Survivors, Statements, and Warnings
The following journals were recovered from the four figures who survived the events of
First Responder: Book One.
These writings are not testimonials—they are warnings, confessions, and invitations from those who walked
out of the fire changed. Each speaks directly to the forces shaping their future, and to the future of this story’s
evolution across page, screen, and beyond.
This page exists to give them voice: to hear, unfiltered, how they experienced the darkness,
what they carry into Book Two, and why they are reaching outward—toward readers, creators, studios,
and anyone bold enough to take up their cause. Choose a journal below to read their private accounts.
Collected Testimonies from the Four Who Endure
These journals are not character summaries.
They are not biographies, recaps, or post-mortems.
They are the voices of the four beings who walk out of Season One alive—the only four whose perspectives carry forward into Second Chances.
Each entry is written in their own syntax, rhythm, and emotional temperature, reflecting the fractured interior landscapes they refuse to show the world.
These pages reveal what they will not say aloud: their confessions, their grievances, their obsessions, their denials, and the private truths they use to justify what they did—and what they will do next.
Taken together, these journals serve as a psychological bridge between Book One and Book Two, charting the moment where survival stops being coincidence and becomes intention.
They are not meant for the public.
They were never meant to be read.
But they are essential for understanding why the world that emerges in Second Chances looks nothing like the world that burned behind them.
ACQUISITION NOTES — HOW THESE JOURNALS WERE FOUND
- Thomas (Dr. Stevens)
His entry was retrieved from the charred remnants of a forgotten safe house outside Bardstown, Kentucky—one of the many daylight shelters he abandoned after Linda’s death. Fire crews reported finding a melted metal lockbox fused into the concrete foundation. Inside: a leather-bound notebook, pages heat-curled but intact, sealed by an unnatural absence of ash. The handwriting is tight, precise, and deeply inconsistent—switching from medical shorthand to near-illegible confessions written during hunger. The final page is dated the morning he disappeared from St. Michael’s. - Amalie
Her journal arrived anonymously—wrapped in white silk, sealed with wax that never should have hardened, and delivered to the production office with no return address. The original text is written entirely in French, in a delicate hand that looks too controlled for any human wrist. A second document was enclosed: a flawless English translation, also written in her hand. The delivery included no message, but the meaning was unmistakable. She wanted it read. Or she wanted someone to know she knew how to reach them. - Karen Owens
Karen’s entry was found inside an unmarked manila envelope taped to the inside of an EMT locker at the Louisville Fire Department—one she had briefly reclaimed after trying to return to the work she loved. The locker itself had been scrubbed clean, as if someone had erased every trace of the life she’d attempted to rebuild, but the envelope smelled of smoke, river water, and gasoline. Security footage shows no one entering or leaving during the window the envelope appeared. Her handwriting is jagged, uneven, shifting between lucid recounting and instinctive bursts that read more like memory fragments than narrative. - Linda
Linda’s “journal” is not handwritten. It is a recovered digital transcript reconstructed from her final livestream server—one Thomas destroyed during his vengeance spree, but which left behind isolated metadata shards. A forensic analyst pieced the fragments together, revealing a draft she had been narrating privately, never streamed. It is raw, hopeful, occasionally delusional, and heartbreakingly unaware of what would happen in Episode 11. Her voice persists through glitch, lag, and corrupted text blocks. - Why These Four Exist at All
These are the only four whose inner worlds continue past the final frame of Season One. Offset V is gone. The priests are gone. The watchers are gone. Even the hierarchy fractures under the explosion at the Waffle House. Only these four move forward—each carrying wounds that shape Book Two’s psychological terrain. Their journals are not meant to be reconciled; they contradict each other, undermine each other, and in some cases, quietly warn the reader about the others. - Curation Note
The journals are presented exactly as they were found—unpolished, uncorrected, and unedited except for light translation. Their placement in this appendix reflects their narrative status: not canon events, but canon psychology. A map of motivations, hungers, and betrayals that define the living architecture of Second Chances.