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AGE: 29
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> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: abby anderson
CANON: the last of us part ii
AGE: twenty-three
CANON POINT: four months post-game
HISTORY: here
PERSONALITY: the first thing you notice about abby anderson is the size of her; one character in the game describes her as "built like an ox" in order to effectively identify her to somebody else. it's a description well deserved: abby spent five years of her life working out physically, and building herself up in response to the murder of her father, and her desire to serve justice to the man who killed him. her physique is indicative of how her desire for revenge has taken over her life. this goal of hers effectively blinds her to everything around her, and her interpersonal relationships with the other people in her life suffer greatly as a result.
when she falls in with the washington liberation front, she quickly becomes an asset to their organisation. the WLF are locked in perpetual battle with an opposing cult named the seraphites (referred to primarily as 'the scars' by the WLF), and abby quickly becomes the WLF's 'top scar killer' while she is with them. this fact is mentioned numerous by other characters in front of her, but it isn't something she appears to take pride in. her general indifference toward her faction and friends gives the impression that she is drifting through life, waiting for any information that will get her a step closer to her father's murderer.
ultimately, she does get the chance to be alone in the room with him, and though she takes it without hesitation (including throwing all caution to the wind and putting herself in extreme danger to do so), killing joel miller grants her no satisfaction. for years abby has acted as if killing joel will flip a switch on her childhood trauma and make everything okay for her again. it doesn't. she doesn't know how to deal with this outcome. she still has nightmares of discovering her father's dead body. her personal relationships are in tatters and her friends are wary of her after witnessing the extent of the brutal, sadistic violence she couldn't help enacting upon joel. she is purposeless, and depressed, and now has to deal with the reality of the cold, blunt, sarcastic person she's been slowly becoming for years now.
she is quick to choose violence, and is completely unapologetic about hurting other people in order to clear a path between herself and her objective. she shows little remorse when killing seraphites, even going as far as to remark on their lifestyle choices even though she has no understanding of their personal circumstances ("if you want your family safe, maybe don't join a death cult?"); she's incredibly judgmental, when she wants to be. and when she's frustrated she defaults to violent threats, even when it's clear that she's joking ("how about i work my foot up your ass?", "fuck danny! i'm jealous owen got to shoot him before i did."). she's been born into a cruel, and violent world, and it shows.
thanks in part to this, she is scraping the bottom of the self-esteem barrel. after being forced to face the consequences of killing joel, abby is very forcibly made to realise just how terrible a person she has been both to her close-knit group of friends, and in general. she has loose morals, and often throws herself behind decisions without thought for any negative outcomse; this includes sleeping with an old flame who is already in another relationship. one of her friends, mel, tells her very succulently that she is a "piece of shit"; abby tears up in response to this, and it is clear that she does value what other people think of her.
in a similar vein, she is also reluctant to accept that other characters think she is a good person, hides the fact that she has tortured people to death before when asked about it, and clearly harbours guilt for the way that her actions have affected other people. she was so blinded by her quest for revenge that she hardly noticed any of it happening, and now she has to deal with the fallout.
she starts to find herself again through helping other people. after being knocked out and kidnapped by the seraphites, two apostates save her from being murdered and she falls in with them almost immediately. yara and lev are two children that have defected from the seraphites, and though initially abby pretends as if she is only helping to repay them for saving her (and to alleviate her own general guilt and "lighten the load") it steadily becomes clear that she is doing it out of the goodness of her heart, and because she wants to help.
after leaving the two of them to fend for themselves, she ends up having a nightmare about the two of them being killed, and hastens back to find them again so she can help them get to safety. yara, in particular, is badly injured, and abby immediately volunteers herself to travel to a heavily guarded hospital to fetch specific medical supplies. travelling to the hospital involves crossing a series of 'sky bridges', that plays heavily on abby's acrophobia, but she is determined to get there so that her and lev can save yara's life. and they do. this all has a very positive impact on her, completely defanging her usual nightmare that night and changing it into something far more hopeful. it's clear that she's attempting to heal.
abby is trying to learn to be a better person. she selflessly defends both yara and lev, cultivating in her physically interposing herself between her boss isaac and the later in order to keep him from harm. she tells lev that "you're my people" to indicate how close she feels to him, and the two of them develop an incredibly tight knit bond, with abby completely determined to protect him in any and all instances. when they are attacked by the rattlers toward the end of the game, even as she is being wrestled to the ground she's furiously screaming for them not to touch lev. her first thought is always dedicated to his safety.
