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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Abby Anderson
Canon: The Last of Us Part II
Canon Point: 2425 Constance

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Across the back of her shoulder blades
Current Health/Status: Alive
Age: 22
Species: Human

Content Warnings: Extreme violence, murder, zombies, torture, animal death, body horror (relative to the zombies), religious cults, hanging imagery

History: Abby on The Last of Us Wiki

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 four 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 personal 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 called the Seraphites (or the Scars, by the WLF), and Abby quickly becomes the WLF's 'top Scar killer' while she is with them. This fact is mentioned a few times 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 trauma and make everything okay for her again. It doesn't. 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 enacted upon Joel. She is purposeless, and depressed, and now has to deal with the cold, blunt, sarcastic persona she's been building up around herself for years.

Thanks in part to this, she is now really scraping the bottom of the self-esteem barrel. After being forced to face the consequences of getting to kill 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. One of her friends, Mel, tells her very succulently that she is a "piece of shit"; Abby tears up in response to this. She is also very 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, it steadily becomes clear that she is doing it out of the goodness of her heart.

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. That evening, Abby has a dream in which she sees her father turn around to smile at her.

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.

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. 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.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: Abby is stronger than your average woman in her early twenties, but aside from that she is a regular human, and has no special powers or abilities to speak of
Inventory: 1) gas mask, 2) framed photograph of her father, 3) hammer, 4) firefly pendant, 5) pocketful of quarters, 6) outfit (black tank top, dark green cargo pants, brown boots, black WLF emblazoned jacket).

Writing Samples: One & two!

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: c
Player Age: 28
Player Contact: blisters 

Other Characters In Game: N/A
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Abby Anderson: c
Permissions for Character: Here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes!
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: To match the canon I'm apping from: I love survival horror tropes, and zombie stories! I also really love women in the horror genre, and the various ways in which female characters react to whatever scenario they've landed themselves in. Huge fan of Final Girls for this reason also
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Sexual violence
Additional Information: N/A