JIM MCDONNELL.

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the infection.

so, for the sake of making things a little more interesting rp-wise (as well as making it a little more "realistic"), i'm going to go ahead and make my canon that the infection of the rage virus normally takes a little longer to start showing symptoms, that most people don't immediately turn after just 20-30 seconds. instead, they start showing minor symptoms at first, like some slight tendencies towards aggression / quick temper, which will then rapidly increase after a set time and turn into more violent behavior until it eventually takes over completely, leaving them 'mindless' killers that attack anything in their path. the timeline of the various stages can vary a little, usually lasting between a few days to a week until the infection has fully taken over, depending on the person.

once the violence stage has set in, it usually only takes an hour or so until the virus' host is no longer in any control of themselves. this will be evident by physical symptoms, such as bleeding from the eyes and nose. there is no known cure for the rage virus... yet.

if you want the canon where the infection only takes a few seconds to turn you, i am fine with that too, just let me know, and we can go with that! but by default, it will take a little longer than in canon. 

there are a few, rare people who are "immune" to the virus, but they can still be carriers of the virus and infect other people with it. there are also some people who are semi-immune to the virus, where the person's body is able to keep the virus from reaching the final stage, though they will still be more prone to aggression and violence and can (if they don't have a strong will-power, or if they get too tired to fight against it,) become as dangerous as if they were fully infected, if not more, since they still possess the capability to think.  

JIM'S SEMI-IMMUNITY:   my jim is semi-immune, and infected. his physical symptoms shows in that his left eye has a bloodshot sclera / the white part of his eye is bloodshoot. he also has gained a supernatural strength, reflexes and agility, to the point where they are slightly above a human in their peak physical condition. his psychological symptoms shows in that he is more prone to quicker temper / aggression, and in worst cases, violence / murder. due to jim's naturally calm and kind nature before being infected, he does have a fairly good control over these symptoms and usually it only reveals itself in him being more quickly annoyed / moody, but it's not a good idea to try to push it, as the more he's pushed, the harder it becomes for him to not give in to the temper and violent urges.

biography.

before the outbreak of the rage virus, jim was a bicycle courier for an unknown company. one day, while he was delivering a package from farrington to shaftsbury avenue, a car cut across him, causing him to crash his bike and leaving him comatose. while jim was unconscious, his parents visited him. as people infected by the rage virus overran london, hospital staff emptied out the hospital. someone locked the door, slipped a key under it in case jim woke up, and he was left behind.

twenty-eight days into the outbreak, jim awoke from his coma in an abandoned hospital. he ventured out of the hospital to find london desolate and rife with signs of a catastrophe. confused, jim travelled through the barren streets, calling out for any signs of life. gathering discarded cans of soda and money from off the ground, jim observed a wall of missing people posters before moving on.

later, jim entered a church filled with corpses, where he was confronted by a priest infected with the rage virus. when the priest attacked jim, the latter knocked the priest over with his shopping bag in self-defense, then fled the church, with several infected in hot pursuit. jim was saved in the streets from the infected by two strangers, mark and selena, who then detonated the underground tanks at a gas station, obliterating the group of infected.

mark and selena then took a confused jim with them to their hideout in a sweet shop in the london underground, and selena explained to jim that while he had been comatose, the rage virus had spread through britain and killed or infected the majority of the population. the british army tried holding the infected at blockades, but those were overrun, and the evacuation started too late. the day before the tv and radios stopped broadcasting, there were reports of infection in paris and new york. worried for his family's well being, jim convinced a reluctant mark and selena take him across the city to his parents' neighbourhood in deptford the next day. when they arrived at the home of jim's parents, jim found that they had committed suicide via drug overdose. they left a note to their son:

with endless love, we left you sleeping. now we're sleeping with you. don't wake up.

mark and selena told jim that he should be grateful that his parents had died peacefully, and the trio decided to stay in the house for the night. during the following night, a bereaved jim hallucinated his parents in the kitchen and lit a candle, attracting the presence of the infected mr. bridges and his daughter, who attacked him.

mark and selena killed the two infected, and selena starts questioning jim on whether or not he was bitten or had gotten any blood in his mouth or eyes. selena then notices mark having sustained an injury caused by bridges' daughter and mercilessly kills him in front of jim, then explains that mark had been infected. selena ruled out intimacy between her and jim, warning jim that she would kill him too "in a heartbeat" were he to become infected, and the two then left the house. unbeknownst to both selena and jim, he had, in fact, gotten some blood in his system when he was attacked, but being semi-immune, his symptoms did not start to show as fast as it normally would.