lev and yara get to witness the slow, but steady emergence of abby's true nature. she loves to joke around (badly, according to some), and she has a quick wit and dry sense of humour. she loves to tease people, and gently make fun of them to indicate her closeness to them. something else that starts to come through her interactions with lev is her willingness to show affection ("lev, come here! i'm gonna hug you.") and to accept it in return. she's also very hopeful for somebody who lives in in a zombie apocalypse, relentlessly pursuing the fireflies with lev up and down the west coast, following every single lead she receives through to its conclusion.
at the canon-point she is from, she has had her bulk starved out of her by the rattlers, who held her and lev hostage in santa barbara for months and forced into slave labour by them. when ellie throws down with her at the beach she's a shadow of her former self, with hair cut messily short, and her body radically altered by the effects of emaciation and severe sunburn. it makes her move differently, it changes the way that she fights, and the way that she views herself. before, she dedicated her body to a pointless revenge quest, and now she is finding out who she is and what she looks like in the wake of having finally broken the cycle of violence and obsession.
CRAU: N/A
SPECIES: human
APPEARANCE: one, two (far right). not pictured: she's four months past this point, so she's just starting to fill back out and regain the weight she lost in santa barbara.
SKILLS: abby is highly trained in marksmanship and other general survival skills, as well as boasting an well above-average level of hand-to-hand combat training. she is proficient across a wide array of weapon types (handgun, pistol; crossbrow, flamethrower), and she's comprised of pure muscle, and used to lifting heavy weights. she prefers to bring the pain but can also go stealth, and take opponents out in seconds with well placed chokeholds. she has fast reflexes, and good reaction times, and is used to being resourceful with her surroundings, including scavenging and reusing materials for crafting purposes.
NEW POWER: telekinetic push/pull. at its entry level, she would only be able to move things in a small radius of herself, and the kinetic force behind the movement would be weak. upon improvement, like working a muscle, the kinetic force would eventually grow stronger, and her range would increase. it would also start to have an effect on people the more she worked with it.
POWER REASONING: she's lost the bulk of her physical strength, so i think it would be interesting if she regained that strength elsewhere, especially since it would alter the relationship that she has with her body.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: scrappin'
SAMPLE TWO: parentin'
NAME: c
PRONOUNS: they/them
AGE: 29
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> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: abby anderson
CANON: the last of us part ii
AGE: twenty-three
CANON POINT: four months post-game
HISTORY: here
PERSONALITY: the first thing you notice about abby anderson is the size of her; one character in the game describes her as "built like an ox" in order to effectively identify her to somebody else. it's a description well deserved: abby spent five years of her life working out physically, and building herself up in response to the murder of her father, and her desire to serve justice to the man who killed him. her physique is indicative of how her desire for revenge has taken over her life. this goal of hers effectively blinds her to everything around her, and her interpersonal relationships with the other people in her life suffer greatly as a result.
when she falls in with the washington liberation front, she quickly becomes an asset to their organisation. the WLF are locked in perpetual battle with an opposing cult named the seraphites (referred to primarily as 'the scars' by the WLF), and abby quickly becomes the WLF's 'top scar killer' while she is with them. this fact is mentioned numerous by other characters in front of her, but it isn't something she appears to take pride in. her general indifference toward her faction and friends gives the impression that she is drifting through life, waiting for any information that will get her a step closer to her father's murderer.
ultimately, she does get the chance to be alone in the room with him, and though she takes it without hesitation (including throwing all caution to the wind and putting herself in extreme danger to do so), killing joel miller grants her no satisfaction. for years abby has acted as if killing joel will flip a switch on her childhood trauma and make everything okay for her again. it doesn't. she doesn't know how to deal with this outcome. she still has nightmares of discovering her father's dead body. her personal relationships are in tatters and her friends are wary of her after witnessing the extent of the brutal, sadistic violence she couldn't help enacting upon joel. she is purposeless, and depressed, and now has to deal with the reality of the cold, blunt, sarcastic person she's been slowly becoming for years now.
she is quick to choose violence, and is completely unapologetic about hurting other people in order to clear a path between herself and her objective. she shows little remorse when killing seraphites, even going as far as to remark on their lifestyle choices even though she has no understanding of their personal circumstances ("if you want your family safe, maybe don't join a death cult?"); she's incredibly judgmental, when she wants to be. and when she's frustrated she defaults to violent threats, even when it's clear that she's joking ("how about i work my foot up your ass?", "fuck danny! i'm jealous owen got to shoot him before i did."). she's been born into a cruel, and violent world, and it shows.
