Shar Antosky

Silhouette as of Life After: The Phoenix.

> *“All you do is lie to yourself… I’m either the best or the worst thing that happened to you. You built me up so much I have no idea who the person in your head is… it’s not me, Adam.”*
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> - Shar Antosky, arguing with Adam Wilent in ***Life After: The Phoenix***
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**Sharon "Shar" Antosky** is a major character in ***Life After: The Phoenix***.

A grocery clerk at a major supermarket chain, Shar is enduring a rocky breakup with her boyfriend Adam Wilent while simultaneously dating John Anderson when the zombie apocalypse begins.

## Appearance and Character

Shar has a warm, sultry voice, vibrant red hair, and a skinny face. She recently had a burnt sienna Phoenix tattooed on her left forearm.

While there seem to be a number of complexities keeping she and Adam apart, his issues would seem to stem from Shar talking about fixing their relationship without any actions to back it up, specifically that she never makes time for him, is dating someone else, and got the phoenix tattoo without input that she explicitly promised him. Adam also accuses her of avoiding him. Though she clearly cares about Adam and doesn't seek to intentionally hurt him, she seems to have grown weary of his derision and intensity to a point where she no longer feels she can be honest with him, going cold and silent when he launches into a tirade.

## History

Very little is known about Shar, but it is implied that she, Anderson, and Jeff Grey have known each other for several years; she knows about Jeff's proclivities for horror fiction, and, when mentioned in ***Life After: The Arising***, Jeff seems shocked that Anderson "still" hangs out with her. Anderson indicates that she and Adam had been dating for two years. She works at a grocery store in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

## Recent Events

### *Life After: The Phoenix*

Adam drives to meet Shar when her break begins. She joins Adam in his car, where their genial chatter quickly devolves from Adam catching her up on the unrest in her native town of Broomall into a grudge match over the failure of their relationship. Adam's disdain coalesces around Shar's recently acquired tattoo: a rudimentary Phoenix on her left forearm. Shar got inked after insisting that Adam choose a design for the empty space; having not waited for him, Adam insists that Shar will only add his design *if* they reconcile. After Shar alludes to an incident where she may have been attempting to overdose on pills waiting for some vague affirmation from Adam, she tells Adam she's sorry about their situation, to which he replies "No you're not."

Shar leaves Adam to terrorize the inside of his car out of frustration at the conclusion of her break. She tries to text Adam a vague reconciliation, but he immediately throws her tryst with Anderson back in her face. After a trip to the bathroom, Shar returns to work, and shortly thereafter, her co-worker Dirk witnesses an accident in the parking lot and insists that she call 911. The call is connected, but Shar barely understands their requests for information before Dirk is brutally slaughtered by a zombie that Adam summarily dispatches. With his car destroyed, Adam insists that Shar get her keys as they run through the supermarket trying to avoid the undead, finally running into a series of offices overlooking the parking lot. When they finally have a moment to collect themselves, Adam asserts his refusal to accept that the people he saw outside are zombies, much to Shar's dismay.

As they adjourn to a conference room, Shar muses that she wishes Jeff were around to offer advice before rebuking Adam for their previous text exchange, leading them into another furious argument where they take turns blaming each other for their failed relationship; Adam feels that Shar is incapable of telling him the truth, and that she will take any opportunity to avoid the realities of their situation, while Shar believes Adam is placing too much of the burden on her alongside a glut of unrealistic expectations. When Adam brings the conversation back to the Phoenix, insinuating that Shar's tattoo is proof she's unwilling to make even the most basic commitment, Shar grudgingly admits that Adam is right just as the police show up outside the supermarket.

Though the initial engagement appears to be a success, the bodies fired upon by the officers quickly stand and overtake them from behind. Shar and Adam rush downstairs in hopes of being rescued, but the situation only gets worse when one cop sprays the doorway with bullets, grazing Adam's leg as he forces Shar back up the steps. They return to the conference room, where their only recourse is to keep their backs pressed against the door as the zombies try to break it down, leading Adam to conclude that they are about to die. Shar sobbingly responds to one of Adam's earlier provocations, indicating that he'd rather be right about her faults than be happy before insinuating that she regrets lying to him with the intention of sparing him pain, ultimately accusing him of trying to "fix" her rather than attempting to understand her.

In spite of this assessment, Shar insists that Adam make his escape through the windows while she holds the door. He hesitates, but once she assures him of this decisive sacrifice, they kiss, and Adam follows her instructions, escaping across the roof just as the door caves in.

### *Life After: The Arising*

When joining with Jeff's group at Thomas Massey high school, Anderson lies that he's still a virgin, insinuating that he came close to having sex with Shar.

### *Life After: The Void*

As Jeff, Anderson, and Colin Mursak make a pilgrimage to their nearby domiciles, Anderson indicates that he still has the keys to Shar's apartment building, something about which Adam was distinctly infuriated months prior.