Hearts Don't Have to Beat

In the story First Person Shooter we are induced to the zombie women after finding her shopping to get ready for what the narrator and main character believe to be a date. Now assuming that he was right and that this is what the zombie was shopping for and since we don't have much to disprove this assumption. We are then left with a question that we are given any background or knowledge about and that is, who is the zombie woman going on a date with?

First, we need to narrow our options by making an assortment of categories consisting of the combinations of Human or non-human, First date, or existing relationship. This is because these are the most important traits to look into and to be considered about and nothing else, including the exact identity, really matters. The first step into determining the answer of any of these is to figure out whether or not the woman is fully consciously aware of the fact she is a zombie. This is quite easy to answer as yes because of how her actions are described in accordance with her self awareness when the narrator sees her trying to find things that match her skin tone and complexion. But mainly the moment that she sees the footage of the zombie video game and watches her fellow zombie people get slaughtered by the living. We know from the reaction that she gave off showing a sense of sorrow and remorse, and the realization that because she is a zombie she is now no longer seen as human.

Now the next couple of things we must look has to do with the world that the story takes place in. Those are: Are zombies a common presence in this society, and if so are they commonly intelligent. Now we know that the 'zombie woman' as some form of human-like intelligence from the way she was shopping and knew why and what she was shopping for. However, the harder part to analyze is whether or not the 'zombie woman' is the first existing zombie in this reality that the story is taking place in. This isn't as straight forward because of how the two and only two characters that come in contact with zombie woman, act completely different initially. Out Narrator does not think too much about it, whereas the other doesn't think twice about freaking out and running. But I think we can assume she is the first sign of zombies existing because of how the narrator seems to have never seen a zombie in person before despite hows he's acting, and we can interpret his calmness to the fact that she wasn't doing anything that would scare him.

With all of this we really don't still have much but here's what I think is the most logical right now. Zombie woman is going to meet her still alive husband/boyfriend, who is still alive, also she doesn't know she's a zombie. We can say this because if she is the first sign of zombie if he saw he would probably freak out, expressly since he would know that she should be dead. This conclusion although it makes the story a much sadder one which I don't like much because this means that the whole story is about someone trying to figure out to convince someone she loves that just because she isn't fully human anymore doesn't make her a monster.