i was cheated by you, and i think you know when ( she’s talkin to god btw )
LILY JAMES : CISFEMALE ! that’s just cage, ophelia - the twenty-five year old from the mill. she has been a member for three months and works as a medic. i heard she’s been dubbed the lost soul because she’s skillful & empathetic, but if you look a bit closer, they’re also worrisome & private. wild baby’s breath, worn down books, hand stitched embroidery, & old tree swings are usually associated with her, but you’ll also hear them humming BABY MINE by betty noyes, so be on the lookout for those signs.
HI I’M BEA ( twenty big ones, she/her ) back at it again with the subpar characters and below average writing ability. i hope you enjoy my newest bab, ophelia. she is an actual human angel™️ but she is very sad at present so please handle with care. cont. reading to learn more and hmu if you wanna plot with her !!!!
iM SO SORRY THIS IS SO LONG god i don’t blame u if you don’t read it all lol just skip to the end.
ok so where do we begin. like it is with many, it is often hard for ophelia to remember life before the outbreak. fifteen years is a long time to be living in a never ending circle of hell, especially when you were only ten when it started
she grew up in anchorage. her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse. they met at work & fell in love. a tale as old as time, but unfortunately these two didn’t get time to live happily ever after
when the outbreak happened, they didn’t flee. her parents both wanted to stay in the city and help. they both worked in a clinic that was set up in a stadium. ophelia tagged along, always assisting her parents whenever she could. she picked up a lot, and by the time she was in her twenties, she was as close to a full fledged nurse as she could be without a degree.
when she was about sixteen, a team of doctors was requested for a rescue mission in the city center- one of the most dangerous places in the area. a school being used as a safe house had been overtaken by the infection and they needed people to assist with search and rescue and provide immediate medical attention. her father volunteered when no one else stepped forward. he kissed her goodbye, went off, and never returned.
one day, around year fourteen, a patient came in. he was barely conscious and looked awful. luckily he wasn’t infected- no bites, but he had suffered a nasty fall. with enough care and treatment, he miraculously lived. ophelia was assigned to his bed, and she visited him often to check up, change his bandages, and bring him rations.
the more time they spent together, the more they took a liking to each other. she didn’t have many friends, a few other nurses she got along with, her mother, but people came and went so often. but this guy, max, was different. he was taken with her, and the feeling was quite mutual.
after he fully recovered, he stuck around the hospital. he volunteered, taking in shipments of supplies, helping where he could. mostly, he just wanted to be near ophelia, and she certainly didn’t mind. dare she say, they were in love, and despite the world crumbling around her, she’d never been happier.
eventually, she found out she was pregnant. though she was nothing but terrified, having max eased her anxiety. she knew they could manage it, together.
however, her bubble was soon shattered when the clinic became invaded by the infected. runners broke in, patients unable to save themselves were left vulnerable. the alarms went off, the stadium was to be locked down to contain the outbreak - no one in or out. max grabbed ophelia and pulled her through the crowd, she screamed for her mother but it was barely audible through the shrieks of the others around them. the gates were closing and everyone was desperate for escape. max pulled her through, slipping through a side passage and out the gate before it could close and they didn’t stop running until they were as far from the stadium as possible.
they spent the next few days searching for her mother. she didn’t want to stop looking, she needed to find her, to know she was alright. but they never did. to this day, she isn’t sure if she ever made it out, but she doesn’t have high hopes.
they decided they needed to leave the city. it was getting far too dangerous. there had always been talk around the clinic of a town not far off, a society- settlements. it was perhaps the closest place to go with some sort of order, some sort of safety. she didn’t want to leave, she couldn’t leave without knowing what happened to her mom, but deep down, she knew she had to go. now she had something she had to protect.
they started the journey to soldotna. they found a group that took them across the arm for a pretty penny. they were left with basically nothing, and trecked on towards the settlement.
they were both tough, and smart, but ophelia had never been out like this before. she always stayed at the stadium, she rarely ventured out into the city, and never into the wild open air. she didn’t really know how to handle herself, and she was always on edge.
a few days into their journey, they came upon a group of stalkers. with nothing to protect themselves, they were left with no choice but to run. but the stalkers were fast & ophelia and max were weak with exhaustion and hunger. they tried to get away but they were no match. max pushed her ahead, yelling at her to go as he pulled back, letting the stalkers overtake him. she screamed, looking back at her beloved being eaten alive. she wanted to run towards him, to help him, to save him. but she knew she couldn’t. she couldn’t think of herself anymore, of what she wanted. she could no longer care for herself, but only for her child.
she ran, she ran and she cried and she didn’t let herself stop moving until her legs couldn’t carry her anymore. she was scared and alone, but she kept on going. eventually, she reached soldotna. it was the mill she found first. she was starving, dirty, and ragged. all she could mutter when she reached the outskirts was that she was pregnant. they took her in, and as soon as she was cleaned and fed she threw herself into work, promising to make herself useful as a thank you for the settlement’s kindness
ever since, ophelia has been loyal to the mill. she has been around for a little over three months, and is now well into her second trimester and creeping up on her third. it’s a bit of work eating for two in an apocalyptic world and constantly working with a small human draining all your energy but she refuses to slow down. she thinks if she does, she’ll die.
she’s lost herself. the girl with the golden hair that was once filled with energy, hope, and light. the girl max loved, she died with him. she feels a darkness glooming over her, but she tries to stay positive for her little one, despite how unexcited she is to bring a child into such a cruel world
connections
im so bad at these im sorry
maybe someone who found her when she first came to the mill, someone she’s sort of bonded with or always felt indebted too??
some friends !!! to make her feel !!! less sad all the time !!!
some cute fluffy stuff would be 👀nice idk
maybe someone she knew in anchorage that also happens to be here? someone that came through the clinic?
im down for family connections! maybe a cousin she hasn’t seen in years? heck i could even write a sibling into her backstory
im so sorry if this has typos lol










