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( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Veronica Mars
- ★ AGE: 19
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: Veronica Mars | Post S3, before she heads off to the FBI training as indicated by the pilot for the dropped S4
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Wiki link
- ★ PERSONALITY: Veronica's personality can best be summed up in one word; tenacious. It applies to every aspect of her life, be it romantic, personal, or professional. As to why she is the way she is, well, that mostly has to do with her father. Previously the sheriff of Neptune, her home town, he was kicked out of office for sticking to his convictions in a case that hit a little too close to home. While those convictions were a little off base, they did have a reason for being, as the story given to the world by the Kanes was wrong. They thought they were protecting their son, but in reality, they let the real killer get away with it. Veronica watched how her father's tenacity in holding Jake Kane responsible lost him his job and inevitably, his wife, though hindsight shows that might not have been as bad as it sounded. His wife was an alcoholic who cheated on him and had Veronica unsure as to her own parentage, doubly creepy when the prospective 'other man' was the father of her first love. Thinking you were in love with your half brother could really mess a girl up. Adding a rape on top of that only made things worse, and with her father's new job as a private detective, Veronica made use of the information she gathered working for him to try to make sense of her own life.
While some girls might try to forget about it and push it away, Veronica pulled it all out into the sunlight, dirt and muck and potential incest and all. By S3, where I'm taking her from, it's more or less become something she's dealt with and gotten past and is using as sort of a victim's vantage point as to how to deal with the rapist on campus, whom she eventually finds out who it is and catches. Some girls, such as Madison (her archenemy of sorts) look at her actions at the party where she was assaulted as 'slutty behavior' and Veronica doesn't usually jump to 'this girl's a slutty Mcslut' judgement calls. There was the one instance with Parker where she'd been filled in by her roommate (Mac) about Parker's proclivities with boys and hadn't assumed anything was amiss during her actual assault (that Veronica walked in and out on in a dark room without looking too closely at) and that's something she feels a tremendous amount of guilt over. She doesn't feel guilty in that she was responsible for it, but she does feel that 'if I'd only known' type of guilt and it's part of what spurs her on to pursue the actual rapist so doggedly. Part of, but not the entirety, because yes, her own assault does sit at the back of her mind and she wishes, a lot, that someone had bothered to watch what she was doing and knew her well enough and cared enough to say 'That's not normal Veronica behavior, something's wrong'. That they didn't is a large piece of the pie towards why she could and does act so callously towards 'the 09ers'. Financial privilege shouldn't get anyone off the hook for atrocious behavior and she feels a particular kind of glee at making sure that one of the mighty gets a chance to fall for their life choices. Being a victim of assault, which she finds out is the case after she puts the connection with Cassidy and Woody Goodman together, along with her own mystery VD, isn't something that she uses as a weapon or a status or anything that she considers a weakness. It's a learning experience, albeit an incredibly painful and hurtful one, but it's one she uses not just for herself, but for those around her who might get into similar situations.
She got her ideals from her father, a man she respected and loved, and she used that conviction she saw in him to go into the darkest places of her own life to learn truths that hurt, but that also helped her let it go. For a girl that spends her life finding out other people's secrets and lies, not knowing a part of her own life had been eating away at her. She didn't know who to hold responsible and she held everyone at arm's reach to keep anyone else from finding a hole in her armor and getting in to hurt her more. Good in theory, not so great in practice. And she wasn't the best at it either, managing to let in one guy who wound up being a drug dealing liar, and another who was a sweet guy, but wasn't the right guy. Nope, she fell for her dead best friend's ex-boyfriend, who also happened to be best friends with her own ex-boyfriend/possible brother -- a scenario that got even more complicated when she finally found out he wasn't related to her and what she'd thought had been wrong had really just been two stupid dumb messed up teenagers doing what two stupid dumb messed up teenagers do.
