Cotard.

Height: 192 cm (6'3") Hair: Red Eyes: Dark green Body type: Muscular Cotard wears a navy blue Adidas windbreaker with a hood, camouflage cargo pants, and worn Converse sneakers. He wears a classic dark olive green three-hole balaclava that conceals his menacing, dull gaze.

Trivia

The nickname "Cotard" comes from Cotard's delusion, a rare mental illness in which people believe they are already dead. His last name comes from the Oklahoma City terrorist: Timothy McVeigh The nylon jacket he's wearing is a vintage adidas jacket, which suggests it dates back to the 1990s. He is fascinated by the works of Nietzsche and Mark Twain. Cotard is deeply Chatolich and refuses to write songs that are blasphemous. He is extremely Anglophobic and refuses to socialize with any British residents.

Death In 1996, during a clandestine training session near Galway, Cotard attempted to demonstrate a new prototype bomb with a faulty timer. Before the eyes of the recruits, the device detonated prematurely, setting the farmhouse ablaze. Cotard was instantly burned alive; his body was later identified by dental remains and fragments of his distinctive crucifix. The IRA publicly denied his involvement, calling him a "rogue renegade," while privately mourning the loss of one of its brightest and most unstable minds.

Afterlife After nearly being sent to Hell, Cotard's file sparked bureaucratic confusion among the angels: was he a murderer or a political revolutionary? The debate over his "ideological context" resulted in his reassignment to Pripyat, a section for radical thinkers, failed prophets, and self-proclaimed revolutionaries. There, Cotard became a resident of Pripyat's dilapidated dormitory district, where he shares a flat converted into a studio with his companions Petri and Gogo. Together they formed A Child Corpse In A TrashBag, a band whose chaotic, industrial sound evokes the ruins of their past lives.

Cotard rarely leaves his balcony; he's often seen smoking, writing lyrics, or tuning his guitar to the hum of broken transformers. His interactions are limited to philosophical debates, cigarette swaps, and the occasional bar fight when someone makes fun of Ireland. He's both respected and pitied: a ghost who can't stop thinking, trapped in a purgatory that mirrors his own burned-out ideals. Even here, surrounded by the dead, Matty McVeigh still burns, but now, only on the inside.

Background Born in Derry, Ireland, into a devout Catholic family during the turbulent years of the Civil War, Matty McVeigh grew up surrounded by political violence. His father worked in a textile factory; his mother, a schoolteacher, tried to steer him toward literature. By his teens, Matty had become disillusioned with both religion and the British state, developing a fascination with rebellion, martyrdom, and revolutionary ethics. His academic brilliance was overshadowed by an obsession with violent political symbolism, particularly fire, decay, and resurrection.

At 17, he joined the Provisional IRA, quickly rising from courier to bomb maker. Between 1992 and 1995, he contributed to multiple high-profile attacks, including the Bishopsgate bombing and the Warrington gasworks fire. Although never formally charged, his fingerprints were rumored to have been found on bomb fragments in Belfast. His intelligence made him valuable, but also dangerous. Internal reports from the time describe him as "uncontrollable." When ceasefires began, Cotard refused to disarm, viewing peace as treason. He fled to the Republic, where his final act of defiance ended in tragedy.

Personality Intelligence Incendiary Sociopathic Tense Political extremist Lonely Cotard embodies a peculiar blend of stoic detachment and volatile intensity. A sociopath with a taste for irony, he finds beauty in self-destruction and considers morality a human invention. His discourse is eloquent yet biting, with a tone that oscillates between the poetic and the venomous. He delights in intellectually provoking people, often quoting philosophers, war poets, or revolutionary manifestos with disconcerting precision. When he does become enraged—which is rare, but explosive—he channels his anger into long, calculated diatribes rather than impulsive violence.

He is also deeply cynical and despises human empathy as a "bourgeois act." Yet, despite his misanthropy, Cotard possesses a paradoxical discipline: he is punctual, obsessive about his routines, and deeply dedicated to his music. His bandmates describe him as "the bossy one," a man who doesn't shout to be heard, because when he speaks, everyone listens. Cotard's only constant vice is his fascination with fire; he has been caught more than once burning old notebooks, saying that he "likes watching them dissolve."

Cotard is an Irish resident of Pripyatory.

Matty McVeigh, known as "Cotard" in Pripyat, was an Irish militant turned musician, born in Derry during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Disillusioned by sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, his youth was marked by conflict, alienation, and an obsession with death. In life, he was a Provisional IRA bomb maker, ideologue, and self-taught historian whose belief in martyrdom eclipsed all empathy. In Purgatory, he reinvents himself as the guitarist for "A Child Corpse In A TrashBag," a grim industrial noise project that reflects his somber worldview. Cotard's sharp intellect and biting wit make him both a respected and feared figure among the residents.