Nash Sawyer

*"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. Revelations 6:8. Personally, I feel like we've been beckoning a pale horse the day we decided to split atoms and put 'em in a big ol' fuckin' tin can some fucker decided to glue wings on the back of. If it wasn't that instead we got the smell of walking decomp every summer morning, it would've been a matter of time anyway."*
—Nash Sawyer
**Nash Fletcher Sawyer** is the leader of the Lost Loners. After being forced from his home, Nash and his son, Shaw, sought out to bring together the remaining humans for a mission of aid.

## Biography

### Early Life

Nash used to live in Sundown, a small isolated town within the upper parts of western Gas City, Chicago. His father, Jack, was an alcoholic, and he inherited his heavy-caliber revolver when the latter died.

When Nash grew up, he got a job detasseling for *Beck's Hybrids* in the fields out by the town, for about 18 miles for every three month harvest. He later enlisted and fought in Vietnam. When he returned, he was spat on by protesters as he walked off the plane.

Nash met Nina Sawyer in college when he was 21, and married her a year later. Nash had a son with Cass when he was 23, and decided to settle for a less demanding job for his family. Nash still wanted to have a job closer to home, so he started a farm in his backyard, and started with carrots.

### Necro-Virus

#### Helping a Friend

*"At that point, I pretty much grasped the concept, and it never hit me like it did then. I would be killing people. Ripping them from their families. The very next morning, I would have been murdering people that in a fair and just world, I would never meet."*
—Nash Sawyer
In his early days as a defender, Nash happened upon a man named Vincent Harvey, who requested his help to find and save his brother. His brother, however, had been trapped in the headquarters of the electric company, quarantined off by city due to the virus.

In spite of this, Nash stormed the building with his powerful shotgun. Taking down as many infected as he could, he unfortunately found the brother to be dead in an office. With this knowledge he made his way out, and strategically battled a stray Memory Eater.

#### Desolation

*"Fairy tales that helped you sleep at night were fake because the world is too realistic to allow them. In other words, Rapunzel was smoke and mirrors, this? It's as real as it gets."*
—Nash Sawyer
With his son Shaw, Nash later met fellow veteran Jason Kade and invited him to join his team, the "Lost Loners."

## Personality

*"There are very few things... as good... as fallout."*
—Nash Sawyer
Nash is very protective of his teammates and family, placing their safety above all else. This was evidenced when he stayed behind to thin the zombie herd while his son was rushed to the hospital.

## Physical Appearance

Nash is a man of a mesomorphic build. He has ear-length blond hair and a big blond beard. He often wears flannel with jeans, his boots and baseball cap.

He has a locked wrist that shows he stands by his convictions, a firm grip that says one can trust him, and plenty of thick calluses that show he is not afraid to persevere.

## Abilities

*"Yeah, detasseling gets work done on you."*
—Nash Sawyer
* **Peak Human Condition:** Nash is in top physical condition from his years of farmwork and military service. He is very strong, resilient and endurant, having developed strong muscles and tough, thick, calloused hands from detasseling, and a strong swing for weapons.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** His strong grip increases the stability of two-handed weapons such as his iconic Remington shotgun. He is strong enough to the point where he can casually curb stomp a zombie's skulls apart (generating 520 pounds/235 kilograms/2,300 newtons of force), even from behind a helmet, as well as snap a collapsible baton. He can tear through zombies with his axe like a hot knife through butter, and kick open a door while underwater.
* **Expert Marksman:** Nash used to go to a gun range in Sundown, because he didn't have many hobbies other than that, his choice of weapon being a Remington 870. He also received training in firearms in the military. Since the outbreak of the Necro-Virus, Nash became an even more experienced marksman, favoring the use of his Remington shotgun. His aim is so precise, he is able to shoot the head off of a zombie from a considerable distance, and was able to fire fast enough to hit one on a moving tram.
* **Expert Combatant:** While preferring to use firearms and his trusty axe, Nash is a proficient fighter due to his military training. On multiple occasions, he has been shown to be able to quickly disarm zombies. His most frequent strategy is to curb stomp their skulls open.
* **Indomitable Will:** Like his primary counterpart, Nash is known for his determination. He stands by his convictions, and he is not afraid to persevere. He bravely led the Lost Loners into battle against the zombies countless times.

## Techniques

* **The Moonshine Firespitter:** A attack that's ranged, but does no less damage up close, Nash takes out his most alcoholic drink of choice―preferably one with moonshine in it, and throws/bashes the bottle open on the target. Nash then backs up and shoots the opponent with his Remington 870 and sets them to blaze.
* **Tomafawke:** Nash is well known for his incredible accuracy, dexterity, and skill. With this attack, Nash combines all of it into one by throwing his Fire Axe in such a way it heavily cuts through the target, but then is sent back to him in a boomerang fashion. Nash likes to aim for the lower torso, disabling the target's ability to walk.

## Equipment

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Remington 870:** Nash is very proficient with his Remington hardwood home defense double-barrel shotgun. He infamously loads it with buckshot rounds, but manages to achieve the same amount of damage with slug rounds due to his excellent accuracy. Nash also uses Togglebolt Slugs.
* **Taurus Model 66:** Nash's sidearm is a .357-caliber revolver inherited from his father. He despises the memories that comes with it, but figured it would be a waste to discard of it.
* **Mossberg 590 Mariner:** Nash gave Jason Kade this shotgun.
* **Red:** Nash carries a fire axe, a tool used by fire fighters for chopping down doors and obstacles to reach burning victims. Nash brandishes this on the side of his pant leg. The axe causes heavy, tearing damage with each hard swing of the axe.

## Relationships

* Randy Sawyer - Cousin
* Cass Sawyer † - Wife
* Shaw Sawyer - Son

Allies* Vincent Harvey
* Lost Loners
	+ Cody Nakamura
	+ Jason Kade †
	+ Chris Felix
* Memory Men
* Memory Eaters

## Trivia

* Nash's personal favorite type of ammunition is buckshot rounds.
* Nash's middle name is Fletcher, same as his son and father, which gets confused to be the last name as Fletcher is a last name.
* Nash always keeps a bottle of moonshine with him to perform his signature attack, *"The Moonshine Firespitter."*
* Nash named his fire axe "Red," but seldom addresses it by the name.
* Nash's dream home is somewhere in Alaska. He prefers to go some place with extremely long winters, like Alaska, because the infected cease up in the cold.
* Detasseling is a real job that demands so much work out of the human body. Tops of corn needs to be cut so they can pollinate, and to have miles of corn in a field that need to be detasseled is a lot of work, because the corn blades are extremely sharp, and cut people to shreds who have fair skin, or any skin that isn't tough enough for the job. This can actually kill people if they do not cut and move through the fields the right way, especially with the wrong cutting tool.
	+ Nash's choice to detassel for Beck's may have actually gave him skill for the Outbreak. The proper tool to detassel for most people is a machete, and cutting down tall blades of corn along with getting cut by them may have gave him tough skin, a strong swing, and the proper skill to use his fire axe.