David

## Summary

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David Finley is one of the main characters in the Pivot Zombie Series and has a brief introduction in the first episode, when he saves Craig and Frank. After getting separated from them during the holdout, David is left to fend for himself after being injured by the helicopter crash. However David is reunited with Craig once again as he stumbles upon the military base where Vince and the group are situated. He is allowed into the base due to his injuries and is able to get along with everyone in the group. He volunteers to go on the rescue mission to find Gary, wanting to show that he can be a useful asset to the group. David has show that he can be effective in combat during episode six, where he kills multiple bandits. He is slowly building a good relationship with Mark and is trying to gain Vince's trust. David serves as the muscle of the group as he is undoubtedly the biggest and strongest.

## Full Character Story

As we all know David didn't choose a right way in his beginning. He became a thief with his uncle and they stole a lot of money from banks. One day, David was betrayed by his uncle and he was abandoned and the police officers had caught David. David then was imprisoned at Redwood Penitentiary.

At that time, David met another inmate called Zane. They became friends after they were living in the same cell at the penitentiary. On the day of the outbreak, the guards left the control room and ran away. One of the prisoners pressed the buttons and helped the prisoners escape from Redwood Penitentiary. David and Zane chose to follow the other prisoners. They left the Redwood Penitentiary successfully and Zane asked David to keep moving and find some place to rest.

After they left the Redwood Penitentiary, they couldn't find anybody in the streets. David felt weird about that. Suddenly, David saw one person was walking in the street, David went to that person and found that he was a zombie. David felt shocked and that zombies started to attack him. Zane found a machete and killed the zombies immediately. David felt thankful to Zane and Zane said that the place wasn't safe anymore and they should keep moving.

They found some supplies at one house. Zane found some water and David found a pistol for himself. They heard a noise and that was the sound from the car alarm. They came out the house and saw two guys walking. It was known that they were Craig and Frank, who were walking in the street in Episode 1 (Unnamed). David asked them to come his way if they wanted to live. David and Zane covered Craig and Frank to go to their safe-house and Zane was killed by the overwhelming number of zombies. David felt upset about Zane's death.

Frank comforted David and told him to keep fighting for his life. David agreed with what Frank said. They left the safe-house later because the house lacked supplies and they had to keep moving. David, Craig and Frank then found some military. The soldier told them if they helped the soldiers defend that location for the imminent zombie attack, then they will give them a ride out of the city. David agreed with what he said and followed his order.

Unfortunately, the hordes of infected overwhelmed some of the soldiers quickly and ran towards Craig, Frank and David. The soldiers in charge ordered a retreat to the helicopter, deciding they couldn't wait there any longer. David knew he wouldn't be able to make it to the roof in time, so he dove into a nearby building as the others attempted to board the helicopter. David lost the connection with Craig and Frank here.

David hid within the wreckage all night until the horde passed through. David came out after the next day, he couldn't find Craig and Frank but only numerous dead bodies. David felt disgusted about what he saw so he left that place and went to a different house to find some supplies. His arm injured when the helicopter went down. Three days later, David found a military base in Complications (Episode 5) and went to see it and hoped there were some soldiers there.

When David reached the military bases' gate, Jane saw him and asked him to put down his gun. Mark then came out and asked Jane what was going on. Jane told him that a new guy was outside of the military gate. David begged them to let him in for some days and then he would leave. Mark wasn't willing to let him in but Jane convinced him to let David in. David finally joined the Winston Military Base and his injured arm was healed by Zoey.

After Craig, Vince and Rob came back to the Winston Military Base, Jane told Vince that she found a survivor and then David came out. He saw Craig and reunited with him. Craig asked David how he made it. David explained everything to Craig and asked what happened to Frank. Craig told David that Frank didn't make it because he was bitten. Craig told Vince that he wanted to repay David because David used to save him and Vince allowed David to stay here.

