Reuben Walker

> ❝...you double cross me, and I will end you.❞
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-Reuben Walker to Gabbie Holloway

## Overview

Reuben Walker is one of the protagonists from the video game Dark Horizons, main protagonist of the video game extension Dark Horizons: Reuben’s Story, a secondary antagonist in Dark Horizons: Jenna’s Story.. Played by Tom Holland, he is the love interest of Abby Vynwood, former love interest and friend of Azreal Ivanvoa, former love interest of Twyla Beck, and friend of Eden Ashford and Elias Finch. Born in Seattle, Washington, Reuben’s mother Gabriela was a single mother who raised Reuben and his sister Natalia on her own. During his childhood, Reuben’s father was killed in a massive car collision that left Reuben quiet, and further protective. He would kill both his mother and sister because of the Anthos Mori flower parasite that infected his mother; his sister was killed to stop her suffering. For eight years, Reuben would survive the apocalypse through eating expired food and drinking any liquids to replenish, while using an old toothbrush and any toothpaste found to contain his hygiene as much as he can. He would make his first appearance in Season One, and you would escape the horde of Nekros with him as Azreal Ivanvoa before continuing the game as Reuben. You would then run into Elias Finch and start off your first crew with them before Reuben’s emotions would inevitably split you and Azreal after her argument with Elias. That led to him leaving before you ran into Ken Nichols and his crew. Abby Vynwood would make an appearance in Season Two, and continue to travel with her throughout Season Three, eventually being able to recruit Elias Finch and Eden Ashford. After being tortured by The Wasps, Reuben became immune to the Anthos Mori parasite and further interested The Remnants of Hope, an antagonist false military organization with vicious morals.

## Appearance

Reuben is best described as skinny and below average height with barely any muscle left in him. He has pale skin, a bony figure, and adorns himself in a black leather jacket, white tee, and blue jeans in Season One, a red Hawaiian shirt, dark blue Tee, and black cotton pants in Season Two, and a green cotton jacket, navy blue sweater, and blue jeans in Season Three and Season Four. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and after The Wasp Tortures, has a second degree chemical burn on his left cheek.

## Personality

Reuben is a very protective individual, after being tortured by The Wasps and vowing to keep his friends safe from them and other enemies. He offers help to those who are clearly in need of it, helping countless people during his years of survival. He tends to hide how he feels from others, and hide his injuries from them as well as to avoid worry or to avoid answering any questions that he might not want to answer (ie; Reuben’s chemical burn). He puts his friends before him out of his selflessness. He’s a very caring person, willing to do anything to protect his allies however he can. Reuben has shown multiple times that he can crack a joke even with his problem with being quiet, and has shown his violent side to protect his allies, showing that he is a vengeful character at most.

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## History

**Childhood (0-10)**

When Reuben was born, he had been very adventurous, and was protected from the world by his mother while his father served his country out of town. Some would probably say that she was overprotective, as she would watch Reuben closely, and soon after, she would watch Reuben’s sister just as closely. Reuben’s father was a very fun person after returning from his tours, and was probably one of Reuben’s closest people aside from his mother, uncle, and a few of his cousins. At the age of nine, Reuben’s father would be killed in a car collision in Tacoma, Washington during a trip out of town. Three months after Henry Walker’s death, Reuben’s sister Natalia would be born, and Reuben vowed to protect her like the older brother that he was, and try to keep her away from signing up for the military.

**Teenage Life (11-18)**

At seventeen years old, Reuben would experience the Collapse, the event that would mark the day that the world fell into economical and societal ruin. At this point, Natalia was just eight years old, and had to watch as her world slowly fell into pieces from protests, riots, and more made her final days miserable trapped inside her home before her death. Their mother, Gabriela, had become one of the many to first get sick after being bitten by an infected protester trying to get home, and after trying to sleep it off, would wake up in the night attacking her daughter. Awake at the time and doing homework, Reuben stormed out of the room and what his eyes saw would haunt him until the day he died. He rushed to his mother’s bedroom, locking himself within and leaving himself with enough time to find, and load his father’s gun while his mother tried to break in. Once loaded, Reuben fired at Gabriela just as she broke in, two rounds enough to kill her before she could attack him. Reuben then found Natalia, weak and near death, suffering in her pink bed. To deliver mercy, Reuben would fire a bullet into her head, killing her instantly. Afterwards, Reuben buried both girls, and left the property, packing what he could and taking his mother’s car.

