ZIETORMF

**“***Executioners don't typically grief their victims***”**
— **Zietormf about himself**

## General Information

Zietormf is a character introduced in the first session of the Omphalos Project. He was first seen talking to Elliot, who was hiding on a tree. He went on to explore after the encounter, shortly meeting Crow in a nearby city. Currently he's living with Crow on the top floor of an abandoned building.

Despite his intimidating appearance, Zietormf has been showing generally friendly behavior towards the people that he met. In his free time he can be seen attempting to start a chat, which usually ends up in nothing-information exchange. He is protective of his allies, often assisting them during Blood Moons and Wolf Hordes. It's quite easy to gain ally status in his eyes, but it's also easy to lose it.

He doesn't like when people from his group go out unannounced. This can be tied to his past in the DIM SKY, where he worked in a Search & Rescue unit. Aside from this, it is implied that a mission that he was sent on went south, causing his team members to get lost. That remains unconfirmed, since he wasn't very vocal about it.

Zietormf is not overly animated, often blankly observing more animated people around him. Despite that, he has a decent sense of humor, being able to crack a joke or two with people around him. He is not quick to anger, but isn't incapable of it, especially when tired. Decidedly he avoids unnecessary violence to his best ability, there's no time to fight between each other when there are zombies tearing down the walls.

His skillset has been show to be very wide, Zietormf explaining it with his position as a "coordinator" or "team lead" of the unit that he was in. Zietormf is proficient in weaponry, armor, and basic shelters.

During an outing in the 11th session of Omphalos, Zietormf got attacked by a horde of zombies, which left him on the brink of death, luckily Onyx responded to the "distress signal" and helped Zietormf back on his feet. The consequences of the injury turned out to become a bad case of parasitic infection.

Zietormf executed Spoof in the twelfth session due to the threat that it was possessing. He found out that Spoof was from the Circle Of Stars after it exhibited cannibalistic tendencies and concerning behavior about Zie's ongoing parasitic infection, which got Spoof to be confronted by Zietormf.

In the thirteenth session Zietormf had to kill Elliot Atkins, due to the kid's worsening condition. He regrets this outcome greatly. From the notes in his book, it's clear that the whole ordeal reminded Zietormf of his brother. Zietormf didn't want Elliot to die a slow death, so after being requested by Elliot himself, he agreed to kill him. The body was buried in the same spot.

## Background Information

Zietormf shared basic information about his background so that people don't confuse him with The Army or other aligned factions. He is said to be a team lead of a Search & Rescue unit, and he was pretty open about his faction and its mission. However, he hasn't shared much of his personal life aside from vague hints and mentions of people that he used to know.

Zietormf has a daughter named Sammy, she is 8.

He said to Elliot that he was sent out on a solo mission, which later turned out to be a lie. He is only "lost" because of a mission being compromised.

It's known that he was rescued from a cult, and at the age of 16 became a recruit in the Dim Sky. Zietormf has not revealed any information about most of his time in the Dim Sky. Though it is clear that he didn't particularly hate it there. Zietormf is self sufficient, though lack of a team makes it more difficult for him to focus. He's been shown making ammunition, antibiotics, armor, basic base improvements, etc. He values human life, willing to go out of his way to make sure that the people are alright to their best ability. Despite that, he can put his principles aside if he knows that the person he's facing could be dangerous. This was shown when he first met Onyx, where instead of a greeting, Zietormf pointed a gun at him.

It is implied that Zietormf knows more than he lets on.

## Relationships

*Zietormf pays great attention to interpersonal relationships between the people that he knows, taking mental notes of it. It often ends up affecting his opinion of other people.*

### Crow

Positive. He definitely did not expect to become friends with a person such as Crow, but either due to similarities between the two, or just a coincidence, he was proven wrong. Zietormf finds Crow a pleasant person to be around. Maybe not as reliable due to unannounced outings, but who is he to complain? Zietormf respects Crow's secretiveness.

### Onyx

Neutral, leaning positive. Zietormf refuses to change his opinion on that due to faction differences. Despite being lost himself, Zietormf still wishes to return to the Dim Sky. He hates the idea of using the relationships which were necessary to survive against Onyx, so he won't. Despite that Onyx and Zietormf had a couple friendly chats and even shared a beer when Onyx was forced to come over. In 15th session of Omphalos Zietormf told Onyx what had actually happened to Spoof, thankfully he took it fairly and didn't cause a fuss.

### Ishmael

Neutral, but leaning positive? Even though suspicious of Ishmael's sudden appearance, a couple questions made Zietormf calm down. During the questioning he called hym "Clownguy". Perhaps it was the fact that Ishmael's faction is currently at an active conflict with Circle Of Stars or hys general reception of Spoof's death. Zietormf is willing to interact with Ishmael further.

### Lin Xinyi

Negative. As soon as Zietormf heard the mention of him being a SOTA spy, it was on sight. He does not like Lin, nor the way Lin acts. Zietormf caught Lin on lying several times. The fact that it was Lin's assignment to kill Elliot Atkins also makes it worse for Zietormf. Zie was also the one to put Lin into a cage.

### Elliot Atkins

Positive. By the end of everything, he was like a son to Zietormf. He considered him to be a very draining kid, and had several conflicts with Elliot because of that. Zietormf was often afraid of being too harsh with Elliot. Despite being extremely tired of Elliot before, Zietormf regrets that nothing could've been done to save the kid. Zietormf had to comply with Elliot's request to kill him.

### Spoof

Neutral. Nothing really happened between the two aside from Zietormf calling Spoof "Knifeguy" and it just sticking. Didn't really mind Spoof being around, or his relationships with Onyx or Elliot. To a certain degree he was even considering paying Spoof for babysitting Elliot. Though, the neutrality grown into negativity by the time Zietormf had to execute it.

## Trivia

* He hates Creepers.
* He still has his other eye, it is presumed to be functional.
* Despite the project being so small, he already has a simpbase
* He was the first character to kill a member of the cast
* Currently Zietormf holds the highest cast killcount