of the house and away from his step-father.

He was a highly social child and often stayed at friend’s houses as much as he could, he felt bad never being home to see his mother but if he were to keep what his step father did a secret he had to remain away. He loved his mother deeply and often made her things in his elective classes to show her she was still the best mother in the world in his mind. When he was 16 the abuse became it’s worst with his other brother out of the house, he was now taking all of the abuse. Hearing constantly day in and day out that his mother was ashamed of him, that he’d never be loved as long as he scraped by and as long as he didn’t try to stay in committed relationships. At points in time his stepfather would tell him to kill himself because he was the biggest mistake his mother ever made, was keeping him instead of getting an abortion. This was far from the truth, he was not an accidental baby and his mother adored him deeply. But hearing this day in and day out began to widdle him down. At this point he began cutting trying to rid the pain. It never helped and at 17 he quit cutting realizing it was getting him nowhere.

When he was 18, he decided that instead of college that his stepfather would pay for and be able to control his decision making, he joined the Army. His mother was saddened by his decision to leave home entirely, and throw his life on the line with the Persian Gulf War raging he was sure to be shipped off. And sure enough after basic, he was shipped off into the war where he was exposed to various hazardous chemicals for 18 months. One of which left a rash that comes and goes. Sometimes it’s just visible and causes no problems other times it can be highly irritable. He made sure to send letters to his mother weekly to let her know he was okay, but he never got any replies from her. Sure that it was stepfather blocking his communication to her. Every week for 15 minutes he was allowed some phone time for when they weren’t out on the battlefield in which he would take time to say hi, that he loved her still, and that he was doing fine and hoped his letters would reach her soon.

When he returned he remained at the base in Tennessee doing a desk job, and getting counseling for his PTSD and some medication for his rash and PTSD. He did this until he was 20, when the outbreak hit. Immediately he thought of his mother and raced to help her, only to get there too late to find her and his stepfather already devoured. He sucked it up, even though he wanted to end it all at the loss of his mother, he had his brothers to find. He set out to find his brother using his sniper skills, and camping experiences and knowledge of the Appalachian Mountains to keep him alive. When he was 21, him and a young girl named Alyssia became bitten as they worked their way through a city.

At first their infection seemed simple enough, usual symptoms; paleness, numbness, nausea, fever, vomiting, coughing, and dementia. However, after a day they weren’t infected but the site of their bites had turned flesh eating and the flesh on their chest began to rot away. After a week they thought they weren’t infected their chest had been eaten away but the rest of them even their minds seemed relatively human. While he developed noticeable spores on his ribs that released hallucinogens, she had developed spores that released the same. He had severe cravings for humans that he refused to give into. He tried all kinds of things eating animals, eating undead, and eating the bodies of survivors. None seemed to work without making him ill. For a bit he starved himself while retrieving humans for Alyssia or Tru as he now called her. Eating undead didn’t seem to bother her but it made him violently ill. It took him a year to figure out he could live off bones, at first they stuck to lone survivors, they were easy enough to pick off and with the father daughter act most believed them to be harmless until they were tripping balls and found themselves being devoured by a 6 year old girl he called his daughter.

After 6 months they got more comfortable in their ability to blend and worked their way up to packs of 6. Killing one monthly making it seem as if zombies had gotten them, using various tricks. Such as supply runs with a person, to look out posts, Keagan would make up various stories about how they risked their life so Tru could live. Then Keagan began to notice that he could make bone spikes, and that Tru could make tentacles with her intestines to pull her victims into her stomach where she devoured them whole. He reserved using his bone spikes that protruded from his palms for when they were completely surrounded by infected and no survivors present. A few times he had gotten himself torn up, and one unfortunate person decided to patch him up and found themselves infected after his blood got into an open wound of theirs. He doesn’t know how his kind of infected are formed even though he’s looked into it and tested it on animals only to see it not work. As far he knows him and Tru are the only cage infected other than the poor bastard he infected.

