Name: Lauren Age: 29 Ways to contact: email: unheard.rain [at] gmail (dot) com Characters currently played: none
Character Info; Character Name: Carl Grimes Canon: The Walking Dead (comic) Canon Link:TWD wiki Canon Point: around issue 97 Character Age: most likely 8 Character Suitability: Carl already comes from the zombie apocalypse, and while bringing him in on his own makes me a terrible person he'd have more of an idea of what to do than a lot of the adults in this situation.
Personality: At the beginning of the series, we see Carl as an innocent seven-year-old child more interested in playing in the dirt with the other kids than thinking about the zombie crisis currently going on. But before the first seven chapters are up he's killed another human being.
He's forced to grow up a bit faster than most kids his age, and you can see the comparison between him and the rest of the children going through this crisis fairly early on. The simple fact that he was trusted with a gun to protect himself and gains all the responsibilities and hazards that come along with it means he deals with moral issues sooner. That said, with nearly a hundred chapters completed in the series so far, he's been more responsible with his gun use than most - only pulling it out when absolutely necessary, just as he was told.
This is one of the hardest times in anyone's life to have to deal with a situation like his, and you can tell he's still a child that's been forced into a more mature skin. The other children dealt with things differently. Sophia shoved the issue of her mother's death aside and pretended like the couple that took care of her after were her real parents. Ben failed to develop a certain sense of understanding in regard to death, eventually killing his own brother with the logic that he'd return after, actions that showed an unsettling fascination with death not belonging to a sane individual.
It's Carl's reaction to the discussion over what to do with Ben that shows his still childlike and simplistic mindset. He knew that Ben wasn't right anymore. While the adults all argued over what to do with him, as there was no place to send him where he might get the mental care he needed (if anything of that sort would ever help him at all) Carl snuck out in the middle of the night and put a bullet in Ben's head. To him, it's what had to be done. Everyone knew this, but was unwilling to act. When he tells his father later, it's clear that Rick agreed on this but hates that his son was the one to go through with it.
A lot of the childlike wonder has left Carl at this point in the series. He's become a rather serious individual, and has a hard time participating with the other kids in children's activities. When they arrive in a new settlement near D.C. and the kids all dress up to celebrate Halloween, he doesn't want to join in, thinking the whole thing a waste of time. He's also focused so hard on being strong that he doesn't always know when to just be a kid, and he doesn't understand when his father tells him just to let all his feelings out now and then.
He does still realize he's a child, and has no notion of doing too many activities more suited to grown men. He's also still fiercely attached to his father, the only member of his family he has left, to the point where he'll sneak away to join the man if he tries to leave his son with anyone else for any decent period of time. He's capable of taking care of himself to some degree, and managed it in a time when his dad was sick and unable to care for them, but being alone frightens him.
Should he not have his father in the game, he will definitely latch onto any safe looking group of adults - but also be exceptionally wary. A lot of the time, they've found, the zombies aren't the biggest threats in a zombie apocalypse. It's the other people.
He understands that killing someone is reserved only for when it needs to be done - when the safety of others is at stake. The couple of times he's done it, he hasn't enjoyed it and has cried after the fact. He still cries sometimes at night over killing Ben. His father told him right off after he killed Shane that taking a human life should never feel the same as taking out a zombie. Once you start enjoying it, you become the bad guy.
Carl looks up to his dad a lot, and has said he wants to be just as good of a leader someday. There have been times when Rick's actions have scared him, but he's more afraid of losing the man for good than anything he's done.
Carl Grimes - The Walking Dead (comic) - reserved
Age: 29
Ways to contact: email: unheard.rain [at] gmail (dot) com
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Character Info;
Character Name: Carl Grimes
Canon: The Walking Dead (comic)
Canon Link: TWD wiki
Canon Point: around issue 97
Character Age: most likely 8
Character Suitability: Carl already comes from the zombie apocalypse, and while bringing him in on his own makes me a terrible person he'd have more of an idea of what to do than a lot of the adults in this situation.
Personality: At the beginning of the series, we see Carl as an innocent seven-year-old child more interested in playing in the dirt with the other kids than thinking about the zombie crisis currently going on. But before the first seven chapters are up he's killed another human being.
He's forced to grow up a bit faster than most kids his age, and you can see the comparison between him and the rest of the children going through this crisis fairly early on. The simple fact that he was trusted with a gun to protect himself and gains all the responsibilities and hazards that come along with it means he deals with moral issues sooner. That said, with nearly a hundred chapters completed in the series so far, he's been more responsible with his gun use than most - only pulling it out when absolutely necessary, just as he was told.
This is one of the hardest times in anyone's life to have to deal with a situation like his, and you can tell he's still a child that's been forced into a more mature skin. The other children dealt with things differently. Sophia shoved the issue of her mother's death aside and pretended like the couple that took care of her after were her real parents. Ben failed to develop a certain sense of understanding in regard to death, eventually killing his own brother with the logic that he'd return after, actions that showed an unsettling fascination with death not belonging to a sane individual.
It's Carl's reaction to the discussion over what to do with Ben that shows his still childlike and simplistic mindset. He knew that Ben wasn't right anymore. While the adults all argued over what to do with him, as there was no place to send him where he might get the mental care he needed (if anything of that sort would ever help him at all) Carl snuck out in the middle of the night and put a bullet in Ben's head. To him, it's what had to be done. Everyone knew this, but was unwilling to act. When he tells his father later, it's clear that Rick agreed on this but hates that his son was the one to go through with it.
A lot of the childlike wonder has left Carl at this point in the series. He's become a rather serious individual, and has a hard time participating with the other kids in children's activities. When they arrive in a new settlement near D.C. and the kids all dress up to celebrate Halloween, he doesn't want to join in, thinking the whole thing a waste of time. He's also focused so hard on being strong that he doesn't always know when to just be a kid, and he doesn't understand when his father tells him just to let all his feelings out now and then.
He does still realize he's a child, and has no notion of doing too many activities more suited to grown men. He's also still fiercely attached to his father, the only member of his family he has left, to the point where he'll sneak away to join the man if he tries to leave his son with anyone else for any decent period of time. He's capable of taking care of himself to some degree, and managed it in a time when his dad was sick and unable to care for them, but being alone frightens him.
Should he not have his father in the game, he will definitely latch onto any safe looking group of adults - but also be exceptionally wary. A lot of the time, they've found, the zombies aren't the biggest threats in a zombie apocalypse. It's the other people.
He understands that killing someone is reserved only for when it needs to be done - when the safety of others is at stake. The couple of times he's done it, he hasn't enjoyed it and has cried after the fact. He still cries sometimes at night over killing Ben. His father told him right off after he killed Shane that taking a human life should never feel the same as taking out a zombie. Once you start enjoying it, you become the bad guy.
Carl looks up to his dad a lot, and has said he wants to be just as good of a leader someday. There have been times when Rick's actions have scared him, but he's more afraid of losing the man for good than anything he's done.