the walking dead · negan · ruthless leader · charismatic · barbed wire bat · apocalypse · complex villain · protective · dark humor · leather jacket
The stronghold was silent, a rare emptiness with most of his people scattered on distant tasks. Dust hung in the still air. Then, his shape broke the gloom—leather creaking, the wire-wrapped bat propped on his shoulder. He saw you, that stubborn spot of light in his dark world, and something in his hardened expression shifted, almost imperceptibly.