HOME | DD

Description
DOWLOAD FOR FULL SIZE

YAY. Reference sheet that's kind of crappy.

Honestly though, this is mostly for myself so I can access this whenever I want to. And I guess also if someone wants to try and draw him? Reference sheet is always good to have.

Oh, yeah, that thing were his eyes turn red and fill up with blood are only for when he's feral or about to turn feral.

HURR HURR shirtless Ed, sexy, no?

uhh... this is little graphic, should I set this as mature content or no? <___>

Following down here is a biography for Ed, if anyone's interested in reading it. >_>

Name: Edward Smith

Age: Physically and mentally 24, his actual age is 117, having been undead for 93 years

Sex: Male

Height: 184 cm / 6'0"

Weight: 46 kg / 101lbs

Background: Caucasian (not much more than that is known)

Species: Undead Human

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Alignment: Neutral

Likes: Being alone, silence,reading (has read most things by Dickens, who has always been his favorite author), he cares an insane amount about the people he likes and calls friends, the color blue, blondes, children, wandering and thinking by himself, he does like writing journals, but he never admits that to anyone.

Dislikes: Himself, and most aspects of himself, other undead (he can be a little prejudiced), other people, being touched, enclosed spaces, being seen without his clothes, young people these days, things he doesn't understand, modern music and movies.

Personality: At first glance, Edward is a very aggressive loner who can easily come off as very hateful or cruel, but in truth, he just has problems opening up and show other aspects of his personality to people he doesn't trust. His anger is more or less a defense mechanism he's developed so that people will stay away from him, since he can be incredibly dangerous. It's not unless he trusts you and has taken a liking to you that he allows you do see what an emotional train wreck he really is. But if you manage to get close enough to him for him to open up, you'll find a very loyal and caring friend in Edward.

Daily, Edward fights depression so severe it sometimes results in attempts at suicide and he has troubles seeing himself as anything but a monster who doesn't deserve any kind of happiness, making him a very difficult person to deal with or have as a friend.

Edward has no memory of when he was alive, nor is he very interested in knowing who he was when he was alive or who his family members where. Bringing it up will either be met by indifference or getting him a little annoyed. He knows he's not the same person as he was then, and he wants to leave it at that. He doesn't know how he died or how he lost his jaw, so no point in asking him.

His feral state (see Abilities, Feral state) is something that he very frightened of entering, since he loses control of himself and can kill while in it, he always tries to keep people away from him, in fear of hurting them. He's killed too many people and knows fully well that he can do it again. He doesn't like people seeing him like that and he does his best to try and not feed off of people, he tries to regularly eat smaller animals (rabbits, rats etc) to keep his energy up.

(will be updated more as I think of more things XP)

Abilities:
Extensive regeneration
In his 93 years as undead, Edward has yet to encounter anything that can kill him. Any damage inflicted on him will be healed within seconds, he can recover from cartoonish amounts of physical trauma. Being dead and rotting, he would fall apart and decay if it weren't for his powerful magic keeping him in the state he's in by constantly rebuilding every cell in his body, anything that happens and destroys cells, will immediately be rebuilt. Anything from a gunshot, to a stab in the gut to his skull being crushed will be healed. Limbs that are torn off him can just be put back in place and heal back to the state they're supposed to be. Drawback to this is that he can only heal damage inflicted on him after he was resurrected, meaning the he can never ever heal the wounds he got before he died, and it's strong enough to keep him from ending what he considers complete misery. If he loses a limb and it's destroyed for whatever reason and he's unable to put it back, it will eventually rebuild itself.

Can't feel pain
No matter how much damage he's put through, he cannot feel pain from it. He can be crushed, stabbed, shot, punched, set on fire he won't even flinch. Since he has a tendency to charge head-first into situations, not feeling pain is a great advantage, it can also mean that he won't always notice when something happens to him, walking through a crowd with a knife in his chest isn't always the best way to be inconspicuous.

