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Name: Kim Coleman

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Weapon of Choice: Combat Knife, Walther PPK/S Pistol

Personality: Having only been six when the apocalypse started, Kim has grown accustomed to a life polluted with death and suffering. This has left her cold towards strangers and anyone she hasn't known for an extended period of time. However, she isn't a cold-blooded killer and will take the time to get to know someone if she thinks they can help her in some way. Her only motivation to kill is when someone is hostile towards her first. Kim is secretive and can be hard to get to know, but once you do, she's willing to reveal things about her past. Always having wanted kids of her own, Kim has a soft spot for children.

Backstory: When the apocalypse began, Kim was only six. She fled the most dangerous areas with her mother, who was a schoolteacher, and her father, who was a police officer and ex-military. For years they lived in the countryside, always finding a way to go on surviving. When Kim was 14, her mother was bitten. Kim had to witness her mother blow her own brains out, leaving her and her father to survive together. That event triggered the harsh personality that Kim displays to this day. Until she was 21, Kim traveled the apocalypse-ridden world with her dad. One day, a pair of bandits got the best of them, and they murdered her father and took all of their food and water. Kim was able to retrieve her father's combat knife from his military days and his police-issued pistol, two items that she holds near and dear to her.

Kim was on her own for the first time now that her father was gone. She rarely trusted anyone, and much preferred to traverse the wasteland on her own. When she was 25, she met a man named Jordan, who, instead of trying to steal from her, offered her his food and water seeing that she was low on supplies. Kim was suspicious at first, but accepted the offer. For three years they traveled together, also falling in love during that time, and Kim actually felt happy for once. However, the cruelty of the world caught up to her again, and Jordan was unexpectedly mauled by the dead right before her eyes.

Now, without Jordan, she's once again gotten used to the solitude, but she writies in an old notebook she found a few weeks after his death to combat that loneliness. From poetry to stories to just writing about her day, writing in that notebook is the only thing that keeps her sane.

Occupation: None

Actor: Kerry Washington