In regards to Duncan, it's a complex but bittersweet relationship. He was her first love and Veronica doesn't love in half measures. When Duncan stopped talking to her, stopped dating her without an explanation, it hurt. It tore her up and she couldn't understand why. Following that was her best friend being murdered (his sister), and throughout the investigation, there were constant and mild hints at Duncan being the culprit, due to his fugues and epileptic fits of rage -- something she never found out about until well after they'd broken up and her father had been kicked out of office. Perhaps it was the girlish need to hold on to the happy times of the past; her and Duncan, Lilly and Logan, but Veronica's heart kept drawing her back to Duncan, even after she had suspicions that they were related and that he'd been the one to take her virginity against her will. It was the same for Duncan, the guy who'd walked away from her and had found someone else to date, but couldn't seem to put Veronica out of his mind or heart. Even when Duncan was the prime suspect in terms of who she'd had sex with, it had felt weird being upset with him when a part of her knew she probably had wanted it on some level. The part that seemed to stick with both of them was that they were potentially related and that in itself was what had made it wrong. It wasn't until after her father shipped away for a paternity test that she found out that wasn't the case and those feelings became all the more complicated since she was dating Logan and he was dating Meg -- until he wasn't, Meg deciding she didn't want to be second place in his affections anymore and reading the signs clearly enough.
When Logan and her broke up after the summer and Veronica and Duncan started dating, everything seemed like it would work out perfect for the two of them. Until the bus crash. With Meg in the hospital, Duncan felt a deep sense of guilt and responsibility for her and Veronica was dragged along for the ride, up to finding out that Meg's sister was being abused and that Meg herself was pregnant. With Duncan's baby. She had mixed feelings about that because Veronica was not the sort to want to share affections with someone else, but when push came to shove and the baby was born and Meg died, it became clear that the baby's best interests weren't in staying with Meg's parents. Even though it hurt, the right thing to do was helping Duncan get his daughter away, even though it also meant losing him in the process.
She might have moved on with her life, but a part of her will always easily be drawn back to that night after prom in the limo. The four of them, doing stupid, teenagery things, but doing them together. While Lilly isn't a driving force behind her actions anymore by her current canon point, she will always have a place in Veronica's heart and mind, proven by her reactions to the necklace Lilly gave her being stolen and her tenacity in regaining it. When Veronica loves, she never fully gives that up, even if it's probably best for her. She loves her mother still, even though her mother is a toxin that neither her nor her father need. She will always love Lilly, even though she knows at some level that her best friend had a lot of issues (constantly cheating on Logan, even to the point where she slept with his father). She loves Duncan, her first love and maybe that guy she'll always think of in the 'what if' part of her mind. Just because they're out of her life doesn't mean they're out of her thoughts, though she tries to get on with her life and work around those little holes that are there in it.
Love life aside for now, the rest of who Veronica is is pretty easy to figure out. She's loyal, both to friends and people she takes on as clients, something else she picked up from her father. While she's not adverse to lying when she needs to, she prefers to omit rather than outright lie to her father, but on occasion, lies are needed, if only for his own protection. Loyal and tenacious, these things can and have pushed her too far into the wrong direction. She's broken the law to get what she wants; breaking and entering, lying, pretending to be someone she's not, manipulating the law and the officers that uphold it, stealing... She's also not above blackmail and while she can be steadfast in her loyalty, she can be just as venomous to people she dislikes or who wrong her or those she loves. She's not infallible, no matter what she likes to think, and she's had her nosiness and assumptions come back to bite her in the ass. She holds the people she respects to an ideal that they really can't live up to and she can be irrational in her upset over them not being perfect paragons of virtue, such as when her father had an affair with a married woman. She can also let her own personal feelings get in the way of a case, going after someone she thinks is guilty first off instead of always following the evidence presented, constantly going after Chip and the frat boys for the Hearst University rapes just on the basis that they were gross jerks who played stupid 'bang chicks for points' rush week games. Veronica can, and will, hold a grudge. Forever. If someone has made it onto her shitlist, there they will stay until some miracle of the universe changes her mind about them and she will use her powers for so much evil in their general direction.
Take Logan Echolls. Former friend turned enemy turned frenemy turned boyfriend turned exboyfriend turned... what, exactly? At the end of the series, we see Logan defending Veronica's honor against an infringement on her life and personal space (a recording of her having naked time with Piz), and that is that. The series ended before that storyline could be resolved, but I would gather (in collusion with the movie), that Logan Echolls is someone who can never be out of her life for long. Even at their most antagonistic, sparks flew and these two are drawn to each other like moths to the proverbial flame. As much as there's discord and friction between them, there's also a magnetic sort of draw and while it can be overwhelming, it unfortunately gets ruined more often than not by Veronica's serious trust issues. She loves him, but everyone she loves, barring her father, has screwed her over, so it only stands to reason that Logan will follow suit. And maybe he has a little here and there, but they're magnified in her mind and blown up to unforgivable proportions and she is the architect of her own destruction when it comes to her love life and interactions with Logan Echolls, the dark side of her moon.
