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tellittothefrogsPlayer's Name: Megan
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DW: meganlomania
Character: Carl Grimes
Canon: The Walking Dead
Version: TV Series
Canon Point: 2.13 Beside the Dying Fire
Age: 12
Gender: male
History: Carl Grimes had a relatively normal childhood up until the age of twelve, being raised by his mother and father Lori and Rick Grimes. He went to school and did everything any average kid his age does.
When the series starts however, Carl's life takes a complete turn for the worse. It all starts when his father is shot in the line of duty, being the Deputy Sheriff for King County. Rick goes into a coma, and Lorie is left to tell Carl the bad news when he gets out of school. It's revealed later that at the hospital, Carl insists on donating his own blood to do anything to save his Dad.
Not long after Rick enters the coma, the zombie apocalypse happens. Literally, the dead start to rise and attack the living because they are hungry, and there are the sincerest apologies for how un-serious this portion sounds. How else does one put the zombie outbreak; everyone's biggest fear in this day and age, after all? But to move back to the serious part of his history, Shane takes the two of them away from the city after informing them that Rick is dead.
On the road, Carl makes friends with a girl named Sophia Peletier, another survivor named Carol's daughter, and in his sadness over his Dad seems to hang out with Shane quite a lot as well. Not much else is seen of him until the group, and Lori and Carl, reuinite with Rick Grimes after a portion of their group get stuck in Atlanta during a supply run.
The next day, while Sophia and Carl are out playing, they accidentally come across a walker. The group comes to their rescue immediately, killing it. Later, Carl is catching frogs with Shane in the Lake when Lori makes him return to camp, because she is angry with Shane about his lying about Rick and doesn't want him near Carl.
Rick ends up leaving with Daryl and T-Dog to save Daryl's brother from being handcuffed to a building in Atlanta, and to get a bag of ammo Rick lost as well. Carl is seen telling Lori in the tent that he's not worried, that his Dad came back to them once already and he would again.
The morning after Rick and the others depart Jim, one of the surviving group, starts digging holes up on the hill. This leads to a group confrontation, because it's just too weird, and frightening to the kids. Jim ends up apologizing to Carl when he is tied to a tree, and Carl doesn't seem incredibly bothered by the weird behavior once they have him tied up.
That night, a group of zombies find their way to the camp and attack the group, making them lose two more of their group members. Carl and Lori escape from the general pandemonium though, despite the odds of surviving in the woods at night like that. Rick returns with the others and the guns just in time to clear the camp and ensure everyone elses survival.
The next time Carl is seen, it's when they're getting ready to leave for the Center for Disease Control, and he says goodbye to another family that had been in the camp, because of their decision to go find their family elsewhere. When the group leaves, and makes it to the CDC, at first they're stuck outside of the secured building surrounded by walkers with no hope, but after Rick screams into a camera to please help them, the doors open.
The CDC at first seems like a paradise to the survivors, they all enjoy hot showers and meals; Carl even tries a little bit of wine at the dinner table. He is later seen playing checkers with Sophia in the rec room, just before being shooed off to bed by Carol.
Soon, the power starts to fade out and Dr. Jenner, the man in charge of the CDC, informs them that the facility will explode once the power all runs out, that it's on a timer to make sure nothing from inside gets out or vice-versa. Carl holds onto his mom and cries, clearly not wanting to die this way, and having to witness his Dad begging for their lives. Eventually Jenner lets them free, and Rick uses a hand grenade to bust the windows so they can escape just before the entire building goes up.
The group then heads to Fort Benning, but they get stuck on the crowded highway not long after after Dale's RV breaks down. While looting cars for any parts or supplies, Carl finds an entire set of nice knives and is forced to hand them over to Shane. Not long after this, the group realizes that an entire herd of walkers are headed their way, and they all hide under the vehicles abandoned on the highway. Carl's friend Sophia ends up getting chased by one off of the highway and into the woods, and Rick follows to try to save her.
Sophia ends up going missing, and the group starts an extensive search of the area the next day. Just when they think there are no signs of life around, a church bell starts ringing in the distance and the group heads that way. After the group finds that the church bell is a recording on a timer and that no one is around, the group decides to split up. Carl convinces his Mom to let him go with Shane and his Dad to look for Sophia while she goes with the others.
