Smart Ones

Smart Ones
Name	Smart Ones
Skittles' Nickname	Brain
Other Nicknames	None
First appearance	Chapter 3
Departure	Still Present in W.A.
Sighted At	Locked and Loaded, Tower, Arena, Hospital, and more
Details
Special Abilities	Intelligent, capable of setting traps, stockpile food, create fires and more

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These are the class of zombies that set We're Alive apart from the rest of the zombie lore. Smart ones are capable of setting traps, recognizing when they are in danger, and are not ruled by their instincts to consume all their victims as they catch them. Smart Ones actually stockpile food as was seen in the Arena in Chapter 10. They also separated the piles of bodies they have between humans they used for food, and dead compatriots they left outside.

• Name: "The Smart Ones"
  
• First Appeared: Chapter 3 on the Rooftop of Burt's Shop.
  

Characteristics:

• Clever
  
• Can make traps
  
• Known to evade danger
  
• have some way to communicate
  
• increased strength
  
• increased speed
  
• increased stamina
  
• some ability to retain language comprehension and usage (Ink in the Tower)
  
• the ability to recognize the relevance of technology (the tracker trap)
  
• the ability to use self-restraint (live prisoners being taken)
  
• possesses some degree of delayed gratification (the arena prisoners, saved "for weeks" between events)
  
• communications at some detailed level (giving of orders)
  
• able to plan and execute coordinated attacks (Ink observing above the vehicle ambush and on the rooftop during the War)
  
• capable of enforcing discipline in the creature lower orders (he bellows, they obey)
  
• retained ability to manipulate technology to some degree(the keypad and possibly driving the blocking vehicle at the convoy ambush site)
  
• works at self-preservation and not simply blindly attacking (Ink feigning death until Burt announced he was out of ammo)
  

Notable Examples in the Story:

• The One With Markings aka Ink
  
• Tommy (arguable, after he turned he did feign death just after he was shot)
  

Theories:

• On why these are more intelligent than the other zombies: "The smarter you are in life, the smarter you are in death' - Burt