They roamed like this for 3 years until they found themselves in Puerto Rico, where the survivors were severely outnumbered and easier to pick off within the city. Here they blended in and continued their ways. After a year of living here they noticed a school set itself up, curious they decided to observe until they ventured out into the city when a mysterious landmark appeared. And for now they lie in wait. Watching their targets and summing them up.

Likes/Dislikes:
+ Bones (a lot since he kind of lives off them)
+Tru (his “daughter”)
+Heavy Metal
+Metal
+Rock
+Messing around
+Upbeat moods
+Making people laugh
+Helping people
+Chemistry (He studied it a lot on his free time he wanted to be a chemist)
+Biological Sciences
+Math (.-. he’s a weird baby)
+Good looking art
+Debates
+Making people smile
+Just being of general help
+Running
+Playing games
+Women Singing
+Music/Singing
-Having to be the harper
-Having to be the bad guy
-Having to babysit (he’d rather be your friend)
-Getting guns pointed in his face (this has happened a lot 8’D)
- Downers
-Tru being hurt
-Tru being hungry
-Anyone messing with Tru
-Having to use his hallucinogens
-Zombie “experts” (the kind that spew bullshit)
- Boomers
- Spitters
-Tanks
- Having to get in fights
-People who enjoy killing
-People bitching about their family when they have no reason to bitch
-Cooking (too many steps just toss it all in the damn pot mix it and call it good)
-Mechanical Objects (again with the steps)

Strengths/Weakness:
+ Gunshots won’t usually down him (usually)
+Fast
+Thinks on his feet
+Versed in Chemistry
+Versed in Biology
+Can make bone spikes from his palm
+Can make hallucinogens from spores on his lungs (can last 15mins-2 hours depending on how much you’re exposed to)
+Can use his ribs as knives (he likes to do this)
+Sensitive Hearing
+Sensitive Sense of Smell
+Nightvision
+20/10 Vision
+ Excellent Peripheral Vision
+Kick ass aim
+Strong lower body
+Can blend into infected crowds and human crowds just fine
-Sensitive Hearing (this can give him massive headaches that can make him hurl)
- Sensitive Smell (strong enough smell can give him a head ache or make him pass out)
- Too bright of lights (can also give him a migraine strong enough to make him hurl and force him into taking a nap)
-Once he makes the bone spikes he has to wait a few days for the bones in his arms to return after much ingestion of calcium (animal/people bones)
-His heart and sternum are massive weak points due to his infection. Even more so after his ribs have broken apart
-Has to steal ribs to replace the ones he used as knives
-Suffers from his own hallucinogens due to his humane mind, the amount that sits on his clothes can give him various kinds of hallucinations throughout the day
- Weak upper body he can’t get in any kind of physical fight due to his chest
- Hits to his sternum/heart/head will kill him
-Has to eat bones to live
- Tries to lie about being human for as long as he can which results in many fights
-Thinks too big picture (can over look important details)
-Following too many steps can irritate the hell outta him
-Random rash can appear and reappear which can either be asymptomatic or be irritating as hell
-PTSD (can sometimes come up depending on a situation not severe but it does cause some problems)
-Can’t cook
-He can only drive motorcycles 8’D he’ll crash a car in a matter of minutes

Infection Explanation:
As stated above the cage infection starts of as a simple bite infection, everything appears like a normal zombie infection. They get the normal symptoms; fever, nausea, dementia, paleness, coughing, vomiting, weakness, and signs of obvious infection around the bite. However, unlike other infections after 24 hours the site around the bite begins to rot away in high speed, a lot like a Brown Recluse bite the skin and tissue beneath just gets eaten away. Until the chest cavity from the clavicle down to the stomach itself is completely gone.

In children and women their ribs become somewhat cartilaginous due to the lowered amounts of calcium in their bones. This allows for bendable and retractable ribs. Where in adult males and females who have taken large amounts of calcium pills have stronger bones, which, require them to break from the sternum and then have to reheal back to the sternum and heal back into place rather than retract and extend. In elderly the bones break and cannot reheal and then be replaced with bones from their victims.

