Michael Carradine

Description
Michael Luke Carradine is a male survivor played by RickDeckard. He was accepted on 19th January, 2016 and is currently alive and active on the server.

Appearance
Michael is 6’ 1” with dark brown eyes, brown wavy hair with a slim build weighing around 166 pounds in his late 30’s. Casually he wears a light gray jacket, with a white shirt, a red scarf and black pants with black leather shoes. Otherwise he wears a red tie with a light gray suit and light gray slacks.

Personality
Michael is intelligent, suave and charming, he’d rather use his words to get out of a hairy situation. He’s a very caring person, especially towards animals and has respect for wildlife and the law. However he is quite the pacifist and not ideally keen or looking for a fight, so he can be rather cautious and will prefer to flee than fight.

Biography
Michael Luke Carradine was born in West Point, Kentucky an old child to his mother Jane and his father Bill. His father Bill a lumberjack and his mother a florist, his family was always an outdoors orientated family and from an early age, Michael was to follow suit. Fascinated with nature and his mother a florist, he would frequently go for walks and hikes out into the forests, learning from his mother the different types of plants, trees, herbs, flowers, what plants are edible and what are poisonous and so forth. In Elementary, Middle and High school he excelled at outdoors studies, sports and the sciences to do with the outside world. After a few excursions to nature reserves during his schooling years, he knew what he wanted to do in life, become a park ranger.

Michael was often at ends with his father, he saw his father work as a lumberjack meant the destruction and unnecessary logging of trees, disturbing the precious ecosystem and removal of habitation for animals. A pacifist at heart, he’d rather use words to diffuse a situation than violence and certainly would not be an ideal soldier, in a case of fight or flight, flight would kick in. He has an aspect of cowardliness in a sense he would much rather run away from a fight.

Once Michael finished high school, Michael had to leave West Point to live on campus at the University of Louisville in Louisville, in order to study for his Bachelor’s Degree in Plant Sciences which took four years to study. Michael did pretty well in his course, all those years of spending time with his mother learning all about botany helped. Michael met his future lover Alma Dahlberg in his freshman year, a Swedish woman who aspired to be an author in college and soon become college sweethearts. Unfortunately for Michael and Alma, young love resulted in Alma in her second year of college to be knocked up and they decided to keep it (especially with the urging of Michael due to his conservative upbringing in rural Kentucky), which they became the proud of parents of baby boy Richter born on the 19th of January. Raising a child during the late college years took a toll on him, he had to work a part-time job in retail balancing his studies and he lived a very stressful few years, especially when in the final year of his studies to his disbelief Alma was again pregnant. He battled with his moral fibre whether to keep this second surprise or not, but after some consideration they chose to keep this child as well, which they will name Byrnne and will be born on September 25th.

After four long years of hard study and work, he acquired his degree and returned back to West Point. Once he returned back to West Point, he applied for the nearest park possible, they needed money desperately as he didn’t want to live with his parents forever with his wife and soon to be kids (having to leave his retail job in Louisville). So he applied at an opening at the Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area, a 20 minute drive from West Point and he was accepted as one of the Park Rangers.

Michael had a various amount of duties as a Park Ranger, ranging from things such as visitor management (tours, education, rules), keeping visitors safe and happy, assisting law enforcement & enforcing rules of the park on visitors. Michael main roles as a Park Ranger in resource management & protection. This involved the following: It kept Michael very active and in pretty good shape, during his late 20’s, early 30’s (although it did make him unusually dehydrated).
 * Protecting and maintaining biological diversity by managing threats such as feral animal populations and eradicating or controlling weeds and participating in scientific surveys
 * Protecting endangered and/or threatened native plants and animals
 * Patrolling the park to check fences, monitor invasive species and visitor activities
 * Assisting in wildlife management projects, including surveying, and monitoring of wildlife.

It wasn’t the greatest pay out there, but he was passionate about it and with Alma working as an author, they were able to get by and eventually purchase a house in West Point for their family, they aren’t the wealthiest family in America but they make do as best as they can.

Michael now in his very late 30’s is getting on in age, his hearing has seen better days (due to having an ear infection in his childhood that cause some hearing loss) and he was always short sided, although he hardly ever bothered to wear glasses as he felt it would limit him in his work out in the field. His health is okay aside from his allergy to wine he’s had since he ever started drinking alcohol. Unfortunately for Michael due to budget cuts and the economy having seen better days, funding was cut to the (National Park) and Michael was let go from him beloved job in late 2015. Michael wasn’t able to find a new job that wasn’t too far away for a reasonable commute from the quiet town of West Point, so with a loan from the bank he decided to start an Outdoors recreation business, selling things like tents, survival axes, survival guides and anything outdoors.

One day he’ll be back to his Park Ranger career, one day…