[ooc;] about

Carol Peletier

You said I could survive. You were right.

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Name: Carol Peletier

Age: late 40s

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

history

CHARACTER HISTORY

personality

The most fearsome and respected warrior of post-zombie-apocalypse Virginia is an unlikely person. Quiet, accommodating, unassuming to a fault, Carol hardly stands out in a crowd. Unless she wants to, that is. And when she wants to, it's usually because somebody needs to die.

She wasn't always like this. Before the apocalypse, her life was dominated by the ever-present threat of abuse. First as a child, at the hands of her parents. And later at the hands of her husband, Ed. She developed some coping mechanisms in order to survive, coping mechanisms that would ultimately, and unexpectedly, save her during the zombie apocalypse. Her ability to move throughout a house in almost complete silence, take what she needs from supplies without being noticed, treat minor injuries from cuts and bruises to dislocated joints, and to read a person's mood and turn herself into whatever it is they expect from her all stem from this. As well as the thing that would ultimately prove unsustainable: her ability to make herself stop feeling emotions in a crisis.

Her husband's death led to the first time in her life she was not constantly coping with the threat of violence at the hands of her family. What followed was a period of searching for her identity in an apocalypse that suddenly was somehow better for her than her life before. What emerged is a thoughtful woman with a steel core and the ability to do the hard, ugly, painful things necessary to ensure her own survival and the survival of those she loves.

When the time comes to act she is ruthless, acting without hesitation to hurt or kill whoever she needs to. She is calculating and resourceful. Fully aware of her disadvantage in size, Carol utilizes the advantage of surprise to its fullest extent. She is able to move without detection with ease, a habit formed out of her troubled past. She also is consistently underestimated by those who don't know her, something she makes no effort to overcome as it is a vital tool. Resources are scarce, but she is creative. She will use whatever is at her disposal, from fire crackers to stop signs, to accomplish what she needs to.

But all this violence, from frantic self-defense to cold-blooded murder, has taken its toll. She still has the instinct to act first and clean up the mess after, but she is aware how much it has damaged her psyche. The number of lives she has taken keeps climbing. After the death of her daughter, Sophia, led to the loss of her faith, she is very short on ways to try to cope with her PTSD. Her instinct is to isolate herself, to flee, to retreat into solitude. And, at its worst, expose herself to violence and pain as a self-inflicted punishment.

Her fierce protection of those she loves and the toll it takes on her resulted in a kind of aloofness. She is very hesitant to love, because she knows she will kill for the people she loves. And the smaller that number of loved ones is, the less often she has to kill. It is a straightforward kind of logic. One she's not as good at keeping to as she wants to be. Despite her best efforts, she finds herself drawn to children, especially the ones that remind her of her softhearted daughter, who died of a zombie bite after being separated from her. Or those, like Daryl Dixon, who have known a world as harsh as hers but still have a good heart. Something she does not believe she herself managed to do.

abilities

Expert:

• improvised weaponry with particular talent in explosives
• hand-to-hand combat
• stealth

Advanced:

• first aid
• gun training

Proficient:

• marksmanship
• hunter
• midwife

Very Good:

• home cook with special talent in substitution and improvisation in baking

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