Thread:Vauseman/@comment-1107423-20130810165313

Name: Dylan “Newt” Newton (M) Ethnicity: Caucasian Actor: Gabe Nevins (http://sp3.fotolog.com/photo/35/22/121/reallylovethem/1308427917549_f.jpg) Occupation before the apocalypse: Nothing, he was just a kid Age: 18

Backstory: Newt was an “accident”. At least that’s what he believes.

Newt was abandoned in some alley by his parents as a newborn. When he was a young toddler, the world fell apart. The inner city he lived in was left in was a bit of a dystopia, a dark urban community where there are few rules, but no one abides by them.

His adopted parents, a couple by the last name of Newton, went out to find their young son, whom they named Dylan, had a skateboard from a young age. His adoptive father was an avid skateboarder and was eager to teach Dylan everything he knew. “Newt”, as he called himself, loved to play with this oversized skateboard from his young age. Once the world fell apart, this skateboard was his only escape into the childhood he should have been able to live. They said it was impossible, but Newt was able to balance on it as a tiny kid, and eventually learned to ride it like a pro.

When he was seven, his adopted parents were killed, caught in the crossfire of a tragic gang fight. Newt wasn’t able to live in that complex anymore due to the memories, and no one extended their hand to help out a troublemaker like him. Newt became a tough scrappy living among a community of street kids. They all share the same background: They were born into an awful, awful world and are trying to make the best of it. They operate much like the rest of the gangs in the city: They steal, they fight, they kill... all just because it’s what they need to do to survive.

The first person Newt ever killed was a woman who held them at gunpoint desperate for food. He was pressured to do it, and when he gunned her down in cold blood, he discovered afterwards that she was pregnant. This shattered his heart forever, and will forever haunt him. Since then, he hasn't killed a single living soul and doesn't want to ever again...

While many of his friends fell into the traps and snares of horrible influence in a dark world, Newt made it his mission to do something better with himself, focusing on his hobby and not on the drugs: the skateboard he’s had since he was a youngun. Taking up a leadership and protector role to his friends, Newt keeps up a stark moral code: They won’t kill unless it’s necessary. He is forever haunted by the face of the scared pregnant woman he gunned down just to show off to his friends.

Newt is also a collector, finding magazines, movies, video games, anything he can, in an attempt to understand and study the fascinating world he missed out on. Some of the others find his fascination completely strange, but Newt doesn’t care. He sees the importance in remembering "where we came from".

As a leader, protector and role model among his peers, Newt found a purpose in the world he never thought he would have. But once it all falls apart, who knows how he will react?

Personality: Fierce and funny, Newt protects himself with his larger-than-life bravado and a fearlessness that can sometimes get him into trouble. From an early age, it was obvious that he’d be a troublemaker, he was often pulling pranks because of his creative and vast sense of humor. He is consistently curious as well. He considers himself a fountainhead of pop culture references, thanks to his collection of the old world, the “good old days” he calls them, which he wishes so desperately he was able to experience.

Having never went to school, Newt’s extent of knowledge came from the Newton family he grew up with – he has the basics of reading, writing and grammar, but that was so long ago that he only remembers bits and pieces. If someone were to mock his intelligence, Newt takes it seriously because his teachers were the only parents he ever knew, and he will unleash wrath on those who insult his intelligence – for he believes they are insulting his parents too. 