Breaking down the Summer 2009 "Tribe Awards" presented to KTDARPG players by the votes of their fellow players, with tributes to the show that continues to inspire us!Category: Most Innocent Character
Winner: Jenna
Runner Up: Terra
Runner Up: Krystal
How in the world is it possible, in the post-apocalyptic world in which our players live, to have any kind of innocence at all, no matter what age you are?
Even the youngest have seen death, starvation, deprivation and degredation. For many of them, they may not know or understand anything else.
It's not just a lack of innocence in the youngest; it's the loss of innocence in the older kids.
That's why I was surprised that Jenna won this category (41% of votes), until I thought about it for this blog. For whatever reason, Rio kept Jenna isolated & protected since the Virus. She became a bard, making her way telling stories & histories, but she doesn't really know all that much about life. She hasn't experienced it. That became totally obvious when she met up with Icarus. Though she's a teenager, Jenna doesn't know about relationships, especially the physical side. She's very very lucky that Icarus is caring, thoughtful & understanding. A lesser man would have taken total advantage of Jenna & then left her behind.
We had a tie for runner up -- Terra and Krystal (18% of votes). Again, different kinds of innocence. Terra is definitely a babe in the woods, literally. Now that she's inside Fort River, you can almost predict a loss of her innocence if she spends any amount of time there. Krystal has an innocence of the soul. She has never taken a life; she's saved them when she could. She's never wronged anyone though she's been wronged herself. Without her tribe & her friends, I truly believe Krystal would be dead in game-world by now.
Interesting enough, every character nominated in this category received votes. The others were Izzy, Lily and Maggie ... also innocents in a very strange land.
-Chyna
Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"
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