Can feel necromancy
He's never been able to put it into words, but like all other undead, he can feel when there's some kind of necromancy close to him, he can't tell the difference between zombies, undead or necromancers, but he can tell roughly how strong they are. This is also an ability that makes him able to tell if a person has been infected by a bite or a scratch from a zombie.

Contagious bite/ body fluids
Every fluid in Edward's body is contagious and can infect normal humans which will turn them into zombies. Spilling blood or saliva into eyes, mouth or open wounds will infect the affected. Because his necromancy is powerful, infection spreads fast and can turn a victim within half an hour. Despite not having a mouth, Edward can press his teeth down on skin and break it, infecting them that way.

Feral state
Undead are like batteries, they need necromantic energy to keep functioning, keeping themselves moving and doing things in general require energy. Recharging is done by absorbing the energy from living beings; in other words; undead have to eat living things to recharge their energy. Should they start getting weaker and need to eat to recharge, an undead enters what is known as their feral state. The undead loses its ability to reason and think and their personality is replaced by a hunting predator who'll stop at nothing until it has eaten. How they behave varies from undead to undead; Edward's movements become much more animalistic and his strength and agility are vastly increased, his eyes fill up with blood, almost glowing red. He hunches over and often moves around on all fours, adapting a rather graceful feline way of moving (Think Hunter from L4D). He lacks the intelligence to use weapons and use basic reasoning, but that doesn't mean he can't hunt very well. His increased speed and strength together with his regenerative powers make him particularly dangerous while feral. The feral state can be brought on forcefully by taunting him, making him angry enough or it can be brought on by extreme feelings of sorrow, guilt or despair. He can be knocked out using electricity (see Physical Weaknesses), being manipulated through necromancy or by being shot one too many times.

Weaknesses:
Physical weaknesses:
All of Edward's bones are decayed and thus, very brittle. They can be broken through very simple means, such as being deliberately broken by hand or falling, and can render that limb useless until he resets it. Breaking or crushing his spine can mean that he can't use his legs, and crushing his skull can mean he can't move his body at all until it heals.
Electricity is a major weakness for him, being shocked can paralyze him for several hours, as electricity knocks out the magic that keeps him moving. Usually, this only means he can't move his body, but he's still conscious. It requires a nearly lethal voltage to knock him out completely.
Weak eyesight and actually needs glasses, but he doesn't realize it himself. He's almost blind in his right eye and it messes with his depth perception, and because of it, he avoids using guns.
Because he has no body heat, Edward can actually be frozen solid to the point that he can't move at all, this is a weakness that can really affect him during the winter as his movements are slowed down.

Mental weaknesses:
Severe Claustrophobia and cannot stand being in small, dark spaces. He can usually handle it as long as he knows that he can still get out, the moment he realizes he's locked in, he'll have a severe panic attack.
Edward is depressed, and probably suffers from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, from the trauma of waking up dead in his grave. Thanks to this, he has suicidal tendencies, sometimes using shooting himself or trying to kill himself by other means, to relieve anxiety.
Can not be seen without being covered in clothes, or at least having his face covered with something, someone whom he's not friends with and comfortable with seeing him without his scarf on can cause him to have an anxiety attack.
Edward is pretty emotionally weak and is very easy to manipulate through words. He's especially sensitive to being told that he's disgusting, a monster or that people are scared of him.
Extremely sensitive to being referred to as a zombie, being called this to his face can even go as far as setting off his feral state. Calling him a zombie, to him, implies that you're thinking that he's nothing more than a rotten corpse and that he's not human.