While walking in the woods; Shane, Rick and Carl come across a buck in the woods. When it doesn't run away right away, Carl goes ahead and starts to approach it, finding it totally cool that there is still normal wildlife. Then a gunshot rings out, and the buck and Carl both go down. This is when the group meets Otis, a man who was hunting in the woods, and he tells Rick to take Carl to a farm nearby.
Rick runs the entire way with Carl bleeding out in his arms, Otis and Shane following behind slower. When they get to the farm, they meet Hershel, a former veterinarian. He tells Rick and Shane that Carl needs surgery immediately because there are at least five pieces of bullet inside of Carl endangering his life. Rick insists that Lori needs to know, but Shane stops him from leaving because Rick is the only one with the same blood type as Carl and he needs to have him there just in case he needs more from him.
They send Maggie, Hershel's oldest daughter, by horse to find Lori in the woods, and she brings her back to the farm. Not long after, the rest of the group arrives, and they discuss the fact that Hershel can't operate on Carl without putting him under, but putting him under will mean he can't breathe alone. Otis and Shane offer to go and find the necessary medical supples from the elementary school, where a makeshift hospital and safe house had been made a while back.
Shane ends up killing Otis on their outing to ensure his own survival, leaving him to be eaten while he limps away with the bag of supplies. In the meantime at the farm, Carl has a severe seizure, and Hershel informs them that if Otis and Shane don't return soon they will have to do something. This prompts a private conversation between Rick and Lori whether or not Carl should even be living in this world. Lori wonders if maybe it would be better to just let him go, but after Carl wakes up briefly and tells her how beautiful the deer was, it seems like she seems to calm down on that front.
Shane finally returns, and Hershel gets to the work on Carl. The surgery is a complete success, and Carl starts to recover almost immediately. At one point right after it, Carl wakes up and asks his Dad if Sophia is okay. Rick lies to him, but when Carl wakes up again and Lori explains to him why he lied about it and Carl tells her that he understands. Later on, he talks to his Dad about them having both been shot, and is gifted his Dad's Sheriff's Deputy hat.
For a while after this, Carl is mostly seen around the house or the campsite recovering. He also convinces his Mom and Dad to let him learn how to shoot a gun, and they agree when he seems to grasp the reality and seriousness of what actually firing a gun is. He is also seen arguing with Shane about finding Sophia, because Shane clearly thinks that Sophia is long gone or dead. He insists that they shouldn't leave until they find her.
Shane agrees, but later that day he ends up flipping out about the walkers Hershel is keeping in the barn and lets them out. Carl, Lori and Hershel's group all watch in horror as the rest of the group is forced to put them down. Just when the group thinks that all of the walkers are dead, another one comes out of the barn and it's revealed that Sophia was turned and stored in there as well. Rick shoots her in the head, and Carl is seen crying in his mom's arms at the loss of his friend.
The next day, Carl tells his Mom that he wished he could have been the one to find Sophia, alive, but he would have done what his Dad had to do the day before too. He attends the funeral of Sophia the same day as well, accompanied with a few others in the group while the others get rid of the other bodies from the barn incident.
Carl isn't seen a whole lot after this, only being present for Shane spilling the beans on Lori being pregnant after she goes looking for Rick and gets into a car wreck.The group also brings Randall to the farm, a kid who was with another dangerous group, who had a shoot out with Glenn, Hershel and Rick at the bar after everything happened at the farm.
When Shane tells Carl that Randall's fate isn't any of his business, he sneaks into the barn and meets Randall himself. Randall tries to convince Carl to convince the others to let him go, but Shane intervenes before he can really get to Carl. After getting in trouble for sneaking in there, Carl runs into Carol who tells him that Sophia is in heaven. Carl tells her that it's stupid to believe in heaven, and ends up being told by Rick to man up and apologize. Carl goes off subject, hounding his Dad about what he's going to do about Randall and asks if he's going to kill him. Rick tells him that he needs to just worry about making his end with Carol right.
Carl, seemingly being mad about this, goes to Daryl's end of camp and gets into his back, taking his pistol. Then he goes into the woods where he finds a walker stuck in the mud. Carl sits down and throws some rocks at it, and when it gets free he goes to shoot it but gets scared. Carl leaves the woods and the walker, never telling anyone about it.
