Walker

Walker works as a freelance ice cutter; though he’s a pyromaniac. An auitstic Otaku and best friends with Eric, adopted into Mitsuo’s van gang along with Eric so Mitsuo and Stanford could keep them under control. An autistic like Mitsuo, they became friends with Mitsuo bullying him, trading insults and witty comebacks and eventually bonding over video games and anime. He is five foot 8.5 inches (174 centimeters) tall, with jet black hair, and light brown eyes. He is almost always seen with his eyes nearly closed; he has high functioning autism and is sensitive to bright light, he typically wears a wide smile on his face.

Walker is the half-Japanese bastard son of a Japanese Soldier stationed at a US base during WW3 it was a whirlwind romance that faded about the moment that his mother got pregnant. He doesn’t like to talk about it but he is estranged from both his parents, he lives in a storeroom above a family friend’s coffee shop.

He is a pyromaniac, and gets a sexual thrill from fire, and his bunk is complete with a large, retro-modern looking fake fireplace. Walker, like Eric, is an Otaku, and the two are nearly inseparable, though, probably because he’s straight (Traps aren’t gay! Even though he’s done Buddy, Elias, and Lavi), he doesn’t share Eric’s love of Yaoi. The eccentric duo often need Mitsuo to step in and keep them thinking straight and keep them from misbehaving too terribly, but Mitsuo also isn’t above humoring or goofing around with them if there isn’t any harm in it.

Walker only revealed his high functioning autism after Mitsuo started dating Anep, who suffers from the same condition. Walker is very impressed that his best friend didn’t consider autism a deal-breaker. Walker often finds Anep mildly annoying, but he is very protective of him, viewing him as a surrogate little brother, and is quite willing to “fuck a bitch up” if they threaten to hurt him.

He is Shinto, and wears boxer briefs. He is mostly tech support in battle, scanning and later hacking into and controlling technology and mapmaking, he also maintains communications and is quick to video capture and photograph everything, so he can compile it all later, he does carry a long polearm with a heated tip for cutting. He has later designed a robotic backpack, which can extend spider limbs as well as various machines, for his use in a fight, the limbs are razor sharp and heated for cutting, and allow him to walk around and explore sections of the ruins others cannot normally get too, he can use them as a melee weapon as well, and is quite skilled at using his extra limbs. He wears only bullet proof vests.

Walker occasionally watches anime with Anep, but is more into henti, girly, and more fetish anime; there is little common ground between what the two like, though Walker and Eric love to watch anime and read manga together. Walker occasionally indulges Aneps odd behavior, as a single child he considers the hybrid to be the 'flaming gay autistic' brother he never had, even if Walker is often annoyed by him.

Eric brings out Walker’s more anti-social behavior, he's a pyromaniac and even has a bionic flamethrower replacing the bones in his lower arm; without Mitsuo to keep them in check the duo quickly resorts to talk of kidnapping and Molotov Cocktails. Often annoyed by Anep’s 'faggotry', accusing him of being too gay because of his campy fey humor; in reality it's more a sense of jealousy over Mitsuo becoming Anep’s hero; he is happy for Mitsuo finding someone who made him truly happy; but feels like Anep has taken his hero from him, like Walker is a third wheel.

He resents Anep to some degree over feeling like a third wheel with him and Mitsuo, and teases him for being too gay over it, and became very annoyed that Anep wouldn’t just let him just disengage from the friend group he felt was leaving him behind; eventually finally yelling at him over it. Walker is not just a weeb, loving Anime and Video-game Tiddy; but an avid conspiracy theorist; something only Anep indulges him in on a regular basis.

Mitsuo adopted Walker and Eric together to control their anti-social behavior; saving the two from being groomed as interrogators for an actual gang. Walker isn’t great at expressing his feelings; and despite all the gay jokes he’s actually into traps and perfectly okay with his best friend, Eric, being gay; eving going with him to bars; where Walker just games on his handheld while Eric goes to flirt with other dudes. He refuses to seriously game with Anep because of how slow to react he is, but has no problem in less serious games like minecraft or animal crossing.

Walker has a brain-implant chip installed, augmenting his neural-kinetics and data analysis; like Mitsuo he replaced the vi with one based on his own personality. He acts like a brother to Britney; often elbowing her in the boobs or fighting over who gets the best seat, they can be extremely nasty to one another; but never take any of it personally, with her pointing out his issues with Anep are caused by him having a gay crush on both Anep and Mitsuo, and him pointing out her career as a pop-star has gone nowhere and that she’s just some ‘ghetto-ass’ kanto girl with delusions of grandeur.

Competing with Beck over their status as the smartest guy in the gang, the two alternate between bitter rivals and friendly rivals, with walker helping provide some of the software Beck uses in the gang’s equipment, and even helping him program his Advanced Generation Device using a series of three parallel AI copies of Beck’s personality, evolutionary algorithms, and an Autofab.