Abby Anderson

Abby was born sometime in 2017 or 2018 and is the daughter of Jerry Anderson, the head surgeon who worked for the Fireflies and was killed by Joel Miller when rescuing Ellie. Her father raised her as a member of the Fireflies during the apocalypse and took her to live in Salt Lake City, where he worked on making a vaccine for the Cordyceps brain infection. Later that evening, Abby brings her father food while he is arguing with Marlene over whether they should take Ellie's life in order to potentially create the cure for the Cordyceps brain infection. Marlene reluctantly approves the surgery and exits. Abby reassures her father that if she was in the same place as Ellie, she would gladly undergo the surgery to secure a cure. Abby runs to the operating room to check on her father. Entering the room, she sees him lying on the ground covered in blood, dead, with Owen and Manny having also discovered the scene. Abby cries out, and Owen consoles her. With both Jerry and Marlene dead, the Fireflies disband, leaving Abby and her friends to head towards Seattle to join the Washington Liberation Front. Years later, Abby returns to the aquarium in search of Owen. Owen has made the aquarium something of a hideout, cleaning it up and furnishing it with lights and decorations. Abby and Owen chat and banter, though not quite as easily as before. In the time since they first discovered the aquarium, Abby and Owen have broken up, and he is now dating their friend Mel. Along the way, Abby is forced to make her way through several abandoned houses and encounters a few groups of runners. Eventually, a storm rolls in, and Abby finds herself in the middle of a horde of the infected.