Later on, the very same walker gets a hold of the groups oldest member, Dale, and Carl and the rest of the group find him in a field suffering. Carl realizes that the walker on the ground is the same one from the woods and turns to his Mom while Daryl shoots Dale. The next day, after Dale's funeral, Carl finds Shane and gives him the gun. He tells him what happened, asking him not to tell his parents, and Shane in turn tells Rick about it, giving him the gun and telling him to get his priorities straight with his kid.
Rick finds Carl a little bit later and talks to him in the barn. He makes Carl take the gun, telling him that he wishes he could have a normal childhood, but he can't. Carl doesn't want to take it at first, but he does, understanding what his Dad is telling him.
That same night, Carl is seen looking out the window of the house, seemingly watching Shane and Rick in the field. He sneaks out to go find them, but when he comes up on his Dad he sees that he has blood on his shirt and that Shane is a zombie behind him. Carl raises his gun and aims over his Dad's shoulder, struggling with taking the shot on Shane and making his Dad think that he's actually going to fire at him. Rick begs him to put the gun down and Carl shoots Shane in the head over his Dad's shoulder.
The shot fired attracts the herd of walkers nearby to come to the farm, and before Carl can get his answer on what really happened to Shane, they realize that they're right in the middle of the hoard. Rick and Carl run into the barn, where Rick gives Carl a lighter and tells him to torch the place when he gets the walkers inside. They lure them in and light the barn on fire, making an escape by the RV Jimmy parks out front. Jimmy gets eaten, of course, but luckily his death makes way for Carl and Rick to get away from the blazing barn.
They come up on Hershel near the house and save him from a walker, before deciding that the farm is too overrun and it's time to go. They make their escape and head back to the highway where they had originally stopped. Here, Carl tells Rick emotionally that they have to go back for Lori, that that's MOM. Hershel, on the other hand, tells Rick that Carl is his priority and that going back is a bad idea for the safety of his boy. As they stand there debating on whether or not they actually lost the rest of the group, they all pull up and regroup. Here they find out that they lost both Jimmy and Patricia, but for the most part the group seems just relieved. They kill a walker before deciding to leave.
Not long after, Rick's vehicle runs out of gas and they're forced to stop on the side of the road. The group insists that they can't stay, and argue for a minute before deciding to make camp when Carl says he's cold. The next time Carl is seen, he is sitting at the campfire with Lori away from Rick while the group debates to themselves whether or not staying there is a good idea. This prompts Rick to lose it, and he tells the group that he didn't ask for this, and that they can feel free to leave. That he killed his best friend for them, and they SAW how Shane was. Carl is shocked by this news and starts crying into his Mom's chest.
This is as far as my canon will take me, for now, and this is where I am taking Carl from.
Personality: The first and most important thing to be noted about Carl's personality is the fact that this boy has been forced to grow up way too fast. Being one of the only children left in the zombie apocalypse, Carl has learned to be tough both inside and out. He seems to be a pretty normal boy considering the circumstances, however, being seen playing with Sophia before her death and by himself in the woods. Carl is very adventurous, and brave at that, being seen taunting a walker by throwing rocks at it after stealing Daryl's gun and wandering off from the group.
Carl is also a very blunt child, being seen asking any questions he wants to no matter what the subject is and also being seen telling Carol that believing in heaven is stupid despite the fact that she just lost her daughter. It's like the boy sees the group struggling and therefore thinks he has the right to be involved in it all as well despite his age. As the series goes on, he seems to become more involved with the group politics themselves despite this though, and he seems less and less afraid to put his own opinion out there with the adults'.
This being said, Carl is very smart as well. Of course, any child is prone to make mistakes, but living in the world that they live in it's not something they can afford to happen. His survival instinct is rather impressive for a boy of twelve, and Carl almost seems to want to do more for the group too. He convinces his parents to let him learn how to shoot a gun and to let him carry a knife, and later is seen shooting Shane in the head to protect his Dad with only a little bit of hesitation.
Living in the world he does is certainly tough on him, and Carl definitely has guilt eating at him in ways that none of the adults would really understand. Because of his taunting a walker, Dale was killed and that alone was enough to make Carl almost want to not shoot a gun. But after his Dad makes him take it, something seems to change a little bit in Carl, like he knows it's time to grow up and protect himself and the others despite his age. Carl tells Shane about it, but for the most part it seems to be something that Carl is dealing with on his own. Having been forced to shoot a reanimated Shane as well, Carl is learning to deal with the burden of having to put walkers down; which is easier said than done for sure. Walker or not, they were once a person and Carl definitely believes this. Rick tells him that it wasn't Shane that he shot, and Carl tells him that it used to be, hinting that even though he had to it was still one of the toughest things he's ever had to do.