thanks in part to this, she is scraping the bottom of the self-esteem barrel. after being forced to face the consequences of killing joel, abby is very forcibly made to realise just how terrible a person she has been both to her close-knit group of friends, and in general. she has loose morals, and often throws herself behind decisions without thought for any negative outcomse; this includes sleeping with an old flame who is already in another relationship. one of her friends, mel, tells her very succulently that she is a "piece of shit"; abby tears up in response to this, and it is clear that she does value what other people think of her.
in a similar vein, she is also reluctant to accept that other characters think she is a good person, hides the fact that she has tortured people to death before when asked about it, and clearly harbours guilt for the way that her actions have affected other people. she was so blinded by her quest for revenge that she hardly noticed any of it happening, and now she has to deal with the fallout.
she starts to find herself again through helping other people. after being knocked out and kidnapped by the seraphites, two apostates save her from being murdered and she falls in with them almost immediately. yara and lev are two children that have defected from the seraphites, and though initially abby pretends as if she is only helping to repay them for saving her (and to alleviate her own general guilt and "lighten the load") it steadily becomes clear that she is doing it out of the goodness of her heart, and because she wants to help.
after leaving the two of them to fend for themselves, she ends up having a nightmare about the two of them being killed, and hastens back to find them again so she can help them get to safety. yara, in particular, is badly injured, and abby immediately volunteers herself to travel to a heavily guarded hospital to fetch specific medical supplies. travelling to the hospital involves crossing a series of 'sky bridges', that plays heavily on abby's acrophobia, but she is determined to get there so that her and lev can save yara's life. and they do. this all has a very positive impact on her, completely defanging her usual nightmare that night and changing it into something far more hopeful. it's clear that she's attempting to heal.
abby is trying to learn to be a better person. she selflessly defends both yara and lev, cultivating in her physically interposing herself between her boss isaac and the later in order to keep him from harm. she tells lev that "you're my people" to indicate how close she feels to him, and the two of them develop an incredibly tight knit bond, with abby completely determined to protect him in any and all instances. when they are attacked by the rattlers toward the end of the game, even as she is being wrestled to the ground she's furiously screaming for them not to touch lev. her first thought is always dedicated to his safety.
lev and yara get to witness the slow, but steady emergence of abby's true nature. she loves to joke around (badly, according to some), and she has a quick wit and dry sense of humour. she loves to tease people, and gently make fun of them to indicate her closeness to them. something else that starts to come through her interactions with lev is her willingness to show affection ("lev, come here! i'm gonna hug you.") and to accept it in return. she's also very hopeful for somebody who lives in in a zombie apocalypse, relentlessly pursuing the fireflies with lev up and down the west coast, following every single lead she receives through to its conclusion.
at the canon-point she is from, she has had her bulk starved out of her by the rattlers, who held her and lev hostage in santa barbara for months and forced into slave labour by them. when ellie throws down with her at the beach she's a shadow of her former self, with hair cut messily short, and her body radically altered by the effects of emaciation and severe sunburn. it makes her move differently, it changes the way that she fights, and the way that she views herself. before, she dedicated her body to a pointless revenge quest, and now she is finding out who she is and what she looks like in the wake of having finally broken the cycle of violence and obsession.
CRAU: N/A
SPECIES: human
APPEARANCE: one, two (far right). not pictured: she's four months past this point, so she's just starting to fill back out and regain the weight she lost in santa barbara.
SKILLS: abby is highly trained in marksmanship and other general survival skills, as well as boasting an well above-average level of hand-to-hand combat training. she is proficient across a wide array of weapon types (handgun, pistol; crossbrow, flamethrower), and she's comprised of pure muscle, and used to lifting heavy weights. she prefers to bring the pain but can also go stealth, and take opponents out in seconds with well placed chokeholds. she has fast reflexes, and good reaction times, and is used to being resourceful with her surroundings, including scavenging and reusing materials for crafting purposes.
NEW POWER: telekinetic push/pull. at its entry level, she would only be able to move things in a small radius of herself, and the kinetic force behind the movement would be weak. upon improvement, like working a muscle, the kinetic force would eventually grow stronger, and her range would increase. it would also start to have an effect on people the more she worked with it.
POWER REASONING: she's lost the bulk of her physical strength, so i think it would be interesting if she regained that strength elsewhere, especially since it would alter the relationship that she has with her body.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: scrappin'
SAMPLE TWO: parentin'