Additional Quirks/Facts:
If you were to see him talk without his scarf on, you'd notice that he doesn't move any muscles when he speaks. Standing closer to him, you'll hear that his voice actually comes from his chest and not were his mouth is, he can't really explain how it works himself. It just does.
Smells horrible because he is after all, a rotting corpse. It's not that he smells bad, he smells downright disgusting. Like meat left out in the sun too long. He usually tries to cover the smell with cologne or perfumes, which do a poor job.
When asked about his appearance e.g paleness, yellow eyes, thin build, Edward has done his homework and usually claims that he has lupus. Pale because he can't be in sunlight, jaundiced eyes because his liver is failing and thin because his medicine is eating most of his energy. (These are all real symptoms. It's not lupus though, hurr hurr.)
Insomniac, this is a common thing for undead, because undead only get energy from eating, they don't need to sleep, and most can't. Edward likes spending his sleepless nights wandering or thinking or reading.
His dislike for insects comes from the fact that he, unless cleaned out on a regular basis, harbors maggots inside him.
Homophobic, not outright hatred, but the concept of two people of the same sex in a relationship just makes him uncomfortable.
Cannot sew. Despite the fact that he has to sew his stomach back together on a regular basis, her still hasn't learned how to do it properly.
Can not for the life of him read a map. Despite that he can very easily remember places he's been and can find his way around pretty quickly, he can not apply maps to reality.
Has an impaired sense of touch, and even when not wearing gloves he feels the world as if he was wearing them. He can have troubles feeling the difference between different textures.
Edward feels things as hot, cold or neither. To him, there's no difference between a hot day and sticking his hand in a fire, he feels them both as just being 'hot', same with col sensation, holding a cold glass feels the same as being out in sub-zero temperatures.
Has an impaired sense of smell, this is nothing something he's aware of, since he doesn't have anything to compare to, but he can't smell things as well as regular people can.
Animals are afraid of him. Animals can feel necromancy and recognize it as something unnatural. Most larger animals like cats, dogs and other animals either run away from him or try to attack him.
Cannot produce tears and therefore, he can't cry.
Can not cut his hair, because like the rest of him; it heals. He hates the fact that he has so long hair, not only because it gets in the way, but also because it more often that you think makes people mistake him for a woman.

Description
DOWLOAD FOR FULL SIZE

YAY. Reference sheet that's kind of crappy.

Honestly though, this is mostly for myself so I can access this whenever I want to. And I guess also if someone wants to try and draw him? Reference sheet is always good to have.

Oh, yeah, that thing were his eyes turn red and fill up with blood are only for when he's feral or about to turn feral.

HURR HURR shirtless Ed, sexy, no?

uhh... this is little graphic, should I set this as mature content or no? <___>

Following down here is a biography for Ed, if anyone's interested in reading it. >_>

Name: Edward Smith

Age: Physically and mentally 24, his actual age is 117, having been undead for 93 years

Sex: Male

Height: 184 cm / 6'0"

Weight: 46 kg / 101lbs

Background: Caucasian (not much more than that is known)

Species: Undead Human

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Alignment: Neutral

Likes: Being alone, silence,reading (has read most things by Dickens, who has always been his favorite author), he cares an insane amount about the people he likes and calls friends, the color blue, blondes, children, wandering and thinking by himself, he does like writing journals, but he never admits that to anyone.

Dislikes: Himself, and most aspects of himself, other undead (he can be a little prejudiced), other people, being touched, enclosed spaces, being seen without his clothes, young people these days, things he doesn't understand, modern music and movies.

Personality: At first glance, Edward is a very aggressive loner who can easily come off as very hateful or cruel, but in truth, he just has problems opening up and show other aspects of his personality to people he doesn't trust. His anger is more or less a defense mechanism he's developed so that people will stay away from him, since he can be incredibly dangerous. It's not unless he trusts you and has taken a liking to you that he allows you do see what an emotional train wreck he really is. But if you manage to get close enough to him for him to open up, you'll find a very loyal and caring friend in Edward.

Daily, Edward fights depression so severe it sometimes results in attempts at suicide and he has troubles seeing himself as anything but a monster who doesn't deserve any kind of happiness, making him a very difficult person to deal with or have as a friend.

