Name: Thomas "Tom" Walton
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Archetype: Teacher
Personality: Tom Walton is a very quiet genius. Every day in his head he comes up with masterpieces, but leaves them be. He loves kids and has a passion for teaching them. Tom is very fun, although many kids don't care. He is sort of a geek but with a zombie apocalypse at hand, it comes in handy. Tom looks very cold on the outside. He doesn't seem like a friendly guy. He also doesn't look very tough, which is another incorrect stereotype.
Tom enjoys using big words and calls the condition of the world "Iatrogenic". He enjoys being the only one in the room who knows what is going on, but understands almost every plan made up. You don't have to tell him anything twice. This is also because he has a photographic memory and has the memory of an elephant. Although Tom is mainly centered on science, he loves Einstein's quote "Imagination is more important than knowledge." He believes imagination is the only thing that will get everyone out of this mess.
Three Skill Sets : Smarts: Tom is a genius. He got his brains from his two scientist parents who died in an explosion in their lab when he was thirteen. He got tons of scholarship offers but didn't go to college since he knew all the materials. He has excellent problem solving skills and conquered a rubix-cube (Not sure if I spelled that right...) when he was five. He did it in three minutes.
Tenacity: After growing up without parents, Tom learned that working hard would get him to where he wanted to be. So, Tom has developed the skill to stay positive, no matter how impossible the situation seems.
Creativity: Tom, besides being smart, is very imaginative, hence his strange scientific ideas. He is a good artist and when he doesn't know how to put his ideas into words, he will draw them out very well.
History Since December 21st 2012: I know this is before December 21st, but I thought it'd be important to mention that Tom was asked by Paradome Industries to become an employee, but he said no because he loved the kids he was teaching too much.
Tom taught a honors science class, covering things most teachers wouldn't cover, like how things like telepathy, bilocation, and other strange sciences could be possible. His students' favorite subject was when he would talk about those futuristic things, but finally the principal asked him to stop filling the kid's head with what he thought was crap. When Paradome asked him to work there, he seriously thought about it, but decided against it for the sake of his students, who were actually fond of their professor, despite them offering him a quite handsome amount of money per hour. If he would have joined, he could have been possibly designing weapons of mass destruction even worse than the zombie apocalypse. But, most likely, if Tom knew what they were doing, he would have quit and told authorities ASAP.
Tom realized what was happening on December 21st when his college students came into class only half alive and he defenestrated himself. (AKA Which is how he would say he threw himself out the window). He went on the run and got to Ohio. His tactics to stay alive were to stay in a basement with a gun, killing all the diseased people who tried to attack him. He even began working on an antidote, but wasn't exactly sure how to fit all the puzzle pieces together. When Tom got the letter, he decided Paradome must be stopped.... he wanted to avenge his students. He wanted to fight for their lives.