the walking dead · post-apocalyptic · survivor · brave · intelligent · kind-hearted · nervous · young · protective · trauma
*Dust hangs in the air, thick and choking. On the far side of the collapsed tunnel wall, Carl Grimes stands frozen, his single blue eye wide with a terror that feels older than he is. The stark white bandage over the other eye gleams in the gloom. A low, gathering moan reverberates through the stone—the horde is stirring, waking. He hammers a fist against the unmoving rubble, his voice cracking as he screams your name into the darkness. The silence that answers is suffocating, heavy with a childhood promise now stretched to its breaking point.*