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PLAYER

Name: c
Age: 29
Contact: blisters
Other Characters: n/a
Interests: i'm interested in my character getting to learn how this new world she's found herself in works, taking part in action involving magic that will sort of nerf her combat experience, and varied cr. plus i've played all the dragon age games but it's been a while so i'm looking forward to digging back into this setting.

CHARACTER

Name: abby anderson
Canon/OC: the last of us part ii
Canon Point: after the confrontation, seattle day 3
Journal: armd
Age: 22

Canon World

abby is from planet earth as we know it bar one huge difference: in 2013, a type of fungus known as the cordyceps brain infection mutates somewhere in south american crops and proceeds to successfully infect a human for the first time. within two days of infection, the cordyceps causes its host to lose higher brain function, leaving them hyper-aggressive, and incapable of rational thought. within two weeks of the initial infection, fungus begins to grow and alter their sight. we would call them 'zombies', but abby's world refers to them as 'the infected'.

it only takes months for the breakdown of society to overwhelm america, and kill off a large amount of the world's population. abby was born roughly 2017-2018, and grows up in a post-apocalyptic america where people have had to go back to their roots in order to survive. the world itself is abandoned, and broken up (bombed in some places, in attempts to contain infection), and steadily returning to nature.

by the time abby is an adult, most major states are 'run' by their own groups of people, who sometimes engage in turf wars over the land and resources available; a revolutionary militia group called the fireflies are working toward a vaccine to save humanity. paramilitary organisations such as the washington liberation front in seattle are locked in an endless power struggle for control of the area. small settlements of survivors such as the people who live in jackson county in wyoming are trying to recreate a facsimile of 'the old world' before the outbreak happened. offshoot groups also exist, such as the old-world aligned, aggressive cult known as the seraphites, and a pack of violent slavers named the rattlers.

the most important thing is that you know how to survive. if you don't know how/are ill prepared to fight and kill the infected, you don't go outside. even if you can maneuver the infected, your fellow humans don't trust easy. some even go so far as to trap and kill unsuspecting people who wander into their territory. overall vibe: every man for themselves.

History

• abby anderson is raised with the fireflies. her dad, jerry anderson, is a surgeon helping the group develop a vaccine for the cordyceps infection
• jerry is shot and killed by joel miller. abby discovers her father's body, and she decides that she's going to find joel, and take revenge on him.
• the fireflies disband. abby and her friends join the washington liberation front in seattle, and abby dedicates herself to the task of hunting down joel.
• a tip off brings her to jackson, wyoming. she finds and sadistically tortures joel until ellie williams breaks into their hideout, and then she kills him in front of her.
• outside of the wlf's turf, abby is caught by seraphites. they attempt to kill her but she is saved by two apostates, lev and yara. the three of them work together to get to safety.
• abby initially leaves them both behind, but swiftly goes back for them and helps them to safety. they make plans to amputate yara's compounded arm, but they don't have any of the necessary supplies.
• abby and lev set off to an old hospital across the city. along the way they make use of the seraphite's sky bridges to get there faster, and abby is forced to deal with her phobia of heights.
• in the rundown hospital (ground zero for seattle's particular outbreak), abby encounters a gigantic fusion of infected, that she fights and manages to kill singlehandedly. her and lev return to the aquarium, and save yara.
• lev runs away back to the seraphite island, and yara and abby chase him. they get him back, but yara is killed in the process, and upon returning to the aquarium, abby discovers that mel and owen have been murdered.
• she tracks ellie back to the theater. she kills jesse, and severely wounds tommy. ellie and abby fight, but abby decides to spare her and dina when lev calls her name. abby leaves with lev, to chase rumours of fireflies.
• in santa barbara, abby and lev are caught by the rattlers, who enslave them for months. an escape attempt leads them to be strung up on pillars to starve to death but ellie finds them instead, and cuts them down.
• ellie forces abby to engage her by threatening lev's life. they fight to the death. ellie nearly kills abby, but spares her at the last second, and abby escapes with lev in a boat.
• it is implied that they arrive safely on catalina island, where the fireflies were last rumoured to be.

link to wiki entry.

Personality

abby is a determined, hardened person; she was born into a cruel and violent world, and it shows. she has loose morals, a temper, and she's quick to throw herself behind rash decisions without thought for any negative outcomes. seeking revenge for what happened to her dad grants her tunnel vision that keeps her from acknowledging the rest of her life for six odd years. her body itself is a physical indicator of how deep that obsession ran.

she has a guilty conscience that typically manifests in violent nightmares. she cries when a close friend tells her she's a piece of shit. she hides the fact that she has tortured people to death when asked about it. abby doesn't have a high opinion of herself; she knows her actions are wrong, that she's done terrible things, and that she's a bad person. she is struggling to get herself out of a hole she didn't even realise she was digging.

deep down she can be selfless. she is brave, and protective. she essentially adopts lev the moment she realises he needs her, and she dedicates her first thought to his safety in every scenario. he makes her affectionate side come out; she threatens to hug him at one point. it's clear by the way that she interacts with him that she longs to be easy, familiar, and playful with the people she likes. she teases lev, cracks bad jokes, and can be outright goofy at times.

abby is also a very hopeful person for somebody who lives in a zombie apocalypse, though she's quick to hide that behind layers of sarcasm. she's been hurt very badly in her life, but she still maintains a sense of wishful thinking, and dedication to whatever she's set her sights on.

Strengths & Weaknesses

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, and likes to 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.

while she can juggernaut her way through most situations, this comes at the cost of being very noticeable and loud. she doesn't suit stealth, and her violent, eager style of fighting attracts attention. she also has a phobia of heights, and would find it very difficult to engage with scenarios that require her to be up high or in the air. she has no magical abilities of any kind, which puts her at a natural disadvantage against any antagonistic force using magic against her. she's a tank, and can take a couple good solid hits and keep going but she has no experience with wearing armour or defensive clothing.

outside of combat scenario she's good at climbing, she knows how to jump, can ride horses, drive cars and boats and probably trucks. she's very well-read and she likes classical music and she has above average medical knowledge thanks to growing up around doctors.

Suggested Nerfs

n/a

Arrival Inventory

abby typically dreams of herself as a teenager, as most of her nightmares mould themselves to fit the memory of her finding her father's body in the abandoned firefly hospital at salt lake. all she ever has on her at the time is a handgun. i'd like her arrival inventory to be similar, except obviously i want her to be her current, twenty-two year old self instead of fifteen/sixteen.

• handgun (loaded)
• clothes on her back

Humanization

she's just a regular ol' human!

Fit

abby's a survivor. she's used to adapting to situations swiftly even if the fit is clunky, and i'm interested in her learning how to iron things out around her as she becomes more settled. she's spent the last six or so years keeping extremely physically fit so she can go out and murder things with her bare hands too, so i'm interested in trying to steer her away from that and into something a little calmer, where she has time to breathe and think and not resort to violence as a first option. also, i love playing abby. she's fun to write because she's got complex morality and depending on how much she's said about her past to other people they may think she's only a hardened survivor, or know that she's a cold-blooded murderer. there's so much to work with in her story.

(also, i'd be remiss to leave out that obviously she's going to clash abruptly and negatively with ellie, and anybody who ellie considers to be a friend. and that's going to be really fun to navigate! ellie's been having way too good a time around here and i'm going to do something about it)

SAMPLES

one, two.