Ripken

"D'you need something?"

Ripken is a dead human miner, using his second chance at life to build outposts for weary travelers to safely rest. His place of stay can be tracked by his absolutely massive pack of animals, consisting of 6 wolves, a donkey, and a horse.

Appearance
Ripken is tall and wide, with green skin and pulled-back, mauve-colored hair (which only properly grows on the right side of his head). The left side of his head is mostly exposed skull, as are both his left and right jawline (sparing his chin). His left ear, similarly, is torn up, with only half of it still intact. He has some notable scars, as well, a large one over his mouth and another large one spanning from his left knee up the side of his thigh that remains hidden beneath his clothing.

He rarely opens his eyes. When he does, however, they are [i dont actually know yet just assume theres an actual eye color here LMFAO].

Outfits
At the moment, Ripken only has one outfit period, and that's the clothes he was buried in- a cornflower-blue t-shirt, plain gray workboots, and baggy purple pants (which he's stitched closed over his leg scar).

Despite the scar on his leg being healed and the corresponding slash to his pants being stitched up, he still wears tight bandages wound just above his knee as more of an accessory than anything else.

He's also rarely seen without his backpack or umbrella, both almost always on hand.

Personality
Though generous to a fault and always willing to lend a helping hand or work for the benefit of people in need (even and seemingly especially when they insist against the help), Ripken could not be considered a people person. He seems to have a very limited amount of energy for conversation by itself, and though his self-sacrificing tendencies can and do extend to people he doesn't like, it's still abundantly clear when there is someone he doesn't like.

He very obviously appreciates having quiet time to himself, and can often disappear for weeks at a time working on a new outpost or mining. Despite appreciating his time alone, however, he's friendly in his own way, and will rarely turn someone away.

Ripken is typically very even-tempered, though being undead has left him with a sort of faint yet permanent senility that fogs his memory and leaves his verbal and tonal filter very eroded.

He's very protective of his pride, and doesn't like to admit when he's wrong or needs help to the point where getting him to talk about a problem he's facing can feel like pulling teeth.

At the most extreme end of this, being reminded of his previous life and the events leading up to and surrounding his death have started a snowballing effect of denial and repression, leaving him scatterbrained and finding it difficult to even recall the names and faces of the people who investigated the area he used to live in with him.

Ripken is currently afflicted with sucrosis. Traits above may be amplified, diminished, or totally wiped.

Current State Of Life
Though Ripken calls himself a zombie, his current state of existence is closer to that of Frankenstein's monster. He was brought to life by lucky lightning strikes, he needs to eat and breathe and sleep as a living man might, and his body is no longer actively decomposing. Though still compelled to a carrion-eating diet as unawakened zombies are, in the absence of his usual diet the smell of rot doesn't usually hang around him.

Despite being closer to 'un' than 'dead', however, it still can't be said that Ripken is truly alive, and this shows best in the way his body handles wounds. He is capable of surviving and healing from wounds that would otherwise kill a normal human, with the most grievous of them sealed off at their edges and left as sensory dead zones (as can be seen with his exposed skull).

Being struck by lightning again serves as a boost to his energy and mental functions, and in addition to compulsively climbing up high during lightningstorms he's also in times of extreme stress been drawn to crafting lightning rods in preparation.

He is fully aware of these impulses, and tends to embrace them if he realizes he's been following them.

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