This leads to Carl's protective, 'big brother to the world' attitude. When Sophia goes missing, he insists on searching for her despite how dangerous it is, and even after his accident where he gets shot he still insists that Sophia is alive and needs to be looked for. He believes in keeping the group together, and especially keeping his family together now that they all have each other again. Carl would do anything to make sure any person within the group was safe, whether or not it was from a walker or someone else within the group.
Fears: Carl's worst fear would definitely be losing his Mom. Having already lost Rick once, I think that Carl is more equipped to handle that than if his mom were to go missing or die. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't fear the same for his Dad, or anyone else in the group for that matter.
Also, I think that Carl is probably very afraid of being torn apart by zombies, or becoming one and endangering his family. Considering how many people he has seen die, children and adults alike, this is probably his second most legitimate fear.
Ending up split up from the group would also fall under the category of Carl's fears. Even though he's learned to shoot and has survived this far, he still knows he's a kid and is a good target for walkers. Being alone would just be horrible for him.
Weaknesses: Carl's main weakness is definitely his family. If anyone were to threaten or hurt them, the boy might really lose his mind and try to kill someone. Aside from this, Carl's only weakness really is being a small boy in a zombie infested world, and even then he seems to be adjusting almost too well to it.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities:
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: N/A, Carl is just a typical human boy.
Supply List: Carl comes with a Sheriff's Deputy hat, a pistol with five bullets in the chamber, and a knife. Yeah, watch out, kids have guns where he comes from. But he promises he practices safe gunning.
Game Transfers: N/A
Sample RP post:
The fire was probably the only thing that was keeping Carl from really wailing into his Mom's chest, at least his shivering seemed to stop a little bit. Well.
That was until his Dad told the entire group the truth. Honestly, it felt like his Dad had held him down and punched Carl square in the chest when he came forward as Shane's killer. How could that even be, weren't they best friends? Shane wasn't a bad person at all, in fact Carl knew that if it weren't for Shane...him and his mom would probably already be dead. Or walkers.
That's what hurt about it, even if Carl could distantly remember Shane acting out in scary ways. When he unlocked the barn and let the walkers out, Carl had never been more scared of the man. But he also knew that Shane was trying to do the right thing and protect the whole group, so it was really hard to see any truth in his Dad's words.
But that wasn't the only thing on Carl's mind either. It was the other thing his Dad had confessed to the group. That they all carried what the walkers did inside of them, that Shane was never bit. Did that mean that they would have to put down every single person they ever loved? Because the thought of having to shoot his Mom or Dad, after having to take care of Shane? It made Carl feel dizzy and kind of sick.
That's why the boy didn't notice the change around him, at least not until the softness of his Mom's chest turned into something hard. Solid, like a wall. Carl snapped his head up as soon as he realized, eyes wide in horror as he realized that...he was inside somewhere.
In the blink of an eye, he went from being by the campfire to sitting against a large wooden door instead of his Mom. Carl was up on his feet fast, hand moving to his side to grab the gun his Dad had made him keep, because somehow it had made it here with him. His hat was on the floor beside it too, and Carl's knife was tucked into it's holder right where it had been. But everything else was gone.
Was he dreaming?
Carl raised his free hand to pinch his arm, and winced at the stinging it gave. It made him frown and shrink back against that door a little bit as he turned to stare at the house he suddenly just appeared in. The panic was tying a knot in his stomach, but Carl forced himself to swallow hard and speak evenly, hand gripping his gun tighter in case his voice brought any walkers after him.
"M-Mom...? Dad?" Carl sounded a little shaky despite how much he told himself to keep calm, because crying wasn't going to save him if he really wasn't just having a really real dream. The gun came up in front of him as he took a couple of steps forward, peering around nervously.
All he could do was hope that there weren't any walkers. That he was really just dreaming hard, that his day was long and terrible...that this was all made up. That his parents were here, or he would end up right back in his Mom's arms. It was just too bad he would soon discover that he wasn't dreaming, and that this was a new horrible reality he would have to get used to. Carl Grimes was all alone, now.
