Bridget

Bridget of the sixteen humans in stasis found inside *The Tranquil Lady* during the events of Barbarian's Rescue. She is a main character of Bridget's Bane.

She mated to A'tam and is the mother of A'bri.

The initially the Sa-khui could not pronounce her name and said it as "Bree-shit," while the Islanders pronounced her name as "B’shit." Now "Bre-chit" is the used pronunciation.

## Description

Bridget has dark hair. She considers herself to be averagely pretty.

## Personality

Bridget has an adaptable personality, but is bad at expressing her needs. Bridget is sarcastic and has a sly sense of humor. She likes to feel useful.

At the start of her story, she has low self esteem and see herself as always being flawed, likely due to her mother's judgements of her when she was younger.

## History

Bridget grew up going from boarding school to boarding school as a child, and her mother was emotionally abusive. Her mother disliked her because she looked too much like her father and refused to allow her to ask for help. She was often grounded for months or sent to a new boarding school as a punishment. Her mother was a dancer and lamented that Bridget was too short and clumsy to dance. Her father wasn't a part of her life except for a few small insistances.

One summer in high school she took a pottery class and went to summer camp as a child. In high school she injured her back playing soft ball and has two screws in her spine. Every relationship she had ended with the guy breaking up with her for being too boring.

She was abducted in 2013. She was likely in stasis around 10+ years. She is awoken in Lauren's Barbarian.

### Bridget's Bane

In a flash back to event at the end of Lauren's Barbarian, A'tam arrived with the other islanders at Icehome village. There he met Bridget for the first time, and there was an instant connection between them. Over the coming weeks they flirted. In one secret meeting with A'tam, Bridget got the idea to start working on pottery, based on her one pottery class.

Eventually they decided to try pleasure-mating. However the experience went poorly as A'tam was bad at reading signals, and Bridget was bad at communicating her needs.

The next few months went poorly as the two fought, A'tam insisting they are mates, and Bridget insisting they are not. However, they began to reconnect when he came in while she was doing pottery. That changed when Daisy showed up and started hanging out with A'tam suggesting that they make Bridget jealous. Even going to the extent of staying in his hut, while he stayed with another member of shadow cat clan. This plan didn't work, instead making Bridget want to stay further away.

That was until she decided to ask Raven for lessons how to dance. A'tam also asked Raven for advice, she advised spending less time with Daisy.

In a second set of game for a knife, Bridget paired with O'jek and Daisy with A'tam. After the first days of games, A'tam asked Daisy for advice, and she suggested trying to discover why Bridget didn't want to be with him. On the second day of games, they went hunting. O'jek left Bridget behind when she fell into a pit trap, and A'tam found her. They stayed the night in a hunter's cave.

The next day A'tam asked Gail for advice, who suggested he stop trying to make Bridget jealous. Finally Raven suggested going to couples therapy with Steph. That night A'tam confessed to the scheme with Daisy to Bridget. Only for them to resonate and Bridget to asked to go to couples therapy.

Through therapy they started to overcome their differences and learn to communicate better. After a time they are finally able to fulfill resonance. A'tam was finally able to remember what his mother did to get the pottery to work.

A month later they had a working pot and Bridget shared it with the village.

### Later History

During the events of Steph's Outcast, Bridget and A'tam elected to go to Croatoan.

During the time jump between Steph's Outcast and Sam's Secret, Bridget gave birth to A'bri. They both return to Icehome before Sam's Secret begins.