Deakin Abbott
Unitology Preacher of Aegis VII
Deakin Abbott was a First Class engineer and Unitology lay preacher on the Aegis VII colony. When the removal of the Red Marker sent a piercing screech through the colonists' minds, he took it for the voice of God and led his congregation, and himself, to mass suicide.
Deakin Abbott was an engineer and a Unitology lay preacher on the Aegis VII colony, one of the faithful whose devotion turned the discovery of the Red Marker into a tragedy. He led congregations toward the artifact, told the sickening colonists that their symptoms were the Marker preparing them, and finally led his followers to take their own lives. (Dead Space (comic))
Background#
Little of Deakin Abbott's life before Aegis VII comes through in the comic. He introduced himself as a VTM Engineer 1st Class and, yes, a lay preacher, and he worked for the Concordance Extraction Corporation on the colony while preaching the gospel of Unitology to anyone who would listen. He believed the government had silenced Michael Altman and passed his death off as an accident, and that the faithful had kept to Altman's words for two hundred years while they waited for proof. (Dead Space (comic))
The Second Aegis VII Incident#
On Aegis VII, Abbott was shown to be deeply devout, leading numerous congregations of Unitologists in the colony. His fervor was a source of frustration to Abraham Neumann. When the Red Marker was discovered, Abbott led a small group of Unitologists to the dig site, where he had a strange vision of his mother telling him to protect the Marker. He later led a congregation toward the site but was refused entry, and the group simply stood nearby and prayed. As the colonists' condition worsened, he led another gathering and told them that their symptoms were in fact the Marker "preparing" them. (Dead Space (comic))
During the initial removal of the Marker, a temporary, irritating screech was released into the minds of all the colonists. Abbott interpreted this screech as the voice of God and ordered the assembled Unitologists, and himself, to take their own lives. Their bodies were moved to the morgue and kept under preservation. His toetag was later found there, but his body was gone despite records claiming the dead had not been moved, implying that Abbott had been reanimated into one of the first Necromorphs to overrun the colony. (Dead Space (comic))
Frequently asked questions
- Who was Deakin Abbott?
- Deakin Abbott was a First Class engineer and Unitology lay preacher who lived and worked on the Aegis VII colony. He led numerous Unitologist congregations there and was a devout follower of the Church.
- How did Deakin Abbott come to Unitology?
- The comic doesn't say how he came to the faith. By the time of the Aegis VII dig he was a committed lay preacher who believed the government had murdered Michael Altman to bury the truth about the Marker.
- How did Deakin Abbott die?
- During the initial removal of the Red Marker, a temporary screech was released into the minds of the colonists. Abbott interpreted it as the voice of God and ordered the assembled Unitologists, and himself, to take their own lives. His body later went missing from the morgue, implying he was reanimated into one of the first Necromorphs.
Sources
- ComicDead Space (comic), Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith, Image Comics, 2008
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