hours of going ‘round and ‘round in circles, her interrogators attempting to catch her in a lie. she truly believes they want to find something that makes her guilty, that will make it easy to throw her away like the rest of the project. gaea doesn’t blame them. she deserves to rot in a cell. she had been prepared to rot in that house with the corpse of her father, had been ready to burn with the rest of the project. and then owen had tossed her over his shoulder, had dragged her away and brought her with him. and it didn’t really matter that she hadn’t held a gun until she had fought against eden’s gate, doesn’t matter she didn’t start shedding blood until she was fighting peggies. what matters is that, for a time, she had been silent. obedient. hadn’t done a damn thing to stop what was going. so gaea will be honest. she will give them every gritty detail. but then she thinks she’ll hold out her wrists so they can put the cuffs on her, whether they find her deserving or not.
unable and unwilling to leave her blind father’s side when he suddenly decides he wants to move to montana, gaea finds herself in the lovely hope county and the new owner of a lovely cottage. though not religiously inclined, her desire to make friends and be a part of something has her becoming a part of pastor jerome jeffries’ congregation. and when numerous of them decide to join eden’s gate, she goes with them. she always has an uneasy feeling but she sticks to it, allowing herself to be baptized and for her sin to be permanently etched on her skin. and by the time she’s let in on the carnage that is taking place, the intimidation and the murder and the brainwashing, it’s too late. with her land the home of a radio tower and jacob’s more lucky house guests being brought to her home to be healed, gaea does what she can to get them back on her feet. it isn’t until owen grady that she thinks it’s possible for the project to be taken down. and it isn’t until he helps her that she fights back.
key things in this verse:
the events of the game taken place between march 27 and august 28, 2018. a year before then, gaea and her blind father titan move to fall’s end in hope county, montana. because of her experience volunteering at a clinic in new york city, she acts as a doctor at her home, usually dealing with those coming from jacob’s compound. her kind and compassionate nature help them heal mentally. it isn’t until owen grady, the one that never broke and is only brought back to heal and then be tortured more, that things change for her. after the death of her father, he convinces her ( read: carries her away ) to join up with the resistance. it takes approximately six months to compromise the compounds and defeat the heralds.
on august 28th, 2018, jacob seed is arrested. during the preliminary hearing, and by special request, gaea gives her testimony and the hearing lasts for three hours. between august 28th and october 30th, 2018, gaea buys herself a cabin and two acres of land in montana. she begins taking the steps to make a life for herself: tending her land, taking online classes for writing and opening up a booth at the local farmer’s market. on november 7th, 2018, she is hospitalized for a week because of the side effects of milk sickness, received from cows that have ingested white snakeroot.
from june 3rd, 2019 and onward, gaea lysimachia and owen grady enter into a relationship. during april 2020, gaea finds out that there is a hacker erecting a new eden’s gate and acting under the will of father jacob seed and god. the only reason that gaea is informed of what is going on is because her address is found in a decoded message between the hacker and his followers.
ship: owen grady ( @chaordiic ) is her pillar, her confidante and the person who believed in her the most. he’s the one she trusts with her body, heart and soul. as it is, this is the only ship that will happen in this verse. new dawn is a different animal.
friends, enemies: pastor jerome jeffries ( @thepastcr ), whose congregation she left in order to follow the herd that joined the project, a dear friend who has found it in his heart to forgive her. deputy deacon saint ( @deputysaint ), who is full of so much courage she can’t help but worry about him. john seed ( @sanctemony ), who was the first to approach her and asked her to build a radio tower on her land. the father ( @gqds-gift ), who leads the project toward salvation.
shoutout: to the amazing moony, who writes owen, because this write - up would not be nearly as thorough and cohesive without their hard work. we plotted together but they put together this incredible timeline and i just … i’m in awe that i’m a part of something so incredible. don’t let it fool you. while i have many threads in other verses, far cry will always be my favorite and it is definitely because of how much we’ve fleshed it out ( and again, the amazing work moony does, jesus fucks ).












