Abby working in the motor pool when she's not on assignment has been stuck in my head for years.
I picture her there for so many reasons. But mostly because she prefers working alone or with select few comrades.
She's the calm one in the shop, hands down. When some ornery soldier is wrenching on a stuck bolt and can't get it to budge, grating her nerves with crap like, you slippery piece of metal dogshit! Abby taps the side of the humvee with her knuckle to get his attention.
Go. I've got it.
She keeps her tools clean and immaculately organized but she is always filthy from head to toe. Cute when she's lifting you onto the hood of a truck, forearms streaked with grease.
Less cute when someone catches the two of you in the backseat with her coveralls around her waist and Isaac puts you on the night shift because you tried to lie to him about it, to his face, with oddly familiar fingerprints staining your jaw.
I also picture her with high octane neurodivergence in any space where she takes pride in her work. She doesn't mask here. But she'll sure as shit hyperfixate.
She'll be working on the same engine all day long, forgetting to blink, missing entire meals.
You bring her a sandwich as the sun is setting and she'd normally get a little glossy eyed over a sweet gesture like that, but she's far too preoccupied chomping it back in hauntingly large bites before you even have the chance to tell her what kind it is.
Everything is a stim object but she doesn't realize it. She spins bolts between her fingers. Clicks her ratchet back and forth, chewing the inside of her lip as she tries to problem solve.
She hears what others can't, mumbling to herself about cylinders and belts being off kilter, when most would simply shrug and tell her it sounds fine to me.
It's why you'll always make it home safely in a vehicle she maintains.
It's what, of many things, makes her your greatest protector.
"How can you like Abby after-"
After???? After what??? How can I like her?!?Like ain't even the right word.
I'd commit the most heinous crimes that they'd have to write a new chapter in the bible for my gay ass specifically just to have my pussy on her face and vice versa before cooking her a warm soup and running her a bath, don't get me fucking started lil guy. If there's one video game character I don't play around for and would defend with every fibre of my body, it's her.
That's my woman right there.
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i love my soft!abby smmm 🥹
non sexual intimacy!!!! bathing together, washing each other, playing with each other's hair, kissing every inch of their body, writing love letters on their back with your finger, connecting their moles and freckles to create constellations on their skin, running your hands up and down their thighs, ugh just expressing physical love without it having to be about sex!!!!
yeah so the thing is that no one is hating on kaitlyn as a person or as an actress. i hope she does show abby justice.
but the point is that it’s not abby.
neil admitted he wanted to work with kaitlyn regardless so changed the role to accommodate her. that’s not fair. he vehemently defended why he gave abby that physique when the game first launched, and her body alone is so important to who she is as a person, it’s quite literally what her character is built on.
there are plenty of talented actresses who are a few inches taller and not naturally petite that could have fit the role better. they don’t even have to be entirely as muscular as abby but to have zero time in the gym is insane. also saying there aren’t really buff women who are talented is kinda misogynistic but i digress.
neil changed abby’s character to be more digestible to the general public, and conform to hollywood’s beauty standards. that’s the root of the issue. he’s satisfying the incels who have complained for the past 5 years straight, calling her every name in the book for years because they don’t like her body type and they think she looks like a man. strong women are severely underrepresented and her backstory of turning herself into a human weapon was detrimental to her and symbolic. it’s erasure.
as a tlou fan, (SOME of) it’s fan base is genuinely insufferable.
i’ve seen men and women complain and complain about bella ramsey and kaitlyn dever, with no actually valid argument.
now look, does bella ramsey look like ellie? no, not really.
does bella ramsey portray ellie with literally no flaws whatsoever? YES.
it’s okay for you to want someone else to be ellie, it’s okay if you don’t like bella as ellie.
but there’s a difference between that, and being just blatantly disrespectful.
i’ve seen people say bella looks like they have down syndrome, that she’s ugly, and overall people just being disgusting and hateful towards them for absolutely no reason.
that is NOT criticism, that doesn’t have anything to do with her performance as ellie or the show.
that is PURELY you being disrespectful.
and there’s no justification or reason for that kind of behavior.
now onto kaitlyn.
is she buff? no. does she look like abby? no, not really.
will she play abby perfectly just like bella as ellie? i have no idea.
but here’s the thing, there’s not a lot of buff, tall, and intimidating women who can act.
especially ones that conveniently look like abby.
did yall really expect them to cast people with PERFECT looks to the character AND the flawless abilities to play said character? do yall know how rare that is?
so the point is, you can dislike bella as ellie, you can dislike kaitlyn as abby (since NO ONE is FORCING YOU to watch the show btw) as long as you remain respectful to the actresses.
and the tlou show is literally one of the only good game adaptations to live action EVER but yall still wanna complain.
and as a final side note, most of the men trying to shame bella ramsey’s appearance are just mad they don’t have another version of ellie to sexualize🤷
people being mad about being asked not to write fanfics of butch characters as men and not give them penises honestly tells me everything i need to know😭
you’re contributing to extremely harmful sterotypes about butch and masc women but go off i guess.
if you refuse to give butches female genitalia or make them stone tops so you don’t have to touch them you’re part the problem
uh...abby in a sleep gown anyone? ૮꒰˶>ᴗ<˶꒱ა♡⋆.ೃ࿔*:・
lowkey throbbing at her nipples!!...
Butches were literally MADE to wear boxers and oversized t-shirt. That is genuinely my lingerie, I feel so hot in that, and other butches look so hot in it, and when they lay back and their shirt rides up and you can see the tummy??? Perfection.
wanna wake up in the arms of a soft and warm and sleepy girl actually