MY THE WALKING DEAD REALITY
Introducing my desired reality based on the American TV show "The Walking Dead".
PRE-APOCALYPSE ✶ I was a three-time olympic gold medalist for women's fencing. Taking home the gold for the United Kingdom three years in a row at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 summer olympics. After which, I decided to retire from competing professionally. I'm also trained in kickboxing, boxing and Jujitsu. Due to having a passion for such dangerous sports and starting them at such a young age, my mother insisted that I also undergo basic medical training.
THE START ✶ After giving up fencing, I became interested in other forms of sword-fighting throughout history. I had a particular interest in rapiers, owning quite a few of them. I travelled to King County Georgia by myself to attend a club meeting of likeminded individuals. At the last minute the event had been cancelled, but I was already there and my return flight wasn't for days. This meant that I was stuck all alone in a foreign country when the outbreak began. I didn't know anyone in America, so there was no one who could take me to Atlanta when everyone started to evacuate. It was easier for me to survive than it was for the average person, but that made me reckless. I thought I was untouchable, but I wasn't. One day, while looting a convenience store, I got surprised by a walker. I slipped, dropping my sword and watching it slide out of my reach. Because of this, I ended up being bitten. Not wanting to be a danger to anyone, I went to the local police station that was now abandoned and locked myself in a cell, waiting for the symptoms to develop.
IMMUNITY ✶ I am immune to the Wildfire Virus. I don't know why this is or how it happened. All I know is that after I was bitten I did start to change, but just not in the way you'd expect. I gained an insane tolerance to any kind of pain, being able to get hurt and barely even feel it. All of a sudden I could sense things that I couldn't before. I knew whenever anyone was near me, human or walker, and if I listened very closely I could hear heartbeats. If I were to make noise or draw attention to myself then walkers would come at me, but they weren't attracted by my scent anymore. This meant that as long as I stayed quiet and moved slowly, I could walk amongst them. This was easy to do as I'd also become unnaturally stealthy, being able to sneak up on almost anyone or anything undetected. Suddenly I was faster, stronger, more agile. None of this made sense to me, walkers were slow and weak, why would getting bit by one make me the opposite? I didn’t know what any of this meant, but I knew that I didn’t want to end up being someones science experiment so I vowed to never tell anyone.
THE PLOT ✶ I first met Rick Grimes when he came to the police station with Morgan and Duane. He then took me to Atlanta with him, where pretty much all the events of season one played out. At the start, my DR is pretty accurate to the TV show. There was the mountain, then the CDC, the highway and the farm. Apart from some minor details that was all pretty canon accurate, but then it drastically diverges from the plot during the prison era. We did live in the prison but the governor didn't exist in my DR, so nothing to do with that happened. While out looking for baby formula after Judith's birth and Lori's death, Glenn and Maggie came across Michonne. She was brought back to the prison where we learnt that she had known Andrea. Then, instead of Tara being with the governor, she arrived with Sasha and Tyreese, being a part of their group. We ultimately had to flee the prison because of a herd of walkers breaking in. This was where it stopped following the plot of the show entirely. The group didn't split up, there was no Terminus, no Grady Memorial Hospital, we just found Alexandria instead. But we did come across Abraham, Rosita, Eugene and Gabriel on our way.
CURRENT DAY ✶ We live in the Alexandria Safe Zone. There are no Saviours or any problems within our community. We now live happy and relatively peaceful lives in Alexandria. We are also allies with Hilltop, The Kingdom and Oceanside.
PRIZED POSSESSIONS ✶ I don't go anywhere without my walkman, my two rapiers and at least one of my journals.
S/O ✶ Rick Grimes. Slow burn. Age gap (kind of). Friends to Lovers. Co-Parenting.
SONGS ✶ Wicked Game by Chris Isaak, Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine, Cico Buff by Cocteau Twins.
