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Anastasia Hope | SgtoSeryei

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Character Name
Anastasia Hope

I Agree
Yes

Has this character appeared in a previous lore?
No

Age
36

Blood Type
A+

Personality
Afable, diligent and conciliatory, Ana tries for everyone to stay in peace and get along yet she is not blind nor deaf. Personally distant and evasive but not impenetrable, she prefers to keep her feelings for herself. She is unlikely to be the first to initiate an arguement or a fight but there is exceptions. On the other hand, this kind of personality can be seen as the typical person that does not want to dirt their hands - and might as well be true -, as well as an enjoyable but lonely person.

Character Motivations
Make it so her survival is not a meaningless task, but one of purpose and self-recovery.

Physical Appearance
Her hair is getting uncolored after so many time travelling under the sun, this might make her look a bit older. Her asian features are obvious but she speaks english perfectly fine - because she is adopted -. Black but slightly blue-ish hair usually in a bun, brown eyes and a round-ish jaw along with marked cheeks complete here face. As for her body, she is slim and trained yet not muscle.

Character Image Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12D--Fvy6NQwwhUlXnxEhGYQVmjjeoQv9/view?usp=sharing

Mechanical Occupation
Nurse

In-Character Occupation
STA ( Sanitary Transport Assistant )

Biography
Anastasia was adopted by a sterile couple when she was almost a newborn. She had a normal childhood in a country town of Pennsylvania. When she turned 18 she coursed a career of nursing as well as two grades in emergency attendant while working as a nurse. She moved to Harrisburg to work as STA ( Sanitary Transport Assistant).
The day it all began she was working the same as many persons. The emergency calls were already abnormal the day before and during the dusk turn, when her turn was two hours left from beginning. But Anastasia and her team, as well as all the personnel - on break days or not - were called due to the missing or wounded personal and the rising income of emergency calls.
As soon as they arrived at the hospital, they saw the situation wasn’t good; it was filled with injured people, soldiers and sanitary personal with hazmat suits, as well as a good bunch of bodies in the parkings, where the isolation camps of the army for the infected people were. But still they jumped into one of the recently freed ambulances, the transport part already bloody, and tried to help as many people as they could… which didn’t last much.
They successfully brought a kid who had been bitten with his mother to the hospital and Ana could see how the soldiers separated the boy from his mother and dragged him into one of the fenced camps. The worst part happened when the mother escaped the hold of the soldier who was keeping her from going after her son… she was shot from the back like a dog in front of her child. This image has been in Anastasia’s nightmares since.
Little time had to cry for what she saw when a truck rammed the ambulance in a cross. Her two co-workers died that day inside the ambulance. She was in the back part, and so thats why she saved her life; the hit was in the front part and almost teared apart the vehicle. Anastasia fell unconscious though and when she woke up in the night, the whole situation was even worse.
Walkers were everywhere outside so she was basically trapped in the wrecked ambulance. She stayed in it three days, feeding from serum and a little bag of snacks one of her companions brought with him, she even filled a plastic bag with a bunch of medical supplies for when there was an opportunity. She even watched how a woman transformated when she got caught in the middle of the cross, trying to run from a horde with a broken ankle. Which is another of the images she will never take out of her head.
After three days, a dense rain over her in a dark night after the electricity in that neighbourhood disappeared, she saw her chance and went for it. Surprisingly, she made it through relying on her nursing experience to be sneaky and reached her home at the outside part of the city.
Once there she found one of the windows was broken but she couldn’t tell where it led due to an increasing emergency feeling. She was still unarmed, so she came in through the garage and grabbed a wrench. When she came into the living room she found out the window that turned into pieces leaded to the lower level bathroom, so she moved a near sideboard to block the door. A fast check revealed to her there was no other broken windows, which calmed her slightly.
She first went to the phone to check any messages while going through the house searching for her girlfriend. There was three of them, so she took the phone and went to the kitchen to drink some water, trying to calm herself given there was no one else in the house. After that she curled up in a ball, in the corner between the sink and the oven, and listened to the messages, muttering the sound of the phone all she could; ‘First message, 14th April, 8:37am; Good morning honey.. ehh I.. I’m sorry for yesterday. I really shouldn’t try to convince you to skip work and stay in my home… I know your work is important for you, so I also shouldn’t have said.. it is a shit of work, I’m so sorry. Just.. call me if you are still there ok? Things are pretty messed up outside with this illness and, well, I’m worried about you. Second message, 14th April, 9:56am; Thank God, finally! Hope, where are you? Honey please, try to call me as soon as you can, there is shots out there and.. those things... Jeez is horrible.. just call me ok? I hope you are safe… Third message, 15th April, 10:13pm; Sweetie… I’m alone. My flatmates are.. dead. All of them. My parents doesn’t pick the phone.. my brother doesn’t reply my messages.. I-I may be even sending this message for nothing but.. I’m coming to your house, if you are still there. I need to know if.. if you are ok or.. I’m gonna go, I hope to see you there, and if.. if I don’t make it… look in the interior pocket of your leather jacket.. I placed a ring in it. I was going to propose but.. yeah well, I guess marriage is not a thing to worry about now... I love you..’.
When the last message ended, and only then, she realised she was crying silently and gripping the wrench with strength. But then.. the bathroom. Maybe she was inside! Maybe she was alright and just arrived! Anastasia, feeling a renovated energy burst going through her body, got up and ran to the furniture she placed in from of it.
But when she pulled it with all her energy, it made noise.. and a second after, clumsy hits began to be heard at the other side. Ana lost all of that sudden energy and began to cry again… she couldn’t be her, not her.. and so, she opened the door and stepped back. She needed to know if her beloved was in there. A brief thought told her that is exactly how her girlfriend felt, what impulsed her to risk her life to check on her.
And there she was, her girlfriend.. turned. With tears in her eyes, her legs shaking and a hard grip in the wrench, she muttered I love you.. and hit with all the strength she could gather.
During the rest of the apocalypse, she has been going through groups and communities, trying to find a place in the new world. She has been travelling the territories of the CPF and eventually made it to The Barrens, where she would come across Monroe. She sees little future for a settlement in such a territory, but she might be wrong. In fact she wants to be proven wrong and maybe that is the reason why she has been sticking around for two weeks now, offering medical services and trading.

Would you like your character to start with any items?
A marriage ring and a medikit.

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No
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Heya, SgtoSeryei! I've reviewed your application and it's accepted!

Here's your login info:
Username: Anastasia Hope
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If you have any questions, feel free to respond and ask. Thanks!
SgtoSeryei

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Thank you! ^-^