If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse…

[lizzyrose]

If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse… but could only use one useless item from their backpack, what would it be?

mine is probably her lipstick taser. What’s yours?

 

[potato_mine]

My MC would take a soda. It won't be of any help, but it's a delicious thing to drink at his last moment on earth (he's toasted)

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Bad call, since I currently write three fantasy stories. One of which features a Protagonist fighting creatures far worse than zombies as her main job (or, well, she's retired, but still) and she doesn't, technically, need a weapon, because she has one she can manifest. Does not suffice in killing her eneemies, but zombies? No problem.
One is the literal God of Life and Death.
And one is... a zombie, in a way.

That's just not a well-matched competition.
But good on your MC, for the lipstick taser.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

Well, just so happens my MC is currently survivng in a zombie apocalypse.
She started out with a bunch of random things, like candles and a lighter but finds a screwdriver in the first chapter, so there's that.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

My MC would take a soda. It won't be of any help, but it's a delicious thing to drink at his last moment on earth (he's toasted)

Gotta stay realistic, I guess.

 

[CinnaSloth]

My Mcs:

My little sister - "Can Zombies be healed?" *poke poke - Gets bit. Heals.* "I think they need a bigger heal.." *Punches Zombie

The Archivist Maid - Stares* (Zombie growl) ... "WAH!!" Runs and gets undeniably lost*

Ise-se-kai 20 - "Is that a zombie?" Kicks* "Sick. that reminds me of this one movie!" goes on movie tangent while all powerful goddess MC gets rid of all zombies in the area so MC doesn't die* ... *MC still manages to die somehow stupidly.

 

[Bimbanana]

My Mcs:

Spoiler: undeads

TING. Floor 30.

“Excuse me, this is my stop,” a necromancer said politely as he passed through them.

The elevator doors opened to reveal an office floor packed with undead workers hunched over computers. Many wore wrinkled shirts. Some rested beneath their desks.

“That’s my 30th-floor boss,” Luke explained cheerfully. “He runs a Black company now. Very loyal employees. None of them have gone home since day one.”

Solo and Belphy shivered.

 

[WineImmortal]

My Mcs:

Spoiler: undeads

TING. Floor 30.

“Excuse me, this is my stop,” a necromancer said politely as he passed through them.

The elevator doors opened to reveal an office floor packed with undead workers hunched over computers. Many wore wrinkled shirts. Some rested beneath their desks.

“That’s my 30th-floor boss,” Luke explained cheerfully. “He runs a Black company now. Very loyal employees. None of them have gone home since day one.”

Solo and Belphy shivered.

Sure, but how much does your protagonist abuse these undead, for them to be resting beneath thier desks? ... i guess even undead creatures dreak woking

 

[Lonely_fox]

Her soft pastels. She’s the one who writes "Don’t dead open inside" here and there.

 

[Madkins]

Thank God I only carry bricks in my backpack... I did it to make it look like I owned something, now it seems that it was a wise choice...

 

[SirContro]

If you asked him, he'd say his best friend.

 

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan doesn't wear backpacks, but if Ai-chan does use something from the handbag, it would be the handbag itself. Don't look down on Ai-chan's handbag is Chanel and so full it weighs a ton (not literally). When wielded as a weapon, it functions like a flail. If mounted to a pole, it becomes a mace.

Ai-chan heard Hermes is better as blunt weapon, but Hermes is kind of rich people's handbag and you have to be recommended to get the really good stuff. And once you start getting recommended, you have to give them face when they give you recommendations for products or you'll be banned from purchasing their bags. Ai-chan doesn't like that kind of give face marketing.

 

[YukieSama]

He'd use the silver rattle one of his triplets love. It'd prob make a good makeshift bat I think

 

[RepresentingSilence]

A gun

 

[Anonjohn20]

If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse… but could only use one useless item from their backpack, what would it be?

mine is probably her lipstick taser. What’s yours?

