The One with Markings

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    [file]InkPortrait.jpg|thumb|"The One With the Markings"[/file]
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    [list][*]Name: "The One with Markings", "Colored Face", "It's Paul"
    [list][*]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
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    [*]First Appeared: Chapter 5 on the roof top of the ambush site.
    [*]Characteristics:
    [list][*]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
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    | Name = The One With The Markings
    | Skittles' Nickname = The One With the Markings
    | Other Nicknames = The Colored One, The Man in the Pinstriped Suit, Ink, It's Paul, The Tattooed One
    | Image = [file]InkPortrait.jpg|thumb|"The One With the Markings"[/file]
    | First appearance = Chapter 5
    | Departure = Still Present in W.A.
    | Sighted At = The Diner, The Tower, The Arena, The Maller Trap, The Hospital
    | Physical Traits = Covered in Head To Toe Tattoos, cracked and broken teeth, wears a gray pinstriped suit
    | Special Abilities = Exceptionally intelligent, Can Speak, Extremely Fast, Command abilities, manipulation of Technology, Traps
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    Appearances:
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    [*]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)
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    [h="2"]Zombie Information and Background[/h]
    The baddest of the bad, The One With The Markings is not a zombie to be trifled with. It has been said you only see him once, and then you're dead. While this is a slight exaggeration (as the Tower has encountered him on multiple occasions and survived) it's not that far off. By using ingenious traps, superior speed, skills and the survivors own assumptions that the zombies can not do things they are indeed capable of The One With The Markings has launched numerous successful attacks against survivors in Los Angeles.
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    The One With The Markings typically does not get his hands dirty, preferring to command Runners, Regulars and other Smart Ones to do his dirty work. However, he did lead a one man assault against the Tower after they successfully rescued Datu and Kalani from the Arena. He also confronted Kalani and Riley alone in the halls of the Hospital, though did not attack or call others to his side in that instance.
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    Nothing is known of The One With The Markings origins. The general accepted opinion is The One With The Markings was once the paranoid schizophrenic murderer, Bill Roberts (aka Ink). Roberts earned the nickname "Ink" by being covered from head to toe in tattoos. Ink was heard of only once in the story as part of a DVR recording Lizzy discovered, but the recording was ignored by the characters as they were looking for information about the zombie outbreak.
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    The One With The Markings first encounter with the Tower was at an ambush site (presumably the one set up against The Other Tower), where he dodged a shot by Burt and called Runners to chase Burt, Saul and Lizzy. Datu claims to see a man closely fitting the description of the zombie Skittles described as the Colored One. Michael and company discover The One With The Markings having entered the Tower and killed Paul, but was able to escape with only a gunshot wound to his hand. Michael again saw this zombie commanding the horde of zombies attacking the Tower in the immediate aftermath of the War. The next encounter was witnessed only by Lizzy (and many Mallers and Maller Slaves) as he ambushed them en route to the Arena. The most recent sighting occurred in the Hospital where he confronted Kalani and Riley.
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    [h="2"] Special Skills[/h]
    The One With The Markings is seemingly the alpha of all the zombies in We're Alive on multiple levels. Not only does he attract other zombies to him in an organized manner, he has many of the other types of zombies strengths and appears to have none of their weaknesses. He has the speed of a runner, the cunning of a smart one, the endurance of the big ones, the hunting skills of the little ones, the resiliency of the regulars and the ability to impersonate (on the basest of levels) the survivors. The One With The Markings has conducted at least two successful ambushes, broke into two different survivor strongholds, organized an army of zombies to follow him, commands all varieties of zombies around the city, has been shot at point blank range with an M-16 in the chest (and subsequently played possum), and caught an arrow fired from close range by Riley among other things.
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    [list][*]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 [noparse]Bill [/noparse] 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"
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    [list=1][*]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 [wiki="Others"]Skittles[/wiki] and seen by [wiki]Datu[/wiki] 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 [u]not[/u] that it was covered with tattoos.
    [*]Also, "Colored Face" was in the arena when [wiki="Others"]Samantha[/wiki] was dragged out of the room that her, [wiki="Datu"]Datu[/wiki] and [wiki="Kalani "]Kalani[/wiki] were all sharing.
    [*]While we don't know exactly how much time passed between [wiki="Angel "]Angel[/wiki] and [wiki="Riley "]Riley[/wiki] finding Datu and Kalani in the room and [wiki]Michael[/wiki] , [wiki]Saul[/wiki] and [wiki]Burt[/wiki] getting them all back to [wiki]The Tower[/wiki], 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 [wiki]Lizzy[/wiki] before they got back.
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    [h="2"]Discrepancies and Controversies[/h]
    This article is written under the assumption that all appearances of "The One With the Markings" is actually one zombie. However, there are disputes over this assertion.

    Every member of the We're Alive universe has a different way they describe a zombie that shares many of the same characteristics exhibited by The One With The Markings. Lizzy refers to him as the Man in the Pinstriped Suit, while Michael calls him something else, and Datu something else all together. By the inconsistent descriptions and monikers it is hard to determine if it is always the same zombie or if there are multiple zombies.
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    The other piece of evidence to suggest there may be two zombies of similar description centers around the events at the Arena. Datu specifically describes a man with a weird look in the center of the Arena. He is later rescued and brought back to the Tower. But before the rescuers made it back in the hummer, the zombie that killed Paul and could imitate speech was already inside the Tower and wreaking havoc. While it has been proven that this particular zombie was capable of incredible speeds, it's not proven the zombie that attacked the Tower and the one in the Arena that killed Samantha are indeed the same.
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