David then knew more information about the people and made more friends including Mark and Rob. Vince told the team to join him to save Gary. Although David didn't know who Gary was, he was willing to help Vince. All people had joined Vince for the rescue of Gary. When they arrived at the bandits compound in the Heroes (Episode 6), David worried his weight would be a problem when climbing across the rope. Craig told David that the military-grade rope could handle his weight. They arrived at the other building successfully and found Gary on the ground floor.

Vince then ordered David and Mark to cover them in the Rescue (Episode 7). David killed some bandits and asked Mark to cover him. He and Mark finally went back to the team and left successfully. When they arrived at the military base, David told that he was a jailbird and he promised that he wouldn't go back to wronging way again. Vince agreed to what he said and told the team to take a rest.

In Origins (Episode 8), David helped Craig patrol the military base and Craig asked David to go outside with him and Rob to find Rob's family. David was willing to join them and they went to Rob's house the next day in Conflict (Episode 9). The group found out that Rob's family had reached a survival bunker and they headed back to the military base . Craig then brought up the idea of going to the bunker after they had come back to the base. Vince was still hesitant to decide whether the team should go to the bunker. Danny was killed suddenly and the bandits were outside. They fought the bandits and Vince told David to start the truck. While David was starting the truck, tons of bandits were shooting them. Mark told David to start the truck. David didn't want to die and drove the truck to leave the military base. Gary was left behind and killed by the Bandit Leader.

Vince felt angry about what David did and blamed David. David said he drove off the truck to ensure everyone was safe. Vince didn't hear what he said and attacked David. They both fought for some minutes and Rachel stopped them by opening fire with her pistol. David felt hurtful about what Vince did and Vince thought he did a wrong thing. Vince later asked David to forgive him and their relationships have improved since.

The team then left the city and found that they lacked petrol when the truck stopped. Vince ordered David, Craig and Mark to go with him to find petrol and Mark had a small argument with Vince. Vince scolded Mark and Mark felt unhappy about it. David comforted Mark and told Mark that he shouldn't underestimate his or Jane's ability. The four reached the petrol station. They divided two teams, Craig found some supplies in shop with Mark and David siphoned petrol into barrels with Vince. Vince's radio suddenly began to output some sound. David heard it and asked Vince to listen to it. They knew the rest of the team had caught by some other people and headed back to save them quickly. The team finally caught the camp raiders and rescued their people successfully in Stricken (Episode 10).

After one day, the team arrived at Bunker 08 and there were no people in the bunker. David and Mark opened the bunker's gate and numerous zombies came out. David was caught by one zombie. Fortunately, Rachel killed that zombie and saved David's life. David felt thankful for what Rachel did. The team had decided to keep moving to the next bunker. After 4 days of travelling, Rob and Zoey are severely injured by the C.C.R landmine while they were searching the area. Zoey died immediately and Rob was bleeding heavily after loosing an arm, David saw Rob missed an arm and thought he should be healed as fast as possible. David told Craig to give Rob to the C.C.R to save his life. Craig rejected David's suggestion and fought to the C.C.R. They lost the battle because lacked ammo. Jane and Rachel were caught and Rob finally died from losing much blood. David felt upset about Rob's death.

After the Rob's death, the team had planned to rescue Jane and Rachel. They attacked the C.C.R Cropford Base in Vendetta (Episode 12). After they cleared the area, Vince asked Mark to go to the laboratory with him while David and Craig were going to search the cells. David and Craig found the cell containing the girls. They couldn't find the true password to open the door. David used his hand to break the system, the door then opened. They saved the girls successfully. The survivors then left the C.C.R Cropford Base and found a house to live for the night.

The next day, the survivors arrived at Bunker 03 and met Will. The survivors entered the bunker 03 and visited the place. In the evening, David, Craig, Vince went to the gym room and saw Will practising. Will saw David and thought he was in very good shape. David responded to him that his hobby was exercising before the apocalypse. Rachel saw David is using his injured hand to lift weights. Rachel felt mad about it and David didn't know what was going on with her. David felt the pain from his hand in Brothers (Episode 13), and could not find any of the other survivors to change his bandage, so he had to go to Rachel, of whom he had an argument with the previous day after extorting his hand when she had told him not to.

