Lawrence

Dangerous Secret DM/Lawrence

> "'***He's the leader here. He’s very kind and sweet.*"**
> ― MC about Lawrence
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Lawrence has proved multiple times throughout the game that he cares deeply for MC, always smiling and encouraging her. He's very smart and sometimes cold to people he dislikes, yet he tries to make it seem as though that he had to be cold or he was put on the spot and made a mistake.

He had also been shown as a good leader to his group, responsible and level-headed, despite him indirectly murdering some of them.

Lawrence is also the type of person to slowly eliminate threats or people he considers to be a threat. This was proven with Scarlett, who was indirectly killed by Lawrence slipping poison made in the 'locked' lab, which she applied after it was found returned (and refused to stop blaming the MC for stealing and returning it). Judy also has 'mysteriously disappeared', along with Sue, who found out before everyone else yet only told MC about her suspicion of Lawrence. In one of his memories, he throws Judy and Sue to the zombies.

He's known for constantly making remarks to the MC on how everything will be okay and that the school is the safest place for them, and that she is in no danger. Whenever MC says how she wants to hang out, help, or stay with him, he becomes happy and tries to initiate a conversation with her. Lawrence has had feelings for MC for 2 years and never stopped his obsession with her even after she confessed that she never remembers the day she met him.

## Appearance

Lawrence is the second tallest of the fellows, being only shorter than Ethan, as well as having a lean physique. He has fair skin, light brown eyes and short, wavy hair of the same color as his eyes. Something that sets him apart from MC's other love interests is that he wears glasses with round lenses.

He wears a black turtleneck sweater under a white button-up shirt and a small blue ID holder neck accessory containing some papers inside. He wears an orange hooded winter jacket whose upper shoulder area is brown as well as having faux fur on the edges of the hood. He also wears black pants.

## Story

### Pre-Virus

If an ending with Lawrence is chosen, he tells MC that they first met 2 years ago at a bus stop. He waited there for his bus while it was raining, and she handed him her spare umbrella even if she didn't know him; this was when he started to have an interest in her.

Ever since then, he had a crush on the MC, but couldn't date before the apocalypse as his parents pressured him to do his best at school and enroll in a good university. Now that his parents are gone, he's free to date whomever he wanted to.

To him, being a yandere was the only way to win MC's heart, since now that he's liked her for years and it finally had the freedom to date, he didn't want to lose it to people he doesn't care about.

### During Game

The group he previously was in was quite big and already had two leaders, both older than him. While the leaders were engaged in a political fight, Lawrence had taken food and hid it so he could use it for creating a new group he could control. One leader had suspected Lawrence for the stolen food, while the other had Lawrence's back. Lawrence, a few days later, draws in a horde of zombies that overrun the section of Middle school, and he takes about 9 people with him, stating that "9 is an easy number to control."(Lawrence Memory 1). He takes them on a safe route to the other side of the school, untouched by zombies. They make him the leader, and things stay peaceful.

While searching and raiding food from a store, the Protagonist (MC) is attacked. Lawrence's group arrives in time to save her by killing the zombie. The main character runs with the group to a school they were staying at. Lawrence and the rest of his group introduce themselves, and state that they've been staying at the school despite it still being dangerous, but their only safe haven. Some other members of the group who weren't present when the MC was attacked are met with the surprise of seeing her there.

Lawrence lets the group decide on voting whether to let the main character stay or not. He states he needs to talk to Ethan, his right-hand man and the quiet brute of the group, about something and says they'll vote when they both get back. Lawrence distracts Ethan by making him look for something, and lays newspapers down around in the classroom they both reside in. He lights the classroom on fire, and an explosion occurs. He leaves the classroom with Ethan, saying that an explosion had occurred spontaneously. The MC rushes in, attempts to put the fire out, before being forcefully pulled out. Lawrence becomes pleased that his plan to portray the MC as a useful ally had worked.

After the MC is able to stand on her own again, Eugene, a fellow classmate/teammate, reveals that he found a lighter to be a possible source of the fire. Everyone (secretly except Lawrence) comes to the conclusion that a huge explosion was caused by the lighter, then caught fire on the whole classroom. MC has to sleep in the same room as someone, and she chooses her old friend Judy, who joined the group before her.

As time passes, people start disappearing (Judy, Jay, Scarlett, Sue) and MC constantly faces danger. In one of Lawrence's memories, it is shown that Lawrence stalks and scares MC for his own reasons. When the MC chooses to go into a forbidden area of the school alone, Lawrence successfully scares her into running and convinces her that way that she should never go into those areas, much less alone without anyone to help her. Lawrence has, at one point, kidnapped MC into a room, and kept her there while he tried to kill a male teammate he didn't want her to be close to.

