Rhett Slicers Casket

### Family

Slicers Family (Pre-apocalypse) (Largely deceased)Casket Family (Pre-apocalypse) (Adoptive) (Unknown status)

### Lifespan

 3rd of September, 2010 - Present

> ... Thanks, you two. I know stuff is weird right now... And it's hard to say everything is really okay, because it isn't. But... I'm glad I got to meet you during it, Chloe. And I'm glad you're still here to help me through it, Aurora.
>
> Rhett Slicers Casket

**Rhett 'Sil' Slicers Casket** is currently a survivor of the Outbreak. He currently resides in Palm Bay, sharing a cabin with Aurora Isilia and Chloe O'Brien.

## Overview

Rhett is, for the most part, a friendly but naive child. He is fairly curious, although this often leads to him being confused by things. While he is usually quite kind, his personality can occasionally be masked by an anxious exterior, and being in a zombie apocalypse has not helped that. Despite being a bit nervous when approaching unknown individuals, likely due to fear of them being a Walker, he does appear to quickly trust people who act friendly towards him. However, his memory isn't the best, and sometimes he struggles to explain events that have happened in the past. He possesses some form of survival instinct, as he was quickly able to find a bit of a pipe and begin carrying it around as a weapon, dubbing it the 'Super Steel Self-Defense Stick'. He also uses it to store a small teddy bear that he made sure to keep during the apocalypse. Rhett has recently displayed signs of a mischievous streak of sorts. He secretly enjoys sitting in extremely fast cars and is described as having once snuck into the car of Arthur Slicers, his uncle, prior to the apocalypse, as Arthur was a detective and was about to use said car to pursue Green Oak. When Rhett was given a ride around Naporia by Chloe O'Brien in a particularly fast car, his excitement rapidly increased throughout the trip, and he quickly began cheering, not stopping until the ride ended. A detail regarding Rhett that has recently become very important is his experience with the Coyle family, most notably Ms. Coyle and her cult, the Twisted Ones. Rhett, a former member who was forced into the group just over a year ago, struggles to remember the exact details of everything that occurred, but still recalls most of it, and can draw parallels between it and the situation at Palm Bay.

## Post-Apocalypse

At some point between late August and early September, likely on the day of the Outbreak, the Casket family were presumably among a group of people who learned about the arrival of Walkers, as Rhett himself mentions that they suddenly 'became nervous' one day. However, Rhett either forgot about the Outbreak or was never informed in the first place, as he didn't seem to know what was going on yet. A short while later, practically everyone near Rhett had 'disappeared', with their fates largely unknown, except for Aurora Isilia and Teseo Coyle, two friends of his. However, from Aurora's perspective, Rhett disappeared as well, as he had already left by the time she tried looking for him. Teseo, meanwhile, was unable to search for either of them due to a Walker horde interrupting him.

Rhett would go on to wander about for two or three days, before encountering Ismael Galloway on his farm. Ismael explained the current situation and the Walkers to him, but he couldn't take care of both a tiny child and a farm, so he took Rhett to the town of Naporia, where he wandered about for a few days before meeting Brantley Leon, who acted as a guide of sorts, showing him different parts of Naporia before the two of them encountered Delaney Chapman, who effectively ran the town. However, their conversation was cut short when Delaney heard a distant gunshot and left to go investigate.

Following this, Rhett returned to the part of the town he was previously at to search for Delaney, when he encountered the High School Survivors talking about Malcolm Lowe and the drugs he had given them. Rhett promptly asked about the drugs, as he didn't recognise them, leading to a borderline confrontation in which Rhett questioned everything that the Survivors said regarding the drugs and where they got them. Eventually, they concluded that the drugs would be handed in to Delaney and the questioning ended.

Luckily for Rhett, Delaney quickly appeared after the confrontation and pointed him in the direction of Naporia's orphanage, where he would live with Steve and Amanda Wanton, alongside three other kids named Thomas, Susan and Euan. Upon arriving at the orphanage, Rhett met Steve, who showed him where his bedroom was. Upon seeing his bed for the first time, Rhett instantly flopped over on it and fell asleep. While he wasn't seen for the next few days, it can be assumed he simply went to school over the course of those days.

