User blog comment:JayBaee/Protectors Auditions/@comment-1107423-20130603205635

This is a pretty epic idea. I'm on board :D

Name: Michigan

Age: 34

Ethnicity: African-American

Weapon: FN Five-seven (firearm)/ax (melee)

Personality: Loud, fierce and funny, Michigan was once a self-pitying young woman who uses the bad experiences she had in the past to her advantage. Now filled with optimism at the chance for a fresh start, Michigan might be the only person excited by the prospect of a zombie apocalypse.

Backstory: Poor and living in a foster home, Michigan always had aspirations for something better. She studied videos for hours on end and read so many books and worked hard in high school with hopes of becoming a nurse, until she got in with the wrong crowd, got pregnant with a guy who abandoned her, and dropped out of school to live on her own.

Still poor, and now a young single mother -- neither, of course, by choice -- Michigan was trapped in the cyclical hell of a battered-down life. The money she made as a hairdresser went immediately back into her rent (which she's chronically two months late on), her self-image (which she's endlessly unsatisfied with), booze (which there's never enough of), but none of it to her daughter, who found herself the victim of a young mother who was far too immature to deal with anything herself.

In truth, Michigan's own mother abandoned her at a young age and never left a good example in her life. At the age of nineteen, when her young daughter was ripped away from her by child protective services, Michigan finally found herself slumped at rock bottom. She took a good look at the life she led and decided to make a change for the better.

Ditching the bottle for good and working hard to get her G.E.D. and restart her dreams of joining the medical field, Michigan was finally turning her life around when the world decided to end. Just her luck. She joined the Protectors in hopes that she could make herself a better person than she was in the old world; she's fairly optimistic when it comes to the new world order, seeing it as a clean slate.

She uses the motherly instincts she never knew she had to keep a watchful eye on those she's hired to protect, while her street-wise makes her a powerful and tricky fighter. Her medical knowledge is surprisingly dense, and she gets to live out her dream as a medic. Deep down, there's always that question wracking around in Michigan's mind: Where is my daughter now? Is she still out there? Will I ever get to prove to her that I'm sorry for everything I've done?

Actress: Dana Davis (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MOs9NnysGMo/UF57J2zarrI/AAAAAAAAEmI/4h-rCl4b01o/s1600/carmen_phillips.jpg)