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the Nurse
the Nurse
wanted interactions (and open to ship with)
wanted interactions (and open to ship with)
Wanted interactions: TLOU, TWD, Fallout, modern fandoms: real world or marvel-like (you don't need to know TLOU, her story is short and self-explanatory).
Open to ship with: everybody (who's around her age) but it will take a lot of interaction.
fc: Thandiwe Newton (icons by jessecuster)
Potential triggers: post-partum depression (which led her to abandon her family) and alcoholism, tagged as ppd tw and alcoholism tw. Although I don't plan on focusing on the alcoholism part as it can be upsetting to me, but she can absolutely bring up her sobriety and even joke about it.
What you need to know, whether you have watched TLOU or not:
What you need to know, whether you have watched TLOU or not:
Bio that works for all fandoms/beginning of her life: After she got pregnant with Sarah at age 20 and married Joel Miller, Yana suffered from post-partum depression: she shared nothing about this with Joel, scared he'd try to make things work, that he'd try to help her. In fact, she played "the villain" part to prevent it, because she didn't trust herself to stay and not hurt Sarah, and claimed that she wouldn't let a baby ruin her life, that she was too young to be tied up, to make sure he'd let her go.
She left her family and city at 21, turned to alcohol instead of proper help, lost everything, and put herself in rehab at 24, after her parents finally found her. She eventually texted Joel to at least offer money for Sarah, to take responsibility, once she was stable enough to work. but still would not drag him into her battle, because she felt it would sound like "excuses" and still didn't trust herself not to fall off the wagon yet.
she never stopped going to therapy and became a registered nurse, then at age 30 started working at a hospital, and tried to do her best to redeem herself without reconnecting with her family.
She understands now that she should have talked to Joel right away or even 'at some point', but by the time she was back to herself, it was too late and had no idea of how to fix it except to wait until Sarah was older.
Note that Joels and potential AU Sarahs are allowed to react as you think they would, that's for you to choose.
For the rest of her story and how your muse will interact with her, check one of the next two paragraphs:
For TLOU and fandoms where the world ends:
For TLOU and fandoms where the world ends:
Yana, age 34, survives everything after the end of the world (she wasn't even at the hospital when the worst of it hit, ironically she was taking a mental health break). She's not quite as 'badass' as Joel, but finds groups of people who help her survive until she's able to fight for herself.
She had kept tabs on her family so she did look for them soon after the outbreak, but all signs pointed to them having died, and only because motivated by the fact that as a nurse she could actually help people Yana was able not to fall back into old habits, while of course still succumbing to grief.
20 years later, at the time of the first game, she still thinks of her lost family but has found some peace in her work.
She's sort of a traveling nurse, a "neutral zone" that has helped all sorts of people without judging, so her survival has been partly possible thanks to the fact that she had literal gangs of raiders protecting her, as well as good people. She can be soft, which has at times put her in danger and at others endeared criminals and honest men alike, but she's tough when her voice must be heard, and especially when she's in her element (needless to say, with those 20 years of experience in a field with little medical supplies, she's basically become a full doctor and has helped during surgeries. Not much of a choice).
If required by the fandom, there has been some cryo involved to bring her to the same timeline as your muses.
For other modern fandoms, real-world, or marvel-like:
For other modern fandoms, real-world, or marvel-like:
She has kept helping everyone in need without asking too many questions, but standing her ground about not getting dragged into direct trouble, which means that some higher-ups owe her favors, and some more questionable people like her.
Her guilt over her family is beyond words, but she ended up never reconnecting with them.
To match with the canon TLOU version of her, in her 30s Yana enlisted as a medic for the Army (automatic rank for a registered nurse is Lieutenant) but ended up helping people from both sides; she did it one too many times, and went directly against her captain's orders to help enemy children after a bomb blew up in the wrong spot, so she was discharged, luckily not with dishonor, while she had full support from her Unit.
In some verses, after that she became a first responder to keep helping indiscriminately, in others she goes back to the hospital and is studying to be a nurse practitioner.
She's very open about her past because she feels it's better to find out right away if a person can handle it or not, and that includes being proud of her choices in the army and, if necessary, discussing her sobriety: neither are a secret. She's far more reserved about her family, though I 'headcanon'/plan that at some point it will be her daughter Sarah who will come looking for her.
Added: June 1st 2025
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