Rhett would reappear on the 14 of September, 2010. Presumably either after school or on the weekend, Steve found Rhett standing on his own in the street near the orphanage, staring into the distance. When questioned by Steve, he explained that he was looking at a tall, white speck in the distance, which Steve soon noticed as well. Believing it was a person, the two of them began approaching this speck. Rhett briefly thought he saw two people, rather than one, but both Rhett and Steve thought nothing of it and believed Rhett was just confused. Upon reaching the mystery man, they realised that he was not a human at all, but in fact, a mannequin, which caused the two of them to reconsider Rhett briefly seeing two people. Since the two of them considered this situation odd, and found this man a bit suspicious, they promptly went to the town hall and informed Delaney of the situation, wondering if the man has entered Naporia. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, this mystery man was, in, fact, Dallon Slicers, an uncle of Rhett who had mistaken Rhett and Steve for Walkers and placed a mannequin of himself as a decoy while he made his escape.

During the three-month timeskip, Rhett encountered a fatally injured man one day while he was out on a walk. The man, noticing Rhett's Super Steel Self-Defense Stick, begged Rhett to kill him and destroy his body, as he would otherwise turn into a Walker. Rhett reluctantly agreed, and brutally beat the man to death before mutilating his corpse further to prevent it from turning. Immediately afterwards, he returned to the orphanage in tears. Rhett would take about a week to fully calm down after what had happened. However, during this week, Dallon properly entered Naporia, quickly reuniting with Rhett. On the subsequent night after Dallon's appearance, Rhett decided to sleep on the rooftop of the orphanage, as Dallon has a habit of sleeping on rooftops and Rhett had chosen to stay with him for one night.

On the 20th of December, 2010, Rhett was going for another walk in Naporia when he encountered Chloe O'Brien, who had just entered the city. They had a conversation in which Chloe expressed concern that something bad would happen soon, while Rhett explained part of his current situation, mentioning the likes of Dallon Slicers. Eventually, Chloe offered Rhett a ride around Naporia in her car, which the boy accepted. The duo went through various locations, with Rhett cheering the entire time and generally having a lot of fun. Once they returned to where they had started, Rhett thanked Chloe and expressed hope that she'd stay in Naporia. While she ultimately had to leave, she promised to return soon.

The next day, Sarton's forces commenced their raid on Naporia. Rhett was at school when the raid began, although Sarton member Green Oak set the school on fire shortly after the raid started. Rhett escaped the school by smashing a window and leaping through, running back to the orphanage after doing so, although he didn't notice Green following him there. When Rhett arrived at the orphanage, he found it in flames, with Amy National Wells, an associate of Green, having just incinerated it. She, alongside Green, attempted to capture Rhett, only for Dallon Slicers to appear, refusing to let Sarton take his nephew. After defeating Green and forcing Amy to retreat, Dallon bluntly stated that Rhett needed to leave Naporia at all costs. After a brief discussion, the uncle and nephew agreed that they would go back to where Rhett first met Chloe, and see if she had returned. On their way there, Dallon took several bullets to protect Rhett, although this ultimately came at the cost of his own life. Dallon gave Rhett his hat, cloak and sceptre for him to inherit, telling his nephew to let nothing or nobody stop him, before collapsing and dying as Rhett started running again. Luckily, Rhett did ultimately encounter Chloe, and she drove Rhett and herself out of Naporia. Thanks to Dallon and Chloe's efforts, Rhett emerged from the raid without a single physical injury.

After escaping Naporia, Rhett and Chloe went to the docks to find a new car, as their current one was riddled with bullet holes due to the raid. As they entered the docks, Rhett told Chloe about Dallon's death, and the two hugged each other after getting out of the car, with Chloe deciding that, like Dallon before her, she must keep Rhett safe. Shortly after the duo found a new car outside of the train station, they encountered Aurora Isilia, who had been living with the Dock Survivors. After Rhett introduced Chloe to Aurora, she decided to leave the Dock Survivors and join the duo, with the three of them leaving the docks in their new hotwired car. Their next destination ended up being the prison, where they sought medical supplies for Aurora's axe wound, but instead ran into an angry and confused Officer Astoria Diaz, who proclaimed Rhett and Aurora were 'kidnapped' and attempted to arrest Chloe, despite protests from the entire trio. They ultimately drove away from the prison, beginning a chase against Astoria. With Chloe's skill at driving at high speeds and a lucky pistol shot from Aurora, the trio managed to escape Astoria and flee the prison.

After escaping the prison, the trio entered Atlanta, soon finding it was largely deserted by humans and full of Walkers. The three of them cautiously searched a nearby supermarket for shelter, where they came across Tori Ishikawa, Adrian Fawkes and Emalia Kozlova. Rhett stayed quiet for most of this encounter, before briefly leaving alongside Aurora and Chloe when the latter heard Morgan Campbell and Zoe Blackrose arriving in Atlanta. Once that duo had left, the trio went back into the supermarket before deciding to leave alongside the other three people they had met and head to the hospital. Upon entering, they met Dr. William Wayne, who briefly took a great level of interest in Rhett before being threatened by Chloe to stay away from him, with the group leaving the hospital shortly after, disturbed by Wayne. Their next location would end up being Palm Bay, where they would end up staying, with Rhett being given a cabin to share with Aurora and Chloe. Rhett managed to re-encounter Steve at this location before the next timeskip.

