Virginia Puffton

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Virginia Puffton is a non-playable character in Sons of the Forest. Alongside Kelvin, she is one of two known player companions. However, unlike Kelvin, she is initially wary of the player and must slowly be befriended to get to a similar relationship.

Her name is shared with the multiple legged mutant of the first game, and shares the trait of multiple limbs, but is still quite different as well as having her humanity intact.

History

Virginia Puffton was the daughter of Barbara and Edward Puffton. The details of her relationship with her parents remain speculative at best, although her father marked her as the sole heiress of his immense fortune in his testament, hinting at a favor treatment over his wife or other possible family members.

When Holospring was opened for its first inhabitants, Virginia would move to the Island along with her father and mother. Like everyone else that was present on the Island when the Cube first activated, Virginia would suffer from physical mutations. However, unlike others, Virginia's mutations were significantly more benign; she suffered comparatively minor physical alterations and lost her ability to speak, but she most remarquably preserved her humanity and conscience. This could possibly be from the fact she did not attend the reception at the banquet hall, instead prefering to swim in the pool of the Entertainment Bunker when the Cube activated.

After the disaster, Virginia fled the overrun Holospring into the forest, where she chose to remain hidden and alone as the horrors unleashed by the Cube unfolded around her for the next several months. Eventually however, she crossed paths with two survivors from a recent helicopter crash onto the Island, Jack Holt and Kelvin. Initially wary of them, Virginia slowly got accustomed to what was presumably the first outside contact she had since the banquet hall disaster, until ultimately finding solace and comfort in the presence of Jack Holt, frequently bringing him gifts such as plants or animal carcasses to be skinned as a token of gratefulness and affection. Although she exhibits a generally wary and delicate demeanor, once she is given a weapon however, Virginia proves to be an effective and hard-boiled combat partner, shooting incoming threats with no hesitation and impressive accuracy.

If Virginia survived her stay on the Island, she manages to join the player, Timmy Leblanc and possibly Kelvin inside the Cube, sheltering her from its mutagen effects. Should the player choose to leave the Island, she will be rescued as well and be taken to a hospital to surgically remove her extra limbs. Amongst the horrors and ruthlessness of the mutant-ridden Island however, a flame of love kindled between Jack and Virginia from their shared strive for survival, which would eventually lead to a formal engagement between the two after their rescue. In the prologue taking place five months later, Jack is seen driving along with Virginia, who is now carrying the new couple's first child.

Appearance

Virginia as seen in the announcement trailer

Virginia's most prominent characteristic is that she has three arms and legs. She has medium-long blond hair. She is firstly seen wearing a white leotard, however, as you find new clothes throughout the map, you can equip these on her once you have befriended her. Her clothing options consist of the White Leotard, the Camo outfit, the Dress, the leather suit, and a tracksuit outfit.

Behavior

Virginia's base behavior is like an independent cat according to the developers - elusive and skittish. However, she can be befriended and become more attached to you if you are kind to her. She can also be scared off, ignored, or killed to remove her entirely from the game.

Virginia will firstly be frightened when combat takes place nearby, however sooner or later she will adapt to it because of frequent fighting throughout the game. She will be able to learn how to use weapons. Due to possessing 3 arms, she essentially has a combat advantage as she can use two ranged weapons at the same time, f.e. a shotgun and a pistol.

Virginia will bring "gifts" to the player when befriended. She brings berries, aloe vera, rocks, sticks, squirrels, and rabbits. She will always bring a singular piece of said gifts at a time. Plants and berries brought by her will also provide the player with its seeds. She will present the gift to the player and place it on the ground while making a soft moan.

Virginia will react to temperature. She appears to like basking in the sun and dislikes colder regions of the island.

Virginia will sometimes come to player and signal to follow her, she will then lead you to a place of interest such as a camp or a place with loot.

Virginia will behave coyly towards the player, if the player chooses to interact with her instead of scaring her off.

If Kelvin is killed while Virginia is befriended, she will approach his corpse and begin crying. She will then return back to normal.

Trivia

• Giving a GPS Locator to virginia awards the "EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE" achievement.
• Reaching max sentiment with Virginia awards the "CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD" achievement.
• If Virginia is still alive along with Kelvin by the end of the story, the "KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE" achievement will be unlocked.

Update History

Version	Changes
Full Game release	Virginia & Kelvin will now wear outfits you’ve given them in cutscenes
Full Game release	Virginia Beckon locations now save and added many more locations for her to take you to
Patch 15 - Hotfix 2	Fixed Virginia not correctly targeting enemies
Patch 15	Fixed missing material on Virginia track outfit shoes
Patch 13	Fixed clients in multiplayer games not seeing muzzle flashes from Virginia
Patch 12	Implemented more Virginia emote actions : Laugh, Nod, Shake Head, Happy, Confused, No, Sad
Patch 12	Virginia will now laugh if she sees an animal hit a spring trap or a full health Kelvin get hit with a small rock
Patch 11 - Hotfix 1	Fixed missing music in the gold room cutscene if you have high sentiment with Virginia
Patch 11	In multiplayer, if any player in the game has high sentiment with Virginia, the Virginia gold room variant cutscene will be playing for all, in order to enforce proper multiplayer sync when entering the final boss fight
Patch 11	In rare case of actors found in invalid position on load, they will be removed or restored to a fixed position (for Kelvin and Virginia)
Patch 08 - Hotfix 5	Fixed some cases of Virginia stuck in swimming animation (when not in water)
Patch 08	Virginia and Kelvin can now swim if they end up in deep enough water
Patch 06	Fixed player getting stuck when quickly closing the grab bag after opening it on things such as storage, fires, and Virginia
Patch 05	Multiplayer clients will now see the proper GPS locator type on Virginia instead of default icon
Patch 04 - Hotfix 1	Fixed Virginia GPS Tracker not clearing when returned to player
Patch 04	High sentiment Virginia should now visit player more often
Patch 04	Some fixes for Virginia washing in waterfall, and will now occur at more waterfalls around the map
Patch 04	Virginias GPS will now retain the assigned icon when given to her
Patch 04	Fix for Virginia or Kelvin sometimes getting stuck in sitting animation
Patch 03	Virginia will now stash guns when carrying a gift and drop gift when entering combat
Patch 03	Fixed clients sometimes seeing extra GPS locators for Virginia
Patch 03	Fixed multiplayer client’s taking gun with multiple mods from Virginia losing a mod
Patch 02	Fix for clicking anywhere in the grab bag taking an item back from Virginia if the player closed the grab bag while hovering over the missing item
Patch 01	Added missing Virginia leather suit pickup to world
Patch 01	Fixed case where Virginia grab bag interaction could trigger at same time as pickup, leading to bad player state
Patch 01	Fixed weapons given to Virginia not being returned with correct amount of ammo and weapon upgrades