In terms of character growth, she's come a long way from the girl who went back to school after Lilly's death as a social pariah. She's learned the truth behind herself and her family and the death of her best friend and it's helped her for the better. She doesn't hold to the fantasy that she can have an ideal life with her mom and dad and she's let that go, knowing her and her father are better off without her mother. She's found out the truth of what's happened to her and it's steeled her resolve to make sure it doesn't happen to others; and if by chance it does, she uses all of her resources to make sure that the person responsible pays, even at the risk of her own life as shown by her handling of the Hearst rapist and how she put herself in a compromising and potentially harmful situation. She's learned, somewhat, to let bygones be bygones, to try to let go of some of that hate she has for the people who have wronged her and to move on with her life, to focus on bigger and better things than petty annoyances, as shown by her not having Madison's car turned into a cube. She's trying to learn to open up more to others, to not have that barrier between her and the rest of the world that expresses itself in smartass comments and sarcasm, but it's still a work in progress. She's only nineteen, after all, and she's still got some growing up and learning to do.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Unseelie. Veronica tries to plan things out and sometimes, she manages. But she also happens to find herself in situations where she has to fly by the seat of her pants as well, which has her used to functioning under somewhat chaotic circumstances. Not to mention her and her father's work, private investigating, usually winds up throwing some sort of chaotic wrench into what others were hoping was a well oiled machine of cheating, lying, subterfuge, and illegalities. Veronica, by nature, likes to mess up things that are going smoothly when they happen to be going smoothly for the wrong people or when they benefit those that she feels don't deserve it. She's meddlesome and nosy and likes to have the people she dislikes frothing in outrage. Other people's chaos is her control.
- ★ ABILITIES:
- ★ INVENTORY: Clothes - (A necklace w/a diamond star pendent given to her by Lilly included). Bag w/: 1 taser, 1 phone, 1 set of keys to everywhere she shouldn't be, 1 set of keys to her car/house/friends' stuff, 1 wallet, 2 pens, 1 notebook, 1 container of lip balm, 1 can of mace, 1 iPod, 1 Nikon D70 camera w/extra storage chip, 1 hairbrush, 1 pack of gum, 1 lighter, 1 flap wallet with her P.I. license and badge. (I'm aware that her taser, phone, iPod, and camera will not work outside of the Station.)
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
[Hey there, Drabwurld. Have yourself one perky looking blonde who's smiling like she knows something.]
Well, hello there, people of the land of Oz. No, wait. There's no yellow brick road. Did I take a wrong turn at Albuquerque? I think so. I know this sure isn't Kansas. Pretty sure it's not California, either. Which means we have ourselves a bit of a pickle, here. See, this is what we in the biz call 'kidnapping'. That's a felony. Mucho bado. Do much jail time. What, do I need to be strumming a harp for this to make sense to you? Veronica wants to go back home now, okay? I've clicked my heels, but unfortunately I'm just wearing regular Adidas. If I'd known I'd be traveling, I would have packed my ruby slippers.
[There's a pause for a moment as she waits for an answer. Any answer, really.]
What, no one got that? Okay, this is a serious problem. I can't stay in a place where people don't have a sense of humor or any knowledge of pop culture. I just can't. I draw the line there. So, how about you nice mythological creatures point me to the nearest tornado home, huh? I'll leave out, what, milk with honey in it? That's what fairies like, right? Maybe I'll turn off the bugzapper outside our door. I can be generous like that.
...
Anyone? Bueller?
[A huff of annoyance before she slams the locket closed.]