Rhett remained at Palm Bay after the timeskip, largely unchanged except for the fact that his 13th birthday had occurred during the skip. He was among the people who heard the gunshot fired at Euan, and did his best to help, eventually following him, Steve and Susan back to their cabin. Shortly after arriving there, he was interrupted by Aurora, who wanted to talk to him privately. The two went behind their cabin, where Aurora explained her recent experiences with Andrew Walker and Magdalena Vidal, comparing their actions to Rhett after having been brainwashed into the Twisted Ones a year or so earlier. While Rhett initially struggled to remember his experiences with them, he quickly understood what Aurora was talking about after she specifically mentioned Teseo's mother. Unbeknownst to either, Teseo himself had already uncovered the truth behind Palm Bay, and was locked up underground by the Allard family as a result. Rhett would later be seen fast asleep in his cabin while Aurora explained the same thing to Chloe the next day.

## Killed Victims

Despite carrying a piece of a metal pipe and Dallon's sceptre / spear, Rhett has only killed one unnamed person.

## Relationships

While Rhett has no romantic relationships that he knows of, he has formed a few friendships during his journey. He quickly trusted Brantley Leon very shortly after meeting him and he appears to have placed a lot of trust in Steve Wanton and Delaney Chapman, immediately agreeing that the latter should be informed about the appearance of Dallon Slicers and not having any doubt that the former would do a good job at taking care of him. Furthermore, while he never actually met Malcolm Lowe, he still had a shred of mercy for the man even after hearing about all the bad things he had done, explicitly stating that he shouldn't wish death upon him. Rhett has notably faced some bullying at the hands of Euan Doyle, but doesn't hold anything against him, believing the two of them simply need to understand each other better.

Arguably Rhett's closest allies in the apocalypse are Dallon Slicers, Chloe O'Brien and Aurora Isilia. Rhett admires Dallon, seeing him as a heroic, powerful, superhero-like figure, with Dallon caring an immense amount about his nephew, ultimately giving his life to save Rhett. Similarly, Rhett also admires Chloe, seeing her as fun and cool, but also friendly and trustworthy. Chloe has effectively carried on Dallon's legacy of protecting Rhett, and currently acts as his guardian. Aurora is one of Rhett's closest friends from before the apocalypse, although unbeknownst to the naive Rhett, Aurora has a major crush on him. His presence is often the only thing that can calm her when she gets particularly angry. Aurora is actually aware that Rhett doesn't know about her crush, though, so she isn't upset when Rhett considers her a friend, as she thinks he'll consider her more than a friend once he realises her feelings towards him.

Rhett's connection to the Coyle family is worth noting, especially given recent events. Despite having not seen him since the apocalypse began, Rhett still views Teseo Coyle as a very close friend, and remembers him very fondly. On the other hand, he has mixed thoughts on Teseo's mother. Following his escape from the Twisted Ones and Ms. Coyle's death at the hands of her own son, Rhett has struggled to view her in a very positive light. He still feels a small shred of respect for her, although both himself and Aurora are unsure of if this is due to her having given birth to Teseo, or if this is a remnant of the brainwashing Rhett was subjugated to as part of his unwilling induction into the Twisted Ones.

## Trivia

* While it may initially appear to be the result of an artstyle and not part of his design, Rhett actually does feature pale white skin and hair and two lines for eyes, traits he inherited from other people throughout the Slicers bloodline.
* Rhett is one of a few characters to have been given a nickname prior to the Outbreak, and is one of three characters created by Silencyyy~ to have a nickname before the Outbreak, alongside Cosmos and Yellow Oak. Rhett's nickname of 'The Silencer', later shortened to 'Sil', came from his ability to 'silence' any discussion due to his odd appearance causing surprise and shock in people near him. It may have also come from the suppressor, or 'silencer' seen on the M1911 famously wielded by Rhett's ancestor, Ricardo Slicers.
* Within the trio consisting of Chloe O'Brien, Rhett Slicers Casket and Aurora Isilia, Rhett is the only male member of the group. However, the opposite applies within the trio consisting of Rhett Slicers Casket, Aurora Isilia and Teseo Coyle, where Rhett is one of two male members and Aurora is the only female member.
* Rhett's favourite food is a cookie, and when given one, he will promptly stop whatever he is doing and begin nibbling it until he is done.