The more the merrier
Zeke is optimistic and helpful. He is somewhat of a hero in his own mind. He wishes to spare as many people hardship and tends to try to do too much work, but he never complained.
Zeke carried a hunting knife and a barrette with two extra clips should the situation warrant it.
Zeke has a unique and valuable ability of Enhancement. He is able to enhance himself as well as others augmenting them temporarily when they are with in a certain distance to him. This ability includes peoples abilities. The condition is that Zeke has to touch them first. his power increases thought processing, strength, reflexes, etc...
Zeke has traveled a lot escaping one settlement just to wind up in another one. He was always helping his parents as their age continued to make things harder for them all. Zeke shouldered the burden and became quite an able scout and decoy with apparently very little fear of the zombies.
It was not that he was careless or fool hardy, he was actually very careful Almost too careful at times.
It was during one of his longer scouting and retrieving expeditions that the group got attacked. Though Zeke's disappointment in the other scout's was short lived by the urgency of escape. Zeke pulled out a whistle and started blowing it over and over as he ran towards the zombie horde. He escaped with only a single bite but as he life was ending he smiled as he realized he used all his bullets on the zombies just to distract and escape.
When he turned he first thought that he had been immune to the virus but after checking his pulse and breath he realized he was indeed dead. He assumed that his ability had brought his brain processing back to normal or at least far from that of an animal. Zeke experimented with his body as well as how zombies interacted with him. Zeke was pleased to find that his ability seemed to give him some unnatural healing that stops his body from rotting and allows him to reattach limbs.
Days passed and then weeks. Zeke though full of his memories he seemed to be lacking a moral compass. His hunger drove him much like a regular zombie but he found that he could eat just about anything. He also found that human flesh was the best. Through his traveling he became quite depressed but that was fixed when he awoke others. They like him were driven by their hunger but their personalities were still present. There had been discussions about how they felt about eating raw meat and especially eating humans. They all agreed that they were a different animal now. Different from humans that had a wider diet and put them higher on the food chain. Though they didn't go out of their way to find humans, they never turned down a straggler.