Refresh a dumb bitch about Avalon Roe would you?(me I'm the dumb bitch)
I say she’s a Junior Deputy, but tbh she’s just a Project member elevated to the status of a herald’s beloved.
Avalon was born and raised in Missoula (like Johanna!), was taken out of her abusive home when she was really young, and was put into the care of her aunt/godmother. Avalon was raised in a strict Catholic household, so the idea that a godmother wouldn’t love her or care for her made her obsessively guilty over the idea that God himself couldn’t love her, too. She frequently attended mass and confessions, often inventing ‘sins’ so she could be forgiven. Her Confirmation name is Valentine, after St. Valentine, making her full name Avalon Rachel Valentine Rue. :)
Since her aunt refused to let her go to therapy, she developed a pretty bad drinking habit in her early teens, and after a few years of bad* behavior and run ins withe the law was shipped off to boarding school for a few years. She ran away when she was 18, hitched a ride back to Missoula, and sort of bummed around until she was 21. On her way to work one day (at a florist) she meets someone handing out fliers for Eden’s Gate, and she becomes instantly fixed on its promises and potential. She heads back to Hope County with them (effectively losing her job in the process), and is really hopeful that they might give her the absolution and love she deserves, that they’ll make her pure and whole again.
Faith saw her first, saw how lost and needy she was, and once she learns Avalon’s name, it was obsessive!love at first sight. Faith was looking for her own pet, looking to do to someone what she knew Joseph was doing to her–but joke’s on Faith, once she learns all about Avalon’s past, she kinda has a sort of… moral event horizon, I guess? Or a reversal of that, and instead projects all the healing and nurturing and smothering protectiveness that she craved onto Avalon.
Once she’s fully integrated into Eden’s Gate, Faith keeps Avalon safely in or pretty close to her bunker. She eventually gets rechristened by the Father as “Joy,” and is somewhat disparagingly referred to in the county as the Siren’s Song, because of how often Faith boasts about how she saved her, all the good she did for Avalon, how grateful and happy Avalon is now, etc. Faith never really shuts up about her or the Father. You know how protective and possessive Faith was over the Marshal and the Sheriff? That’s how she is about Avalon, only dialed up to eleven, because she’s trying to save her own self through her.
Also Faith tops lmao and Avalon is very much a pillow princess.