The Pied Writer

The Pied Writer (Alice Cooper) is a superpowered member of the United Society.

Biography
Alice Cooper was an ordinary Canadian college student when The Virus struck humanity. Born with very large birthmarks covering patches of skin on her body, Alice was alienated from her peers as a child by their teasing but learned to enjoy her isolation through travelling and sight-seeing.

A storm raged on the night she was infected by The Virus, and Alice was swept up by a mudslide while she was backpacking near the Canadian-U.S. border. Miraculously she survived the ordeal, no worse for the wear save or some mud-smeared clothing.

Wandering into a nearby town did little for her mental health however, as the sight of those who succumbed to The Virus very nearly drove her mad. Using the pieces of I.D. she found on the corpses, Alice recorded their names in her personal journal as her own kind of memorium for the dead, but discovered that doing so allowed her to control their zombified corpses!

With a city's worth of undead at her back, Alice began to call herself the Pied Writer as a cynical joke about the appearance of her skin and the strange nature of her new powers. Eventually Alice felt the need to rejoin some sort of civilization, and upon wandering Southward across the post-apocalyptic remnants of the United States she came across the group calling itself the Unified Society.

Alice is emotionally distant but is capable of being friendly to those who are openly kind to her, though she is paranoid of being teased about her birthmarks. She treats her zombies with respect and doesn't use them as slaves and tries to use them for the good of the post-apocalyptic society.

Powers and Abilities
Alice's power is Zombie Manipulation through Lexiconicy. By writing the birth name of the dead on a piece of paper Alice is able to control that zombified corpse so long as she maintains possession of the material the name (or names) is written on. She is able to direct them by writing verbs alongside the names in her journal, with more complex actions requiring full and detailed sentences. If Alice loses physical possession of any of the papers or if the papers are destroyed then her control of those zombies is lost and they return to death.