Most of my MCs from my unpublished stories carry around a form of restraints (handcuffs, leg cuffs, rope, tape, collar and leash, and/or spreader bars), but I wouldn't call those useless if they had to be repurposed for the apocalypse. Maybe Mad Max 2 was right and only the people in leather were surviving the apocalypse.

 

[DarkCosmos]

If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse… but could only use one useless item from their backpack, what would it be?

mine is probably her lipstick taser. What’s yours?

A black cat

 

[TinaMigarlo]

If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse… but could only use one useless item from their backpack, what would it be?
mine is probably her lipstick taser. What’s yours?

Lighter. Smokes are all gone in this world.

i refuse to do brute strength power MC... has to have the smarts to go with what reasonable power he has.
My MC? would *find* then *fix* and old coin operated video game, surprisingly REAL CLOSE to "BERZERK"

'Bazerk' - game play. robots all head slowly towards player, player vest strategy to run around until all robots touch each other, and ZAP kill each other. I would explain and describe this, meticulously. Yeah, game freaks would totally *hate* this chapter, LMAO

then? My MC would just SEE it...
they ain't so scary.
they move s-l-o-w. I can walk fast and keep away.
if I walk around correctly, I can form them up into a tight knit group.
they're stupid enough to walk right over the thick oil and kerosene giant mud puddle.

stands impassive, and spends the next couple thousand words just observing with intense clinical dispassion, as trhe zombies scream and beg, and the still moving skeletons slip and slide in the mud puddle on fire.

"It was as if hell was contained in that tiny pond right in front of me. I had trapped them in a pit of damnation and fire. its beyond grotesque how this scene resembles some kind of hell-scape yet cut and blended with a hot oil wrestling party at a strip club. How can I not watch, this is what god has wrought. i can see the rest of my team in my peripheral. they turn their head, they avert their gaze. They don't have the cast iron stomach for this; I do. All the violence I was ever involved with for that damn war I was in. Its all just been learning how to be an artist. I can see that now. There's a cruel beauty to this performance. Its so hideous, it draws my gaze to marvel at it. This is the ultimate train wreck you just can't bring yourself to look away from.

The seemingly cruel wry half grin curls one side of my mouth. This is me now. i have this level of controlled hate and anger. I keep it bottled up, and release the rage as needed. Always cold and calculated, never capriciously cast without care.

I'm watching my masterpiece unfold; my master's level performance art. This is my Sistine Chapel of death. gaze and marvel upon the skill of the artist that created this piece. Its true art, too. All my emotions I couldn't ever show; they're all released and on display now. I wouldn't budge, and no one attempted to make me. I observed with clinical detachment until the embers ceased to writhe.

Well, there's more coming now from off in the distance. We got a great head start, they'll stop to eat here.

"Kentucky fried zombie."

I glanced back to see who was with me:

"Crispy on the outside, always tender and juicy on the inside."
"Blackened Cajun Zombie. Buffet."

Looks like I found both my second in command. Well, sounds like it at any rate. Who ever said video games serve no practical purpose.

Someone that's already dead and eaten, I'll wager.

 

[KennyCelican]

I was gonna say 'she doesn't have a backpack', but... She does, she just doesn't wear it very often.

I'm gonna go with the shield that normally hangs off of the backpack.

But then, she didn't use it when she was fighting against a City full of Undead, so maybe it deserves some love.

 

[Worthy39]

My only protagonist at the moment is pretty strong... if he had a bag of beef jerky or something to start, he could probably last a few months without dying, but he'd run out of stamina eventually.

 

[Sylver]

If your main character had to survive a zombie apocalypse… but could only use one useless item from their backpack, what would it be?

mine is probably her lipstick taser. What’s yours?

They don't have a backpack, but their friend carries a satchel!

Hmm, useless? Idk I'd have to make something up for them both. I'm sure KuliKuli would bring in a fuzzy ball to play with when she's bored! Felix would probably bring in underwear, which would be considered useless since KuliKuli would take them off often

KuliKuli is a cat girl and Felix is her human mate, for clarity cx