Edward has no memory of when he was alive, nor is he very interested in knowing who he was when he was alive or who his family members where. Bringing it up will either be met by indifference or getting him a little annoyed. He knows he's not the same person as he was then, and he wants to leave it at that. He doesn't know how he died or how he lost his jaw, so no point in asking him.

His feral state (see Abilities, Feral state) is something that he very frightened of entering, since he loses control of himself and can kill while in it, he always tries to keep people away from him, in fear of hurting them. He's killed too many people and knows fully well that he can do it again. He doesn't like people seeing him like that and he does his best to try and not feed off of people, he tries to regularly eat smaller animals (rabbits, rats etc) to keep his energy up.

(will be updated more as I think of more things XP)

Abilities:
Extensive regeneration
In his 93 years as undead, Edward has yet to encounter anything that can kill him. Any damage inflicted on him will be healed within seconds, he can recover from cartoonish amounts of physical trauma. Being dead and rotting, he would fall apart and decay if it weren't for his powerful magic keeping him in the state he's in by constantly rebuilding every cell in his body, anything that happens and destroys cells, will immediately be rebuilt. Anything from a gunshot, to a stab in the gut to his skull being crushed will be healed. Limbs that are torn off him can just be put back in place and heal back to the state they're supposed to be. Drawback to this is that he can only heal damage inflicted on him after he was resurrected, meaning the he can never ever heal the wounds he got before he died, and it's strong enough to keep him from ending what he considers complete misery. If he loses a limb and it's destroyed for whatever reason and he's unable to put it back, it will eventually rebuild itself.

Can't feel pain
No matter how much damage he's put through, he cannot feel pain from it. He can be crushed, stabbed, shot, punched, set on fire he won't even flinch. Since he has a tendency to charge head-first into situations, not feeling pain is a great advantage, it can also mean that he won't always notice when something happens to him, walking through a crowd with a knife in his chest isn't always the best way to be inconspicuous.

Can feel necromancy
He's never been able to put it into words, but like all other undead, he can feel when there's some kind of necromancy close to him, he can't tell the difference between zombies, undead or necromancers, but he can tell roughly how strong they are. This is also an ability that makes him able to tell if a person has been infected by a bite or a scratch from a zombie.

Contagious bite/ body fluids
Every fluid in Edward's body is contagious and can infect normal humans which will turn them into zombies. Spilling blood or saliva into eyes, mouth or open wounds will infect the affected. Because his necromancy is powerful, infection spreads fast and can turn a victim within half an hour. Despite not having a mouth, Edward can press his teeth down on skin and break it, infecting them that way.

Feral state
Undead are like batteries, they need necromantic energy to keep functioning, keeping themselves moving and doing things in general require energy. Recharging is done by absorbing the energy from living beings; in other words; undead have to eat living things to recharge their energy. Should they start getting weaker and need to eat to recharge, an undead enters what is known as their feral state. The undead loses its ability to reason and think and their personality is replaced by a hunting predator who'll stop at nothing until it has eaten. How they behave varies from undead to undead; Edward's movements become much more animalistic and his strength and agility are vastly increased, his eyes fill up with blood, almost glowing red. He hunches over and often moves around on all fours, adapting a rather graceful feline way of moving (Think Hunter from L4D). He lacks the intelligence to use weapons and use basic reasoning, but that doesn't mean he can't hunt very well. His increased speed and strength together with his regenerative powers make him particularly dangerous while feral. The feral state can be brought on forcefully by taunting him, making him angry enough or it can be brought on by extreme feelings of sorrow, guilt or despair. He can be knocked out using electricity (see Physical Weaknesses), being manipulated through necromancy or by being shot one too many times.

