Daniel Halvik

**Daniel Halvik** is a character in BlastGen. He is a major character in the Zombies mode, being one of four playable characters alongside Donovan Miller, Elias Schneider, and Oscar Thomas.

## Background

Prior to the event of Zombies, Daniel Halvik was a bouncer at a club in his home country, the Czech Republic. He would frequently get into fights at the club, mostly over disputes over women. Although he can be described as a ladies man, he has not been in any relationships. When not in the club, he gets in street fights and wins all of them, and is widely regarded to be one of the best fighters the Czech Republic has ever seen. This fame also reached the club, to which everyone wanted to be in his presence and hang out with him. However, a few weeks later, a rich playboy named Rychle showed up in his club and was forced to admit him into the club due to his wealth. Rychle quickly stole much of Daniel's fame, much to Daniel's anger, and becomes the topic of discussion everywhere Daniel goes. He then plots to kill Rychle in the club one night, prepping a CZ 50 to use in his murder.

However, once he gets ready to drive over to the bar, he notices civilians running in fear and gunshots. Once he gets to the bar, he finds the area filled with zombies, with some chasing Rychle and other clubbers, including Rychle's girlfriend Krásná whom Daniel was acquainted with. He manages to save them, but scolds Rychle for stealing all of his fame at the club, and summarily executes him despite Krásná pleading for him to spare his life. He, Krásná, and the rest of the clubbers run off to a nearby hardware store, as a fellow survivor said a friend was offering shelter from the zombies. They manage to make it, losing 2 fellow survivors in the process. However, once they arrived to the shelter, Krásná showed symptoms of the virus, including coughing frequently and vomiting blood. She later turned against the other survivors and tried killing one of them, but was shot by Thomas as he and his team arrived to secure the survivors. However, one of his own men started showing symptoms of the virus and killed another one of Thomas's men and before Thomas could share the same fate, Daniel jumped on top of him and held the infected soldier down for one of the survivors to shoot.

Thomas praised Daniel's bravery and allowed him to be safely extracted from the country in a separate helicopter. The helicopter was then shot down by rogue survivors en route to the rendezvous point, killing the pilot. The copilot volunteers to hold off any zombies in the area and orders Daniel to continue without him. He then meets up with a group of survivors, and they offer him shelter and arm him with a rifle, though he doesn't know they are the ones who shot down his helicopter. They went to scavenge the helicopter he was shot down in, looking for anything useful. However, after Daniel realizes that they are the ones who shot down his helicopter, he scolded them to which they turned against him, but they were killed by Elias. Daniel questions his allegiance, to which Elias replies to not worry about it and not make him regret saving Daniel. The two then rendezvous with Thomas who arrives in a helicopter. They then find, and extract Donovan, a former detective and they kill Donovan's group. Thomas orders him to get into the helicopter, to which he reluctantly does so. They arrive at a hotel in Los Angeles, where their objective is to kill all of the zombies there. What happens afterwards is unknown, but they seem to have survived, as they appear in every other map.

## Personality

Daniel is a self centered yet easy going middle aged man. He is the youngest of the survivors at the age of 31, and possesses more knowledge of pop culture than the other characters. He likes "action movie" firearms, such as the AK-47 and Uzi and is very fond of the Remington 870. He is friendly toward Oscar, is neutral toward Donovan, and dislikes Elias. He also dislikes sniper rifles and his favorite weapons are the Remington 870 and the M16.

## Appearance

Daniel wears a flannel jacket with a stained checkered shirt underneath. He wears a flipped Adidas cap at all times and wears Air Jordans. He also has a holstered knife and a holstered pistol from within his jacket. On the map Castle, he looks like a typical noble, wearing a fur coat with a tunic underneath, as well as dark brown leggings, and has a holstered Colt M1902. He has an alternate outfit which is of a typical biker consisting of a leather jacket, studded bracelets, spiked cleats, and a helmet. He also has a holstered FN FNX and the words on his jacket say "Hell Riders Ride or Die", this outfit can be unlocked if the player gets 500 hipfire kills with SMGs while playing as Daniel.

## Trivia

* All of the weapons holstered on him and clothing Daniel wears on his character models are anachromatic to the year Zombies takes place in.
	+ He wears Air Jordan 12 "Wings" which were not around in the 1980s
	+ The knife he has holstered is a Charon combat knife, which was around in the 2000s
	+ The holstered Colt M1902 he has on the map Castle is completely anachromatic, as Castle takes place around the 1400s, though this may have been brought along by Daniel prior to traveling to this timeline.
	+ The FN FNX holstered on his alternate outfit is anachromatic in every single map.