Growing up in Michigan, the boring mitten shaped state, Eleanor was more of a loner. Before the apocalypse started Eleanor Brooks had the most boring life. She lived next to a power plant, she had no friends, decent parents, only focused on her studies so she could graduate. She got into an Ivy League school and was even going to go to college, then everything turned to shit. The dead started coming back to life, roaming the streets, eating the living. The power plant beside her home blew up causing her and her family to be exposed by the chemicals, the dead broke into her home and she got bit. Her parents were dead but she managed to escape, yet when she thought she was going to die and turn she didn't, she moved among the dead instead. Oc x Daryl Dixon