Zoey Friedrich || The Beginning

Character Backstory

Zoey Friedrich had only been a police officer for three years—but she wore the badge like she’d been born with it.

In Loveland, Ohio, she was known as dependable. Fair. Approachable. She took her job seriously when it mattered and made space for laughter when it didn’t. Kids knew her cruiser. Locals recognized her voice over the megaphone. She was the kind of Sheriff people trusted.

Then October came.

At first, it was just fog. Ohio fog wasn’t unusual—but this felt different. Thicker. Heavier. And then the bodies started turning up.

Torn apart. Brutal. Wrong.

Zoey worked several of those scenes. Each one gnawed at her, the injuries too deliberate, too grotesque to be animal or accident. But the department ordered silence. No panic. No speculation. Just paperwork and closed mouths.

By the time Halloween week arrived, denial was already dead.

The fog rolled in and didn’t leave.

Day by day, the world unraveled—sky gone, plants warped, animals twisted into hostile things that should never have existed. By the seventh day, the horrors came. Horrors in the fog. Skinning blades dragging through streets. The dead rising with blue blood and empty hunger.

Zoey fought. She and her fellow officers fought. But training and courage meant little against things that didn’t fear pain or death.

She watched colleagues die screaming.

When the ammunition ran dry and the fog thickened, survival took over.

Zoey ran.

She made it home, shaking hands loading magazines with armor-piercing rounds, attaching her legally owned suppressor out of pure instinct. She didn’t cry. There wasn’t time.

Her destination wasn’t a city. It wasn’t people.

It was the forest.

Shawnee Forest Park. Her cabin. A place where she understood sound, distance, and terrain. A place where the fog felt… different.

Now she survives one day at a time. Not as an officer. Not as a hero.

Just as Zoey.



Character Personality Sheet

Name: Zoey Friedrich
Aliases: Zoey, Officer Zoey, Z
Sex/Gender: Female
Age: 28
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Canid / Domestic Canine
Species: Anthro Doberman
Occupation: Former Police Officer (Loveland, Ohio)

Appearance

Height: 6'1"
Weight: 175 lbs

Fur:
Short, sleek black-and-tan Doberman coat. Her fur is we