Weaknesses:
Physical weaknesses:
All of Edward's bones are decayed and thus, very brittle. They can be broken through very simple means, such as being deliberately broken by hand or falling, and can render that limb useless until he resets it. Breaking or crushing his spine can mean that he can't use his legs, and crushing his skull can mean he can't move his body at all until it heals.
Electricity is a major weakness for him, being shocked can paralyze him for several hours, as electricity knocks out the magic that keeps him moving. Usually, this only means he can't move his body, but he's still conscious. It requires a nearly lethal voltage to knock him out completely.
Weak eyesight and actually needs glasses, but he doesn't realize it himself. He's almost blind in his right eye and it messes with his depth perception, and because of it, he avoids using guns.
Because he has no body heat, Edward can actually be frozen solid to the point that he can't move at all, this is a weakness that can really affect him during the winter as his movements are slowed down.

Mental weaknesses:
Severe Claustrophobia and cannot stand being in small, dark spaces. He can usually handle it as long as he knows that he can still get out, the moment he realizes he's locked in, he'll have a severe panic attack.
Edward is depressed, and probably suffers from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, from the trauma of waking up dead in his grave. Thanks to this, he has suicidal tendencies, sometimes using shooting himself or trying to kill himself by other means, to relieve anxiety.
Can not be seen without being covered in clothes, or at least having his face covered with something, someone whom he's not friends with and comfortable with seeing him without his scarf on can cause him to have an anxiety attack.
Edward is pretty emotionally weak and is very easy to manipulate through words. He's especially sensitive to being told that he's disgusting, a monster or that people are scared of him.
Extremely sensitive to being referred to as a zombie, being called this to his face can even go as far as setting off his feral state. Calling him a zombie, to him, implies that you're thinking that he's nothing more than a rotten corpse and that he's not human.

Additional Quirks/Facts:
If you were to see him talk without his scarf on, you'd notice that he doesn't move any muscles when he speaks. Standing closer to him, you'll hear that his voice actually comes from his chest and not were his mouth is, he can't really explain how it works himself. It just does.
Smells horrible because he is after all, a rotting corpse. It's not that he smells bad, he smells downright disgusting. Like meat left out in the sun too long. He usually tries to cover the smell with cologne or perfumes, which do a poor job.
When asked about his appearance e.g paleness, yellow eyes, thin build, Edward has done his homework and usually claims that he has lupus. Pale because he can't be in sunlight, jaundiced eyes because his liver is failing and thin because his medicine is eating most of his energy. (These are all real symptoms. It's not lupus though, hurr hurr.)
Insomniac, this is a common thing for undead, because undead only get energy from eating, they don't need to sleep, and most can't. Edward likes spending his sleepless nights wandering or thinking or reading.
His dislike for insects comes from the fact that he, unless cleaned out on a regular basis, harbors maggots inside him.
Homophobic, not outright hatred, but the concept of two people of the same sex in a relationship just makes him uncomfortable.
Cannot sew. Despite the fact that he has to sew his stomach back together on a regular basis, her still hasn't learned how to do it properly.
Can not for the life of him read a map. Despite that he can very easily remember places he's been and can find his way around pretty quickly, he can not apply maps to reality.
Has an impaired sense of touch, and even when not wearing gloves he feels the world as if he was wearing them. He can have troubles feeling the difference between different textures.
Edward feels things as hot, cold or neither. To him, there's no difference between a hot day and sticking his hand in a fire, he feels them both as just being 'hot', same with col sensation, holding a cold glass feels the same as being out in sub-zero temperatures.
Has an impaired sense of smell, this is nothing something he's aware of, since he doesn't have anything to compare to, but he can't smell things as well as regular people can.
Animals are afraid of him. Animals can feel necromancy and recognize it as something unnatural. Most larger animals like cats, dogs and other animals either run away from him or try to attack him.
Cannot produce tears and therefore, he can't cry.
Can not cut his hair, because like the rest of him; it heals. He hates the fact that he has so long hair, not only because it gets in the way, but also because it more often that you think makes people mistake him for a woman.