Bone spikes also develop in young able-bodied males rather than in females, children, and elderly. Again due to calcium, in children and elderly 9/10 times they have tentacles due to not being physically able to fight and subdue their victim. In male Cage Infected they develop spores on their ribs due to the presence of testosterone, in female pores are developed due to the presence of progesterone and estrogen.

These infected from far off look like normal humans, and can continue this façade as long as they keep their torso wrapped up. Their limbs look healthy even good looking as the rest of them. They don’t smell like they’re infected to humans, until their chest cavity becomes wet. Their chest area looks normal when under clothes, maybe even anorexic. When they do use bone spikes the max length they can be is the length of their arm, majority of the time to lower heal time the spike is only half the arm length. These infected will never attack a large group they attack on the individual level. These infected may hardly speak depending on how much of their brain has been taken over by the infection, or they may be able to hold a conversation depending on their willpower and how many people they’ve ingested. The brain is relatively unaffected by the disease, allowing them to remain intelligent as an infected. They are manipulative by nature, luring humans into a false sense of security, and then striking and using them as a meal when the best opportunity arrives.

The type of gas produced depends on the individual and their mental/physical health at the time of infection. However, hallucinogenic gas is the most common as this means their mental and physical health was relatively normal. The strength of the hallucinogen will vary though depending on if the victim took any type of drugs or has a weakened body state. If the victim took any type of pills for ADHD or some attention and focus disorder the hallucinations they cause will be unrelated and basically cracked out. Drugs like heroine and crack will create a paranoia to the point it immobilizes the victim from not being able to reality from fantasy. The presence of personality and mental state drugs will add to the strength and make it harder for their victim to realize what is going on. Anesthetic gas can also be produced, this is most common in elderly cage infected or infected that had severe troubles with pain and took things such as muscle relaxers, and assorted kinds of painkillers, or swelling reducers. This is because they would need their victim to become immobilized and unaware of the pain being inflicted on them so they could devour them without trouble. The last kind of gas that can be produced is similar to chloroform. It knocks out the victim and can last anywhere from several hours to a day. These occur in victims who took sleep aids or some form of depressant, day long knock out gas is for those who took compound drugs for things likes restless leg syndrome, anxiety, and insomnia as there would be more depressants present than in someone who only took sleep aids.

These gases form when the infection gets into the blood stream and alters the oxygen in the blood cells and when they meet the air in the lungs they mix and form their gas. Why only a handful of victims become cage infected is only theorized. It is commonly believed that those with high intelligence or high will power contribute to being able to hold some shred of humanity if not 90% of it. The only thing in common with all the infected is that they have AB- blood, as to why this blood type is the only one that will host this strand is not yet known.

Misc:
-Can’t cook believe I mentioned that saying it again so it’s known
- He knows some martial arts forms but he can’t really use them anymore due to his lack of chest
- He can sing really well (it’s mostly a growly voice nothing really super soft but he can make it soft)
-Sucker for good female singing voices
-Total Mama’s boy if you didn’t gather that
-Refuses to take off his dog tags
-Likes to believe that his brother’s are still out there and looking for him
-He stores food in his chest cavity. Like in little baggies mostly for Tru. So at random points in the day you can see him pull out shit like sandwiches from under his shirt.
-Has an obsession with making contact explosives with his Chem knowledge.
-He likes to put on Chem displays like a Hydrogen balloon near a lighter popping and bursting into flames briefly kinda thing.
- When his ribs break it forces his back to do an unnatural arch, and the pain from it causes him to shriek like a hunter.
-Can still feel pain
-He carries around various kinds of headphones to keep himself calm
-Has an obsession with trying to see if he can make Boomers explode by overheating them
-Unnaturally curious
-He just has an obsession with conducting various experiments
-He likes to ask for piggy back rides from men who are bigger than him 8I he wants to feel tall
-His favorite ecosystem is Ocean. Get him around an ocean and you will have to drag him away kicking and screaming.
-If asked about Tru's mother he'll give you a different story and a different name everytime
-Thinks feather boas are a creation of the devil xD</sub>

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