"That's the first thing," Khan says, remarking on Dani's priorities. Her loyalty resides with her team now, and she's due for a roller derby match out of state. When the zombie apocalypse hits, she's not so fussed about going home to her family. Khan says, "She wasn't living to work she was working to live." She was living the life of a 20-something-year-old in California and loving it.
Khan says Dani has a hobby that's more than aggression in roller derby, remarking on how Dani used mosh pits to release these feelings.Īll the while, Dani is working jobs she doesn't really care about, like retail and food service, and employers have let her go more times than she cares to admit because she likes to speak her mind "a little bit too freely" to customers. She's still the punk girl from Ireland in many ways, but roller derby becomes her outlet for expressing herself. So that's how she ended up in LA."ĭani discovers roller derby in LA, and it becomes her new love. She feels like, 'I escaped this very parochial, very conservative, very you-must-be-the-correct-way family and history' and just never wanted to be that again. " F- that and traveled with an MIT student returning home in a road trip across the country to the warmest place she heard of – California – and knew, that's where the nice weather is, and she wanted to just go to paradise. Dani falls in love with the punk scene in Boston, but then the first Boston winter hits. This works out great for Dani because if there's an Irish pub, you're "always guaranteed a job if you have an Irish accent," according to Khan. She hops the pond and ends up in Boston, which Khan says has a large Irish community. As soon as she can, Dani leaves County Cork. She doesn't feel like she fits in and doesn't have a particularly great relationship with her family.ĭani discovers the punk scene around town, and it shapes her childhood and teenage years. Dani has always been the fish out of water in her family, with a bit of a chip on her shoulder. Her father is the kind of person who, when confronted with conflict or emotion, opts to ignore it and go fishing instead. She grows up with a "very traditional Stepford wife of a mother" and "equally beige" sisters. There's a lot of music and nighttime activity, as a result. Meet Daniĭani grew up in County Cork, Ireland, a beautiful place that doubles as a student town, according to Khan. Now that we know how Dani's story begins in Dead Island 2, let's talk about why this character thrives in Hell-A. At this point, I took control of my chosen survivor, Dani, and the game introduced me to its combat and primary antagonists: zombies! It doesn't take long for Dani to be bit, though, and that's where Dead Island 2's narrative begins: you're infected, but you're not turning, and you need to get this information and your blood to someone who can help. Protocol results in the military shooting this plane down – can't have any infected leaving the city, after all – and it crash lands into Hell-A. Unfortunately for them, though, it turns out that someone on board is infected. You meet each survivor on one of the last planes leaving LA. This is where the island aspect of the game's namesake comes into play, according to the studio nobody goes in, nobody goes out. The military has cordoned off the city, leading to the decision to quarantine what remains of LA so the infection can run its course. The evacuation has been "surprisingly efficient," Dead Island 2 narrative designer Khan tells me. It's set roughly a decade after the events of the first Dead Island, and while logic points to Dead Island 2's zombie outbreak virus being the same as the one from Banoi, that isn't necessarily confirmed. Mind you, Hell-A is still beautiful and thriving but only to the select few who have chosen to remain behind, like Dani.ĭead Island 2 begins in the last days of a massive evacuation effort to get non-infected out of LA. As you might already know, Los Angeles has gone to hell, and both characters in-game and the team at Dambuster Studios lovingly refer to the once beautiful and thriving city as Hell-A.
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