Albert Samuel Redding III

Working Title:        His Home And Castle

Character Name:  Albert Samuel Redding III

Location:                Remote wilderness in and around a cabin that used to be a vacation retreat

Physical Desc.:    Presently he is thin, dirty, understandably unkempt, his features set with grim determination.  He used to be
                                a white collar professional ("fat, dumb and happy").

Oddities:                He is subject to reveries and can be very withdrawn, even from family.  He can be very severe if he thinks his
                                methods are in question.

Career:                  NA; Was a professional at one time.  Those days are now gone.  His business is survival.

Historical Period:  A not too distant future

Likes:                      Lonesome, quiet isolation surrounded by his family.  Uneventful days and nights.  Studying the bible and seeing
                                that his sons do the same.

Dislikes:                Any deviation from strict daily regimen- everything unusual is a risk that cannot be taken

Family History:      Lived in the suburbs with his wife and family- the american dream.  When the plague was raging, they packed up
                                and moved to the safety of their mountain refuge (it used to be a summer home).

Pivotal Events:      The great plague.  Jettisoning life as he had always known it and retreating to remote mountain refuge.  His wife
                                being injured in the escape, and taking to his new existence surrounded by his family

Positive Traits:      Absolute dedication to his family, resolve, he is a survivor through and through.  Single-minded determination.

Negative Traits:      Severe, intolerant of any deviation from his protocols for survival, single-minded determination.  He is an
                                  intensely private man and can be inaccessible at times to others

 
    Albert Samuel Redding III lived the american dream.  A wife, two sons, a good job and a home in the suburbs as well as a second in the mountains for summer retreats.  He worked long hours to maintain it all and enjoyed a great deal of upward mobility and respect.  Then came the plague.  The world as it was known changed then, and everyone and everything evaporated in its wake.  The world was a different place and nobody was safe.  Redding fled with his family to the isolation of his mountain home with the intention of escaping the calamity.  His wife, however, was injured in the escape and he and his two boys are saddled with her care in addition to their own vigilance and ultimate survival.  Barricaded in their cabin, Albert ventures out only to hunt and scavenge.  The boys are left to mind the cabin, prohibited from venturing out.  Albert insists that they complete their "lessons".  That is, reading and memorizing a battered copy of the bible.  Four years it has been the same, but they are still alive and breathing.  Though tensions are rising amongst the family, Albert insists that they stick with what works.  Many times he is lost in thought, uncommunicative and withdrawn, but it is his way that has kept them alive and he intends that nothing change.  "Better alive than dead", his motto.