Background

Eleanor, born daughter of Theodore and Nathalie Watson, spent most of her teenage years in Birmingham - England. As any other child those days, she was playful and curious, often spending a long time watching closely to her father messing with their car's engine and following her mother around while she did her daily routines. Although Eleanor's parents were fairly wealthy, their origin went back to the poor districts of Great Yarmouth, where they met each other. That gave them the means to teach the little one respect, humility and integrity above personal gains, and Eleanor grew up to value those pillars greatly. At the date of Eleanor's 18th birthday, she had a long conversation with her parents regarding her next steps towards adult life, and she was determined to choose something that could make a difference. As she grew up, there was an interest in mechanics from her time working on vehicles with her father, but Theodore barely had the time to convince his daughter to follow his steps. The excitement was cut short as she chose to become a medic. Reluctantly, Theodore accepted her decision and moved on to assist Eleanor on her needs. As soon as Theodore had everything in its place, Eleanor made her way to London, setting up for a new life in a small apartment, lost in the immensity of this city. There, thanks to a prodigious curriculum, she was accepted into the UCL Medical College for the class of 1984. Eleanor, now 18, had finally reached one of her main life achievements, and she was determined to make it worth the time put into it. The first half of her graduation would prove to be very challenging, adapting to a new schedule and studying day and night to keep her high grades. Unfortunately, such a brutal routine brought consequences as Eleanor faced a burnout and developed anxiety during her third year, having to reorganize her routine to fit a standard less harmful to her body and mind, an adaptation that occurred through a few months until May 1986. That same year, Eleanor wished to reduce the impact of her degree on her parent’s finances, applying for the Royal Army Medical Corps and being accepted in a bursary program, with a commitment to act as an officer after graduation. The army invested in her studies, given her prodigious background, all the while providing the initial steps of her military training. By the end of the year of 1989, Eleanor had now graduated and had successfully acquired the rank of Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. To her dismay, after a year of training and preparations, she was at the top of the list for Operation Granby – or rather, the Gulf War –, being deployed among over 50 thousand personnel to the desert, attached to the Royal Army 22 Field Hospital. Upon arrival from the Middle East in 1991, she awaited and recovered, trying to keep her mind busy with useful activities that brought her away from the conflict. She followed this thought until she was assigned to an MREP in the US Army, changing her plans in late 1992 to a stay of a few months in that country, where a variety of exercises were conducted during the exchange. Eleanor made her way to the West in a bus commissioned by the US Army for that part of the exercise. Once again, she kept listening to rumors about strange happenings throughout the world on her small radio, some major ruckus in the media bothered her mind as always, just to be ignored as always, gossip and theories just to keep people entertained, she thought, shrugging it away. But, gossip soon turned into reality. In that bus, she was unaware of the calamitous occurrence across the globe that had just started to occur. A very grim, dark future awaited, full of uncertainty, full of questions, fear, loss. Suddenly, a loud commotion occurred on the highway and the bus crashed into the vehicle ahead. Everyone ran outside, trying to make sense of what just happened as people ran about and vehicles tried to maneuver. A rift had just opened and people were in panic. A billboard in the distance mentioned Kentucky a few miles away, that was all she could gather before she vanished into the crowd, fleeing among the others, looking for safety.