Sledge

Sledge, a character in the Wake the Dead book, is the leader of The Raiders and one of your love interests. Although she is first seen in Chapter 10, she is mentioned for the first time in Chapter 6.

Appearance
Sledge has a shaved head with black short hair tied into a manbun, tanned skin, and brown eyes. She wears black paint around her eyes, and she has several scars and bruises on her face and body. She also wears a ripped brown leather jacket, a pauldron on her left arm, fingerless gloves, a green belt with pockets, and ripped black pants. She carries a sledgehammer with a brown leather belt on her back.

Personality
Sledge can be considered immoral, cruel and hypocritical. She doesn't care for anyone else other than herself and her crew, and considers everyone else weak. She also doesn't hesitate to use vile means to achieve her goals and to enact revenge, but at the same time she respects people who prove their worth.

Background
If you choose to train with Sledge, she says that "Sledge" is not her real name, and that she abandoned her real name when she was thirteen after she passed her own trial in order to join the Raiders. She mentions in a premium scene that her parents died when she was a kid and that the previous leader of the Raiders found her digging around the trash. He taught her how to fight but even though they were all supposed to be on the same level, he considered himself better than everyone else and Sledge ultimately killed him.

Wake the Dead

 * Chapter 6: Build Up or Tear Down (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Another World
 * Chapter 11: Things Fall Apart
 * Chapter 12: Prove Your Worth
 * Chapter 13: Under One Banner
 * Chapter 14: Hold the Fort
 * Chapter 15: The Siren's Call
 * Chapter 17: Shadows of the Past
 * Chapter 18: Brought Low
 * Chapter 19: The Solstice
 * Chapter 20: Survival of the Fittest

Your Character
You meet her for the first time when you visit the amusement park with your group. She says that she was looking for you and your colony because of the gas you stole and because you caused trouble for her Raiders. She then asks everybody to leave except you unless they want to die alongside you. When they refuse, a fight ensues, and despite pleading with her that you could join forces or that you were defending yourselves, she refuses to back down. Eventually you manage to make her retreat, but when Eli is bit, you decide to form an alliance with her once she arrives at your colony, in order to get the medicine to cure him.

To prove your worth, Sledge says that you need to fight. While she doesn't explicitly tells you what exactly, she offers to help you train. When you eventually beat the "Soldier Zombie", she welcomes you as a true Raider, and gives you a nickname according to which weapon you used to beat it. You can also call her out when she tells you that you missed the point of the exercise and that you should fight only for yourself. When Dirk tells you he wishes you had died instead of your sister, you can spend some time with Sledge and talk about your feelings. She will then also tell you more about herself and later ask if you are coming on to her. You can either answer that you weren't and apologize to her or say that she caught you which will result in a hookup.

Sunflower Creek
According to Sledge, Sunflower Creek owed them a debt. When you and Angel confront her about it, she says that the weak don't get to choose how they live, and that all she's doing is granting them mercy, because at least they are better than the zombies.

Hatchet
Hatchet is a member of the Raiders. Sledge saved their life by giving them some sort of cure when they were bit.

Trivia

 * Her character model resembles Octavia from Distant Shores.