- ★ LOG SAMPLE: (Note: All samples are meme links from bakerstreet within an established crossover verse)
One: First meetings and failed interrogations
Two: Rescued by a reluctant savior
- ★ NAME: Veronica Mars
- ★ AGE: 19
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: Veronica Mars | Post S3, before she heads off to the FBI training as indicated by the pilot for the dropped S4
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Wiki link
- ★ PERSONALITY: Veronica's personality can best be summed up in one word; tenacious. It applies to every aspect of her life, be it romantic, personal, or professional. As to why she is the way she is, well, that mostly has to do with her father. Previously the sheriff of Neptune, her home town, he was kicked out of office for sticking to his convictions in a case that hit a little too close to home. While those convictions were a little off base, they did have a reason for being, as the story given to the world by the Kanes was wrong. They thought they were protecting their son, but in reality, they let the real killer get away with it. Veronica watched how her father's tenacity in holding Jake Kane responsible lost him his job and inevitably, his wife, though hindsight shows that might not have been as bad as it sounded. His wife was an alcoholic who cheated on him and had Veronica unsure as to her own parentage, doubly creepy when the prospective 'other man' was the father of her first love. Thinking you were in love with your half brother could really mess a girl up. Adding a rape on top of that only made things worse, and with her father's new job as a private detective, Veronica made use of the information she gathered working for him to try to make sense of her own life.
While some girls might try to forget about it and push it away, Veronica pulled it all out into the sunlight, dirt and muck and potential incest and all. By S3, where I'm taking her from, it's more or less become something she's dealt with and gotten past and is using as sort of a victim's vantage point as to how to deal with the rapist on campus, whom she eventually finds out who it is and catches. Some girls, such as Madison (her archenemy of sorts) look at her actions at the party where she was assaulted as 'slutty behavior' and Veronica doesn't usually jump to 'this girl's a slutty Mcslut' judgement calls. There was the one instance with Parker where she'd been filled in by her roommate (Mac) about Parker's proclivities with boys and hadn't assumed anything was amiss during her actual assault (that Veronica walked in and out on in a dark room without looking too closely at) and that's something she feels a tremendous amount of guilt over. She doesn't feel guilty in that she was responsible for it, but she does feel that 'if I'd only known' type of guilt and it's part of what spurs her on to pursue the actual rapist so doggedly. Part of, but not the entirety, because yes, her own assault does sit at the back of her mind and she wishes, a lot, that someone had bothered to watch what she was doing and knew her well enough and cared enough to say 'That's not normal Veronica behavior, something's wrong'. That they didn't is a large piece of the pie towards why she could and does act so callously towards 'the 09ers'. Financial privilege shouldn't get anyone off the hook for atrocious behavior and she feels a particular kind of glee at making sure that one of the mighty gets a chance to fall for their life choices. Being a victim of assault, which she finds out is the case after she puts the connection with Cassidy and Woody Goodman together, along with her own mystery VD, isn't something that she uses as a weapon or a status or anything that she considers a weakness. It's a learning experience, albeit an incredibly painful and hurtful one, but it's one she uses not just for herself, but for those around her who might get into similar situations.
She got her ideals from her father, a man she respected and loved, and she used that conviction she saw in him to go into the darkest places of her own life to learn truths that hurt, but that also helped her let it go. For a girl that spends her life finding out other people's secrets and lies, not knowing a part of her own life had been eating away at her. She didn't know who to hold responsible and she held everyone at arm's reach to keep anyone else from finding a hole in her armor and getting in to hurt her more. Good in theory, not so great in practice. And she wasn't the best at it either, managing to let in one guy who wound up being a drug dealing liar, and another who was a sweet guy, but wasn't the right guy. Nope, she fell for her dead best friend's ex-boyfriend, who also happened to be best friends with her own ex-boyfriend/possible brother -- a scenario that got even more complicated when she finally found out he wasn't related to her and what she'd thought had been wrong had really just been two stupid dumb messed up teenagers doing what two stupid dumb messed up teenagers do.