David then entered her room and asked Rachel to bandage his hand again. They got talking and Rachel told David that it must've been difficult emotionally in prison if no one visited him. David said he had nothing and people didn't care about him, he felt upset and resented his past life. Rachel comforted him and asked David that people didn't treat him like this. David asked Rachel to keep his secret, Rachel promised him that she would.

David was going to look for the materials to build barricades for the bunker with Ray, Shaun, Rachel and Jessica in Divided (Episode 14). When David and Shaun found the requirement of materials and brought it together, they started noise because they were careless and dropped the materials. The team killed all of the zombies and escaped to the bunker 03 successfully.

In Eradication (Episode 15),David was one of the teammates in Alpha team, along with Will. He was ready to kill all of the zombies by using his M60. After Will threw his grenade, he opened his fire and assisted the other teammates in bunker 03 he discovered that the team couldn't kill the overwhelming zombies. He used his gun to shoot the engine of the truck. The truck then exploded and destroyed the zombies and the environment outside the bunker. David was lying down on the floor without consciousness.

David then woke up and found that Mark was infected. He felt upset about what happened to Mark and he was killed by Craig. Will then asked David to come and declared David was the hero in this fight to all of the residents in bunker 03. David felt a little bit happy that people could start to care about him.

In Retribution (Episode 16), he was intimidated and injured by Wesley (C.C.R Supreme Commander). He felt angry at what C.C.R did and wanted to join Will to take a revenge on them. He was ready to risk his life to get rid of C.C.R without any fear.

In Annihilation (Episode 17), he and Emily were leading the residents to the rendezvous point after the C.C.R began to attack the bunker. David wanted to take revenge against the C.C.R, but Vince didn't think that was a good idea at that time due to the large number of them and the fact that there were non-combatants on the battlefield.

After they headed back to Bunker 03, Rachel told David that she liked him and wanted to be more than friends with him. David felt surprised about what Rachel said but admitted that he also wanted to be in a relationship with Rachel.

In Icarus (Episode 18), he and Rachel joined the mission of finding the C.C.R's main base in London. After they have ascertained the exact location of the main base, he followed Craig's plan to disguise himself as a C.C.R soldier and teamed up with Rachel to find Wesley once they have entered the base. He and Rachel also helped remove the dead bodies of C.C.R Colonel Knight and C.C.R Colonel Walters to prevent the team from being discovered by other C.C.R soldiers. Unfortunately, when the team were about to leave, they got discovered. To protect the team, Rachel killed C.C.R Colonel immediately but this made her evacuate slower than David and others. The other C.C.R soldiers from behind shot her and a bullet penetrated her helmet, causing her to faint. David then ran back to the base to try to save her but the base self destruct program automatically shut the entrance door afterwards. He and Rachel were trapped in the base and they were killed by the stranded C.C.R soldiers who shot them without mercy.

To sum up, David is a kind person and he is now one of the most important people in the team.

## Personality

David is much more of a follower than a leader. His lack of confidence in his intelligence makes him find it easier to follow other people's orders and decisions and he is not a high authority member of Bunker 03.

He does however recognise that his physical ability is often unmatched and this makes him happy as he feels it is his only way that he is useful to the group but they would of course disagree. Although physically imposing, David does not like to partake in violence or get angry, due to this he is often seen as more level headed and compassionate than Vince and Craig in recent times. But he will of course fight if it means protecting members of the group.

Also, he is a brave person who doesn't think or care about the bad consequences he will receive as long as does the task at hand most efficiently, such as when he broke the system to open the cell's door in Vendetta (Episode 12) with his bare hand.

## Appearance and Equipment

David is a large orange stickman who is very muscular due to his years of almost non-stop exercise in prison. For a long time in the series he has worn a brown leather jacket, but will put it aside for the special ops armour found at the bunker when in combat. David is a brave person.

David's weapon of choice is surely the MP5. Though he has periodically been seen using a C.C.R issued Stoner LMG. Later he used the M60 machine gun (possibly E3 variant) as his next signature weapon.