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DW: meganlomania
Character: Carl Grimes
Canon: The Walking Dead
Version: TV Series
Canon Point: 2.13 Beside the Dying Fire
Age: 12
Gender: male
History: Carl Grimes had a relatively normal childhood up until the age of twelve, being raised by his mother and father Lori and Rick Grimes. He went to school and did everything any average kid his age does.
When the series starts however, Carl's life takes a complete turn for the worse. It all starts when his father is shot in the line of duty, being the Deputy Sheriff for King County. Rick goes into a coma, and Lorie is left to tell Carl the bad news when he gets out of school. It's revealed later that at the hospital, Carl insists on donating his own blood to do anything to save his Dad.
Not long after Rick enters the coma, the zombie apocalypse happens. Literally, the dead start to rise and attack the living because they are hungry, and there are the sincerest apologies for how un-serious this portion sounds. How else does one put the zombie outbreak; everyone's biggest fear in this day and age, after all? But to move back to the serious part of his history, Shane takes the two of them away from the city after informing them that Rick is dead.
On the road, Carl makes friends with a girl named Sophia Peletier, another survivor named Carol's daughter, and in his sadness over his Dad seems to hang out with Shane quite a lot as well. Not much else is seen of him until the group, and Lori and Carl, reuinite with Rick Grimes after a portion of their group get stuck in Atlanta during a supply run.
The next day, while Sophia and Carl are out playing, they accidentally come across a walker. The group comes to their rescue immediately, killing it. Later, Carl is catching frogs with Shane in the Lake when Lori makes him return to camp, because she is angry with Shane about his lying about Rick and doesn't want him near Carl.
Rick ends up leaving with Daryl and T-Dog to save Daryl's brother from being handcuffed to a building in Atlanta, and to get a bag of ammo Rick lost as well. Carl is seen telling Lori in the tent that he's not worried, that his Dad came back to them once already and he would again.
The morning after Rick and the others depart Jim, one of the surviving group, starts digging holes up on the hill. This leads to a group confrontation, because it's just too weird, and frightening to the kids. Jim ends up apologizing to Carl when he is tied to a tree, and Carl doesn't seem incredibly bothered by the weird behavior once they have him tied up.
That night, a group of zombies find their way to the camp and attack the group, making them lose two more of their group members. Carl and Lori escape from the general pandemonium though, despite the odds of surviving in the woods at night like that. Rick returns with the others and the guns just in time to clear the camp and ensure everyone elses survival.
The next time Carl is seen, it's when they're getting ready to leave for the Center for Disease Control, and he says goodbye to another family that had been in the camp, because of their decision to go find their family elsewhere. When the group leaves, and makes it to the CDC, at first they're stuck outside of the secured building surrounded by walkers with no hope, but after Rick screams into a camera to please help them, the doors open.
The CDC at first seems like a paradise to the survivors, they all enjoy hot showers and meals; Carl even tries a little bit of wine at the dinner table. He is later seen playing checkers with Sophia in the rec room, just before being shooed off to bed by Carol.
Soon, the power starts to fade out and Dr. Jenner, the man in charge of the CDC, informs them that the facility will explode once the power all runs out, that it's on a timer to make sure nothing from inside gets out or vice-versa. Carl holds onto his mom and cries, clearly not wanting to die this way, and having to witness his Dad begging for their lives. Eventually Jenner lets them free, and Rick uses a hand grenade to bust the windows so they can escape just before the entire building goes up.
The group then heads to Fort Benning, but they get stuck on the crowded highway not long after after Dale's RV breaks down. While looting cars for any parts or supplies, Carl finds an entire set of nice knives and is forced to hand them over to Shane. Not long after this, the group realizes that an entire herd of walkers are headed their way, and they all hide under the vehicles abandoned on the highway. Carl's friend Sophia ends up getting chased by one off of the highway and into the woods, and Rick follows to try to save her.
Sophia ends up going missing, and the group starts an extensive search of the area the next day. Just when they think there are no signs of life around, a church bell starts ringing in the distance and the group heads that way. After the group finds that the church bell is a recording on a timer and that no one is around, the group decides to split up. Carl convinces his Mom to let him go with Shane and his Dad to look for Sophia while she goes with the others.
