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hello, everyone ! i can safely say that it’s been a good year since i last joined a group and i am absolutely in love with the apocalypse/dystopian/survival genre so i had to apply. i’m bringing y’all a fresh muse of mine so this is kind of going to be all of the place bc my brain loses all knowledge of coherent sentences when it comes to writing introductions. i’m open to plotting if you have something in mind ( fletcher isn’t exactly the most sociable, though ) but if not then i’m good with jumping into a thread and seeing what happens naturally !

full name: fletcher samuel kane age: 27 zodiac: aries orientation: graysexual/demiromantic diagnosis: anxiety, insomnia hometown: aspen, colorado languages: english, gaelic affiliation: safe-zone position: scavenger weapon of choice: crossbow + traits: resourceful, decisive, observant - traits: withdrawn, evasive, sarcastic moral alignment: true neutral myers-briggs: intj, architect

fletcher was born with a slight heart murmur which threw his mother into a panicked frenzy when the doctors told her that they needed to monitor him for a few extra days. despite insisting that there were no other health concerns present, the woman had convinced herself that something would go wrong if she ever let him out of her sight. the murmur went away completely by the time fletcher was seven, but she continued to keep a close eye on him and grew more controlling as the years went by.

his father, a major general in the army, was a busy man that put the country above family and cared more about having obedient soldiers than sons. the man had a short fuse and it was common for him to lose his temper and lash out, sometimes he often felt as if his dad actively looked for something to get angry about.

most of fletcher’s childhood was spent exploring the woods surrounding his home in aspen, colorado with his brother. the two were nearly inseparable as fletcher would always want to do whatever the elder did, and liam felt protective of his baby brother from the moment he was brought home from the hospital. fletcher struggled socially due to how sheltered his mother had kept him and could count the number of friends he had on one hand. liam knew things weren’t easy for fletcher and swore that he’d make sure his brother never felt completely alone.

all of fletcher’s fondest memories are of liam teaching him how to track, hunt, fish, forage, etc. they lived in a town known for outdoor recreation and since their father was too busy to be a dad, his brother took it upon himself to teach him about the outdoors and nature.

fletcher exhibited signs of above average intelligence from a young age, not on a genius level, but high enough to skip a grade level and even get accepted into a list of ivy league schools.

he’d never been outside of aspen and knew that his mother would never allow him to go to school in another state so he opted to attend the local university — colorado mountain college aspen. liam couldn’t stand to see fletcher trapped in their small town and begged for him not to waste the opportunity to attend the top engineering school in the states. after the younger graduated, the boys moved out to massachusetts together as that was their mother’s one condition and fletcher was enrolled in MIT the following fall.

fletcher was working on getting his masters degree when the outbreak began, and at first, the brothers thought nothing of it since the government downplayed the severity of the pollen’s effects. the brothers were quick to pack up and evacuate the city once everything began shutting down, hitting the road with nothing but whatever supplies they could fit in a bag. they couldn’t get ahold of their parents with the communication lines down and opted to head south to fort bragg, the largest military base in the united states, hoping that they’d find some kind of safety there.

the people they came across along the way informed them that all the military bases were either evacuated or overrun and a quarantine zone in delaware was being expanded. they were gathering some more arrows from a sporting goods store in the abandoned mall just a few miles away from their destination when the place was overrun with reapers. the pair barely managed to make it to their vehicle and sped away unscathed — that is, until they were parked outside the gates of the safe-zone and liam revealed that he’d been bit.

fletcher was beside himself and felt immense guilt since it was his idea to make a stop, believing that if they had just kept on going then the elder wouldn’t be infected. he insisted that if the other wasn’t going inside then he wouldn’t either but liam revealed that, that was the exact reason why he waited until they were there to tell him. after a tearful farewell, fletcher reluctantly got out of the vehicle and entered the safe-zone without looking back as his brother drove off.