jim expressed his concerns to selena about her decision to kill mark, as she couldn't know for sure mark had been infected. they continued through london until they saw lights flashing in a flat in an apartment building. they headed to the apartment, and climbed up the stairwell to the flat, chased by two infected. they were saved by a man named frank, and he and his daughter, hannah, gave jim and selena shelter in their flat. after frank and hannah went to sleep for the night, jim and selena discussed whether or not to stick with frank and hannah. jim believed the father and daughter were good people despite selena's belief that they would slow them down.

the next day, jim discovered from frank that resources such as water were dwindling, so the group left the apartment in frank's taxi on a journey to manchester; where, according to a recorded radio message, the "answer to infection" and help from the military supposedly awaited them.

the group narrowly avoided a horde of infected while they stopped in an underground tunnel to change a flat tire, and raided a supermarket for food before travelling into the countryside. while they were refuelling the taxi at a cheeseburger shack, jim went into the shack in search of cheeseburgers. there, jim was attacked by an infected child, forcing him to beat the boy to death. the group later stopped at an old castle ruin in the countryside to camp out there for the night, and that night jim had a nightmare of one of his biggest fears: being left alone. the group resumed their journey to manchester the next morning, and arrived at the forty-second blockade on the m602 near manchester where the radio message had stated the soldiers were, but found manchester in flames and destroyed, and the blockade desolate and abandoned.

when frank was infected by blood dripping from a corpse, selena yelled at jim to kill the infected frank. jim hesitated at first, but then got over it and was about to attack frank with his baseball bat, when two surviving soldiers arrived and shot and killed frank in front of a shocked jim, selena and hannah. the soldiers then took jim, hannah and selena to the nearby worsley house in the woods, where they were greeted by major henry west and given sanctuary at the fortified mansion with the soldiers.

during the trio's stay at the worsley house, major west gave jim a tour of the mansion, and revealed that he was keeping an infected soldier chained up in the mansion's courtyard; west explained that his "answer to infection" was waiting for the infected to die off from starvation, and that he was keeping the soldier alive to see how long that would take.

the following night, jim, hannah and selena had dinner with the soldiers, which was cut short when the men were forced to fend off an attack on the worsley house by the infected. afterwards, when corporal mitchell tried to force himself on selena, jim tried to intervene until sergeant farrell violently forced mitchell to leave jim and selena alone. major west then talked with jim over a drink about who jim had killed since the rage virus broke out. a guilty jim admitted to killing the infected child at the cheeseburger shack, and west then explained to jim that he had promised hannah and selena to his men in order to repopulate britain after the infected starved to death.

a horrified and disgusted jim then tried to flee the worsley house with hannah and selena, but the trio were attacked and captured by the soldiers. major west asked jim to join him and his men in their new society, but jim refused, so west had jim locked in the cellar for the night with sergeant farrell and scheduled to be executed the next morning. over the night, jim overheard farrell theorising that the rage epidemic was confined to great britain, and that the rest of the world was continuing normally.

the following morning, jones and mitchell took jim and farrell out to a body dump in the woods to be shot. while jones and mitchell were distracted arguing after killing farrell, jim managed to escape them and fled over the perimeter wall. there, jim saw a jet flying overhead, giving him hope that farrell was right and that civilisation outside of britain had survived.

jim subsequently set about re-infiltrating the worsley house and rescuing hannah and selena. he returned to the forty-second blockade and sounded the siren, luring major west and davis away from the mansion and to the blockade. jim bludgeoned and killed davis with a crowbar, then disabled his and west's jeep and left west to the infected. jim then returned to the worsley house and released the infected soldier to kill the other soldiers. jim then prowled the worsley house, looking for selena and hannah and avoiding the infected as they two rampaged through the mansion and began killing the remaining soldiers. jim eventually found selena taken hostage by mitchell, and watched from in the attic as mitchell made vulgar taunts towards selena. enraged, jim then jumped down from the attic and took mitchell by surprise, brutally killing the soldier by gouging his eyes out and beating him to death. selena, believing jim to be infected, then prepared to kill jim but hesitated; prompting jim to jokingly remind her that she had previously warned that she would kill jim "in a heartbeat."

there, the group found a vengeful major west, who then shot jim in the abdomen for the deaths of his men. the trio quickly fled the worsley house in the taxi with the injured jim, leaving west to be killed by the infected. hannah and selena took the dying jim to an abandoned hospital, where selena was able to save him. he trio then took refuge at a remote cottage in west cumbria, where selena and hannah used cloth and fabric to sew together a giant banner spelling out "hello" to get the trio's presence noticed by passing aircraft.

twenty-eight days after escaping the worsley house, jim, hannah and selena put out the last piece of the banner as a finnish jet flew by overhead and apparently noticed their message. the jet then sent a helicopter to pick the trio up and fly them to mainland europe.

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