| Abelia Gargan | ||
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| First appearance | Comic #2: Shadows of the Jackal | |
| Last appearance | Comic #2: Shadows of the Jackal | |
| Profession | Citizen | |
| Race | Roman | |
| Relationships | Nestorius Gargan (Husband, deceased) Gargan Twins (Sons, deceased) The Jackal (Rapist, deceased) | |
| Status | Deceased (Died giving birth to the Gargan Twins) | |
| Actor/Actress | N/A | |
Character Outline[]
Abelia Gargan was the beautiful wife of Nestorius, victim of The Jackal, and unwilling mother to the latter's children, Decimus and Tiberius. She lived with her husband in the countryside far from Capua, where they were happy together. When her husband left to fight a war, his wife was attacked raped by a lustful Jackal, whom she managed to kill not long after. She falls pregnant and, unwilling to risk the children being her husbands, keeps them.
Appearance[]
Abelia Gargan pregnant.
Abelia is a beautiful young Roman woman with olive skin. She has long black hair and eyes that are never seen directly. She has a shapely, rather slim build, but grows in size during her pregnancy. During her final days, she appears off-color, malnourished and severely underweight, yet large due to her pregnancy at the same time. She is seen either wearing the basic attire of a simple Roman peasant, or nothing at all, being fully naked.
Synopsis[]
Abelia was a Roman young woman married to a soldier named Nestorius. The two had a loving relationship, and it is said that Abelia was "the sun the moon and the stars" to her husband. One day, after Nestorius had been called off to war, a feral creature called "the Jackal" caught Abelia's scent. After he broke into her house, the sight of Abelia bathing aroused sych lust in him that he immediately seized her by the hair and forced himself upon her. While the Jackal was reveling in his pleasure, Abelia managed to grab a piece of broken pottery and strike him in the eye. As he howled in pain, Abelia seized her husband's spear and killed her attacker.
She burned the Jackal's remains and washed herself multiple times, but could not wash away his stain. Worse still, she soon realized she was pregnant, but dared not abort the fetus, for fear that it might be her husband's, to whom she had made love before he left. She was relieved when the time finally came for her to give birth; her husband would not have to see her carrying a child that might not have been his. However, the twins she gave birth to claimed their mother as their first victims, tearing their way out of her womb and leaving her dead.
Trivia[]
- She, and Theokoles' Mother, are the only mothers of a gladiator to be seen.