Dirk

Dirk, a character in the Wake the Dead book, is one of the members of your crew. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Dirk has short brown hair, brown eyes, a small beard and tanned skin. He wears silver glasses, a light grey shirt with a holster, and a green jacket. If he is injured, he has a long scar across his right eye, and wears an eyepatch.

Personality
As the person you leave in charge of the colony, Dirk gets things done, behind the scenes. He is cautious and skeptical, and doesn't trust outsiders. Part of him regrets leaving The Tower.

Wake the Dead

 * Chapter 1: The End of the World
 * Chapter 2: On the Run
 * Chapter 3: New Home
 * Chapter 5: Death Comes Knocking
 * Chapter 7: Highway To Hell
 * Chapter 8: Build Up or Tear Down
 * Chapter 9: Throw Down The Gauntlet
 * Chapter 10: Another World
 * Chapter 11: Things Fall Apart
 * Chapter 12: Prove Your Worth
 * Chapter 13: Under One Banner
 * Chapter 15: The Siren's Call
 * Chapter 17: Shadows of the Past
 * Chapter 18: Brought Low
 * Chapter 20: Survival of the Fittest (Off-Screen; Physical Appearance Determinant)

Your Character
When your sister takes you out on your first scouting mission, Dirk is part of the scouting party. Your actions on rescuing Shannon determine whether or not more zombies converge on your location, the faster and louder of which injures him. When your group flees the Tower, he is amongst them. He abides by your sister's wishes to leave her in Eli's cabin and later when your group finds Red Meadows, he is put in charge of maintaining and supervising improvements to your colony while you, Shannon, Troy, Eli, and Angel form a scouting party. It is your choice on how to treat him, especially when he voices his concern or disapproval of your actions and allies. He becomes increasingly resentful of you, calling you "the great Ash Archer who can do no wrong" and feels you do not take his advice.

In Chapter 13, he drunkenly admits to you that he wishes he could go back to the time where he was ignorant of the world outside the Tower, where life was simpler. He also wishes that your sister survived and you had died in her place.

In Chapter 18, he throws the hard choices you had to make throughout your journey in your face. If you brought Angel's zombie parents to the colony, he blames you for Mack's death. However, if you chose to kill Angel's parents and point that out to him, he will say that you were just following the rules. If you helped Minna Arbogast instead of Shannon, he brings up the latter's trauma and doesn't believe you should have put her before Minna's wellbeing. However, if you saved Shannon, he criticizes you for not saving Minna. If you spared Trent, he tells you how it backfired on you since Trent plotted against you since he lost leadership of Ironmount. If you tried to break through to Eli instead of shooting him after you injected him with epinephrine, Dirk is disappointed. Most of all, he tells you he cannot trust your decisions ever since your first decision in breaking the glass during your first mission brought zombies to your location and scarred him in the fight.

If you killed Trent, tried to shoot Eli, and were careful and quiet in your first scouting mission, he tells you he agreed with your decisions but still feels that the colony needs better leadership. If you consistently were nice to him, put faith in him handling the renovations, and took his suggestions into account, he sadly says that it still wouldn't have been enough to survive the solstice. If you took the premium scene and got the compass from him, you confront him about it and he will say that he tried to see you as leader the way your sister saw you and that he had promised her to protect you.

You can choose to tell him that he still has time to make it right at which he may reply that he is sorry but that you would thank him for it later. Before he turns to leave, he asks you to cooperate since he doesn't want you to get hurt. Later in the chapter, when Marcus reveals that everyone except you is welcome back to the Tower and that you would be sacrificed, Dirk is shocked and even tries to negotiate with Marcus to convince him to reconsider. After Marcus' death, Dirk and the traitors try to escape but they are spotted in time. When you confront them, Dirk tells you he was just trying to keep everyone safe during the solstice and that he had no idea that Marcus planned to sacrifice you and that if he'd known, he wouldn't have agreed to any of it. You have the option to kill him and the other traitors or to spare them. If you spare him, he will tell you he won't let you down again.

If you spared him, he is surprised when he sees you and your undead sister in Chapter 20. Although he tries to get through to her and fails, he distracts your sister long enough, giving you time to escape.

Trivia

 * His character model resembles male Garret Redmond from Big Sky Country series.
 * If you choose to raise morale in Chapter 3, Dirk reveals his ability to play the piano.
 * You have the option to play as him in a premium scene in Chapter 17.