While walking in the woods; Shane, Rick and Carl come across a buck in the woods. When it doesn't run away right away, Carl goes ahead and starts to approach it, finding it totally cool that there is still normal wildlife. Then a gunshot rings out, and the buck and Carl both go down. This is when the group meets Otis, a man who was hunting in the woods, and he tells Rick to take Carl to a farm nearby.
Rick runs the entire way with Carl bleeding out in his arms, Otis and Shane following behind slower. When they get to the farm, they meet Hershel, a former veterinarian. He tells Rick and Shane that Carl needs surgery immediately because there are at least five pieces of bullet inside of Carl endangering his life. Rick insists that Lori needs to know, but Shane stops him from leaving because Rick is the only one with the same blood type as Carl and he needs to have him there just in case he needs more from him.
They send Maggie, Hershel's oldest daughter, by horse to find Lori in the woods, and she brings her back to the farm. Not long after, the rest of the group arrives, and they discuss the fact that Hershel can't operate on Carl without putting him under, but putting him under will mean he can't breathe alone. Otis and Shane offer to go and find the necessary medical supples from the elementary school, where a makeshift hospital and safe house had been made a while back.
Shane ends up killing Otis on their outing to ensure his own survival, leaving him to be eaten while he limps away with the bag of supplies. In the meantime at the farm, Carl has a severe seizure, and Hershel informs them that if Otis and Shane don't return soon they will have to do something. This prompts a private conversation between Rick and Lori whether or not Carl should even be living in this world. Lori wonders if maybe it would be better to just let him go, but after Carl wakes up briefly and tells her how beautiful the deer was, it seems like she seems to calm down on that front.
Shane finally returns, and Hershel gets to the work on Carl. The surgery is a complete success, and Carl starts to recover almost immediately. At one point right after it, Carl wakes up and asks his Dad if Sophia is okay. Rick lies to him, but when Carl wakes up again and Lori explains to him why he lied about it and Carl tells her that he understands. Later on, he talks to his Dad about them having both been shot, and is gifted his Dad's Sheriff's Deputy hat.
For a while after this, Carl is mostly seen around the house or the campsite recovering. He also convinces his Mom and Dad to let him learn how to shoot a gun, and they agree when he seems to grasp the reality and seriousness of what actually firing a gun is. He is also seen arguing with Shane about finding Sophia, because Shane clearly thinks that Sophia is long gone or dead. He insists that they shouldn't leave until they find her.
Shane agrees, but later that day he ends up flipping out about the walkers Hershel is keeping in the barn and lets them out. Carl, Lori and Hershel's group all watch in horror as the rest of the group is forced to put them down. Just when the group thinks that all of the walkers are dead, another one comes out of the barn and it's revealed that Sophia was turned and stored in there as well. Rick shoots her in the head, and Carl is seen crying in his mom's arms at the loss of his friend.
The next day, Carl tells his Mom that he wished he could have been the one to find Sophia, alive, but he would have done what his Dad had to do the day before too. He attends the funeral of Sophia the same day as well, accompanied with a few others in the group while the others get rid of the other bodies from the barn incident.
Carl isn't seen a whole lot after this, only being present for Shane spilling the beans on Lori being pregnant after she goes looking for Rick and gets into a car wreck.The group also brings Randall to the farm, a kid who was with another dangerous group, who had a shoot out with Glenn, Hershel and Rick at the bar after everything happened at the farm.
When Shane tells Carl that Randall's fate isn't any of his business, he sneaks into the barn and meets Randall himself. Randall tries to convince Carl to convince the others to let him go, but Shane intervenes before he can really get to Carl. After getting in trouble for sneaking in there, Carl runs into Carol who tells him that Sophia is in heaven. Carl tells her that it's stupid to believe in heaven, and ends up being told by Rick to man up and apologize. Carl goes off subject, hounding his Dad about what he's going to do about Randall and asks if he's going to kill him. Rick tells him that he needs to just worry about making his end with Carol right.
Carl, seemingly being mad about this, goes to Daryl's end of camp and gets into his back, taking his pistol. Then he goes into the woods where he finds a walker stuck in the mud. Carl sits down and throws some rocks at it, and when it gets free he goes to shoot it but gets scared. Carl leaves the woods and the walker, never telling anyone about it.
