"Abe was mopping floors and stuff like that, but he also served as the midwife because the cattle business needed people that could help deliver a difficult birthing [...] he would just have this way with animals where he could comfort them and he would name them all, even though they just had tags and numbers, he would name them all and he would develop relationships with them. But he never wanted to see the slaughter end of the factory. So he actually loved his job, and he lived in a deep denial of what was actually happening.
There's a painting that Raymond Swanland had done where Abe's-- it shows him coming back with the tag of one of his friends that had been slaughtered, and then he comes back to his cell and when he hangs it on the wall [...] And then you see there's thousands of these tags on the walls, that Abe has written a name on top of this number. It'd just be, to me just kind of devastating, just heartbreaking. And so he's just a figure that's kind of figuring out, his plight was, "I can only make so much difference. At least I can bring these animals some comfort in times of need," and I feel really passionate about hoping to tell that story in greater detail someday."
-Lorne Lanning, DiscOdd Chat Episode 1: Creating Oddworld