Derick Hanson

## Backstory

He was born in a small scraptown in new england. He can only remember his parents quickly rushing him out of the town, and into the cold hard blizzard. Hearing the gunshots and the screams as they escaped into the tundra. His father and two brothers froze to death within the first week. Eventually him and his mother made it to a warmer region. Taking up shelter in a new settlement. Charcity was comprised of a couple dozen old houses rebuilt with scrapmetal and moldy wooden baords. Though after about a month of being homeless and starving his mother traded him to a band of raiders for food.
For a couple years he traveled with the outlaws, learning a few survival skills here and there. He got his first rifle from a young couple gunned down in an ambush. He never shot a person with it but he saw the damage it can do to a shambler. Eventually food became scarce once again. Infighting amongst the group began. It started with insults being hurled and ended with lead. Derik chose the winning side and made it out better than most with a stab wound in his arm and his first kill. The remaining looters patched each other up and went back to their normal routine of thieving and killing. Derik was not going to stick around to get shot in the back, and in the middle of the night he made off with his belongings. A few months on the road and he slowly made his way down to D.C on foot. He survived on his own by scavenging and hunting. Though his term for scavenging was slightly looser then others. Along the way he smelled a burning campfire and as he approached he found a mans campsite, still inhabited. He waited for hours until the man to went collect more firewood. Then swiftly he took everything he could carry and made off with it.
Derick eventually made it to the city, he doesnt exactly know what he's going there for but he aint got a better plan.

## Personality

Nervous: Derick Hanson is a decently cold person. Being raised by outlaws and theives after being sold by his mother does that to someone. It didnt help when those same bandits who he began to see as a new family turned on each other, turned on him. This has made him extremly paranoid about humans and has a constant feeling that his old group might be out for him still. He tries his best to avoid the civilized parts of the apocalpyse and would just prefer if everything fell apart even more.

-Though his time spent on his own and living amongst theives has made him very intuitive. When he sees a problem he thinks of a dozen ways to get through it. Always making sure to have a backup plan as he knows he might not always be working with the most trustworthy of people or the best quality supplies. In this way he is extremly cautious before entering most situations.

-On the other hand he is also very paranoid. After being betrayed by two families he feels like he does not want to risk trusting anyone ever again. He saw what happened to the outlaws that ended up on the wrong side of the shootout and he doesnt want to end up like the man that stood between his sights.

Ethics: As for his morals Derick does not care if a person is a murderer or a saint. He simply sees everyone as people trying to survive and thinks if its works for them then so be it. As such he will treat most people exactly the same. He see's robbing and stealing like most people would see scavenging however normally he tries to avoid it.