## Relationships

### Zane

David and Zane first met about two years before the apocalypse when Zane arrived at Redwood Penitentiary and was placed in the same cell as David. Zane was extremely regretful of his crime and was terrified of going to prison. So as you can imagine when he moved into a cell with someone nearly twice his size, he was scared out of his mind. For the first few weeks in prison together, whenever they were locked in their cell Zane would just sit on his bottom bunk, softly shaking in silence.

David made multiple friendly attempts to communicate with Zane but he wouldn't respond. It was only when one day in the yard when Zane was getting harassed by another group of prisoners, that David, James and some of his other friends finally decided to put a stop to it. This caused a massive fight in the yard and Zane joined David in fighting. The fight was of course quickly stopped by the guards and all those who were involved were sent to spend time in solitary confinement.

Once they returned to their cells however, Zane was a lot more confident in himself and was happy to talk to David. The rest is history, they spent so much time together in prison that they essentially became best friends and Zane became a solid member of David's group.

When the outbreak started, it wasn't to be questioned whether or not the two were going to stick together. The chaos caused allowed almost all of the inmates to escape the prison. David and Zane fled into Coalworth and eventually ran into Craig and Frank in Episode 1 (Unnamed). When David was taking them back to a house that David and Zane were hiding in, Zane covered Frank and Craig as they climbed up, but could not turn around quick enough to make the climb himself.

David was absolutely gutted at Zane's death, he always dreamed of them escaping prison one day and achieving freedom. So seeing him die on the first day was horrible. David has moved on quickly however as he had made good friends with Craig, but he cannot forget his best friend Zane.

### Craig

David and Craig have known each other the longest out of any of the characters who are alive in the series and are good friends. Their relationship is good and they can rely on each other for different things; David can rely on Craig for advice, guidance and support and Craig can rely on David for help with physical activities and fighting.

They first met in Episode 1 (Unnamed), when Craig and Frank were running from a horde of infected in Coalworth. He saved their lives by taking them to a house he was hiding out in but they were separated soon after when they tried to hold off the infected with the military.

Craig assumed he was dead until he showed up at the military base that the group was hiding out in a few days later. Craig vouched for David and in turn Vince allowed him to join the group. Craig has never judged David by his past and enjoys his company. David has shown his loyalty to Craig during times such as rescuing Gary and invading the C.C.R Cropford Base with him in Vendetta (Episode 12).

### Frank

David met Frank at the same time he met Craig, when they were running through Coalworth and he saved them by taking them to his safe-house. In all honesty they barely knew each other and David learned more about Frank after he was dead (when Craig would tell him stories about him) than he did when he was alive. David was eager to save Frank's life and befriend him, but sadly they never got the chance, as when David returned to Craig in Complications (Episode 5), Frank had already died.

### Vince

After joining the group in Complications (Episode 5), David undoubtedly became the strongest assistant on the team and was one of the people who helped Vince rescue Gary. However, Mark told David that they were going to be shot by the Bandits in Conflict (Episode 9) if they didn't drive off immediately. David then started the truck and left Gary behind in the military base for the sake of saving everybody else. Gary was killed and Vince felt furious about what David did and had a conflict with David. They attacked each other and they were stopped by Rachel. After the chill out of both of them, they became friendly to each other again.

### Rob

David and Rob had a good relationship with each other. They first met in Complications (Episode 5) and Rob was happy to have such an intimidating looking guy in their group. He thought he was even more intimidating when he discovered that he had done time in prison. When Craig asked David to go with him and Rob about finding Rob's family, David was willing to go with them without any hesitation in Conflict (Episode 9). When Rob died in Nightmare (Episode 11), David felt sympathetic about him since he was so young to pass away, saying "he deserved it the least out of all of us" and David decided to avenge Rob on the C.C.R.

### Mark

David and Mark were friends in the team. When David had a struggle in Rescue (Episode 7),Mark cover David and left together with David. Nevertheless , Mark told David to start the truck and Gary was left behind in the military base. It indirectly caused David to be blamed by Vince. However, David thought it was necessary to start the truck quickly, otherwise he and Mark would have been shot by the bandits.

