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BASICS

NAME Marvin Daniel Quaid

ALIAS Quaid, Q, Marv

AGE & DOB 33 / June 4th

PRONOUNS he/him

COMMUNITY Lundegaard Lumber

OCCUPATION Butcher turned cook turned innkeeper

HOMETOWN rural Trumbull County, WA

CONNECTIONS NAME connection

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APPEARANCE

HAIR dirty blonde EYES blue HEIGHT 6’2"

Your first impression of Mr Marvin Quaid is probably something on par with “why is he so damn smiley?” or “does he ever shut the hell up?” He can indeed keep his wide grin clamped down into a neutral resting face, but what’s the fun in that?

Has a smattering of scars, large and small, crisscrossing his body from years of roughhousing and working in various kitchens, probably just as many as the shitty homemade tattoos that seem to litter his legs, stomach, and arms. Hey, he knew a guy who knew a guy who did ‘em, okay. Isn’t one for piercings or accessories, and his color palette extends to whatever festive shades of flannel the feed & grain surplus store had in stock.

Bright blue eyes and dusty blond hair are often framed by a baseball cap or another - his favorite being the royal purple and grey one for his late step-daughter’s softball team - and rounded out with a goatee and mustache. Every once in awhile he’ll go full beard, and even less so you’ll find him clean-shaved, though Quaid knows he cleans up rather nicely should he put his mind to it. Much prefers denim, cotton, canvas, leather, wool, and other Working textiles above anything poly-vinyl-whatever.

TRAITS & SKILLS

WISEACRE Call me Marv, call me Quaid… Just don’t call me late for supper.

[ + ] charismatically sarcastic [ + ] loves to have fun, laugh, and joke around [ – ] can have a hard time Being Serious (read: emotional immaturity??) [ – ] will deflect serious conversations or inquiries about himself with jokes

GIFT OF GAB He never even saw it coming, boy I’ll tell you. Anyway she’s still back at home with the kids cooking dinner when the fire alarm goes off and…

[ + ] musical (acoustic guitar, harmonica, and decent singing voice) [ + ] can talk your ear off [ + ] good at small talk and genuinely likes talking to people [ ~ ] always has a story or anecdote to tell [ – ] doesn’t know when to shut up [ – ] sometimes what he had to say is impulsively more important than what you were going to talk about [ – ] wears out his social capital without even realizing it

MASTER BUTCHER What cut you want? You looking for beef, pork, veal, chicken?

[ + ] strong enough to manhandle whole cow halves [ + ] knows how to break down and process just about any animal [ + ] is the farthest thing from squeamish [ + ] knows how to deliciously cook said meat, to boot [ – ] nothing against those who do, he could never subsist on a vegan or vegetarian diet

NOSY NANCY -insert Inspector Gadget themesong here-

[ + ] people person; good at getting them to let down their guard and share their secrets or opinions [ + ] is rather good at reading people in general [ + ] important, if not vaguely shady, member of the gossip ecosystem [ ~ ] knows Things™ [ ~ ] enjoys people watching [ ~ ] could probably blackmail a handful of important people, if he felt like it [ – ] manipulative (moreso behind the scenes than for personal gain)

HELLUVA FACADE I’m not crying, it’s simply raining on my face.

[ + ] a regular friendly guy [ + ] you’d never guess he’s kind of dead inside [ – ] is kind of dead inside [ – ] secretive about himself & his past [ – ] guilt-motivated to not screw this up [ – ] paranoid of others and their intentions [ – ] is kind of a depressive slug if left to his lonesome

HISTORY

FAMILY

Mark & Mary Quaid ✞ - mother and father that didn’t survive initial outbreak

Dafne Sanchez ✞ - long time gf he had plans to propose to had the world not gone to smithereens

Mikayla Sanchez ✞ - ‘step-daughter’ and coolest kid he had the fortune of knowing

cw: mentions of death Born and raised in a rural hamlet in Trumbull Co, WA to two people who likewise had spent their entire lives there. Things were quiet and you could honestly probably even call them boring, but that was always fine with Marv, as he was known within his family and throughout schooling. Things weren’t fancy, but people liked it that way and they made sure the little rural community - insular as it was - was taken care of and protected from outsiders. Back then it didn’t mean things like the undead, but there’s no use crying over spilt milk, now is there.

There really isn’t much about Quaid, as he’d start to go by in his twenties, that’s exciting or flashy or that he’d really like to share, you know. He grew up, became a butcher, had a few failed relationships until he met Dafne, and they fell deeply in love and lived happily ever after she and her teenaged daughter moved into the double-wide trailer he’d built upon for their abode. The End… Is how he’d wished it happened.

Of course one doesn’t get a happy ending so much as managing to make it by the skin of their teeth, these days.

Or they get Roswell, as was the case for the survivors huddled together in the Grace Lutheran Church barely fending off the growing hoarde outside. Dafne, Mikayla, and Quaid were among those that stood behind the odd & oddly charismatic fellow’s push to create a more permanent settlement than what they were currently dealt. All three would help in starting the community at Lundegaard, yet only the former getting to see the results after mother & daughter were both lost on a scavenging raid.

By this point in the story everyone had lost someone, so he silently fell apart for a week or two and then came back swinging! It’s almost like he’s the same person as he was before their deaths, until you realize his smile doesn’t reach his eyes some days. Settling into what was the new normal, he did a little bit of everything, as needed, but primarily became known as one of the main communal cooks (and obviously butcher) known for his love of all things meat. That was until a recent career change to innkeeper at the behest of Roswell, but Quaid figures it makes sense. He’s damn near the only person in this entire village that can actually hold a conversation without scowling, so.

MISCELLANEOUS ➔ Hadn’t gone hunting in quite some time due to familial responsibilities pre-Black Fever, though used to hunt deer & turkey yearly for food. Knows his way around a gun and a crossbow, much preferring to go with a regular old bow for his kills.

➔ TRIVIA

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