— while many believe that abigail is an only child because of the way her father acted towards her, what most don’t know is that abby actually had an older brother. it’s a sore subject that she doesn’t like to talk about or linger on, but it’s not hard information to find either. she was only seven when he passed away at the age of sixteen, a car accident with her mother. they were both in critical care for awhile, before her brother passed from his injuries. she doesn’t remember much of him, but when she thinks of tommy, she feels warm.
— ever since the accident, her mother has grown mute and distant. louise was there, but never THERE with them in the moment. a haunted house, a ghost peering through her mother’s eyes. with the death of her son, louise hobbs may as well have died alongside him. eventually she lost her job as a high school english teacher and stayed home, where her body would work on autopilot to cook and clean the house, but never interacting with her husband or daughter.
— after tommy’s death, and abigail was old enough, she would accompany her father on his hunting trips. originally that had been garett and his son’s thing, but abigail felt that she needed to step up to the plate after his untimely death, and to take his place. while she tried, abigail knew she could never fill his shoes no matter what she did. thomas hobbs was their golden child, the one they gushed about at church and told all their friends about. even past his death, and abigail had grown up on her own, she was still compared to him in everything she did.
— despite everything, abigail has never ONCE thought badly of tommy. she loved him, of course she did. he was her big brother that let her do whatever she wanted. while memories of him in the recent years have become fuzzy, and abigail losing her belief in religion, she would pray to him. she would wish for his light, that he was somewhere nice if it existed, and that she missed him. would he forgive her for everything she had done ? would he understand she did it to survive ?