| ~ • ~ | Character Basics | ~ • ~ |
.:Name:. Abigail Griffin
.:Nick Name:. Abby, Dr. Griffin
.:Affiliation:. Arker
.:Age:. Forty
| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |
.:Physical Appearance:.
Petite is perhaps the best way to describe Abby. Despite her size, however, she doesn’t let anybody step over her, standing tall and confident, walking with a purpose, voicing her opinions loud and strong as if life depended on it - which it does, too often to her liking.
Long, light brown locks of hair fall below her shoulders, even though she usually wears them back, whether it be in a side braid, a half or a full ponytail. Her deep and passionate brown eyes invoke respect, but despite her best efforts, they also act as a window to her soul and those who know her best can read right through them.
Small, thin limbs that betray how rationed life on the Ark used to be, long and precise surgeon fingers, gentle voice that aspire trust. She may appear delicate, but Abby Griffin is unbreakable.
.:Height:. 5’4”
.:Portrayed by:. Paige Turco
| ~ • ~ | Personality | ~ • ~ |
.:Personality:.
BIG HEART
Probably one of Abigail Griffin’s most important trait is that she is kind and will put everyone else’s well being above her own. She became a doctor because she wanted to help people and it turned out to be the case in all spheres of her life. She will not hesitate to put herself on the line if it means saving even one single person because she values life above all else.
EMOTIONAL
Having a big heart means getting attached to people easily. Abby’s main problem is that she can be more emotional than rational when it comes to people she loves, especially when it involves her daughter, Clarke. While she usually believes she makes the right choices, sometimes they are highly influenced by her emotions and it can come back to bite her.
HARD WORKING
Even at a young age, Abby was extremely hard-working and used to push her limits in order to achieve greater things. It is how she became a doctor early in her life and it is why she eventually stepped up as the Chief medical officer, but it is still true to this day. She will put work before her basic needs if it means helping people and finding a solution to a problem.
IDEALIST
Abby strongly believes in a better future for them all. She truly thinks that the human race is capable of great things and she is working hard to make people see that as well and get them to trust each other so they can achieve anything if they work together. She tends to see the good in people before she sees the bad and will give everyone a chance to prove all they are worth before judging them.
KNOWLEDGEABLE
Curious from a very young age, Abby used to ask her parents a ton of question and they made sure to teach her everything they knew. In school, she always had her head stuffed in books, hoping to learn everything there was to learn. Her set of knowledge is way above average and while she’s better in some field than others, she always loves to learn and push the limits of her knowledge.
LOGICAL
Problem solving and coming up with solutions to make things easier in any given scenario has always been one of her strong suit. She has a logical mind and can easily partition her brain to focus on different things and give them an order of priority, which allows her to work fast and methodically.
RIGHTEOUS
Abby constantly fights for what she believes is right, and she isn’t often wrong. While she was raised to follow orders, she eventually decided that following them and applying rules that were written many years ago doesn’t always act in everyone’s best interest. She can easily defy authority or do something deemed illegal for a cause she believes in or for someone she holds dear.
STRONG-WILLED
Confident in her own ideas and ways, she doesn’t listen to advice and she doesn’t always follow rules unless the rules agree with her. She is determined to do as she wants not only because she is stubborn, but because she trusts her own judgment and knowledge and believes it can be beneficial for all, which usually proves to be right, but sometimes can have disastrous effects.
STUBBORN
Her parents used to warn her about it, her late husband used to love it even though it drove him mad and now people close to her still say it: Abby is extremely stubborn. When she has her mind set on something, there is no changing it if she believes it is the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences.
.:Special Skills:.
Of course, most of Abby’s skills are in relation to her medical knowledge. She knows and understands science and the human body in a way that not many people do on the Ark as well as on the ground. She mostly specializes in surgeries and internal organs but she has a general knowledge of the entire medicine field, enough to help someone in need whenever she can.
She is also very empathetic, can understand and feel people’s pain. However, one often gets in the way of the other, as she can let her emotions get the best of her and won’t stop trying to save someone until she has done everything that she could, which may become obsessive.
| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |
.:Birthplace:. Alpha Station
.:Family:. Jake Griffin / husband (deceased), Clarke Griffin / daughter
.:Occupation:. Chief Medical Officer
.:History:.
