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CircuitDruid — OC: mumbles the engineer

Published: 2012-01-25 05:22:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 6795; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 67
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Name: Nobody knows, so generally the engineer or occasionally mumbles.

History: mumbles was a victim of a rather sever car crash that messed him up pretty bad, whereafter he got zombied. He was a truly pathetic baby zombie, crawling around on his forearms blindly for all of stage one. He only managed to feed and move up the ladder of zombiedom by playing at an already desecrated corpse, then just as the humanoid thought they were finished chainsawing the zombies and stood panting and posing dramatically, leaping up and noming them in spectacular b-grade movie fashion. many of his victims were also blonds who had tripped over invisible tree roots and sprained their ankles, and sport-jocks of indeterminable sport whom cinematics demanded a cheap brain-eating comeuppance.

When sentience finally hit him most of his memory was still left splattered on a driveway somewhere, but he did recover enough of his mind to figure out that he was broken and needed to repair himself. Some hack sewing classes, a few murders for parts and some recovered eyeballs later and he fixed himself just like his old self again... yes... don't tell him that's not where the eyes go, in his mind he's perfect as a pretty flower.

Personality: Like many advanced students of engineering, or science... or... whatever he was in the BC era (that's Before Car), Mumbles is a very shy introverted zombie. That's why he hides in deep shadows and air ducts and only leaps out to eat someone from behind where he wont be seen or forced to socially interact. He spends most of his times crawling around his machines like a little mother hen, but he can be lured out with shiny server parts or misc appliances.


If asked nicely he will also happily attempt to fix things brought to him. He will even happily attempt to fix other zombies if they fall asleep in the engine room. hes helping them. what a nice zombie.

Because of his beginnings it is more common to see him crawling on on all four...six than bipedal. He still cannot speak, and rarely uses any manner of words at all, so it can be hard to gauge just whats on his mind or if hes following you at all, but he seems to display general scared submission to the uberdead like the Cat and Lamia, and warm shy curiosity to anything else... generally with a scalpel.

Applicable psychoses as a half dead:
Severe dissociative fugue type of Dissociative Amnesia (loss of memory and personal identity) [link] Minor Agoraphobia [link] in this case relating to open spaces. and moderate Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder [link]

Abilities and/or Skills: The ability to handle build and repair machinery, and to stitch things together in new and interesting ways. The ability to create pets out of spare parts. Gives really good hugs.

Clothes: seemed to go through various lab coats. Whether this is because he was previously a scientist or he just keeps eating them is unknown.

Wendigo: His wendigo really does not have much memory to work with, so it usually takes the form of some manner of blackberry/iPhone style personal organiser device that organised his little zombie life and imitates people calling him. It will also on occasion appear to 'posses' his machines to speak to him.

This is very odd to witness to anyone watching him.

His wendigo also tends to convince him his biological meddling is far more successful than it is, or is successful at all.
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Comments: 33

xxDeadlockedxx [2018-07-28 08:14:52 +0000 UTC]

Kinda reminds me of Dead Space


COOL

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Jessiegodswell [2016-03-11 01:08:46 +0000 UTC]

Okay. I forgot just how cute mumbles was. I am still in love with this zombie

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Jessiegodswell [2015-11-24 03:07:57 +0000 UTC]

I love him so much.
He's adorable.
Best zombie.
42/5

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Jacob-Cross [2013-07-07 02:32:42 +0000 UTC]

Neat

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CircuitDruid In reply to Jacob-Cross [2014-01-14 02:26:25 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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Jacob-Cross In reply to CircuitDruid [2014-01-14 02:48:02 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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drosera-sundews [2013-05-07 19:35:44 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is a really cool zombie character. Those eyes, Lowl.
Good thing they're still perfectly placed, right where they belong *ahem*.

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CircuitDruid In reply to drosera-sundews [2014-01-14 02:40:16 +0000 UTC]

exactly!

actually mumbles is due for a redesign, but rest assured, creepy eyes shall stay right where they belong. 

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Alekdrina [2012-01-27 15:56:31 +0000 UTC]

This is so wrong... It's so great!
I like the *nom* part and yet you call it a hugg...

