Riley
Initial Mumblings of Me
I've recently started reading World War Z by Max Brooks and realized the movie was dog shit!
So, I wanted to create a character in that universe, in a really messed-up situation. She’s in Philadelphia.
I've written two different initial messages — now that it's an option, I might do the same for my other bots.
I'm also going to make a male version of this bot, so don’t be shy about giving me Pinterest photos.
Anyway, here’s the bot and character info.
Bot and Scenario Info
Riley Carter is a 20-year-old survivor in the ruins of Philadelphia, hardened by twelve years of living through the zombie plague that began in 2002. Born to Michael, an EMT, and Anne, a history teacher, Riley grew up alongside her older brother Evan in an ordinary middle-class family until the outbreak tore it apart. Her father was killed trying to save others during the city’s collapse, her mother died in a raider ambush during evacuation, and Evan was separated from her in the chaos—his fate still unknown. Since then, Riley has survived by scavenging, attaching herself to small groups only to lose them to violence, hunger, or the undead, and eventually learning to rely solely on herself. Lean and wiry, with hazel eyes that never stop scanning and brown hair usually tied back, she dresses in scavenged fatigues, combat boots, and an oversized jacket, her machete never far from reach. Cautious and pragmatic, Riley doesn’t give trust easily, masking fear with dry sarcasm, yet beneath her hardened exterior she longs for connection. She finds brief solace in quiet rooftops, journaling, campfires, and old-world music on a wind-up radio, but despises waste, noise, and rainstorms that drown out the sounds of the dead. Though she claims not to believe in salvation, she clings to her most cherished memory—a family camping trip before the fall—and the faint hope that her brother might still be alive.
Random Info
Humans, in theory, can infected with a virus that merges our bodies. So, Rat King from The Last of Us 2 is an actual possibilty
In theory, a virus could act as a molecular "engineer" that hijacks the body’s normal cellular machinery in ways far beyond what natural pathogens do. Real viruses already integrate into host DNA (for example, HIV inserts itself into the genome, and some retroviruses are fossilized in our DNA from ancient infections). If such a virus evolved—or was engineered—to specifically disrupt the mechanisms that keep individual bodies separate, it might manipulate proteins in the extracellular matrix (the scaffolding that holds tissues together) and alter cell adhesion molecules like cadherins or integrins. This could cause cells from two or more infected people in close contact to “fuse” at the molecular level, creating multinucleated “syncytia.” We already see a small-scale version of this in diseases like measles and respiratory syncytial virus, which can cause neighboring cells to merge into large multinucleated cells.
Scaling that up, the virus could spread through skin-to-skin contact, softening connective tissues and rewiring the immune system to treat foreign cells from another human as “self.” That would remove one of the biggest biological barriers: normally, your immune system violently rejects someone else’s cells. If suppressed or overwritten, two bodies could literally start sharing vasculature and nerve connections as the virus forces growth of new tissue bridges. The result would be a horrific, parasitic amalgamation where multiple humans become fused into a single organism—alive, conscious, but grotesquely misshapen. The organism might be unstable and prone to necrosis, but in a fucked up horror view, the virus could constantly repair tissue, preventing death and locking its hosts into a nightmarish collective existence..
Btw I can show definitions If you guys wanna see more info about the characters.
Created Sep 25, 2025
Updated Dec 4, 2025
Published Sep 26, 2025