Later on, the very same walker gets a hold of the groups oldest member, Dale, and Carl and the rest of the group find him in a field suffering. Carl realizes that the walker on the ground is the same one from the woods and turns to his Mom while Daryl shoots Dale. The next day, after Dale's funeral, Carl finds Shane and gives him the gun. He tells him what happened, asking him not to tell his parents, and Shane in turn tells Rick about it, giving him the gun and telling him to get his priorities straight with his kid.
Rick finds Carl a little bit later and talks to him in the barn. He makes Carl take the gun, telling him that he wishes he could have a normal childhood, but he can't. Carl doesn't want to take it at first, but he does, understanding what his Dad is telling him.
That same night, Carl is seen looking out the window of the house, seemingly watching Shane and Rick in the field. He sneaks out to go find them, but when he comes up on his Dad he sees that he has blood on his shirt and that Shane is a zombie behind him. Carl raises his gun and aims over his Dad's shoulder, struggling with taking the shot on Shane and making his Dad think that he's actually going to fire at him. Rick begs him to put the gun down and Carl shoots Shane in the head over his Dad's shoulder.
The shot fired attracts the herd of walkers nearby to come to the farm, and before Carl can get his answer on what really happened to Shane, they realize that they're right in the middle of the hoard. Rick and Carl run into the barn, where Rick gives Carl a lighter and tells him to torch the place when he gets the walkers inside. They lure them in and light the barn on fire, making an escape by the RV Jimmy parks out front. Jimmy gets eaten, of course, but luckily his death makes way for Carl and Rick to get away from the blazing barn.
They come up on Hershel near the house and save him from a walker, before deciding that the farm is too overrun and it's time to go. They make their escape and head back to the highway where they had originally stopped. Here, Carl tells Rick emotionally that they have to go back for Lori, that that's MOM. Hershel, on the other hand, tells Rick that Carl is his priority and that going back is a bad idea for the safety of his boy. As they stand there debating on whether or not they actually lost the rest of the group, they all pull up and regroup. Here they find out that they lost both Jimmy and Patricia, but for the most part the group seems just relieved. They kill a walker before deciding to leave.
Not long after, Rick's vehicle runs out of gas and they're forced to stop on the side of the road. The group insists that they can't stay, and argue for a minute before deciding to make camp when Carl says he's cold. The next time Carl is seen, he is sitting at the campfire with Lori away from Rick while the group debates to themselves whether or not staying there is a good idea. This prompts Rick to lose it, and he tells the group that he didn't ask for this, and that they can feel free to leave. That he killed his best friend for them, and they SAW how Shane was. Carl is shocked by this news and starts crying into his Mom's chest.
This is as far as my canon will take me, for now, and this is where I am taking Carl from.
Personality: The first and most important thing to be noted about Carl's personality is the fact that this boy has been forced to grow up way too fast. Being one of the only children left in the zombie apocalypse, Carl has learned to be tough both inside and out. He seems to be a pretty normal boy considering the circumstances, however, being seen playing with Sophia before her death and by himself in the woods. Carl is very adventurous, and brave at that, being seen taunting a walker by throwing rocks at it after stealing Daryl's gun and wandering off from the group.
Carl is also a very blunt child, being seen asking any questions he wants to no matter what the subject is and also being seen telling Carol that believing in heaven is stupid despite the fact that she just lost her daughter. It's like the boy sees the group struggling and therefore thinks he has the right to be involved in it all as well despite his age. As the series goes on, he seems to become more involved with the group politics themselves despite this though, and he seems less and less afraid to put his own opinion out there with the adults'.
This being said, Carl is very smart as well. Of course, any child is prone to make mistakes, but living in the world that they live in it's not something they can afford to happen. His survival instinct is rather impressive for a boy of twelve, and Carl almost seems to want to do more for the group too. He convinces his parents to let him learn how to shoot a gun and to let him carry a knife, and later is seen shooting Shane in the head to protect his Dad with only a little bit of hesitation.
Living in the world he does is certainly tough on him, and Carl definitely has guilt eating at him in ways that none of the adults would really understand. Because of his taunting a walker, Dale was killed and that alone was enough to make Carl almost want to not shoot a gun. But after his Dad makes him take it, something seems to change a little bit in Carl, like he knows it's time to grow up and protect himself and the others despite his age. Carl tells Shane about it, but for the most part it seems to be something that Carl is dealing with on his own. Having been forced to shoot a reanimated Shane as well, Carl is learning to deal with the burden of having to put walkers down; which is easier said than done for sure. Walker or not, they were once a person and Carl definitely believes this. Rick tells him that it wasn't Shane that he shot, and Carl tells him that it used to be, hinting that even though he had to it was still one of the toughest things he's ever had to do.
