Celia Visivka

## Introduction

A 5"9 infected, originally from Russia. Celia's general mental state is often conflicted as a natural result of being an infected, although her relationship with this side of her although isn't to bad. (WIP)

## Family

Absent biological father, an overall wonderful mother who wound up deceased during Celia's childhood in Russia, and a horrible person of a stepfather. Celia's childhood in her home country only consisted of the first 16 years of her life, but during this she maintained a great relationship with her mother, relying on her and trusting her in a multitude of things.

Since Celia's biological father had been absent since her birth, her stepfather began to 'fill in' his place early on in her life. Though, this man in reality was a nightmare to life with, due to various, many sadly uncommon issues of his such as infidelity, general abuse, white-collar criminality, and the occasional substance abuse. Why Celia's mother endured this man? Only to maintain a decent lifestyle for her and Celia, but only when her stepfather wasn't around of course.

## Beginnings

Celia eventually wound up living in the US around the age of 16. This, was only the result of quite a few unfortunate happenings.

Celia's mother caved emotionally sometime when Celia was 15, giving into the mental pressure and torment caused by her lovely stepfather. Unfortunately, Celia ended up coming home one day, walking into her mothers bedroom to tell her something she cant even remember, and being met with the sight of her mother suspended from the ceiling by a rope. (suicide) The cause of this was really no puzzle to anyone who knew her family, everyone pretty much immediately acknowledging why her mother's stability caved.

She generally had nobody to turn to in this situation, and sure as hell was not going to be left in her stepfather's care, although he did try his very best to keep her in his possession by various means. Celia eventually wound up stabbing him in order to escape(not a fatal wound), and ended up fleeing as far as she could, before she was given the idea and choice by someone to go even further, to the US. This, overall was a pretty good option for her, as her general situation in Russia wasn't ideal, and that she'd be able to start 'a new life' and perhaps learn to be 'freed' from the past without constant reminders. Though, nobody ever is able to fully separate from their past as such things end up affecting the mind eternally.

## Arrival in the US

Once Celia reached the US, she naturally began searching for a decent place to start a steady beginning for her new life. Unluckily, those that found her were none other then some very, very, nice seeming cult evangelists. In her eyes, this was a great thing, they gave her a good home, assisted her in learning things to help her in this unfamiliar country. One thing that didn't help her in realizing that this was in fact, not a normal thing and not just one more thing a part of this country's culture was her fellow youth, mostly consisting of teens her age that were born and raised into this cult.

Her time in the cult grew more and more uncanny, the realization slowly hitting her out of pure common sense that the people running the whole thing, and the whole idea and morals of everything were in fact terrible. Those like her who also realized, but chose to speak up about it were 'sent away' ('sacrificed'/murdered) to re-learn the teachings of the lord that the cult believed in. The whole place was generally well guarded in order to 'safekeep' the purity and the welfare of each and every one of the requited followers, along with most of the town it resided in.

The final turning point that set in stone the fact that the behavior of the cult was unnatural was her final 'initiation' as a formal follower was one of the many 'ceremonies' that were held every so often. Celia endured this ritualistic ceremony with four other people, ending with leaving her left forearm/wrist bearing a large cross-shaped scar.

## Pre-Apocalypse

After Celia finally managed to escape the cult, she began to actually look for a place where she could finally move on with her life to live properly, whilst still keeping a safe distance from anyone she contacted with, mentally and physically. Celia quickly caught up with her final missed years of high school and promptly began collage.

Celia's degree is mostly un-relevant as she pretty much chose whatever she'd be the best at, and that would help her manage in society. Though, Celia was convinced to join a small sorority with a few other girls as it would help her to not drown socially, and that it would give her housing. Very luckily, this wasn't one of those odd sororities with a bunch of fine print to joining, and in reality was just a bunch of decently nice collage girls that lived together. Unfortunately, just as everything began to go good for her in life, the apocalypse occurred, running everyone out of their comfortable spots in life, forcing them to set their goals on survival.