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ConcernedApe goes a little bit too far with hamstringing his characters and Abigail is a pretty severe example of this. I wish he would let more of the characters be good at stuff other than marrying me, and Abby is one who would have really benefited from this. Honestly she comes across as a bit of a 'poser' because she's so bad at everything she claims to be into. To me this is much worse that Maru's experiments blowing up in her face -- at least some of them work out, and she even builds a working robot. And yeah Haley might be an airhead who forgets to bring her camera along sometimes but she is smart enough to read about her hobbies and get stuff done.

So here's the interesting and good stuff about Abigail...

Despite what I said above I do think her personality is overall nice... even if she can be moody at times. I dunno, maybe I am just making excuses for her too because I like her purple hair. But it's worth mentioning that Haley being mean to me doesn't bother me either. So while I can notice and talk about both instances, I don't even really factor them into my rankings at all (except in Haley's case for her positive growth and her amusing facial expressions).

On that note, aside from Haley, Abigail is one of the characters with some of the most amusing facial expressions.

Her design is overall pretty great. Especially her hair and face, which are the most prominent features of her portrait. The ripped up vest is a bit of a weird design choice though. I get what they're going for but... ehhh. It's one of the cases where it really makes me wish the marriage candidates changed outfits after marriage. Or just more often in general. But I know how much extra work this would be so I'll just have to stick to admiring mods where people do this.



She hates her dad, Pierre. I also hate her dad, Pierre. We have that in common. Also, unlike Maru, my romance with Abigail doesn't heavily focus on my relationship with her dad. Though there is the one scene where him and Abigail argue and then she's like 'whatever, let's bail on this boomer.'

Abigail is more sweet and more normal than she lets on, which is endearing in its own way.

Abby ranks about fairly average for a female marriage candidate in terms of how nice she is after marriage, and isn't particularly selfish. Since the girls overall act much better as spouses than the guys, her being in the middle of the pack for the female marriage candidates puts her in the top half overall, maybe even the top 1/4.

I think if I was like 15 years younger Abigail would be my clear first choice for Stardew Valley waifu, no questions asked. Even 10 years ago she would have been a heavy consideration for first place. Each character, whether you're supposed to want to marry them or not, definitely has their own niche that they appeal to more than others. If Abigail was 5 years older and acted a bit more mature she'd probably be my #1 easily.

She makes me wonder more about Mona. I like how she hangs out near the grave and considering we know very little about Mona, even scraps of information can be interesting or useful to try and figure things out.

I like most of her gifting options, and her dialogue for receiving gifts. It's really easy to obtain stacks of the things that she likes, and even loves. Her talking about eating quartz and amethyst is a meme that will probably never get old to me.



Oh yeah and there's a lot, like a god damn lot, of fan art and really good fan art of abigail. For a good majority of this list I struggled to find a good picture for some characters, or to find more than one good picture for the characters who deserved multiple pictures. With Abigail my only struggle is narrowing it down to few enough pictures that I can fit them all in one post without GameFAQs throwing a fit. In fact, I'll just divide this into two posts anyway.

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now I only see your dull imposter
https://imgur.com/BYYr6fn