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===Background===

"Where are you from?"

Islamabad (Bartertown). Fatima moved to California upon her marriage to Muhammad Omer, who at the time was living in Silicon Valley as a quite successful computer programmer. The marriage was arranged by their very traditional parents. Fatima thought of herself as traditional, but it's hard to cling to old values in the midst of California. The worst part of it all was that Omer wasn't a bad person, just incredibly tedious and full of himself.

Fatima divorced him, but he managed to walk out with custody of their son. Fatima has done her best to stay part of his life, but it's hard now that Omer has moved to Chicago. Fatima's family was incensed, and she still hasn't really made up with them over it all.

She got a job at a scrapyard and put an old interest in cars her parents had long tried to stifle to good use. She became a good mechanic and made enough to become comfortable.

A few years later she married an American, Alejandro Jimenez (who was proud to say his family had been in California long before it was American). He was also Catholic, which made family relations even more tense all around. They had their own children and Fatima was happy to navigate her way into almost matching the stereotype of a soccer mom. Things haven't always been easy, and life was never as simple as it was supposed to be, but with her loving husband and two beautiful children it was happier than she had ever anticipated.


"What were you doing when the zombie pandemic struck your community and how did you survive the initial outbreak?"

Fatima was at the hospital. Tariq had the flu bad. One of the earlier outbreaks occurred when a man with AIDS died from the original flu. At the time it was marked down as a singular incident, just a lone man going mad and biting doctors. She saw him, though, with torn flesh in his mouth and nothing in his eyes, and she knew something was wrong.
But she didn't know what.

She took Tariq home immediately and started hoarding supplies and refusing to leave unless absolutely necessary. Al insisted she was just in some kind of shock, and he probably was right, but the mad paranoia turned out correct when the neighborhood started getting crazy.
Unfortunately, ready she was to hole up, Fatima wasn't ready when Juanita, immune system weakened from the earlier flu, got sick. By that point the hospitals were down and she couldn't find a doctor. They did everything they could.

After her darling daughter tore a chunk out of her husband, Fatima was forced to kill her with a shovel to protect Tariq. Al didn't last much longer, but at least Fatima didn't have to kill him. She managed to lock him in the basement instead. Then they left.

"How have you survived the following years?"

Turns out a minivan can plow over a lot of people with minimal damage. Fatima is a believer in using tools to balance out her own physical un-impressiveness, and so was quick to adopt firearms and stay in vehicles whenever feasible. Fatima became increasingly erratic in some ways, but desperation made her cling to what she had all the harder. When the car broke down, she upgraded. (At this point I was considering going for an armored old School Bus, but that seems more the Haulers thing) Now she's got a damn Hummer that's seen some ridiculous work.

Tariq was with her up until a few months ago. It says something about how bad everything's going that she felt genuinely good when she put a bullet in his head. Yeah, it sucked, but it was better than leaving him as he was.

Now, her last child is somewhere in Chicago, hopefully alive, and Fatima has developed a stare that looks like it can see that far.