Piper Fletcher

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## Appearances

### Played By

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Piper Fletcher is a meek individual. She is often shy, and avoids large groups. Despite this, she strives to help others. This makes her easy to take advantage of. She lives separated from large groups, only going to said groups to help with work or socialize with friends in those groups.

She has strawberry blonde hair and three scars on her face. One over her right eye, one going down her nose bridge, and a small scar above her left eyebrow. Around her neck lie two lockets, as well as a tarnished crucifix necklace. On her wrists are a red digital watch, and two friendship bracelets. One black, one green. She can often be seen wearing an oversized firefighter jacket. She appears very restless and unable to sit still, and she rarely makes eye contact with those she is talking to.

## Backstory

Piper was raised by a religious family in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee. Her family often brought her along to church, even though she understood almost none of what was going on. She would often just go for the food, or to see her few friends.

Children would often bully her for being "odd" or distant. She stuck out like a sore thumb among groups, often being off to the side, a loner. Piper was diagnosed with autism come second grade, and although she didn't understand the specifics for a long while, she knew she was different and that autism was a "bad thing" to most people. Especially her parents. They didn't understand autism, but tried their best to raise her to their image regardless.

Eventually, as Piper began to age, she began to realize more things weren't quite "right" with her. She never got crushes on any boys, but she felt flutters with certain girls. She told her parents and was immediately ostracized. They told her she was going to go to hell if she didn't "correct her ways." Piper was confused and scared, but was not wanting to back down from her stance. She was then kicked out of the house for the rest of the day, only let in once it was time for her to sleep. This trend continued, her parents no longer having the love for their child they once had before. Eventually, she took refuge in the pockets of wilderness around her house, the trees and wildlife keeping her company. She found comfort in the bugs and critters that lived in her backyard and tree lines.

After a while of Piper being kicked out of the house, a boy came along to give her comfort. He recognized her from church and heard of the word spoken about her, and he offered her help. He'd give her food, as well as a tent to sleep in for when she didn't want to return to her house. Before Piper left for college, he gave her a silver crucifix necklace to keep as a symbol of the acceptance he showed her.

Piper went to medical school, eventually becoming a pediatrician at a hospital and laying low, never confiding into anyone out of fear of being ostracized once again. After several years of being hospital staff, she decided to work in a school setting, becoming a school nurse. Approximately a year into her career as a school nurse, tragedy struck as the Knox Event began. As the world delved head first into chaos, Piper hit the road and lived out of her car, not wanting to endure the worst parts of the chaos that erupted in her city. She drove north in an attempt to get out of heavily populated areas. Once her car broke down, she fled to the wilderness, living in the woods. A few years into this nomadic lifestyle, she was run out of the woods by choppers blaring above, bringing a horde straight to her little refuge in the woods. She emerged and found herself in Knox county itself, specifically Riverside.

## Story

### Humble Re-beginnings

It was a bitterly cold February day as Piper trudged through the snow. She was going from house to house in Riverside, attempting to find food and any semblance of shelter, being too afraid to risk running into someone in their safehouse, even if it looked long abandoned. She had lost pretty much everything when she was run out of the woods. After picking up a satchel and some tomato paste and other non perishables she found, she went on her way to look for a new refuge of her own. She had picked up a long range walkie off of an infected she had killed with a metal pipe, but didn't want to call out on it. She was afraid of being robbed for what little she had left. She began to walk southeast, down a side road.

As the sun faded below the horizon it got colder and colder, and she cut through a tree line, tearing up her clothes. This exposed her to the frigid air, and she began to get sick and delirious. She wandered further, eventually making her way to a military barracks. At this point, as she lied curled up on a bed, she decided - It's time to call for help. She called out for help, and a voice answered. She described her location, and eventually, the purr of a car could faintly be heard outside. She had been saved.

A man named Jon Callis came to answer her call and brought her to a settlement named Ekron, situated in Fallas Lake. She was treated to a warm meal and some time warming up at the fireplace before he brought her to a small house further away, where she met who would become the love of her life, Mikalah Edwards. She confessed to her in the same place Mikalah proposed to her later on down the line.

She began to build bonds with everyone, and eventually came across a child named Reiko in Riverside, who she took under her wing, forming a bond.

The three built the house further up together, and life couldn't be better.

### Tragedy

After some rough times, Jon came up to Piper, telling her that he was going to go to McCoy's to go on a run. Despite Piper's unease with this, she couldn't go with due to a broken leg.

"You promise you'll be safe?"

"I promise."

After some time passed and Piper took a nap, she awoke to a new person in the house, telling Piper to check on Jon. Piper rushed to Jon's room, greeted to Jon with a torn jacket and a bandage. She immediately checked. He was bitten.

Everything began to crumble right before her eyes. No, no this can't be happening... Everything was just starting to look great... He can't leave now, he promised he'd never leave.

Then, just like that, he was gone. He was buried under a cherry tree, his spirit living among the trees and their whispers. Piper kept a close eye on her soon-to-be wife

A while after, Reiko ended up introducing another kid to the household, named Wease.

Things began to look up for a while, then Reiko died suddenly, and once again, everything crumbled.

Piper eventually began living day by day, not looking forward to much, and taking things as they came.

## Relationships

* Jon Callis (Deceased) - Best Friend
* Mikalah Edwards - Fiance
* Wease Placidusax - Son (Adopted)
* Reiko (Deceased) - Daughter (Adopted)
* Marie Lowe - Daughter(?) (Adopted)
* Eddy Lowe - Close Friend
* Josiah Palmer - Friend

## Trivia

* Piper has a very large bug collection.
* Piper has a permanent limp.
* Piper's name was made with inspiration from birds.