I present to you toby the zombie.

My apologies cause this was supposed to be a small backstory but it grew by itself.


It was just another day on campus for Tobias Romo when suddenly the university's Siren started going off. The deaffening sound of the siren was not enough to keep Toby from hearing the screams coming from behind the science building, and it was already too late for most of the people when the undead horde came eating its way through the crowd. Toby, a geek at heart, had dreamed for this moment since he saw his first zombie flick at the tender age of six.
Toby started executing his long planned strategy of zombie apocalipse survival. He reached his car and armed himself with the old magnum .44 bought specifically for this ocassion.
Then Toby shot his way through the student union to find his girlfriend. Luckily she was working at the union kitchen when all started and she managed to lock herself and two more girls in the meat freezer.
After searching the kitchen a few minutes and dispatching an undead philosophy proffesor and a zombified cheerleader, Toby reached the freezer and freed his soulmate and the girls.
When the goup made its way back to Toby's car, they realized a group of zombies was blocking the only exit of the parking lot. So Toby, excited as a child on christmas, took the fire axe from the emergency storage of the parking lot and ran towards the animated corpses. He slashed through the neck of a middle aged janitor named "Bob" according to his uniform. Then the axe cut in half the head of that annoying university parking employee whom kept giving tickets to Toby for supposedly using more than one parking box. The next three reanimated deceased were some college kids that toby never had met or seen before and were dissposed with no problems.
Whe Toby headed back to the car, the axe and his hands were covered in a nasty viscous, cold and dark fluid that for many years was the blood of the now chopped zombies. Toby entered the car though the passenger door and told Amy to head to his dad's cabin. Amy knew the way by memory becauseshe loved to spend the cold fall weekends with him there, hunting and fishing and being happy away from anyone.

Half way to the cabin, while amy was driving the backroads that led to paw forest, Toby started developing a high fever. Toby started sweating and feeling a stingin pain on his left arm. The pain pulsed from the palm of his hand all the way to his shoulder and kept crawling with every heart beat. Why? How? Then he remembered. A tiny cut on his index finger. A cut caused by the border of a sinlge page of "plants anatomy".
It was through that tiny cut made a couple hours ago that the non-sancto infectious agent slipped into his body while he slayed ghouls with the fire axe.

Now Toby was doomed, he knew what was going to be his course of action. A single bullet aimed to his encephalon. Toby was not going to be a zombie.

When Toby and the girls reached the cabin, he called Amy to the cellar. He gave her the bad news. She cried out of pure and distilled sadness, her heart broken. She was still trying to control her tears to say something, when he started putting the collar around his own neck. -this is in the case I dont have the balls to do it- he said while taking out his gun an pointing it to his head.
-No Toby, please you can't!
-you're strong babe you are going to make it
-its not that Toby, you can't because I'm........
-What? In love? I am too honey, I will always be..
-No Toby, I'm....I'm...
-click
-I am PREGNANT Toby!
And just whe toby was about to push the trigger hard enough to release the pistol's hammer, Amy's words broke his determination.
The gun fell to the ground. Amy cried some more and they shared one last kiss.
-Raise our kid as I would have. Love him as I love you, and tell him his dad was a good man.

Toby was about to pick up the gun again whe his heart failed. His boold became a dark snott that started pouring though his mouth ans his limbs crampled in a horrible fetal position. Toby was dead.

Amy did not have the heart to shoot the love of her life and the other girls were just to grateful to him for saving them that day on campus.
Toby stayed in the cellar chained to the wall for 12 months. Amy would spend some nights trying to talk to him or to communicate in some way. But it was the same always, a deep growl and the absent look.
Eventually, a few months after Amy gave birth, the group left the cabin in search of people. But not before baby Tobias met his "dad".

Two years passed until the chain gave away, Toby was free.
From the on Toby the zombie roamed new Texas in a pursuit to satisfy his eternal hunger for flesh.

I got this bub the learned zombie figure at a garage sale, great sculpting and paint apps buuut it had very limited articulation, no blood and he was too tall for my collection. So Doc Ock (movie version) had to donate his limbs. Some drybrushing later and voila.


Toby the zombie