The One with Markings

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"The One With the Markings"

Name: "The One with Markings", "Colored Face", "It's Paul"
- Possibly the leader or a leader of the infected in the city, seeing as how he was able to command them during chapters 10 and 12
First Appeared: Chapter 5 on the roof top of the ambush site.
Characteristics:
- Extremely Smart
- Quick
- Ellusive
- Able to mimic speech
- Could also be capable of full speech, as he was able to communicate with the survivors enough to at least make everyone but Burt let their guard down

Appearances:

On top of the roof of the diner when Saul, Burt and Lizzy discovered the ambush site (Chapter 5)
Inside the Arena (Chapter 10)
Inside the Tower on the 2nd Floor (Chapter 11)
On top of an adjacent rooftop commanding zombie troops (Chapter 13)
Leading the ambush on the maller convoy (Chapter 21)
Alone in a hallway of the mental hospital starring down Riley and Kalani (Chapter 23)

Disputes:

There is an unconfirmed (as well as not really addressed) possibility that the "The One with Markings" and the one with the "Colored Face" may actually be two different zombies.
It is also unconfirmed, but strongly suspected that The One With the Markings may be Bill Roberts aka Ink, a serial killer deemed mentally unfit for trial. This information was discovered in Chapter 2 by Lizzy when she was searching through the Tower's DVR's looking for information on the outbreak. No one watching took notice of the news segment involving "Ink"

While the story has been very clear about the The One with Markings being covered with tattoos and his appearances in the story, "Colored Face" has only been mentioned by Skittles and seen by Datu when he was in the arena.
In the case of Skittles, it was at first unclear what zombie he was exactly talking about about, so given his speech pattern and the previous knowledge of "The One with Markings" it can be assumed that they are the same.
However, when Datu saw "Colored Face" he commented specifically that it was colored strangely and not that it was covered with tattoos.
Also, "Colored Face" was in the arena when Samantha was dragged out of the room that her, Datu and Kalani were all sharing.
While we don't know exactly how much time passed between Angel and Riley finding Datu and Kalani in the room and Michael , Saul and Burt getting them all back to The Tower, the odds seem impossibly slim that the same zombie (Colored Face) could get from the arena, to the Tower and pull off the charade (accomplished The One with Markings - Michael describes him as covered with tattoos) explained by Lizzy before they got back.