Jennaanuschka

An ordinary Londoner who has managed to survive the initial outbreak through sheer determination and adaptability. Whether from the working class or fallen nobility, they must navigate this nightmare world, forge alliances, make impossible choices, and potentially uncover the truth behind the plague. Their decisions will determine not only their own fate but potentially that of London itself.

A resourceful East End pickpocket and street urchin who survived by her wits long before the dead rose, Margery knows London's hidden passages, sewer systems, and rooftops better than anyone. She's cynical about the upper classes who ignored the poor even as they died in droves, and sees the outbreak as proof that everyone bleeds the same in the end. Quick with a knife and quicker with an escape plan, she acts as a guide and scout for survivors, though her loyalty is always for sale. She secretly searches for her younger brother who disappeared during the first night of the outbreak.

A decorated military officer and minor aristocrat, Lord Ashford initially tried to maintain order using his regiment, but watched his men fall one by one to the undead. Haunted by the memory of having to put down his own zombified soldiers, he now leads a group of survivors with military precision, though his rigid adherence to duty and class distinctions creates friction. He struggles between his ingrained sense of nobility and honor versus the brutal pragmatism required to survive. Deep down, he fears he's becoming the very monster he fights against, losing his humanity piece by piece.

A brilliant but ostracized physician who studied anatomy in secret, Dr. Blackwood is one of the few who understands the medical impossibility of the risen dead. Driven by scientific curiosity and a desperate need to prove her theories correct, she seeks to find a cure or at least understand the plague's mechanism. Her cold, analytical demeanor hides a deep guilt over patients she couldn't save before they turned. She operates from a makeshift laboratory in an abandoned hospital, viewing the outbreak as both humanity's greatest threat and her chance at vindication in a society that rejected her for her gender.