Any Travel Companions or close friends: Jacob Louis Deckard (age: 3 months) - son
Any other languages: None.
Distinguishing characteristics: Has several body piercing and tattoos, all of which are hidden by clothing.
Personality: Madelyn (don't call her Maddie) is an attractive woman but her personality is significantly less so. She is stand-offish, self-centered and dispassionate to the point of being heartless. Her first concern is her baby and herself, with the rest of the world a distant third. Madelyn was always pretty driven but in these difficult times, and especially when Jacob enters the equation, that drive can border on fanaticism. Combined with her sometime brutal practicality, she could be dangerous if the need were to arise.
But Madelyn is not just some distant ice queen. She isn't purposely unfriendly but feels no need to be kind for politeness sake or fill silences with meaningless chatter. It may be like pulling teeth to get her to say anything sometimes, but get her started on her son and you will have hours of conversation. She loves Jacob with the whole of her heart and spoils him as much as you can spoil a 3 month old. Madelyn is fastidious about her appearance. While she doesn't scream at the sight of a mud puddle, there is hair and skin regime that MUST be followed. Just because we are in the middle of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil, it doesn’t mean you can have chipped nail polish. Clothing must be neat too; a stray thread or miss-matched buttoning job can derail a whole conversion till they are fixed. Though it may appear to be otherwise Madelyn is not completely humorless. She just doesn't find most people funny.
Any special skills: She can drive a manual car, do an odd bit of sewing, and cut a fine head of hair.
History: Madelyn is not an open book. Her reluctances to talk about her past is understandable, given the horrors everyone has seen in the past months. If you press her enough, you would draw out an ordinary tale of a simple life in Bethlehem, PA as a mail carrier, a failed marriage, a baby and a postal convention that left her stranded in Houston during the flu. She'll tell you that the past isn't important anymore, and you'd be obligated to believe her.
The truth is the baby is no more hers then the life in Pennsylvania is. She was a cliche, a small town girl going to make it in Hollywood. She ended up better then most in her position, a waitress with a one room apartment. When Madelyn found herself pregnant, her manager gave her just enough money for a cab ride and appointment at the clinic. It was hard on her, less on him in part because he fired her from the cafe. Rent was a month behind when a friend told her a fast way to make some cash.
Madelyn started working as a stripper, the whole time telling herself that it was only for a few more months. A few months stretched into a few years and she was no closer to a film career. Another girl at the club offered her a part in a movie she was staring in, and Maddie jumped at the chance. Any qualms she had about it being a porn film disappeared with the first line of coke. She changed her name to Anna Lynn, became a regular on the circuit, and spent the rest of the 80s and 90s high and on her knees. An arrest 2 years ago lead to a police record and a stay in rehab. Madelyn sobered up to find herself getting too long in the tooth to stay in the industry, and too deep in debt to leave.
The plague hit when she was Houston at an adult film convention. Free of a life she had come to hate but without a reason to make a new one, Madelyn washed a bottle of Valium down with a bottle of Raspberry Stoli. If she had thought she would wake up and all her problems would gone, she was partially successful. Madelyn came around with a massive headache and a 6 week old baby in her lap. The way she sees it, the plague wiped her slate clean and gave her back a baby she aborted 20 years ago. So what if it had to kill 99% of the world to do it. Even with all the death and uncertainty, she loves her new life and Madelyn will do what ever it takes to keep it.
Character's full name: Madelyn Ann Deckard 
Personality: Madelyn (don't call her Maddie) is an attractive woman but her personality is significantly less so. She is stand-offish, self-centered and dispassionate to the point of being heartless. Her first concern is her baby and herself, with the rest of the world a distant third. Madelyn was always pretty driven but in these difficult times, and especially when Jacob enters the equation, that drive can border on fanaticism. Combined with her sometime brutal practicality, she could be dangerous if the need were to arise.
But Madelyn is not just some distant ice queen. She isn't purposely unfriendly but feels no need to be kind for politeness sake or fill silences with meaningless chatter. It may be like pulling teeth to get her to say anything sometimes, but get her started on her son and you will have hours of conversation. She loves Jacob with the whole of her heart and spoils him as much as you can spoil a 3 month old. Madelyn is fastidious about her appearance. While she doesn't scream at the sight of a mud puddle, there is hair and skin regime that MUST be followed. Just because we are in the middle of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil, it doesn’t mean you can have chipped nail polish. Clothing must be neat too; a stray thread or miss-matched buttoning job can derail a whole conversion till they are fixed. Though it may appear to be otherwise Madelyn is not completely humorless. She just doesn't find most people funny. 
