zombielane a super nerd type who is godly with engineering and smarts but useless at survival and fighting, a group of young high school/college-aged folks who got by on their own without older people until now, a murderer who narrowly escaped trial/sentencing due to the outbreak (bonus if we assume the case was in NYC), troublemakers of all kinds, other people who didn't have much family even before the apocalypse, his missing detective partner, et cetera.