Which The Testaments Character Are You?

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The Testaments is Hulu's long-awaited follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, adapting Margaret Atwood's 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. Where the flagship series has spent years tracing June Osborne's ongoing fight against Gilead from the ground level, The Testaments jumps forward roughly fifteen years and widens the lens dramatically, following three narrators whose perspectives converge to reveal exactly how Gilead's theocratic regime might finally begin to crack.

Ann Dowd reprises her role as Aunt Lydia, and this installment finally gives longtime viewers the backstory they've been waiting years for — how a former judge became one of Gilead's most feared and morally complicated architects. The novel (and now the series) reveals Lydia as someone playing an extraordinarily long game, someone who made an early, brutal choice to survive and has spent decades since quietly gathering leverage against the very system she helped build.

Alongside Lydia, the story follows Agnes Jemima, a girl raised entirely within Gilead who has never known anything else, and Daisy, a teenager raised in Canada who has grown up hearing about Gilead only from the outside — as a cautionary tale, a political flashpoint, and eventually, a mystery tied directly to her own hidden identity. The dramatic irony of these two girls' radically different upbringings, and the way their stories eventually intertwine, is the emotional backbone of the entire narrative.

For fans of the flagship series, The Testaments also promises answers about the fate of Nicole, June's youngest daughter, who was smuggled out of Gilead as an infant and has remained mostly offscreen for years while the show focused on Hannah and June's fight to reunite with her. Seeing how that thread finally resolves is one of the most anticipated parts of this new chapter.

What sets The Testaments apart from its predecessor is its structure: rather than one woman's claustrophobic first-person account, it's a multi-generational conspiracy thriller, tracking how information, loyalty, and rebellion move through a totalitarian system from the inside out. It's less about surviving Gilead and more about the mechanics of actually bringing it down.

Whether you relate to Lydia's calculating patience, Agnes's watchful adaptability, Daisy's blunt defiance, or Nicole's fierce loyalty, this quiz will help you find your match in Atwood's expanded world. For another character quiz that thrives on morally gray power struggles, check out our Rings of Power quiz.

Because The Testaments unfolds across three distinct narrators, the series has to constantly recalibrate tone — shifting between Lydia's icy political maneuvering, Agnes's claustrophobic upbringing inside Gilead's belief system, and Daisy's outsider fury at a regime she's only ever known through secondhand horror stories. That structural ambition is exactly what made the novel such a acclaimed follow-up to the original, and it's the biggest test facing the adaptation: can it juggle three radically different points of view without losing the tension that made June's singular voice so gripping in the first place?

However the adaptation ultimately balances its three perspectives, its arrival gives The Handmaid's Tale universe a genuine sense of forward momentum after years spent largely inside June's singular, harrowing point of view.