After the Apocalypse ☣ discussion

Entry #12 - 02/02/13

Zombie Types

Walkers:-
Your regular run of the mill zombies, well I say run but these things basically amble. They're slow uncoordinated and when they do run it has a tendency to be more hilarious than scary. These are the ones that look at you with those vacant stares, mouth hanging open and arms hanging lamely at their sides. From what experience I've had, they're dead stupid but they work in groups. Well they don't work so much, truth is they don't know how to work anymore but they hang about in packs and that's when things get dangerous. Dealing with one or two is child's play, dealing with an entire hoard can leave you as one of the drooling undead- it's not pretty. They have a good sense of smell, but they're pretty blind and you'll nearly always hear them coming. Keep your wits about you and you'll have no problem with walkers.



Crawlers:-
These guys are pretty self-explanatory, they carry all the grace and beauty of walkers- I'm being sarcastic guys- but they are the same as walkers just without the legs. They're sense of smell is supposedly more acute and the doc said they're smarter too, something about them taking longer to get somewhere so their brains have more time to send the nerve impulses to the arms. Crawlers are not fast by any means, in fact they move slower than the average tortoise but they're silent and if you're a tall person you might not see them wandering about on the floor. - okay stupid point, but I've met some idiots since this thing began. The thing about these guys is if you don't know see them, you won't know they're there until they're munching on your arm. Note to self, check the ground floor- they're crafty buggers but they have trouble with stairs.


Zombinos:-
I never got this name, they linked zombies with the spanish words for children and this is what they came up with?! It sounds like something of the menu at a haunted house- anyway, this is another one that kind of has a clue in the name...well if you know spanish. These are children turned zombies, don't be fooled, some of them don't even look like the undead, they're perfectly unscarred with pretty little faces and pale skin- admittedly others looks like they've been through the mill like other walkers but they don't decompose as quickly meaning some of them still maintain the cherubian looks. Ignore it! Please ignore the cute faces! These things are the spawn of the devil, they aren't children anymore they're damned and they will not hesitate to chew your face off if you give them the choice- yes Mikele I'm talking to you, playing tag with zombie kids is not an intelligent thing to do!!



Screamers:-
These..well I hate these. My first experience of a screecher happened a few days after I met Mikele, we were just chilling about the house, looking for stuff we could use when Mikele comes up to me. Now usually Mikele's quite an attractive guy, but his face- boy you should have seen his face- he looked like he'd woken up from an epic hangover...but anyways in this room we found these kids right? They were dead, obviously..ice cold, pale white and stiff as a board. Now Mikele and I was just getting ready to grab our bags and get the hell out, I mean who wants to share a house with some dead bodies. But this kid sat up and began screaming. Now I have never heard such a horrible sound in my life. It was like wagner mixed with justin bieber mixed with little wayne trying to rap...like that bad? I don't even know if that can put it into perspective. But any they make your ears bleed and soon after you pass out, then I guess they eat you. Luckily enough Mikele decapitated the thing before it did too much damage and we left that place sharpish. They're nocturnal so you probably won't see any of these during the day, when it's day time they're in a coma-like state, basically kill them before they wake up. Avoid at all costs.



Chasers:-
The name says it all, these are the zombies that by some stretch of the imagination they managed to keep hold of their coordination and balance. They're wicked fast and I'm yet to find one that can't climb up a vertical building. Luckily for us they're nocturnal like the screechers, however when you're zombie-proofing your place you've really got to take these guys into consideration they can get anywhere if they really want to. They have this ability to break and reform limbs, now they're dead so they don't feel it but it means you get the odd few that have a limb too many. Anyway these things can get almost anywhere. That means down chimneys, through skylights and Mikele swore one came out the u-bend once but I don't believe him. Once again, try not to go out at night and if you just have to take a UV light and try not to make any noise.



Boneheads:-
Well these guys are enough to piss me off on a good day. Considering they have no brains, they're a tad bit smarter than your ordinary walkers. Sharp as bone you might say? Well they're horrible none the less, they work in packs and they actually have strategic attacks planned out. For guys with no eyes- hey that rhymes- they can actually see pretty well. They're senses are better than your average walker and I guess they're faster- well they're lighter than the rest so it kind of makes sense. They're harder to kill too, most zombs will go down with a shot to the head but these guys it's best to burn- the bones have a tendency to stitch themselves back together. Connor told me these are the ones who didn't put up a fight. The ones who committed suicide in order to leave this apocalyptic world, this is all that's left an empty pile of bones. But Connor said these things feel, they have emotion and they're still stuck inside their own minds. The thing is, they have one thing on their mind human blood and they'll be regretting that for the rest of their eternal lives. Well until we rid the world of the zombie plague. They're the ones that I don't know what happens to them when they die. With the others it's like the human part of them has already passed on, like it did with my Dad. It was just a shell with basic programming, with the bonies, there's still a human soul inside, but it's trapped and it's tortured.



The living dead:-
I thought this was completely ridiculous. I mean I read this book some years ago and I hardly expected that this part would actually be true. I mean eww who wants to make out with a zombie, it'd be like getting a drunk kiss off of someone but it'd smell so much worse than booze. Err eww I don't even like to think about this one, but I guess I should since they have some part in this messed up world to. These are the ones that 'come-back' Dr Monroe said it's because they're strong willed or something or they left someone behind, somehow I don't know about that. I mean surely everyone whose lost someone to the zombies must be thinking the same thing. Did my boyfriend, mom, dad, brother, sister, lover? Did they not love me enough to come back? No I think there's more to it than that. I think it has something to do with the way they died, or the way they became a zombie. You know like something triggered in their little zombie heads which let them stay..hell maybe they are just the strong-willed ones. But geeze if Mikele becomes a warm body he's getting dumped, that is too grim to even contemplate....sorry Mikele X



And lastly....
The animals:-
This is the bit that freaked me out the most, probably because of Jax. I worry about him too much, I know I'm like an over protective mommy. Anyway a few animals that haven't been eaten to nothing have been afflicted by the plague. We passed a field a few weeks back with some horses in it, naturally I was curious and Mikele insisted on coming with me so we went to investigate. Some of the horses were normal, whole and not affected by the virus. But others were, well they were zombies- I was freaked out but then I noticed something, they still ate the grass they weren't trying to eat the other horses, or me and Mikele. This got me thinking about vegetarians, I mean do vegetarians turned zombies not eat people? Food for thought I guess...yeah well we ran into a few packs of zombie dogs since then and I was obviously freaked about Jax but it seems very few animals are actually afflicted by the virus. But god-forbid we ever come across zombie cats...someone will die.



Yeah so this is my little journal on zombie types if you're still alive and I'm not, enjoy and I hope you're not too freaked ;)

Wow. This is beautifully written! Keep this up and this group will have a thousand members.

Aww thank you :)

I hate Chaser btw... they're so fast @.@