Stop talking about will gorging his goddam eye out I’m not done gaslighting myself into thinking he’ll be safe and happy for the entirety of the season.
☾ Nickname(s): Vec (everyone except Georgie & Scud), Vector (Abraham, Eric, Eugene), Doctor (Hershel, Carol, Eugene, as a sign of respect), Dia (Georgie), Vee (Scud), Vecna (Georgie), Buttercup (like the Powerpuff girl) (Scud), my little bee/bumblebee (Scud), the Mrs. (Scud), Deetz (started by Matt), Firecracker/Alexandria's little firecracker (Negan), sweetheart (her dad), Starlight (her dad)
☾ Age, Birthday, Zodiac: 30 (at the start of the outbreak), July 6th 1980, Cancer
☾ Orientation: Cis-het
☾ Religion: Atheist
☾ Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio
☾ Hometown: Swanton, Ohio
☾ Nationality/Ethnicity: American, ancestry is German, Scottish, and Irish
☾ Accent: Midwestern
☾ Languages: English, enough sign language to say "Hi", "how are you?", "how was your day?" and introduce herself as both Lydia and Vec (understands some words and phrases here and there)
☾ Left or Right-Handed: Right-handed
☾ Medical conditions: Asherman's Syndrome
☾ Occupation: Emergency Room Trauma Surgeon
☾ Love Interest: Joshua "Scud" Frohmeyer
☾ Story Trope: Meet cute, love at first sight (for Scud lol)
☾ Tag(s): lydia vector, ❥ 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎
☾ Links: About Vec (QOTU) About Vec (my original fic) Her OC template Her Tumblr Her Spotify playlist Her & Scud's wedding playlist
☾ Author's note: TW for mentions of suicide, infertility, hospital stuff, and death in the line of military service below the cut. Template by @sa1nt-bambi-ocs 🖤
☾ appearance
☾ Face Claim: I picture this Twitch streamer I follow (her links: YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, TikTok)
☾ Hair Color: Jet black
☾ Eye Color: Dark blue (like this)
☾ Skin Tone: Pale
☾ Face Shape: Oval
☾ Scar(s): Internal uterine scarring
☾ Birthmark(s): None
☾ Tattoo(s): A sternum piece with blue morning glory flowers, line work of a bouquet of daisies on her right hip, line work of the moon on her left hip, clusters of bumblebees on the back of each other thighs under her butt, and Scud’s kiss mark between her breasts
☾ Piercings: Ear piercings (just regular earlobe piercings). Not a piercing, but before the outbreak, she had an eyebrow slit on her left eyebrow.
☾ Accessories: A replica of Arwen’s necklace from The Lord of the Rings and a ring that belonged to her mom.
☾ Weapons: A vibrator (yes, it’s a weapon) and a knife in leg holsters (such as these). Her main weapon is her spear (hers would be silver).
☾ Aesthetic/Fashion: Most of the time (when she’s not in her scrubs), she dresses something like this but with combat boots instead of cowboy boots (this content creator’s style is what inspired what I wanted hers to be lol). Sometimes, she likes to wear sundresses or put outfits together like this. Everyday life needs more whimsy, she’d say. If she’s going to a renaissance festival, she’s wear something like this or this. After the outbreak, she usually wears a sports bra (sometimes with a flannel over it, but most often not), shorts, and her combat boots. When she needs to, she’d opt for a flannel/layered shirts and jeans.
☾ Height: 5'7"
☾ Body Type: Pretty straight up & down, some curves but not a lot, small frame with small assets, if you catch my drift (but she’ll tell you she can still shake it)
☾ personality
☾ General Personality: Black cat, guard dog, wildcard, firecracker, extroverted
☾ Best Personality Trait(s): Empathy, kindness, protective over the people she cares about, understanding, compassionate
☾ Worst Personality Trait(s): Stubborn, quick to temper (hence the nickname “firecracker”), hyperindependent/refuses to accept help even when she clearly needs it
☾ Good Habit(s): Writing (to process her feelings), staying hydrated, constantly wanting to learn, having many strong social connections
☾ Bad Habit(s): Not getting enough sleep/having a chaotic sleep schedule, being a little messy, confrontational (some would call that a bad habit, but she doesn’t because sometimes it’s necessary, especially when trying to stick up for yourself or someone else)
☾ Trigger(s): Controlling behavior
☾ Likes: Bees, writing, yapping, Indian food, attending renaissance festivals, her sex toy collection
☾ Dislikes: Most men, asking for help, being emotionally vulnerable, Shane Walsh, unseasoned/under-seasoned food, her small chest, Merle Dixon
☾ Goals: Survive, keep the people she loves safe, heal as many people as possible, live a fulfilling life despite the outbreak, find out what happened to her family
☾ Fears: Spiders, losing those she cares most about, losing her independence, never finding out what happened to her dad or brothers
☾ Talents: Writing, singing, line-dancing, trick-shots with her spear, breaking the occasional man's nose
☾ Weaknesses: Her hesitation to kill (even when necessary), refusal to accept help
☾ family & relationships
☾ Mother: Meredith Vector (deceased)
☾ Father: Jonathan Vector (unknown)
☾ Sibling(s): Preston Vector (deceased), Jay Vector (unknown), Eli Vector (unknown)
☾ Lover: Joshua "Scud" Frohmeyer
☾ backstory
Lydia Rae Vector graduated with honors from Swanton High School and went on to study pre-med at the University of Toledo. From there, she went on to Emory University School of Medicine for med school and completed her residency at Atlanta General Hospital, where she later became employed in their emergency department. She is the youngest of four with three older brothers—Preston, who’s five years older than her, and identical twins Jay and Eli, who are three years older than her. They all grew up to become Navy SEALs and made sure to teach their sister everything they could about hand-to-hand combat and self-defense.