Time and time again, Lawrence has proven to be a clever yandere. He tricked the MC's friend Judy into coming to the cafeteria, far away from the others, and used zombies to kill Judy (As he suspected Judy could possibly betray the MC when he saw her in an argument with Scarlett) and kept her hairpin as a trophy.

For his next rival, Jay, who had knocked MC down a flight of stairs (When they were outside on search of food) because a vase shattered unexpectedly on the ground, Lawrence intentionally had let the zombies rip Jay apart, only to justify to his watching teammate that it was too late for Jay even though he was within arms-length. After finding MC with a sprained ankle fighting a zombie with a severely disfigured leg, he repeatedly strikes the zombie's leg even after it's dead, purely out of rage. He only stops and retains his composure when his accompanied teammate, Eugene, tells him to stop since it's already dead. The MC is able to see rage written on Lawrence's face, before masking it again and continuing the day acting normal.

The next victim on the chopping block is Scarlett. She has held MC responsible for the disappearance of Judy and suggests getting rid of her. She also bullies the MC by making her go down to the cafeteria to get her food after telling her that the food storage room was ruined thanks to her, well aware that it was an off-limits area due to zombies lurking there. Lawrence gets fed up with her behavior and steals her lip balm. Scarlett makes an even bigger issue about it to the Protagonist, demanding her to return what she stole and being stubborn on accusing the MC of taking her balm. Lawrence decides to kill her so she would never bully MC again. He prepares poison using the chemicals in the lab and adds it in her lip balm, and places it back in Scarlett's room. Scarlett, after finding it, applies the balm excessively and still accuses the MC of returning it after she had "caught" her. The poison slowly infects her system and after a few days, Scarlett was found dead, blood flowing out her mouth.

Sue is the next victim after Lawrence hints that this was for the sake of him and MC. Sue lets MC know that she has a good guess who the murderer is and that she will try to stop them. She warns MC that if she disappears, *it's probably because of **Lawrence***. In the memory, MC asked why she was telling her this, to which Sue replies, *Because this all seems to relate to you. MC* is left confused but continues and discards her suspicions. Sue is killed by being confronted by Lawrence and throw to the zombies, ripping her apart.

Later in the story, MC offers to go to the pharmacy to retrieve some medicine (for Harry, a sweet teammate in the group), along with Harry. The two of them find painkillers and are on their way back when they are stopped by a survivor. As told by his friend, he was insane and tried to kill both of them because he thought that everyone outside of the Safe Zone was a zombie. When MC was about to get hit on the head (and most likely get killed), Lawrence comes in and starts beating the man up (with Ethan's bat). MC starts getting scared by him, watching him mercilessly beat the man up. She tries to stop him, but Lawrence kept hitting the man until he died. She's horrified, and she thinks back to the cold, angry look in his eyes.

A friend of the man approaches the group, seeing the man dead on the ground. MC and Harry try explaining and justifying what transpired. The man is oddly understanding and even yells at the dead man for attacking them even though he said not to. He absentmindedly explained that the man attacked them since he thought anyone outside of the Safe Zone was a zombie. He then explains that the military is getting survivors to a Safe Zone away from the virus. The rest of the group is told about the Safe Zone, and everyone except Lawrence wants to go. Lawrence decides to kill everyone except himself and MC so she doesn't leave him.

Lawrence is the secret person who has been unlocking doors the others assumed to be locked and in one of the endings.

### Endings

He reveals that he conducted an experiment on both zombies and his friends. It appeared that they are extremely sensitive to sound, as he had told MC earlier. Zombies storm the school as Fur Elise plays on the piano on the rooftop, and Lawrence is nowhere to be found. If you chose Lawrence's ending, Lawrence rescues you from a zombie and brings you to a well-stocked basement with supplies that seem like they could last the two of them for a whole year. Lawrence keeps MC in the basement after revealing the truth to her and embraces her from behind in the end photo. MC stays blank, knowing there is no way out of here and accepts her fate after a failed escape attempt that resulted in Lawrence having to chase and protect MC from a zombie. MC decides to cut him some slack and slowly gives in to Lawrence. In other endings, it is assumed that Lawrence commits suicide after losing her to someone anyways despite all the effort he put in to trap and date MC. MC makes it to the Safe Zone in those endings and enjoys herself with the man of choice. If you choose the secret ending which you save everyone, (See the page Secret Ending for more information) Lawrence will continue to a path of redemption for MC, and the group welcomes him back. Everyone escapes the school and lives in the Safe Zone, and it is up for debate as to who MC dates in the end.