Everyone has guns. The people who didn't have guns most likely got shot by the people who did have guns so now even those who can't shoot are carrying them and poking them in other people's faces.
But if you can't shoot, you're probably the next to die because the way to survive is to Keep Calm and Shoot First.
It wasn't always this way. When the aliens first landed they were trying to fit in. They changed their bodies to resemble ours and got jobs, went to school, even made friends. Their home planet had been destroyed and they didn't want to invade ours - they just wanted to live in peace.
Then the shooting happened. It was ordinary enough - an over worked husband got tired of it one day and he went home and shot his wife and young son. It was nasty but people saw it in the papers all the time. The aliens had been seeing it in the papers for six years but they'd always put it down to humans doing something wrong to upset one another. But not this time. This time the wife wasn't a human and the baby wasn't all human either. This time they couldn't understand.
The aliens knew only that they couldn't live with the humans any more. They couldn't trust them. So they took up arms and went to war.
The Now
Ten years have passed and nobody is sure of anything any more except that you'd better carry a gun and you'd better shoot first, otherwise they might shoot you. Some people have claimed that the aliens eventually all died out because their immune systems couldn't handle the human illnesses and now it's just people shooting people. Others think the aliens were never real anyway and they didn't believe those eye witness accounts who heard the aliens talking about the dredges of humanity or that news broadcast which was just sad really that such a lovely presenter had to go crazy and think he was an alien and kill all those nice people.
Whether the aliens were ever there or not, some people have realised that they can't live like this. Pilfering the same grocery shops for food that's not there any more or shooting a farmer in the head because he might be an alien and because you really needed his cow. These people have formed the peace-makers and they have a sanctuary and they grow food and they go around asking people to join them and shoot anyone who says no.
Afterall, there's only so much peace to be had in a world where everyone has guns.
The Claims
Humans
1. @Rydia
2. @jumpingsheep
3. @Verser
4. @Deskro
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Half alien/human children
1. @Stegosaurus
2. @15253
3. @PerksOfBeingAReader
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The Characters
You can have a human or a half alien half human child. These children can be no older than 15 because the aliens came here 16 years ago and it takes time to make a baby. They also do not know if all the adult aliens are dead or not. They don't know any who are alive, whether because they got shot or died of an illness and they're hiding out with their human parents or other people who have taken them in and trying to understand where they belong in this world. They know better than to tell anyone what they are and some of them might not even know. Not all the aliens were clear about their intentions.
Initially there will be 8 spaces open for humans and 5 open for half human half alien children. More spaces may be opened up if this proves popular but there will not be more than five half alien half human children.
Your characters may be with the peace-makers or in their own survivalist group or living with just their remaining family members or nobody at all. Feel free to check people's profiles and to work with them to create one of their existing family members.
Template for humans:
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[[b]Name: [/b]
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[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Gun:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]
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Template for alien-human children:
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[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b] (15 or under)
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[b]Appearance:[/b] (They look human. None have learned how to change their form and it is unknown if it is possible)
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]
[b]Family:[/b]
[b]Manifestations:[/b] (Every half alien child has made something strange happen at some point in their teen years. Maybe they changed their eye colour or maybe they once picked up a cup and it changed into a ball. These would have all been small scale and no more than once every few months starting from the age of 11 or 12.)
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The Guns
You may have no gun if you choose but if you're an adult you'd better have a good story of how you survived without one. If you're a child then no guns is fine.
If you know nothing about guns like me then you can choose one from the series The Walking Dead: http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Firea ... ve_Weapons
If you have any questions then come find me in the DT!
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