of greeting and goodbyes

riley echo

Awkward

fallen

thirty- three

scientist

riley is someone who isn’t actually aware of what he can do. he is smarter than he give himself credit for., though a phd can often speak for itself. he would say it doesn’t matter it was a way to keep going to school and avoid the mountain of debt he had looming in the future. now he would say it doesn’t matter because he can’t lecture a zombie to death. still here he is and honestly the man is scared shitless, at lest he doesn’t have to worry about student loans any more right?

he is actually very passionate about his studies. he get’s into his own head though and focuses all his energy on one thing while just breezing through the rest of whatever he needs to do. people said he was one track minded. that is the most simple way to describe it. really it’s more whatever he is doing he is focused on. with research: that will consume him when he is in the lab. if he has to go out and get something he will plan it all to a tee.

another bad habit ry has is interrupting people. he is honestly not the best with social situations. he was a nerd in school. liked watching bugs go through life cycles and learning how life worked. he was also a movie buff, so those were his nights when he was growing up. reading books about various living organisms and soaking up what he could from them while watching movies. so when going through those oh so important socially developmental stages riley was locked in his room fingering through books and later diving into the world of the internet.

in his adult life riley is reaping the disadvantages of his fairly hermit like teenage hood. riley doesn’t know how to make friends. if he gets talking he doesn’t tend to stop any time soon. also the man has a stutter. it’s not that bad but rears it’s ugly head every time he talks. so to cope with he rambles.
when he is not being a loud awkward mess riley is quite. restricting himself to his room the lab or the back of any other room he finds himself. riley also tends to not speak unless spoken too as well. he figures anything he has to say people won’t be interested in.

before the infection riley found himself just a social outcast that probably was not best fit for his job. now he is someone who should probably not be alive. if it wasn’t for grim’s row he wouldn’t be. riley is jumpy and was never a physically capable person. guns scare him more than the actual walking dead (who are endlessly fascinating to him). luckily his first reaction to anything loud noise now is to swing in the direction it comes from. this also being why he doesn’t carry a gun.
that is riley, a loud socially awkward jumpy scientist with a stutter.