Horst

*⚡︎ BRAVE THE BLACK FOREST ⚡︎*

**Horst Lindt** is a bigender, undead human who is the ride guardian for *Verbolten* at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. He formerly worked as a mechanic in West Virginia before being summoned to the park shortly after an encounter with a supernatural storm.

## Character Information

### Pronouns

He/him/his, she/her/hers, they/them/their

### Occupation

Ride guardian for Verbolten / Mechanic (formerly) / Homeschool student (formerly)

### Residence

Busch Gardens (Williamsburg, Virginia) / Unnamed rural town in West Virginia (formerly)

### Dislikes

Lightning & strong storms / Heavily wooded areas

### Quote

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Appearance

**Hidden within Verbolten’s queue is a ghastly figure.** They’re corpse-like, malnourished, and frightening, a stark contrast from the colorful characters they work alongside and even their own ride. While most people do except to see a somewhat "spooky" guardian due to the scary, but family-friendly, theme of the ride, they are almost never prepared for who greets them from behind the front desk of the "visitor center". It’s not rare for younger guests to run out of the queue once they spot her and for older guests to go into denial over her mere existence. Certainly he’s just somebody in makeup, right? But that empty look in her eyes… there’s nothing there… except the traces of what was once alive.

Nobody has ever really gotten used to the undead, even in a world that accepts most monsters and other creatures as normal members of society.

There’s just something so… gut-wrenching about finding a living human corpse in a theme park y'know?

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Horst is nowhere near being the pinnacle of good health, not by a mile. Her skin is pasty and discolored, with green bruises dotting her entire body like moss on old bones left to rot out in the woods. Heavy purple bags sag from sleepless nights under their wide, emotionless eyes that almost always appear to be glued open in shock. As if they had seen something *horrid*. However, despite the poor state of her body, Horst doesn’t appear to be elderly. Rather, he appears to be middle-aged, a person who had their life stripped away just a little too soon by something they couldn’t control.

That being the storm.

Veiny Lichtenberg figures creep across their body, starting at the right side of their chin and spreading its unnaturally black branches across her flesh until stopping at the tops of her feet. Unlike normal markings of this type, they never disappeared, like the doctors said they would when Horst was admitted to the ER. They never healed. They never “went back to normal” after the estimated 24-hours. Even stranger, they appear to glow a bright purple when placed under ultraviolet light, lighting him up as if he was some kind of Halloween display. Thankfully, they don’t appear to give Horst any kind of discomfort or affect them in any way, as they are more so a visual oddity than a source of agony and suffering.

Not like she can feel pain anymore, anyway.

Personality

History

**When people first see Horst, they make assumptions.** To count the times he has been approached by a small child that asked if he lives in a cemetery or if they could see “the bite mark from when [he] was infected” would be impossible. Her reluctance to talk about the cause for her zombie-like appearance only makes these rumors worse, although Horst doesn’t appear to care about them all that much. He occasionally even plays along with some of them, but never makes up these kinds of stories himself or falsely confirms the ones from the public as true. In fact, probably the most information about Horst’s actual history the average Joe knows is that they were a car mechanic before coming to Busch Gardens and at some point they died but kept on living.

That’s it.

Nothing more.

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Relationships

Aspen

Friend ⚡︎ Positive

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Gewitter

Coworker ⚡︎ Negative

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Isbert

Friend ⚡︎ Positive

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Isla

Friend ⚡︎ Positive

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Wolfgang

Pet ⚡︎ Positive

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Trivia

Playlist

* In Aisles - Nero’s Day At Disneyland

Gallery

Featuring WolfgangPalette concept