**Adulthood (19-)**

By the age of twenty-one, Reuben had traveled long enough to find himself in New Mexico, about to enter Texas. He was starving, and exhausted from walking for so long down a highway, before he would be found by a group of eight. Hitching a ride with them, Reuben would enter their RV, and be able to talk with the people inside about where he’s from, where he’s going, and more. One of the people he enjoyed talking to the most was a girl named Twyla Beck, whose name just stuck with him the whole ride into Texas. Their friendship would be formed as they traveled, and just as he was about to get off, Reuben changed plans and stuck with the group longer.

In the matter of months, Reuben and Twyla’s friendship would evolve into a romantic relationship. Nervous at first, Twyla would confess to Reuben about how she felt about him, and feared she may ruin their already excellent friendship. The two of them were metaphorically glued together, always having each other’s backs in their endless loyalty. However, Reuben would leave her after Twyla, along with the following group members Dwight, Lori, and Julio would listen to their group leader, Porter, who was suffering from a mental illness caused by trauma to the brain after injuring himself during an escape from a horde of Nekros. Porter, believing their following group member Kim was infected and hiding it from everyone else as to attempt a murder-suicide assisted by the parasite itself, would order the group of four to force the ex-military woman out into the woods to kill her and leave her dead body where it was. Reuben, believing it to be wrong of her to take part in the act, would not only leave her, but the entire group as well, making Porter believe that he was betraying him, and abandoning the group selfishly over feelings. Although she tried her hardest to convince him to take her with him, Reuben refused to stay around her anymore than he already has, and proceeded to leave her with the group.

Reuben, in June of 2030, would find himself at Massachusetts, specifically in Cambridge. There, Reuben would be able to help a woman of the same age out of dying from a surrounding horde of Nekros. That was when Reuben would meet Azreal Ivanvoa, a Russian foreigner who had recently entered the mainland. The two of them traveled with each other, eventually finding Elias Finch, and adding him to the group before he left shortly after an argument broke out between Elias and Azreal. After Azreal dared Elias to leave, Reuben couldn’t handle traveling with her after, and the duo broke into separate paths.

In July of 2030, Reuben would commit various acts of violence in self defense, having killed two women who were going to assault him and a group of survivors in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in Dark Horizons: Reuben’s Story. After the events, Reuben would make a return in September of 2030, and would be able to form an alliance with Abilene Vynwood after stumbling through the woods in Fort Worth, Texas. Eventually, he would reunite with Elias Finch, and he would be able to tag along behind Reuben and Abby, before all three would meet Buzzard, a mysterious character who wore a mask made from bone. After escaping Fort Worth to avoid the nuclear meltdown, they would enter Abilene, Texas, where Reuben would suffer a hallucination caused by PTSD, forcing him to leave the group for a short while, which led to Reuben reuniting with Azreal in Galveston, Texas. Reuben would shortly after leave Azreal to avoid her after she showed clear signs of mental decline from a loss of sleep and high levels of anxiety. After that, Reuben would once again reunite with Abby, Elias, and their youngest member, Eden, who Reuben saved shortly before leaving the group. After Abby would let Reuben hitch a ride out of Galveston, Reuben traveled on his own once more, where he would enter Massachusetts once again, this time in the ghost town of Agawam. This is where Reuben would be tricked by being lied to about a sanctuary in Salem by a man on the other side of the portable communications system.

Reuben would find The Wasps instead, and suffer torment that last days in December of 2030, before escaping them with Gabbie Holloway on the seventeenth of December, once more reuniting with Abby a day later after having been closely followed by her. However, Reuben would never learn this, and following these events came the day he would have to save Abby from the Cult of the Divine, where it is dependent on the player to either let Reuben die, or live. This meant becoming one of them by showing them he was immune, after drinking an immune child’s blood. This gifted the twenty-five year old with the abilities to see through the Nekro’s life by being bitten by them, caused by something in the parasite’s genetics and labeling it as a phenomenon to Reuben. Unlike every other immune person on the planet, Reuben has so far been the only one to be able to experience the phenomenon because of being forced to drink the blood, combining his blood with it.