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CircuitDruid In reply to Alekdrina [2012-02-01 14:14:25 +0000 UTC]

its not a hug? D8

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Alekdrina In reply to CircuitDruid [2012-02-01 14:29:34 +0000 UTC]

Death hug, I'm wearing a construction hat in the lab from now on...

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CircuitDruid In reply to Alekdrina [2012-02-11 03:08:15 +0000 UTC]

aww you spoil all mumbles fun

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Alekdrina In reply to CircuitDruid [2012-02-11 14:09:30 +0000 UTC]

awww, now I feel bad!
he's sooooo cute/ evil!

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Infernal-Blaze [2012-01-26 13:23:07 +0000 UTC]

So when he "fixes" pets, does it ever actually work? Awesome zombie, too, even by Umbagog standards. Cheers!

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CircuitDruid In reply to Infernal-Blaze [2012-02-01 14:13:13 +0000 UTC]

I don't think so. poor boy. he keeps on trying though! one day he will have a puppy who loves him.

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Infernal-Blaze In reply to CircuitDruid [2012-02-01 23:14:52 +0000 UTC]

Hooray, eldrich zombie puppies for everyone!

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Loberono [2012-01-26 01:27:21 +0000 UTC]

Love this guy.

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Phantazmas [2012-01-25 22:13:01 +0000 UTC]

I like this guy.

I like this guy a lot. 0-0

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CircuitDruid In reply to Phantazmas [2012-01-26 12:04:25 +0000 UTC]

awww he likes you too. Now if you close your eyes and turn around he will give you a hug.

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Phantazmas In reply to CircuitDruid [2012-01-27 23:02:46 +0000 UTC]

No, thank you. That's one kind of hug I'd rather not be on the receiving end of.

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siaorie [2012-01-25 21:26:05 +0000 UTC]

this one makes me uncomfortable but in the good way . IMAGE Successful

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CircuitDruid In reply to siaorie [2012-01-26 12:04:37 +0000 UTC]

horray!

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CPereira [2012-01-25 21:13:23 +0000 UTC]

"Huggs from above" XD

...

o_O how exactly does he chew?

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CircuitDruid In reply to CPereira [2012-01-26 12:05:07 +0000 UTC]

I... have no idea. poor guy, eating must be hard.

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Jessiegodswell In reply to CircuitDruid [2016-03-28 00:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Maybe he has a raspy tongue like a snail or a lamprey?

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CrazyRodeoGirl [2012-01-25 17:25:10 +0000 UTC]

I can't quite decide whether this noise I am making is a squee or a scream.

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CircuitDruid In reply to CrazyRodeoGirl [2012-01-26 12:05:22 +0000 UTC]

both at once? yaaaay!

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Elizabeth-Ryan [2012-01-25 08:01:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh god. He is terrifying.

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CircuitDruid In reply to Elizabeth-Ryan [2012-01-26 12:07:50 +0000 UTC]

aww your going to make him cry. look, hes scurried into the rafters all sad. He probably wont be brave enough to come back down until you are sleeping... XD

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FablePaint [2012-01-25 06:52:12 +0000 UTC]

Michael finally breathing a sigh of relief that he's not the ONLY Half-Dead in the place with some tech skills. Though if this guy can't program, then he's gonna be left to a lot of tech support shit still.

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CircuitDruid In reply to FablePaint [2012-01-25 07:10:15 +0000 UTC]

Methinks he can, but programming mumbles to program them might be more difficult XD

I imagine Every time someone enters an incorrect password Soft lullabies will begin to play over the PA, and critical systems will occasionally giggle like children when people begin to type on their keyboards.

mumbles also volunteers his services for tech support. He promises quick and simple on site removal of all PEBKAC errors.

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FablePaint In reply to CircuitDruid [2012-01-25 07:28:47 +0000 UTC]

so long as it works and michael doesn't have to constantly do the geek thing, he's fine with it. He might go fix it later though, when he realizes maybe he shoulda paid more attention

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SquareZer0 [2012-01-25 06:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Coolest. Zombie. Ever. Hands down.

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