In regards to Duncan, it's a complex but bittersweet relationship. He was her first love and Veronica doesn't love in half measures. When Duncan stopped talking to her, stopped dating her without an explanation, it hurt. It tore her up and she couldn't understand why. Following that was her best friend being murdered (his sister), and throughout the investigation, there were constant and mild hints at Duncan being the culprit, due to his fugues and epileptic fits of rage -- something she never found out about until well after they'd broken up and her father had been kicked out of office. Perhaps it was the girlish need to hold on to the happy times of the past; her and Duncan, Lilly and Logan, but Veronica's heart kept drawing her back to Duncan, even after she had suspicions that they were related and that he'd been the one to take her virginity against her will. It was the same for Duncan, the guy who'd walked away from her and had found someone else to date, but couldn't seem to put Veronica out of his mind or heart. Even when Duncan was the prime suspect in terms of who she'd had sex with, it had felt weird being upset with him when a part of her knew she probably had wanted it on some level. The part that seemed to stick with both of them was that they were potentially related and that in itself was what had made it wrong. It wasn't until after her father shipped away for a paternity test that she found out that wasn't the case and those feelings became all the more complicated since she was dating Logan and he was dating Meg -- until he wasn't, Meg deciding she didn't want to be second place in his affections anymore and reading the signs clearly enough.
When Logan and her broke up after the summer and Veronica and Duncan started dating, everything seemed like it would work out perfect for the two of them. Until the bus crash. With Meg in the hospital, Duncan felt a deep sense of guilt and responsibility for her and Veronica was dragged along for the ride, up to finding out that Meg's sister was being abused and that Meg herself was pregnant. With Duncan's baby. She had mixed feelings about that because Veronica was not the sort to want to share affections with someone else, but when push came to shove and the baby was born and Meg died, it became clear that the baby's best interests weren't in staying with Meg's parents. Even though it hurt, the right thing to do was helping Duncan get his daughter away, even though it also meant losing him in the process.
She might have moved on with her life, but a part of her will always easily be drawn back to that night after prom in the limo. The four of them, doing stupid, teenagery things, but doing them together. While Lilly isn't a driving force behind her actions anymore by her current canon point, she will always have a place in Veronica's heart and mind, proven by her reactions to the necklace Lilly gave her being stolen and her tenacity in regaining it. When Veronica loves, she never fully gives that up, even if it's probably best for her. She loves her mother still, even though her mother is a toxin that neither her nor her father need. She will always love Lilly, even though she knows at some level that her best friend had a lot of issues (constantly cheating on Logan, even to the point where she slept with his father). She loves Duncan, her first love and maybe that guy she'll always think of in the 'what if' part of her mind. Just because they're out of her life doesn't mean they're out of her thoughts, though she tries to get on with her life and work around those little holes that are there in it.
Love life aside for now, the rest of who Veronica is is pretty easy to figure out. She's loyal, both to friends and people she takes on as clients, something else she picked up from her father. While she's not adverse to lying when she needs to, she prefers to omit rather than outright lie to her father, but on occasion, lies are needed, if only for his own protection. Loyal and tenacious, these things can and have pushed her too far into the wrong direction. She's broken the law to get what she wants; breaking and entering, lying, pretending to be someone she's not, manipulating the law and the officers that uphold it, stealing... She's also not above blackmail and while she can be steadfast in her loyalty, she can be just as venomous to people she dislikes or who wrong her or those she loves. She's not infallible, no matter what she likes to think, and she's had her nosiness and assumptions come back to bite her in the ass. She holds the people she respects to an ideal that they really can't live up to and she can be irrational in her upset over them not being perfect paragons of virtue, such as when her father had an affair with a married woman. She can also let her own personal feelings get in the way of a case, going after someone she thinks is guilty first off instead of always following the evidence presented, constantly going after Chip and the frat boys for the Hearst University rapes just on the basis that they were gross jerks who played stupid 'bang chicks for points' rush week games. Veronica can, and will, hold a grudge. Forever. If someone has made it onto her shitlist, there they will stay until some miracle of the universe changes her mind about them and she will use her powers for so much evil in their general direction.
Take Logan Echolls. Former friend turned enemy turned frenemy turned boyfriend turned exboyfriend turned... what, exactly? At the end of the series, we see Logan defending Veronica's honor against an infringement on her life and personal space (a recording of her having naked time with Piz), and that is that. The series ended before that storyline could be resolved, but I would gather (in collusion with the movie), that Logan Echolls is someone who can never be out of her life for long. Even at their most antagonistic, sparks flew and these two are drawn to each other like moths to the proverbial flame. As much as there's discord and friction between them, there's also a magnetic sort of draw and while it can be overwhelming, it unfortunately gets ruined more often than not by Veronica's serious trust issues. She loves him, but everyone she loves, barring her father, has screwed her over, so it only stands to reason that Logan will follow suit. And maybe he has a little here and there, but they're magnified in her mind and blown up to unforgivable proportions and she is the architect of her own destruction when it comes to her love life and interactions with Logan Echolls, the dark side of her moon.