This leads to Carl's protective, 'big brother to the world' attitude. When Sophia goes missing, he insists on searching for her despite how dangerous it is, and even after his accident where he gets shot he still insists that Sophia is alive and needs to be looked for. He believes in keeping the group together, and especially keeping his family together now that they all have each other again. Carl would do anything to make sure any person within the group was safe, whether or not it was from a walker or someone else within the group.
Fears: Carl's worst fear would definitely be losing his Mom. Having already lost Rick once, I think that Carl is more equipped to handle that than if his mom were to go missing or die. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't fear the same for his Dad, or anyone else in the group for that matter.
Also, I think that Carl is probably very afraid of being torn apart by zombies, or becoming one and endangering his family. Considering how many people he has seen die, children and adults alike, this is probably his second most legitimate fear.
Ending up split up from the group would also fall under the category of Carl's fears. Even though he's learned to shoot and has survived this far, he still knows he's a kid and is a good target for walkers. Being alone would just be horrible for him.
Weaknesses: Carl's main weakness is definitely his family. If anyone were to threaten or hurt them, the boy might really lose his mind and try to kill someone. Aside from this, Carl's only weakness really is being a small boy in a zombie infested world, and even then he seems to be adjusting almost too well to it.
Mundane Strengths/Abilities:
Sensitivity/Magical Ability: N/A, Carl is just a typical human boy.
Supply List: Carl comes with a Sheriff's Deputy hat, a pistol with five bullets in the chamber, and a knife. Yeah, watch out, kids have guns where he comes from. But he promises he practices safe gunning.
Game Transfers: N/A
Sample RP post:
The fire was probably the only thing that was keeping Carl from really wailing into his Mom's chest, at least his shivering seemed to stop a little bit. Well.
That was until his Dad told the entire group the truth. Honestly, it felt like his Dad had held him down and punched Carl square in the chest when he came forward as Shane's killer. How could that even be, weren't they best friends? Shane wasn't a bad person at all, in fact Carl knew that if it weren't for Shane...him and his mom would probably already be dead. Or walkers.
That's what hurt about it, even if Carl could distantly remember Shane acting out in scary ways. When he unlocked the barn and let the walkers out, Carl had never been more scared of the man. But he also knew that Shane was trying to do the right thing and protect the whole group, so it was really hard to see any truth in his Dad's words.
But that wasn't the only thing on Carl's mind either. It was the other thing his Dad had confessed to the group. That they all carried what the walkers did inside of them, that Shane was never bit. Did that mean that they would have to put down every single person they ever loved? Because the thought of having to shoot his Mom or Dad, after having to take care of Shane? It made Carl feel dizzy and kind of sick.
That's why the boy didn't notice the change around him, at least not until the softness of his Mom's chest turned into something hard. Solid, like a wall. Carl snapped his head up as soon as he realized, eyes wide in horror as he realized that...he was inside somewhere.
In the blink of an eye, he went from being by the campfire to sitting against a large wooden door instead of his Mom. Carl was up on his feet fast, hand moving to his side to grab the gun his Dad had made him keep, because somehow it had made it here with him. His hat was on the floor beside it too, and Carl's knife was tucked into it's holder right where it had been. But everything else was gone.
Was he dreaming?
Carl raised his free hand to pinch his arm, and winced at the stinging it gave. It made him frown and shrink back against that door a little bit as he turned to stare at the house he suddenly just appeared in. The panic was tying a knot in his stomach, but Carl forced himself to swallow hard and speak evenly, hand gripping his gun tighter in case his voice brought any walkers after him.
"M-Mom...? Dad?" Carl sounded a little shaky despite how much he told himself to keep calm, because crying wasn't going to save him if he really wasn't just having a really real dream. The gun came up in front of him as he took a couple of steps forward, peering around nervously.
All he could do was hope that there weren't any walkers. That he was really just dreaming hard, that his day was long and terrible...that this was all made up. That his parents were here, or he would end up right back in his Mom's arms. It was just too bad he would soon discover that he wasn't dreaming, and that this was a new horrible reality he would have to get used to. Carl Grimes was all alone, now.