Sarah Connor (1984)

NAME – Sarah Connor
GENDER - Female
AGE – 19
HEIGHT – 5’6
EYE COLOUR – Brown-Light
OCCUPATION – Waitress, Fugitive
STATUS - Targetted for Termination

Sarah Connor was born Fall 1965. She was born to a waitress mother and a veteran father. When she was seven, her father walked out on her and her mother. After then Sarah lived a normal life when growing up. At the age of 19, she worked as a hapless waitress with a dull life at Big Jeff’s family restaurant and shared a two-story apartment in the Palm District with her roommate and best friend Ginger Ventura while studying at college. But everything Sarah had ever known was to change that year in 1984.

Sarah finds herself pursued by a relentless cyborg killer, the Terminator; a Series 800 Model 101 Infiltrator Unit. She learns she is in danger from a televised report of two other identically-named Los Angeles women being shot to death earlier that day. And, worried about the name connection, takes shelter in a nightclub, TechNoir, to wait for police protection. She is rescued from the Terminator by time-travelling soldier Kyle Reese, who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called Skynet will be created by military software developers to make strategic decisions. The program becomes self-aware, seizes control of most of the world's military hardware (including various highly-advanced robots), and launches an all-out attack on human beings. However, a man named John Connor eventually leads what remains of the world's military and survivors, The Resistance, to victory, only to discover that in a last-ditch effort, Skynet had innovated a means of time travel and sent a robotic killer back in time to destroy John Connor's mother before he is born. John Connor is Sarah's future son, and he sends back a trusted sergeant (Reese - who, unbeknownst to him, is John's father) to protect his mother at all costs. During their brief time together, Sarah falls in love with Reese. Reese becomes the only thing protecting her from the Terminator, and her only companion as they flee together. Initially, she is unaware that Reese himself had been in love with her from afar, having been given a picture of her by John Connor, and having always admired her legendary strength and resilience. While they are avoiding the Terminator, they share a night of intimacy that results in John's conception. Their relationship is cut short, however, when Reese dies fighting the Terminator in a Cyberdyne factory; Sarah in turn crushes the Terminator in a hydraulic press. Though Reese's death deeply saddens her, his sincerity and courage inspires Sarah to carry on and develop the necessary skills and abilities that would make her a suitable mentor and teacher to John.

After these events, Sarah becomes a fugitive from society and begins making a voice recording for John in which she acknowledges his paternity to later give to her son at the proper age. While recording the tape, she stops for gas and the aforementioned photograph is taken by a young boy and sold to her. This is the same picture given to Kyle Reese by John Connor.

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