David (Night at the Gates of Hell)

## David

David, facing off Ballerina Zombies, including Headmistress Emanuelle

**“***David's attempt at having a quiet, normal life is interrupted by the zombie apocalypse. To survive the apocalypse, he has to gather his thoughts, collect weapons, find other survivors, and fight his way through hordes of undead.***”**
— **Description about David.**

**David** is a playable character and the main protagonist in *Night at the Gates Of Hell*.

## Description

### Appearance

David is a black adult male in his 20's with short black hair. His apparel, shown only in the inventory profile and the scripted secret passage trap, consist of a multicolored orange-blue and white sweater, blue jeans and black shoes. Following his near-death in hidden tunnels of the Woodside Apartment, he loses his left eye when it is impaled on a wooden spike.

### Personality

David is shown to be a pragmatic, loyal man, who, at the beginning of the game, shows himself to hold a cynical, downright depressed world view following the apocalypse. In particular, he was distraught over the death of Violet, which likely contributed to his nihilistic attitude. However, David still has not lost his will to live and is savvy and resourceful when it comes to clearing the way in his quest for survival. After joining Stan and his fellow survivors, he shows a selfless side to him, completing tasks and venturing into the ruins to ensure their safety.

### History

Much of David's history is unknown, but before the Gates of Hell were opened, David was a lived with in Room 703 of Woodside Apartment in the metropolitan area of Mahoning County, Ohio, sharing the flat with Violet, described as "the love of [his] life", who died under unknown circumstances just days prior to the game's event, having already partially decayed.

## Biography

After the prologue in St. Mary's Cemetary, David can be heard narrating the immediate aftermath of the zombie invasion of the nearby city, mentioning that the townsfolk initial belief that reports of undead were nothing but an "eleborate hoax" proved to be the demise of the majority of them.

### Woodside Apartment

David appears in his room, gathering his thoughts and decides to escape. Finding that a security system is blocking the maintenance area, he searches each apartment room on the floor while avoiding direct contact with the apartment's former inhabitants. all of whom had turned by this point, to get the elevator working again, collecting a revolver, ammo and knives. As he progresses, he runs into a group of cultists, who try to kill him, but in the end, he manages to fix the hydraulics with schematics gathered from Room 705. Just then, David hears a couple of cultist conducting a ritual in his apartment and in a delusional bid, returns to pick up Violet's corpse in the hope that the cult behind the opening of Hell's Gates have a method to bring her back. Unfortunately, Violet reanimates as he is riding the lift, forcing him to stick a knife through her temple. Having heard from news to head towards the coast, he sets his sights there.

### Coastal Village

David arrives at the village near the coast and saves Captain, Skeeter, Stan, Belinda and her son Charles from zombies trying to breach their shelter. Captain thanks David for rescuing them and asks him to find some gas, an engine hose and a fuse, so that he could fix a ship they could use to reach a supposedly zombie-free island off the coast. Stan also suggests heading to a local dance school for a new weapon, as he had heard a shotgun being fired from inside. David searches the village while avoiding more zombies and zombie dogs, and finds all 3 necessary items. Captain fixes the ship and the group sails off.

### Cap's Boat

The ship is suddenly attacked by the zombie shark and Belinda is killed. David manages to fight the shark off, but the ship has suffered damage, forcing them to evacuate the ship. Stan decides to stay on the ship to keep the shark's attention and tells the others to escape. As David, Captain, Skeeter and Charles row away, Stan faces off with the zombie shark, which lunges at him, seemingly destroying the ship and swallowing Stan whole.

### The Island

The survivors reach the island and while Skeeter, Captain and Charles stay on the beach, David goes to search the island. While exploring he comes across some old cemetery and catacombs where he finds a woman named Suzi trapped in the chained coffin. He tries to help her but she turns into a zombie and gets out of her coffin, forcing David to kill her. David further searches the area and finds some information, discovering that the island was actually the primary base of operations for the cult. As David leaves the cottage, he is lured and knocked out by a cultist.

### Imprisoned

Hours later, David wakes up in a prison cell next to Captain who tells him that they've all been captured. David escapes from his prison cell and searches the heavily monitored facility that is being guarded by armed cultist zombies. David searches whole place, gathers more information behind the apocalypse, rescues Skeeter, Captain, Charles, and a naked prisoner who all tell him to meet up with them at the exit. David looks for more clues and finds a room made of flesh where he is attacked by a Corpse Demon, but he manages to kill it. David reaches the area and finds Father Friedstein sitting on a pew next to a portal. Before Father Friedstein catches on fire, he reveals that he is responsible for the apocalypse and that there is nothing David can do to stop it because the gates are opened all around the world. David takes a strange book from his hands, escapes the facility and meets up with other survivors, hoping the tome might be able to reverse the chaos it brought to the world in the first place.

### Prepare

The survivors take refuge in the church where they arm themselves and fight off a horde of zombies. Captain, Skeeter, Charles, and the naked prisoner are killed, forcing David to retreat back into the church. Just when he though he's going to die, Stan appears from the portal and saves David. Stan and David enter the portal and appear in a place that looks like hell. Stan asks David if he could read that book and find some useful information about getting back home, because by the looks of it they "sure as hell weren't in Kansas anymore". As the camera pans over to a castle, a large skull appears and looks down at them.

## Trivia

* David is voiced by HB Gibson, who previously voiced Officer Burton in *Bloodwash*.
* David's character appears to have been inspired by Ben, the main protagonist of the *Night of the Living* and its 1990 remake, both being dark-skinned, resourceful leader figures of their respective groups.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3716382/