Her mom, Meredith Elaine Vector, and her dad, Jonathan Thompson Vector, met through Georgie’s parents, who were dating at the time. Leonard, Georgie’s father, and John were best friends, as were Maria, Georgie’s mother, and Meredith. They each brought their friend along on a double date, and the rest was history. Vec’s father is an astronaut, while her mother worked part-time as a sex therapist while raising the kids and transitioned to seeing clients full-time once Vec entered high school.
She is extremely close with everyone in her family, and they are a very tight-knit unit. Her parents raised her and her brothers with open discussions about things like drugs, alcohol, and sex. They wanted their children to know that these aren’t taboo topics & for them to feel comfortable coming to them to talk about these things. Vec’s parents and brothers are some of her best friends, and she wouldn’t trade them for anything.
Vec and her best friend, Georgie, became friends because their moms were pregnant with them at the same time (Vec is about two weeks older than Georgie--12 days older, to be exact). The two are tied at the hip, practically growing up side-by-side and doing everything together, even going to the same colleges and living together in Atlanta up until the outbreak begins.
When Vec was three, then eight-year-old Preston was in an accident & was hit by a car on his bicycle. At the time, their dad was up in space, so Vec’s mom frantically piled her and the twins in the car and followed the ambulance to the hospital. When they’re in the waiting area, her mom begins talking to the surgeon, a woman Vec describes as “the most beautiful woman three-year-old me had ever seen.” She toddled up to the doctor and asked if she was a princess, and the doctor said yes. That was when Vec decided she wanted to be a princess when she grew up (which she later learned was a trauma surgeon) and save lives the way that woman saved Preston’s.
When she’s around 13 years old, she got pelvic inflammatory disease & was hospitalized for a couple of days. From then on, she dealt with unimaginable period pain, and despite seeing a variety of doctors, they couldn’t seem to figure out what was going on. When she’s 29, she finally finds a gynecologist willing to do extensive testing, and it’s discovered that the infection she had caused her to develop a rare condition called Asherman’s Syndrome, which creates intense uterine scarring.. Because of this, she’s unable to have children. She dreamed of becoming a mom, and that dream was ripped out from under her in a single afternoon.
When Vec was 25, Preston was killed while on a deployment in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. This destroyed her family, and her mother struggled with his loss the hardest. For two months, she suffered from severe depression before she couldn’t handle the pain of Preston’s loss anymore and succumbed to it. She took her own life two months after his passing. She wrote a lengthy suicide note, addressing her husband and each of her surviving children with their own sections. Vec has her portion folded up in the back of her notebook, and it’s one of her most prized possessions.
Not long after her mom’s passing, she meets her ex-boyfriend, Seth. They met at a bar one night, and while Vec wasn’t looking to date at the time, they hit it off immediately. She was in a very emotionally vulnerable state at that time in her life, and Seth saw it and took full advantage of that. He became controlling, wanting the final say in what she could and couldn’t wear, who she could and couldn’t hang out with, where she could and couldn’t go, her location, how she did her hair, etc. He didn’t like her spending time alone with her brothers, or even Georgie (and they lived together, so there was no avoiding that). One day, after just over a year of being together, Vec went to leave the apartment for a date with him. As she looked at herself in the mirror, something snapped–she saw herself with her hair and makeup done the way he likes, wearing the clothes he likes, and she didn’t even recognize herself anymore. On their date that night, she dumped him and later celebrated with Georgie once the tears had subsided.
Because of this past relationship, she’s very reluctant to be emotionally vulnerable around people or accept help, even when she desperately needs it. When she was at her most emotionally vulnerable, she was taken advantage of, and she’s terrified of that ever happening again. Due to Seth’s control over her during their relationship, she’d lost so much of her independence for a long time, and once she gained it back after she left him, she fully swung in the other direction, never wanting to accept help, even when needed.
Just over a year before the outbreak, she meets Scud. Her car breaks down on her way to work one morning, and he just so happens to be working at the auto shop she shows up at. She has to drop her car quickly and run off to work, but a certain “cutie with the bandana,” as she called him, stayed behind after closing to allow her to pick her car up. They flirted like crazy, and Vec gave him her number before they separated for the night. They go on their first date a few weeks later, and they are together for just over a year before the outbreak begins.
garden directory quarters of the undead (qotu) directory garden archive krys' archive
vec, meredith, john, preston, jay, eli, and seth belong to me. georgie, leo, matt, and maria belong to @dixons-sunshine.
The new episode made me want to draw my favourite character in the TADC AU of mine
VEC is so fun and interesting and he’s totally not a trapped person who’s been here so long and his mind has been so damaged that he doesn’t consciously remember he’s a real person until he’s unfortunately mindfucked into remembering and OH BOY ITS FUN
I don’t know how is draw him though it’s hard
Esoeically when he’s someone who almost always has a perma smile
So have a messy sketch page all while I’m trying to figure out how to draw him…