In Stricken (Episode 10), Mark was blamed by Vince for not following David, Craig and him to take more petrol. Mark felt discontented with what Vince had decided. David calmed him down for saying Jane was better at being in charge than them. Mark was then more willing to join them to take more petrol.

After knowing Mark was bitten in Eradication (Episode 15),David felt sad and he didn't want Mark to leave them.Finally,Mark was killed by Craig for the security.

### Jane

Jane was the first member of The Survivors after Craig to meet David. She was on watch at the military base when he approached the gates; injured and wanting a place to stay and heal up. She was keen to let him in and wanted to help him but Mark but suspicious. They ended up letting him in anyway and he was later allowed to join the group after Craig arrived back at the base and vouched for him. Jane felt very good about her decision after this, especially when he volunteered to join the group in rescuing Gary in Heroes (Episode 6).

After the events of Conflict (Episode 9), when the group arrived at the sports shop, Jane felt sorry for David because she knew the decision he had made to drive off without Gary was necessary but that it must've been a difficult one. She was horrified when Vince attacked him. Jane and David continued to have a good relationship until Jane was of course taken by the C.C.R. In Vendetta (Episode 12) David broke Jane and Rachel out of their holding cell along with Craig and she was very happy to see that he had come on the rescue mission.

They remain good friends presently but Jane does worry about him sometimes as he and Craig were close but now Craig is spending more time with her.

### Gary

David met Gary in Rescue (Episode 7). David introduced himself to Gary later than the other survivors, when they were leaving and heading back to the military base. Gary admired David because David didn't know him but he was willing to risk his life and save him. After they arrived back at the military base, David asked Gary what he and Vince worked as, Gary told David that he and Vince serviced the military for 9 years and 11 years respectively. However, their conversations together were short, as Gary was killed to episodes later when David was forced to drive away and leave him behind in Conflict (Episode 9). David felt guilty about leaving Gary behind, but he had no choice because he had to start the truck to get the rest of the group out of the danger of being shot by the bandits.

### Rachel

David and Rachel get along very well in recent times. They first met in Conflict (Episode 9) when the group arrived at Rachel's sports shop. Rachel's first impression of David wasn't very good, seeing him getting his ass kicked by an old man, but once she found out that Vince was a proper badass she understood. She felt sorry for him, seeing him sad in the corner of the room but didn't go over to talk to him, feeling it would be more beneficial to talk to the rest of the team to build friendships with them.

They interacted very minimally in Stricken (Episode 10), the only memorable moment involving both of them being when he expressed concern for her safety along with Zoey at the end of the episode. During the three day time skip in Nightmare (Episode 11) David and Rachel had got to know each other a bit more and since she was the only person in the group who didn't know about his criminal past, once he was able to get her alone he informed her about it. She was shocked because he is very kind to the members of the group. After hearing the full story she decided she was not going to judge him on his past.

Later that episode, though David did not show it in his words or actions, he was extremely frustrated that Rachel and Jane had been taken from them. He was afraid of what the C.C.R were going to do to them. Fortunately they were able to infiltrate the base and rescue them in time. Rachel then paid much attention to David's injured hand as David had his hand injured when breaking through the door to save her and Jane in Vendetta (Episode 12). Rachel felt nervous about David's injured hand later in Brothers (Episode 13) as well as his feelings of not belonging. This showed Rachel cared much about David.

In Annihilation (Episode 17), Rachel confessed to David that she loved him and wanted to have a romantic relationship with him instead of being friends only. At first, this made David shocked since he did not expect her love. However, he accepted this relationship immediately since he also loved Rachel. This could be shown when David ran back to the headquarters to save Rachel in Icarus (Episode 18) after she was shot by a group of C.c.R soldiers from behind. Although they were finally trapped in the headquarters and shot to death, David did not regret saving Rachel since he would not let her die alone.

Overall, they have a good and romantic relationship, even though David is usually uncomfortable when being around her, it's not in a bad way, it is due to his lack of female and social interaction in life, as well as her attractive looks.