Over and over
While “born the Ark” isn’t quite a unique characteristic for an Arker, it is still how Abigail Griffin came to this world. Née Conway, and not unlike everyone else on board, she was the first and only child of Henry, the Chief medical officer on the Ark, and Ellen, a member of the Council. She was one of the lucky ones, privileged as some would call them, because she was born in a family that held power and knowledge, which ended up tracing her destiny.
Abby has always been curious and at a young age, she used to take a lot of interest in what her parents did for a living. She asked them a lot of questions about how things worked and they used to be extremely patient with her, taking the time to explain everything and make sure she had all the knowledge she sought. She loved stories, and her favourites was definitely the ones from Earth and how people used to live down there, stories that were being passed between generations as even her grandparents were born on the Ark. For her, it was a very strange concept because she had never known anything other than the space stations and she often tried to picture what it would be like down there. She started daydreaming about Earth, and dreaming about it at night as well, hoping she would get to see it one day.
As she got a little older, in her teenage years, she decided she wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. Being confined on the Ark meant there wasn’t that many things to do other than study and she quickly went through school and was able to learn the roots of being a doctor from her father and his colleagues. At 18, she was able to perform most surgeries and could easily recognize illnesses and health problems. It only took her a few more years to be able to master more complex procedures.
Waves of running feelings
Abby had a life set up for her but it was never enough for the young woman. Living and doing what was right for the human race was one thing. But she wanted more. With her dreams still in head, she wanted to get out of the Ark and go to Earth even though everybody kept telling her it was impossible. It took her a long time to come to accept the fact that she was never going to see it in a different way than through the Ark’s thick windows. She would spend hours looking at what used to be the human race’s home, observing the blue color of the oceans, the green of the forests, recognizing the outline of the continents she had seen on old maps.
On one of those days, she felt a presence right next to her and tore her gaze away from the home of their ancestors to look to her side. The Ark wasn’t big and within its inhabitants, everybody knew each other, or at least of each other. Jake Griffin was standing next to her, his eyes riveted on the blue planet. They talked for a while, more than they ever had before even though they had been through school together, and they quickly hit it off.
They got married a year later and feeling as if their life was ticking away fast – life expectancy on the Ark wasn’t all that great – they decided to try for a child. Abby got pregnant and gave birth to their beautiful daughter, Clarke. She was the spitting image of her father, but Abby recognized herself a lot in her, especially as she grew up. And it was like being a mother had given her life a new purpose, one that was more than just saving people but also ensuring that their line and their legacy kept going on until it was safe for the later generations to go back to Earth. She loved her daughter more than she had ever loved anybody before, and she knew nothing would ever change that.
Her father had passed away from a heart attack when she was pregnant with Clarke – the one big regret she had was that he had never met his granddaughter. Abby was in her early thirties when her mother became very ill. Despite her best efforts to try and keep her alive, the laws and regulations of the Ark prevented her from using more medical supplies to save her life and she had to let her mother die from her illness. Abby couldn’t help but to feel like she had failed her, unable to treat her in time and give her what she needed to get through it. She kept telling herself it was the right thing to do, she kept hearing her father tell her she needed to play by the rules because it was vital to the survival of all, so that’s what she did, and she sucked it up even though deep down, she wished she could have done more. With the now vacant position of her mother on the council, Abby stepped up and took her place.
Floating weightless, I’m willing
A few years later, by then an established member of the council, Abby was faced with a difficult decision to make. Her husband Jake found a discrepancy in the oxygen levels. While it was earlier believed that there was going to be enough for them all to survive 200 years, the levels indicated they might only have 1 or 2 more years of supply. Jake believed that it was the public’s right to know about it, the Council disagreed. Abby argued with him and tried to tell him to let it go until they found a solution to the problem but he didn’t. He made a video and he was about to broadcast it throughout the Ark.
