KAYLA CAMERON had always lived in reality. She knew that ever since her parents got divorced when she was eight it was impossible that they'd ever get back together or be on remotely good terms, she knew that the cabinets weren't empty because "her mom forgot to the store," and she knew that her father hadn't had powdered donuts on his upper lip every time he picked her up from school. Sometimes, though, she wanted to forget what reality was like.
When the bombs fell, Kayla had been at a football game. She and her fellow cheerleaders banded together, forming a group they coined the "Cheermazons," one of which Kayla had been a happy member of.
Ever since the sixth week of the apocalypse, Baron Triumph had been hunting her down with renewed passion. When she was with the Cheermazons, she'd taken a pit stop at a Walgreen's, only to get shot in the thigh by the terror himself and shoved into the cage that took too many of her peers away. Ten minutes into the ride after nearly passing out from pain, she took the gun that had been digging into her back and shot Baron Triumph square in the shoulder through the gaps of the cage, shot the lock, and escaped with fear driving her forward.
Kayla could go back to the Cheermazons, they might be able to protect her—except there was the fact that any time she tried Triumph cut her off, nearly shooting her once again, and it was clear the next time it would be her head. Her life had become running and hiding. That is, until she met three teens (or, two teens and a spunky ten-year-old who was an honorary teen), who gave her a glimmer of hope for something bigger.
Josh Wheeler promised her that Baron Triumph wouldn't hurt her as long as they were around. Kayla even started to believe him on the fact despite how unbelievable it was, despite the fact that every fiber of her being screamed they were lying.
Then her ex-boyfriend, Connor, enters her life once again and Kayla couldn't breathe again. The best thing that ever happened to her was him being gone from her life, the fact that he was back made the feeling in her bones present itself even stronger, leaving her to worry about the next time he showed up, just like before.
Kayla Cameron always lived in reality, even if it was so harsh it hurt. The truth was that she could never see herself making it out of this alive, not with the world wanting her dead.
FACE CLAIM → diana silvers as kayla cameron
❝ everyone says we were spared, that we outlived all our parents, that we keep outliving the impossible. but, really, are we spared if this is what we deal with? ❞
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EXTRA.
→ do NOT give her a love interest! maybe if there's several seasons, but certainly not in the first, and if there's a second, it'd still be stretching.
→ kayla doesn't show emotions too well. she's closed off and tries not to show anything, which leaves people to thinking she's a "stone-cold bitch." before the apocalypse, she was the same, but she acted as if she was a happy, peppy cheerleader with a fantastic life.
→ connor is/was abusive. kayla was a senior, and she knew she'd be trapped in a relationship with connor after school ended. because of him, she'd never applied for a scholarship or anything of the sort and planned to stay in glendale despite wanting to pursue a psychology degree. she refused to believe that connor was abusive, but she did realize it a few months before the bombs dropped.
→ connor thinks that kayla abandoned him when he needed her most, that she used it as an excuse to leave him. if you make it seem like this doesn't bother kayla, i'll take the plot away. please do research on victims of abusive relationships to get her character right!
