Grimes, Rick

Player Name: Nichole

Character Name: Rick Grimes

Age: Mid to late 30s

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Caucasion

Appearance: Rick is a fairly tall Caucasian man with a slim figure. He has dark brown wavy hair and facial stubble. His apparel mostly consists of his beige and brown police uniform, along with his brown US Cavalry/Sheriff's hat. He also keeps his brown police holster, which carries his favorite side-arm, his classic Colt Python .357 Magnum.

Personality: Rick is typically calm, smart, a good friend, and father, but will often stubbornly cling to his personal strong moral code, which has resulted in numerous bad calls and extra stress within the group. He is also a natural leader. Rick's greatest fault, perhaps, is his uncanny ability to place responsibility on himself and set for himself goals that are impossible to reach. Despite his faults, his combat skill and general care for all members of the group have led him to be looked up to, and allowed him to take the leadership role within the group. He is shown to be incredibly protective of his group and their well-being, having engaged numerous threats, even other living people to keep them safe.

History: Television Canon, taken from Rick Grimes

Rick and Shane were childhood friends, with Rick being the more subdued individual. He had few girlfriends during his years of high school, in contrast to Shane who was always the center of attraction to girls. He and Shane both went to college together for police administration and became sheriff deputies at the King County Sheriff's Department. He and Lori met at a young age and after dating for a short amount of time, married and had a son named Carl. They lived as a family in a typical suburban neighborhood.

As their son grew older, his and Lori's marriage became increasingly strained. He constantly distanced himself from her, hesitating to open up and absorbing himself in his work.

While on patrol one day, Rick tells Shane about how his relationship with Lori is going bad since the two don't communicate too much. They receive a call from another patrol car from a nearby town that are pursuing two criminals heading into King County. Rick and Shane, with the help of Leon Basset and Lambert Kendal, block the road that leads to King County.

They get into a shootout with the criminals as they crash their car before the roadblock, Rick is almost shot, but they manage to kill the two criminals. Due to miscommunication, they weren't aware that there was a third criminal inside the car, who manages to shoot Rick in the back. Shane instantly shoots the criminal dead, and then tells Leon to call an ambulance as he assists Rick. Some time later, Shane visits Rick in the hospital as he is still in a coma. He delivers flowers, but Rick's not conscious enough to be fully aware of what's going on.

In the first days of the apocalypse, Shane goes to the hospital where Rick is to rescue him. He enters Rick's room and looks around for something he can use to carry Rick but an explosion occurs, prompting the lights to go out. As the devices shut off, Shane puts his head to Rick's chest and realizes he is not breathing anymore. Shane cries at the loss of his best friend, and after barricading the door, leaves the hospital without knowing that Rick is actually still alive.

Rick regains consciousness in an abandoned hospital. He investigates the building and encounters his first undead group of zombies barred into a locked room, which is the hospital's cafeteria—as well as rows of bodies in body bags, in which some are on flatbed trucks. Having seen this, Rick is horrified and flees the hospital. In a nearby park, he encounters a severely deteriorated zombie with nothing left of her lower body but trailing bones and organs. Shaken, he returns to his home to look for his family. Unable to find any sign of them, he sits outside and is suddenly hit in the face with a shovel by a kid—Duane Jones—who initially mistakes him for a zombie.

Rick later wakes up tied to a bed. The kid's father, Morgan Jones, checks Rick for zombie bites or a fever, either of which could indicate that he is turning into a zombie himself. After deciding Rick is not a threat, Morgan frees him and shares what information he has regarding the zombie apocalypse. The following day, Rick tells Morgan that his family are missing and that they are most likely alive (based on family photos that had been taken from the house). Morgan and Duane tell Rick that they might have set off to Atlanta where the CDC has set up a quarantine zone. Rick takes Morgan and his son to his former Sheriff's headquarters, where the trio use the emergency generator to power up the station. They take hot showers and clean out the armory. As they depart, with Rick heading off to Atlanta while Morgan and Duane stay behind, Rick gives Morgan a rifle and a walkie-talkie and says he will broadcast every morning. Before he leaves, he encounters fellow officer Leon Basset a zombie and dispatches him. He then returns to the park where he encountered the badly decayed zombie, apologizes for what has happened to it, and shoots it in the head.

Sample Post: There was a code of honor that Rick always needed to follow. And often, when that need struck, he would think of his family. His son, his wife, and remember that they were always there with him. Walking down this abandoned road in search of anyone or anything that could guide him to where he needed to be was turning into one of those times when he needed to remember what he had in store for him. It was impossible to know fully, but if this proved to be the right course of action, he would be reunited with his family once and for all.

The odd part was that even this kind of walking wasn't giving him much time to think. His eyes were watching the road, watching the area beyond, watching everything else. The undead would undoubtedly make some sort of noise before they reached him, but that didn't necessarily give him the opportunity to pull his gun free in time. And guns might not be useful in this situation.

So with his mind on his family and his eyes on his surroundings, Rick walked, wanting nothing more than to turn back time, back to when he had an actual future and an actual home. Before these creatures were destroying everything.