Abby was caught between letting him do it and risk causing mayhem and panic among the population or confide in their friend, Chancellor Jaha, about it so he could try to talk Jake out of it. Confident it was the right thing to do, she chose the second option but it backfired on her when, instead of talking him out of it, it got him arrested and accused of treason.
Jake was sentenced to death and, along with her daughter, Abby had to watch him get floated because of her. Clarke always believed it was Wells Jaha who betrayed her trust and got Jake executed, and out of shame and love for her daughter, Abby never corrected that fact. It was bad enough Clarke had to watch her father be floated before being thrown into juvenile jail herself for knowing about Jake’s plan, Abby wanted to spare her the extra pain.
Seeing how this was the second time she had followed the rules for the “well-being” of all – the first being letting her mother die – without seeing any positive result coming from it and having to watch people she loved suffer or die, Abby decided that from then on, she would to do what she thought was right and live with the consequences if people didn’t agree. She would not watch someone else she loved die at the hands of old laws.
Meanwhile, time was still pressing on the Ark. Oxygen levels were only going down and they needed to find a solution to keep everyone alive. Sparking back to life her old dream to see the surface of the planet, Abby eventually came up with the idea to send one hundred young offenders down on Earth to see if it was viable. So if Clarke had a chance to go down, also giving her a chance to survive – Abby knew treason wasn’t going to go unpunished when her daughter turned 18 – she didn’t even hesitate to help put that plan forward, hoping it would save her daughter, save them all in the long run. She proposed to monitor their vital signs through wristbands. The council made sure that the 100 would have everything they needed and sent them down on a drop ship. Things didn’t go as planned on the descent, however, and the drop ship’s contact was lost. The only thing telling the Ark about the survivability down on Earth were the wristbands.
My will keeps bending
It wasn’t the only problem on their hands that day, however, as Abby was soon told that Chancellor Jaha had been shot. Following the vow she made to herself, she used all the supply she needed in order to save his life, and consequently to keep Marcus Kane from taking over the Chancellor role. She had known the man for years and while she didn’t doubt his ability to live by and apply the rules, she certainly did not want to see him take over. The two of them butted-heads more than any other two Council members and Abby was going to do everything she could to keep him away from power.
Being second in command while Jaha was coming out of surgery, however, Kane arrested her for exceeding the maximum amount of medical supplies allowed for a patient and, given her confession, sentenced her to die. However, Jaha came just in time to keep it from happening, pardoning her crimes.
She went back to monitoring the 100. While more and more wristbands showed signs that their wearer appeared as dead, Abby didn’t lose faith. The “deaths” were coincidental and didn’t appear to be from radiation. She quickly became adamant on going down to Earth herself to help the teens and prove she was right, and consequently keep hundreds of innocent people from dying on the Ark to save the others. She started working with Raven Reyes in order to get a ship ready to go down.
After misfortune and complications, Abby made Raven promise she would go down alone as soon as the ship was ready and radio back in order to put a stop to the culling. Contact was finally made too late, but it became known to the Ark that Earth was survivable. In order to bring everyone down to the ground, they launched the stations of the Ark down with everyone on board.
Earth was even better than anything she had ever imagined. The colors, the smells, the peacefulness. She had finally fulfilled her dream to go down to Earth, except it came with a price.
and breaking
People were already inhabiting the planet and weren’t happy that outsiders came to disturb their way of life. Kane relinquished his Chancellor powers to Abby when he went out on a mission, telling her to watch over the camp. She took her role seriously and after finally being reunited with Clarke, started working with her – considering her daughter clearly had more power than she did herself – in order to make peace with the Grounders. She ended up trusting her daughter’s judgment and her guts and she believed that this alliance between them all could be beneficial, not only to stop the Mountain People from doing harm, but also to move forward and keep the human race alive.
Many years before, Abby took the hippocratic oath and always vowed to save people, not to kill. So seeing all the violence humans are capable of, both Arkers and Grounders alike, is hard for her to understand and adjust to. She vouches for peace and to form a truce with the Commander, Lexa, even though not everybody agrees with her. It works to some extent but they still have to constantly prove to the Grounders they mean no harm.
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