In terms of character growth, she's come a long way from the girl who went back to school after Lilly's death as a social pariah. She's learned the truth behind herself and her family and the death of her best friend and it's helped her for the better. She doesn't hold to the fantasy that she can have an ideal life with her mom and dad and she's let that go, knowing her and her father are better off without her mother. She's found out the truth of what's happened to her and it's steeled her resolve to make sure it doesn't happen to others; and if by chance it does, she uses all of her resources to make sure that the person responsible pays, even at the risk of her own life as shown by her handling of the Hearst rapist and how she put herself in a compromising and potentially harmful situation. She's learned, somewhat, to let bygones be bygones, to try to let go of some of that hate she has for the people who have wronged her and to move on with her life, to focus on bigger and better things than petty annoyances, as shown by her not having Madison's car turned into a cube. She's trying to learn to open up more to others, to not have that barrier between her and the rest of the world that expresses itself in smartass comments and sarcasm, but it's still a work in progress. She's only nineteen, after all, and she's still got some growing up and learning to do.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Unseelie. Veronica tries to plan things out and sometimes, she manages. But she also happens to find herself in situations where she has to fly by the seat of her pants as well, which has her used to functioning under somewhat chaotic circumstances. Not to mention her and her father's work, private investigating, usually winds up throwing some sort of chaotic wrench into what others were hoping was a well oiled machine of cheating, lying, subterfuge, and illegalities. Veronica, by nature, likes to mess up things that are going smoothly when they happen to be going smoothly for the wrong people or when they benefit those that she feels don't deserve it. She's meddlesome and nosy and likes to have the people she dislikes frothing in outrage. Other people's chaos is her control.
- ★ ABILITIES:
- Understanding of Spanish (Understands it better than she speaks it)
- Private Investigator's license
- Photography
- High quality ID forgery
- Understanding of some security systems (Earth based only)
- Tailing/Tracking
- ★ INVENTORY: Clothes - (A necklace w/a diamond star pendent given to her by Lilly included). Bag w/: 1 taser, 1 phone, 1 set of keys to everywhere she shouldn't be, 1 set of keys to her car/house/friends' stuff, 1 wallet, 2 pens, 1 notebook, 1 container of lip balm, 1 can of mace, 1 iPod, 1 Nikon D70 camera w/extra storage chip, 1 hairbrush, 1 pack of gum, 1 lighter, 1 flap wallet with her P.I. license and badge. (I'm aware that her taser, phone, iPod, and camera will not work outside of the Station.)
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
[Hey there, Drabwurld. Have yourself one perky looking blonde who's smiling like she knows something.]
Well, hello there, people of the land of Oz. No, wait. There's no yellow brick road. Did I take a wrong turn at Albuquerque? I think so. I know this sure isn't Kansas. Pretty sure it's not California, either. Which means we have ourselves a bit of a pickle, here. See, this is what we in the biz call 'kidnapping'. That's a felony. Mucho bado. Do much jail time. What, do I need to be strumming a harp for this to make sense to you? Veronica wants to go back home now, okay? I've clicked my heels, but unfortunately I'm just wearing regular Adidas. If I'd known I'd be traveling, I would have packed my ruby slippers.
[There's a pause for a moment as she waits for an answer. Any answer, really.]
What, no one got that? Okay, this is a serious problem. I can't stay in a place where people don't have a sense of humor or any knowledge of pop culture. I just can't. I draw the line there. So, how about you nice mythological creatures point me to the nearest tornado home, huh? I'll leave out, what, milk with honey in it? That's what fairies like, right? Maybe I'll turn off the bugzapper outside our door. I can be generous like that.
...
Anyone? Bueller?
[A huff of annoyance before she slams the locket closed.]
- ★ LOG SAMPLE: (Note: All samples are meme links from bakerstreet within an established crossover verse)
One: First meetings and failed interrogations
Two: Rescued by a reluctant savior