Abby Yates

* Overview
* Traits
* Threat Assessment
* Paraphernalia
* Misc

## Abby Yates: 1985 - 1994

Abby grew up in Rochester, a small town on the outskirts of Detroit. As a child, Abby was so curious about everything. Her mother nicknamed her "Curious Georgina." During the third grade science fair, some of Abby's classmates overheard Abby's mother call Abby this pet name. The next day, six girls cornered Abby on the playground. One of them presented an enormous bunch of bananas to Abby. Instead of running away or fighting, Abby ate all of the bananas and left the girls speechless - some even cheering her on as she finished the last of the fruit. An hour later, Abby blacked out at school and woke in the ICU, suffering from hyperkalemia, or potassium poisoning.

After recovering, Abby's mother noticed her daughter was suddenly quite stranger than she had been before. Abby began an exhaustive search to discover if leprechauns were real and searched for the end of a rainbow and also began an intense friendship with an imaginary friend.

One day, after a thunderstorm, Abby spotted a rainbow and headed into the woods. As the rainbow faded, Abby realized she went farther into the woods than she had before. After an hour, she admitted to herself she was lost. Abby remembered her mother's advice about being lost: sit still and let someone find you. Abby stayed under a maple tree for three days and two nights surviving off rainwater.

When it became clear that she was not going to be found, Abby started to wander without any idea if she was going deeper into the forest or not. Weak from lack of nutrition, Abby passed out and dreamed of being carried by a tall man with pink hair. Abby would be found severely weak on her mother's front porch after a loud knock was heard on the door.

## Abby Yates: 1994 - 1999

Inspired by Abby's recovery from severe malnourishment and her previous potassium poisoning, Abby's mother (who was already a chemist of some renown) focused her research on child nutrition. For the next five years, she would travel the country for her research, taking Abby with her and personally tutoring Abby. Abby did not like life on the road and so eventually it was proposed for Abby to go live with her aunt and uncle in Engine City.

## Abby Yates: 1999 - 2002

On her first day, Abby was a little insulted no one approached her - not even the usual mean girls or bullies. It did not take long for Abby to learn that such kids were too busy picking on existing students to notice the new girl. In particular, most of the school seemed to be bullying someone called "Ghost Girl." Abby noticed she and this Ghost Girl were the only two students who bothered raising their hands in chemistry. Ghost Girl had even known an answer to something that stumped Abby. Soon after arriving at this new school, Abby went to go sit with this Ghost Girl at lunch. The two hit it off immediately as Abby was immediately fascinated by Erin's apparent haunting. Abby slept over at her house that weekend, intent on photographing the ghost that haunted Erin. Though the equipment failed to capture the ghost, Abby insists that she saw the ghost, validating Erin's claims. The two were practically sisters after this.

## Weaknesses

* **Chelonaphobia:** Abby suffers from a fear of tortoises and turtles.
* **Coulrophobia:** Abby suffers from an irrational fear of clowns.
* **Fondness for Good Soup**
* **Severe Allergy to Cats**

## Stats

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 44
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Notes

* Abby Yates is a character from the 2016 *Ghostbusters* film and its related media.
* Her backstory is a nod to *Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal*.
	+ In the book she did have a father and it was his advice to sit still after being lost. There was no man with pink hair.