James Harris

*"It doesn't matter what we do, as long as it improves our chances of survival. [...] All of you are **fucking useless!** None of you understand: the world as we know it is **gone**. There is no **government**, no **law**, no **society**. Just **us**. Nothing - and nobody - else matters. It **can't**. Otherwise **we** will not survive. You want to survive? You want to live? Then you follow **me!**"*
― James Harris to the survivors from the Neighbourhood[src]
**James Harris** is one of the two protagonists and a survivor of the BrEaAm outbreak in *Wilted* and a main character in *Wilted 2: Primal*. He is a resident of the Neighbourhood. An accountant with Asperger's and mental health issues who mostly keeps to himself, James is a vital member of the community thanks to his large aresenal of weapons. Despite this, James is mostly ostracised by the community due to his bizarre and abrasive behaviour, as well as his philosophy that the community needs to turn to more brutal, primitive ways of living in order to survive.

## Biography

### Early Life and Background

Not much is yet known about James' background before the widespread outbreak of the brain-eating amoeba. From a very young age, James demonstrated symptoms of severe Asperger Syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

At some point in his early adulthood James developed a keen interest in firearms and began collecting them, eventually assembling a large arsenal. As an accountant, he earned a good living and moved into an upscale neighbourhood, where he became friends with his next-door neighbour Jane Martin.

### BrEaAm Outbreak

At some point during the outbreak of the brain-eating amoeba, James decided to stay in his neighbourhood and helped the other residents to seal it off to keep the community safe from bandits. Aside from this, James had little interaction with his fellow survivors, aside from when he would loan out his arsenal of weapons to the other residents.

## Overview

### Personality

James is aloof, eccentric, and highly intelligent. Due to his severe Asperger's and natural reclusiveness, he shows extremely poor social skills, peculiar habits of speech, and seems to have difficulty reading body language. He does, however, have good coordination and is a skilled fighter and marksman, able to take on and defeat multiple opponents with both firearms and blades. He enjoys reading books and he is shown to be highly interested in video games. He very rarely smiles and speaks in a long winded, pedantic and clinical fashion.

For the most part, James prioritizes his survival over anything else, keeping a large supply of rations in his home separate from the community's rations and not allowing anyone else to touch it. However, he does possess a will to do good when he can, such as his willingness to loan out his guns to the other residents for the purpose of defending the Neighbourhood. He is more than willing to turn to violence during periods of both chaos and calm.

## Killed Victims

* Ronnie Mayes
* Brother Mayes
* 3 unnamed Water Cultists

## Relationships

### Jane Martin

*"I'm an accountant with Asperger's. I **don't** forget things, Jane. And I certainly don't enter incorrect information in a goddamn ledger!"*
― James to Jane when she points out potential errors in his gun ledger[src]