TRIGGER WARNING: Mention of death, depression, pain.
Hey there all you lovely people! I’m Zo and this little cutie pie is Vanessa. So here’s a it about her. There’s nothing much, but I hope you’ll still get the general idea. I mostly like to develop my character while roleplaying, love to see her grow and all.
Her name is Vanessa, but she likes to go by Nessa.
But don’t call her Nessy, that’s how her parents used to call that, and it would just make her wince in pain hearing that. Why? Read the next bulletin.
Just a little bit more than five months ago, right before she joined the resistance, a group of robots broke into her home while her family was having dinner, demanded her family to hand over their children (Nessa and her younger brother) to enslave the kids for the robots’ own needs, their parents resisted, argued, but the robots didn’t listen, shot them right on the spot and took both of them, but on their way to the main base of the robots they managed to escape.
They ran for hours in the dead of night over fields, through the woods, they had no idea where they were and where they were running to, but they were sure of one thing - they had to keep moving.
When they were completely out of breath and couldn’t go any further, they stopped to catch a breath, but they were so exhausted that they fell asleep.
When they woke up it was too late, the robots had found them, they tried to run, but her brother got shot in the back and fell unconscious. Nessa was devastated, she didn’t want to leave him behind, but she couldn’t stay either - then her family’s sacrifice would be for nothing, so she disappeared into the dead of the night.
She wandered for a week, maybe two, she didn’t know, no shower, no proper food, barely had any water, until someone from the resistance camp found her in bad shape, took her in and took good care of her.
For the first few weeks in the camp she didn’t speak a word, still being traumatized from seeing her family killed in front of her eyes (she thinks her brother is dead too, but he’s alive, captured by the robots, but he could escape and find himself in the resistance camp and they could meet and it would be such a great plot twist, I’m definitely going to send in a wanted connection to the main).
Since she used to be into latest technology, she studied robots, AI, liked to build her own robotic or just technical toys, invent things before the AI uprising, she found herself spending a lot of time with the mechanics, observing, helping to build and fix things. That’s what brought her back to life, so to say. Gave her will to live, to survive.
Right after the tragedy she hated, despised robots - all of them. It didn’t matter if they were good and helping resistance, protecting humans and all. At first she even had fits of anger where she tried to fight and destroy them, others had to physically drag her away, and all of that left her a sobbing mess.
Now she is used to some robots being good, but she still isn’t okay with them being in the camp.
She also won’t accept help from any robot, she doesn’t trust them.
But all in all she’s her old self now, at least appear to be, but now she’s stronger, more independent.
Nessa used to be very caring and kind, but now she doesn’t want to be that person, because it reminds Nessa of her deceased family and thinking about them hurts so much she can’t take it, so she tries to avoid it as much as she can, although deep down she knows she can never change who she is.
Sorry, it turns out I have quite a lot to say about her! If you want to plot, feel free to IM me! I don’t bite hard. :D
Here are a few connections I’d love to have for her:
the person, who found her wandering around and basically saved her life; - Lennon
the medic, who nursed her back to life;
the first person she befriended and considers now her family;
anything angsty or cute, etc. that popped into your head while reading this post <3
