Zoey

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Zoey is an Ally Survivor and INT type Technician.

## Background

Zoey was born in a small town in rural Canada. Owen and Leo, who were the same age as her, were her two closest friends.
The trio was inseparable. They did everything together. They went to school together, to the movies, and even to parties. Zoey had an uncle who served in the military. She grew up listening to his stories and wanted to become a soldier just like him. Owen and Leo felt the same way.
When Zoey decided to enlist in the military after becoming an adult, her friends were right there with her. They all enlisted together, went through Battle School, and were somehow lucky enough to be deployed to the same unit.
Even after having grown up, their friendship had never wavered,
When it happened, they were stationed at a unit near Toronto.
Zoey’s unit was conducting a rescue mission at an elementary school. They lost contact with the upper unit in less than a day.
Officers and noncommissioned officers began to abandon their posts.
Owen suggested that they take the Humvee and leave the city. Zoey and Leo agreed.
It took them several days to escape Toronto, but they made it out alive. However, they had nowhere to go. After having witnessed Toronto’s collapse, they knew the rest of Canada didn’t stand a chance.
In the Humvee,Owen had kept muttering that the American army would be able to hold them back. Leo tried his best to cheer them up, but Zoey secretly agreed with Owen. The American military would have more firepower and less regard for civilian lives.
Zoey had then remembered that her uncle lived around the Long Point National Wildlife Area and had recently purchased a motorboat. They had to fight the dead numerous times, but they managed to successfully find the motorboat. Zoey’s uncle was nowhere in sight, and the boat’s motor had broken down. Despite everything, Owen, Zoey and Leo worked together to fill it to the brim with whatever ammunition and supplies they could, planning to use oars to scull the boat as they set into the waters of the large lake.
However, traversing the lake took more stamina than they anticipated, and their supplies had begun to dwindle.
Owen succumbed to a fever after a few days. He repeated the same phrase to himself over and over: “The American army would have been able to hold them back.”
However, they had no other choice but to diligently continue to row the boat across the waters.
Owen had grown sicker each day. He had begun to have trouble breathing. He muttered “Sorry” and used all of his strength to pull up one leg of his uniform pants to his knee. There was a bite mark. Owen had silently but poignantly glared at Leo’s rifle after showing the bite. Zoey immediately understood what he meant. Leo just held Owen’s hands and cried.
Zoey tried her best to explain the situation to Leo, but he refused to listen. As his longtime best friend, Zoey knew that he already understood what needed to be done, but he was in denial. Leo begged Zoey to throw Owen overboard instead of shooting him with their guns. Zoey couldn’t stomach the idea of her friend floating around Lake Erie as a dead monster.
In the end, Zoey did what she believed was right. Leo was traumatized beyond words. He avoided eye contact with her.
The two drifted for days in silence. Then suddenly, a huge cruise ship appeared in front of them one day. They were saved.
They joined the people on the cruise ship, and they set up a settlement near Buffalo, NY. Zoey had begun working with Eric, who used to be a firefighter. They patrolled the settlement and rescued people in distress.
Zoey was never the talkative one, but the incident on the boat made her even more reserved.
She had never mentioned the fact that she was a Canadian because everyone at the settlement pestered her over and over again, asking about what transpired in Canada and what it was like.
Leo had begun to help with the fishing in the settlement. He talked to others from time to time but hadn’t spoken a word to Zoey after the boat incident.
Zoey only hoped that one day, he’d realize that she made the choice for all three of them.

## Skills

 41 | Bulletproof Vest | Throws a bulletproof vest to the lowest HP comrade, placing a Shield on them to block 300% ATK damage for 10 sec.