### Bandit Leader

David met Bandit leader in the Conflict (Episode 9).When the survivors came out to meet the bandit leader. David looked at the bandit leader and knew he was an overbearing person. He told the bandit leader that the bandit leader would kill all of them even if they sent Gary, Rob and Craig to him . The bandit leader said that he wouldn't kill the survivors and only took Craig, Rob, Gary and all of their supplies. After Rob used the RPG to shoot to the bandits, all David wanted to get the hell out of this place. They didn't see each other after David and the survivors left the military base successfully. Overall, they had no good relationship at all.

### C.C.R Cropford Lieutenant

When David first met the C.C.R Cropford Lieutenant in Nightmare (Episode 11), he was not initially hostile towards him like Craig and Vince were. David believed that the lieutenant could help them in saving Rob's life so he gave him an opportunity. Unfortunately the lieutenant showed no interest in this and instead wanted to take the girls with him. David's opinion of the man immediately changed and he quickly built up a hatred towards him.

David was glad to hear of his death in the next episode by the hands of Vince and the infected, since David did not get a chance to encounter him in the base. The main reason he hated the lieutenant was due to the worry he caused in David's head, it was worries about what horrible things could've been happening to the girls and how he wasn't there to stop it. Rob's death was certainly another reason.

### Will

David was originally cautious of Will when they first met in Brothers (Episode 13), he thought he looked like quite a hostile person. However, once they got acquainted with each other, Will took a liking to David and see's massive potential in him. Will is excited to get David back into working out and build him up into the strongest member of the bunker by far.

David sees Will's career and life as an inspiration like he does with Vince, but he seems to have more in common with Will with their interest in fitness. David looks forward to learning more from Will and training and fighting together.

### Ray

David and Ray have not interacted much in the series yet, but David is keen to get to know him as the leader of the construction crew at the bunker. He would like to work with Ray and learn from his years of experience in the industry.

### Shaun

David and Shaun are the workmates in the construction crew at the bunker. They cooperate with each other to finish every mission.Also, they have a good communication with each other and they can work together happily.

## Death

After killing Wesley and activating the 'Base Self Destruct' program in Icarus (Episode 18), David and the others tried their best to run back to the entrance of the headquarters. Unfortunately, their identities were discovered by C.C.R Colonel at the entrance. To protect the team, Rachel pounced on the colonel and stabbed him without hesitation. However, this slowed down her pace and she got shot by the C.C.R soldiers from behind. A bullet penentrated her helmet and caused her to become unconscious and unable to move. Although David and the others had passed the entrance door, David still risked his live to go back to the base to save Rachel. The entrance door was then shut automatically due to the detonation program. David and Rachel were stranded in the headquarters with a group of C.C.R soldiers. The C.C.R soldiers then shot them to death without mercy.

David survived for 71 days in the apocalypse and was in the series for 15 episodes.

## Notable Quotes

* "Come this way if you want to live!" - *David told Craig and Frank to follow him and Zane if they want to live in Episode 1 (Unnamed) .*

* "Don't worry mate, we'll carry you." - *David responds Rob that the team doesn't give up him and they are willing to carry him in Nightmare (Episode 11) .*

* "Nobody ever came to visit me, I just sat in there, rotting away like--" - *David confiding in Rachel about how miserable his time in prison was, something he has not told anyone else, in Brothers (Episode 13).*

* "Definitely, you're right, I can't think of anyone else I would rather be with than you." - *David tells Rachel that he would like to become Rachel's boyfriend in Annihilation (Episode 17).*

## Kills

* 465 Zombies (*on screen*)
* 2 Bandits
* Gary (Indirectly caused)
* 3 unnamed Bunker 03 members (Indirectly caused)
* 6 C.C.R Soldiers

## Trivia

* He is the strongest character in the series, leaving the C.C.R Supreme Commander in second place.
* David was the tallest character in series until the C.C.R Supreme Commander's appearance in Divided (Episode 14).
* David's surname is 'Finley', as revealed in Origins (Episode 8) during his flashback.
* He was originally going to be a very intelligent character.
* As of Eradication (Episode 15), he has now killed the most infected.