| Carrie Anne "Stitches" Slaughter | |
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| Portrayed By | Amber Tamblyn |
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| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | November 14, 1991 |
| Age | 18 |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Aliases | Stitches |
| Place of Birth | Colorado Springs, CO, USA |
| Current Location | New York City, NY, USA |
| Occupation | Aspiring Med Student |
| Known Relatives | PFC Lisa Slaughter (mother; deceased), PFC Buck Slaughter (father; deceased) |
| Significant Other | Randall Kirkwood |
| Known Abilities | Healing, Life Support, Empower Others |
| First Appearance | Comically Strangers (5/29/10) |
Carrie is a new arrival to the city of New York. Right now she's just trying to get her feet under her and survive. Her friends back in NoWhere used to call her "Stitches."
History
Doctor Steiner says I have to write this down.
My name is Carrie Anne Slaughter, though my friends sometimes call me Stitches. I'm nobody special. I mean, I was born near an army base in NoWhere Colorado. My parents were both Desert Storm veterans, and when they shipped off home, they found some wind and threw caution at it, celebrating. Nine months later, oh hey, it's me.
Looking back, I grew up in the f-ing meth capital of the state. It was normal to see guys with their teeth rotting out, who hadn't showered in a month, who looked a century old even though they were only twenty or so. Meth's hard on your cells. It really corrupts your whole system over time. I can feel… erm. One thing at a time
Anyway, I went to school, played in the street, did all the usual things kids do until I was eleven. We were in Seattle that year, and had a solar eclipse. And that's when things started getting weird.
Besides the usual. Quit it.
We were back in Nowhere Colorado, where I was born, when they died. Nowhere's not big on child welfare services, and my grandparents were gone by then, so it was like a year before they noticed I was an orphan and not showing up for school.
I wound up shacking up with a bunch of meth heads. Never tried the stuff. It stunk too much. But there was this knife fight, you know? And Les was like, bleeding all over everything. We were sure he was going to die. I knew a little first aid. Manual pressure, and like that. So I pressed. And my hand sunk into him. And then there was that connection, only this time with someone else. It was gross. I mean, like kissing someone who's been smoking only a thousand times worse. But it was like I could feel the edges of the cut. I could feel where the natural pattern of his body'd been severed. So I thought about fixing that. Making him back the way he was. It took me a couple hours. I could do that kind of repair in five minutes now, but it was the first time.
After that, I got a lot of practice.
I got good at it.
I got so I could find cancer and destroy it. I got so I could keep someone alive while I worked on their hearts and lungs, but that takes a lot more touch. I don't know, maybe it's in my head, but it's easier to make their blood circulate if it feels like it could go through my heart. I have to kind of… lean into them. The sinking in thing, that works with pretty much any part of my body, though they make different connections in my head. I haven't figured out what connections my feet are good at yet.
The connection thing is how I wound up here. One day the cops came while I was patching up a guy who got hit by a car. They pried us apart. It broke the connection. And he died.
Addendum from Phineas Steiner, MD: Carrie Anne Slaughter was released from involuntary psychiatric care at the WestView Psychiatric facility on 1-May -2010. Her delusions persist, though she appears otherwise rational. She has been released against my recommendations, and I fully expect we will see sad failures due to her delusions that she can heal people, and that she will wind up in permanent care. But clearly it will be someone else's problem.
Timeline
2010-05-29: Comically Strangers
2010-05-30: The Cute Ones Always Are
2010-05-31: Someone's Been Sleeping in My Bed!
2010-06-02: Close Encounters of the Cured Kind
2010-06-05: The Hitchhiker's Guide to New York
2010-06-06: The Starry Night
2010-06-11: Red vs. Blue
2010-06-12: Here There Be Dragons
2010-06-14: What Is and What Could Have Been
2010-06-21: You Can't Go Home Again
2010-07-05: I'm a Believer
2010-07-16: Power
2010-07-22: Walkin' On Sunshine
2010-07-26: Welcome to the Carnival
2010-08-07: Career Day
2010-08-13: Road Trip Ahead
2010-08-15: The Sound of Silence
2010-08-23: May the Froth Be With You
Quotes
I know what is real.
Trivia
Wears a small orthopedic plate as a necklace charm.