About The Character

     The main character in this story is Nathan Ketsch, he's a 20-year-old college dropout whose birthday falls on August 29th, 2000. He has short-medium brown hair, green eyes, and always wears a black sweater to cover up his body, but will also occasionally scavenge clothes from abandoned houses if he needs a change. Before the apocalypse, he was charismatic, a bit of a loner due to his health, and not too active except to go to work. He originally dropped out of college because he had a flare-up of his illnesses that made it impossible for him to meet the attendance requirements for his classes. 

Nathan is ill with Celiac Disease, Lupus, and has a chronic back injury from when he was in a severe car wreck at sixteen. This leads to him believing that he is worthless to the survival of the team he had originally joined. It caused him a lot of anxiety to think that he was being a burden until the camp’s doctor sat down with him and helped him through some of the issues and told him to keep a journal, which is what you’re reading. Aside from the ex-soldier Sam, Doc is the only one that Nathan has trusted with knowledge of his conditions and Doc helps him find food that he would be able to eat or manage his symptoms when he can’t find something he can safely eat.  

Over time as the apocalypse has progressed, Nathan learns how to care for himself as others, although he has now become gloomy and sad when he’s alone, he’s come to love being outside because of how many escapes you can possibly have, but a downside he’s also developed some paranoia from always watching over his back for zombies. Over time he has also become proficient with long-ranged weapons like a crossbow that Sam stole from a hunting store and a rifle that was obtained from the same place. He's developed a taste for ingenuity as he's learned how to make silencers and how to fortify their home base, an abandoned gas station/restaurant combo.

    I created Nathan in the Sims 4 because I cannot draw to save my life, but below are what I came up with for him. He's a little more put together than I would like due to being unable to find custom items to make him look dirtier and as if he'd gone through hell.