As HBO’s The Last of Us gears up for its highly anticipated second season, fans are finally getting a deeper look at the new characters set to shake up Joel and Ellie’s post-apocalyptic world. Among the most buzzed-about (and feared) additions is Kaitlyn Dever,

It may be an odd question, but one that fans certainly have had heading into The Last of Us season 2. Would they find an actress with Abby’s extremely muscular physique?

This change-up between characters isn't just about aesthetics and/or fulfilling the role's high expectations, either. According to Mazin, the difference between Dever's character and the digital Abby will also inform narrative-specific differences between the antagonist and Ramsey's Ellie. In his words:

The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann says that Abby looks a bit different from the games because the TV adaptation is focused more on the story and less on the game's moment-to-moment violence. "There's not as much violent action moment to moment.