20 Years Reunion Coordination Post!

[not_a_whiner]

For your coordination of backstory needs!

We've got a form for you to fill out here:

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Age at the Reunion:</b> <b> Backstory I've Worked Out So Far:</b> <b> How Your Character Can Fit In:</b>

...but feel free to brainstorm any way you'd like!

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[tigerundercover]

Character Name: Raven Darkholme
Age at the Reunion: somewhere in the vicinity of 40, as far as she knows
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Raven makes it to Baltimore in her crosscountry trek to try to save Kathy, only to find the Causeway destroyed and the portal to Fandom closed. Alone, trapped in a zombie filled world, and more than a little crazy from stress and grief, she goes half-feral and turns bandit, roving across the eastern United States and attacking other travelers for food and supplies, until she's spotted by a band of isolationist doomsday preppers, who have formed their own strange, superstitious society based on misunderstood native American traditions and new age witchcraft. They decide she is a native trickster spirit and manage to kidnap her to be their bespoke deity. After years of being trapped and offered tokens and sacrifices, she loses track of who she actually is and what her actual history is, and starts to buy into the hype.

Right up until the colony hits a bad year, full of famine and illness, and she gets scapegoated. She manages to escape, dodging into a randomly opening portal. The colony is too terrified to follow, and she finds herself in a strangely familiar town, nearly completely free of zombies, where people claim to know her. . . .
How Your Character Can Fit In: She's been missing, presumed dead for 20 years. So shock/rueful comments about the impermanence of death for Fandomites would be appropriate.