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[IC Information]
Character Name: Sherry Birkin
Series: Resident Evil
Gender: Female
Age: 12
Sexuality: Heterosexual (But, uh, twelve.)
Species: Human
Appearance: Sherry is a young girl in her early teens, and under five feet tall. Her hair is dark blonde, cut to just below her chin and kept in place with a red hair ribbon. Her eyes are blue, and her skin is very pale for someone her age. She wears a uniform from a private school consisting of navy slacks, shoes and white, sailor-collared shirt with her school’s emblem attached to the left breast. The clothing is somewhat dirty, and not nearly as pristine as the white patches of fabric suggest it once was. She wears a pink valkyrie coat over her uniform, and only removes it to sleep. To a person that’s known both William and Sherry, Sherry strongly takes after her father’s looks, with little of her mother’s influence.
Personality: Shy and withdrawn to strangers, Sherry is emotionally stunted and doesn’t speak up much. She doesn’t like being treated as a child and is very defensive of it, but has problems relating to children her own age. She is a bright girl, like her parents, though thanks to her stunted emotional growth she doesn’t smile very often. She mistrusts most adults except her family and the people she survived the Raccoon City Incident with. One can infer that, because of the incident itself, Sherry is more resilient to situations with monsters. However, she is still a little girl, and scares easily, often running away if she feels that the person protecting her cannot handle the job to hide in places that are small and not easily accessible by adults (a good example are things like air conditioning vents and small cabinets).
Sherry is very obedient to those she trusts, and greatly treasured the brief snatches of time she had with her parents, following their rules to the letter. Sherry is also very self-sufficient, thanks to her parents’ neglect. While she can’t really be left on her own when it comes to protection, she is smart enough to figure out alternate routes around and into things that an adult wouldn’t be able to fit through, and monopolizes this ability.
After Raccoon City, Sherry idolizes Claire and clings to the hope that she will return and save Sherry. Until then, Sherry has resolved to wait. She can be very patient for a 12-year-old. In place of losing her locket, she clings to Claire’s jacket. Sherry had started to open up to Claire, but closed up immediately once government agents started grilling her about her parents and their location.
Abilities: Sherry was infected with the G-Virus, and then cured with the Devil antidote. There has been no information on how the girl has been affected by this, and I’m willing to guess that there are no major changes in Sherry biologically, except she has G-virus antibodies in her system. She’s just a regular little girl.
Manhattanite or outsider? Outsider
History: Born to William and Annette Birkin, Sherry grew up in Raccoon City and attended a private school (likely funded by Umbrella, like the rest of the town) there. Her parents worked for Umbrella, and were often absent, leaving Sherry alone through much of her childhood in the care of others. Still, she deeply loved her parents and did her best to impress them, even if they weren’t around to praise her.
As she grew, Sherry became a more serious and withdrawn child, while her parents became more neglectful of her care. By the time she was twelve, she’d grown used to not seeing her father for days at a time and infrequent, perfunctory, visits from her mother. In the summer of 1998, there were news reports of wild dogs in the woods attacking hikers and then strange cults leaving behind human remains. Life in Raccoon, once picturesque, was becoming more dangerous. As the summer went on, the reports increased, but Sherry was mostly ignorant of the proceedings. One day, her mother called to tell her that it would be best for her to go and hide in the police office precinct house closest to her. Sherry did, and was just in time before the office was boarded up as protection against the roving infected crowds of people that swarmed the city.
Unfortunately for Sherry, it was not as safe as Annette had hoped. The precinct house was quickly infested and Sherry hid from the zombies, B.O.W., the mutated form of her own father (unbeknownst to Sherry - she could hear him calling her name at points, but didn’t equate the voice to the monster), and the T-103 Tyrant (who was searching for the G-virus sample in her locket). While in the precinct house, Sherry met Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy, more survivors. She was being pursued by a zombie and while the creature was taken care of by Claire and Leon, Sherry was scared out of her mind and wriggled through a broken door away from them. She met Claire again in Police Chief Iron’s office, and told her that she was looking for her father, whose voice she heard somewhere in the precinct house. A roar interrupted Sherry’s story, and the frightened little girl ran away from Claire again.
It’s unknown how Sherry got herself down into the sewage plant, though she likely used the pipe and vent systems to help her out. There, she was surprised by a woman named Ada Wong, who appeared out of a vent with a boost from Leon. Startled, Sherry ran away again and her pendant broke. She ran back to the relative safety of Chief Iron’s office, where she met Claire again. Claire made her stay in Iron’s office while she cleared the way down in his dungeon. When Claire came back, she brought Sherry down with her, into the sewers, where the little girl was sucked into a drainage chute and separated from Claire, headed down into a lower level. There, Sherry ran into a garbage room, where she found something shiny. But before the little girl could pick it up, the floor opened and dropped Sherry down into the garbage hold, where she was knocked out. It was probably better for her, as her mutated father found her and impregnated her with a virus embryo. When she came to, she screamed in pain and alerted both her mother, Annette, and Claire to her whereabouts, sending both women on a frantic search for the girl in an attempt to prevent what had already occurred.
Claire finally found the knocked out little girl in the garbage dump, and when Sherry stirred, she complained of stomach pains, though Claire assured the infected little girl that everything would be okay. The two girls go on to find an underground tram car, which led them to a dock. It isn’t safe yet, though, as there were still zombies in the corridors, which Claire mowed through. There, they found that the tram turned into a large elevator, which was then attacked by William Birkin. Sherry hid as Claire defeated him and when he died, the elevator continued down. They had stumbled across another Umbrella 7-11 lab. Sherry’s pain overwhelmed her, and the little girl passed out, only stirring when Claire left her to rest on a cot in the security office. Sherry stirred again to tell Claire that she trusted her, and Claire promised to find a way to cure Sherry, leaving the girl with her pink coat to keep warm.
While she slept, Claire and Leon destroy the lab, grabbing the little girl and escaping on a train. Claire administered the ‘Devil’ antidote to Sherry, who recovered and thanked Claire. Just when they thought they had escaped, the train lurches and a computer in the main compartment announced that bio-hazardous material had been detected and that the train would detonate in two minutes. The creature which attacked them was the final, jello-like blob form of William Birkin, apparently still after his own daughter. Unable to get to Leon, as the doors locked, Claire told Sherry to hide. Sherry crawled into a vent (she really likes those), and promised Claire she would find a way to stop the train. She made her way to the cockpit and was joined by Leon. Sherry could not find how to stop the train in the time it took Leon to make his way there, and he pointed out the button she needed. She slammed her fist down on the button and stopped the train, though the countdown announced that there were 30 seconds remaining until the train blew. Luckily, the three were not far from the end of the train tunnel, and they escaped as the countdown noted the final seconds. When the train blew, they were thrown clear of the tunnel. Leon, Claire and Sherry lived to see the morning of September 30th, but, soon went their separate ways; Leon gave Sherry into government custody, though Claire left the girl her pink jacket with the promise to come back to her. After she’d been under the watch of the government, Wesker and The Agency took her. Currently, Sherry’s whereabouts are unknown.
She will be taken from the point in time where Leon bargains for her to be cared for by the government.