User blog comment:Carlistheman/Character auditions/@comment-26217707-20140102032815

Name: Jay Collins

Actor: Leon Thomas III

Age: 18

Personality: Jay is very outgoing--he loves to make friends and socialize with whoever he can. As personable as he is, he never comes across as arrogant and self-centered. The one thing that strikes everyone as odd is Jay's reluctance to reveal anything about his past. He only does this because he's ashamed of it, and he doesn't lie about it either out of fear of losing someone's trust.

Backstory: Leon was born into a poor family, with a younger sister and single mother. When he was a teenager, he sold drugs to get enough money to support his family. When thing got really tight, he resorted to thievery--during a mugging gone wrong, he shot and killed a young man and ended up running off with his belongings. It helped pay the rent that month but Jay still feels guilty about it to this day. Selfishly, he used some of that money from his theft to buy some nice clothes instead of helping out his mom. When the apocalypse hit, his mother had kicked him out when she found out about his affilation with drugs.