#// wazuuuup atlanta!

[jxstlikeheaven]

☠  —  don’t  open,  dead  inside  !  oh,  wait  !  that’s  just  nico salvatore,  you  know,  the cis male general member  in  the  atlanta  community  ?  he is  twenty-five years  old  and  looks  a  lot  like  adam dimarco,  but  i  mostly  just  see  them  wielding  garden shears.  now  that  you  mention  it,  i  don’t  think  i’ve  ever  seen  them  without  their  moleskin notebook filled with jokes.  which  makes  sense,  since  they  seem  to  remind  everyone  else  in  their  group  of  late-night snack runs,  open-armed hugs,  and a tattoo of the comedy and tragedy masks.  well,  hurry  up  and  let  them  in  !  we  can’t  leave  them  for  the  walkers  !  —  (  mel.  26.  PST.  she/her.  )

*— BEFORE THE DEAD STARTED WALKING

* — born and raised by his grandmother (nonna) in new york city, nico’s parents passed away when he was 3. his mother from cancer and his dad from a heart attack, caused presumably from the stress of practically raising a toddler alone, dealing with his wife’s condition and the massive medical bills.

* — the loss of his parents, however, has hardly been an emotional issue for nico. he was three, so he never really got to experience them anyways. and he thinks that if he mourned them too much, then it would be a slap to everything his grandmother provided. she made sure he grew up healthy, happy and with anything and everything he ever wanted. she put him through college, even if it was community.

*— nico’s dream job was to be a comedian; he wanted the whole shebang: a hit sitcom on comedy central, a recurring role on SNL a movie franchise guest starring adam sandler.

*— he built up a small following (34k followers) on YouTube, where he posted benign pranks like “SCARING MY FRIENDS WITH (FAKE) SPIDERS” and “USING A WHOOPEE CUSHION IN PACKED ELEVATORS” and recaps of his stand up-shows, and anything else that trended on youtube.

*— THE DAY THE DEAD STARTED WALKING

*— after his grandmother passed away, nico made the “adult” decision to move to atlanta. it had the big city vibe that new york offered, but with apartments 75% cheaper. plus, its budding comedy scene was also perfect for an up-and-comer like nico, who no longer felt any ties to new york city since his grandma’s passing.

*— on the day the dead started walking, nico was holed up in his one bedroom apartment in one of the taller complexes in downtown atlanta. vegging away on his couch and binge-watching tv, he narrowly slept through the first wave of the apocalypse, had it not been for the pizza delivery guy (or girl!) who’d knocked on his door and asked to seek refuge in his apartment.

* — they stayed in his apartment, surviving off the pizza and nico’s fully-stocked fridge with snacks and italian deli meats for a month, before deciding to take the only weapon-esque items he had in his vicinity: his grandma’s old ornate garden shears and a rusted metal pipe from his bathroom.

* — CURRENT TIME:

* — thankful for the youtube trend of “restoring old items,” nico’s tried to make himself useful in the atlanta community by playing “clean up crew.” (well, someone’s gotta do it, he says!)

*— he tends to the items they find on raids (like metal poles/forks/bullets/etc) and tries to fix their rust, as well as provide sterilization when he can for some of the medical items. if he really, really likes you in the community, then he also offers up his services to get rid of zombie guts on your weapon of choice.

* — PERSONALITY & RANDOM FACTS:

*— nico’s pretty openly bisexual; when he came out to his grandma, they both shed an insane amount of tears. and though she admitted she had issues with it, she could never not love him. that she just needed time to understand. eventually, she realized there was nothing to understand and accepted nico (and his first boyfriend at the time) fully.

* — he also, in his words, has “no problem hacking up zombies.” cutting heads off with garden shears is a pretty grizzly way to go after zombies, but if he closes his eyes, then he can just pretend he’s in shaun of the dead.

* — WANTED CONNECTIONS:

friends.

best friends.

random hookups.

people he knew from around the city.

the pizza delivery peep who is probably his best friend now!