Nick's Mom
Maybe the reason no one mentioned Nick's mom when they got back to Carver's camp is because she died before they left the camp. What do you think?
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Maybe the reason no one mentioned Nick's mom when they got back to Carver's camp is because she died before they left the camp. What do you think?
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I was thinking that too, but I'm not sure if they specifically mention that it was when they were together as a group i.e. at the cabin or not...
I think a likelier explanation is that Telltale forgot.
I thought this too, why no one mentioned Nick's mom? Carver in A House Divided said he was looking for seven people but not Nick's mom, Reggie didn't ask where Nick's mom was. But I don't think she died before they left the camp, they said that she died shortly before. I don't understand.
We don't know how long ago they left the camp, though. They might have only been there for a short while.
But it would be nice for Telltale to address this more.
maybe she died before nick,luke and pete join the camp
I was thinking that too. But Carver would not take a bitten person in his group so it's a little bit confusing. It would be cool if Nick tells us in EP4 what happened to her.
Maybe she died before they went to the camp?
Or most simply, TellTale forgot about her (or maybe they didn't metion her on purpose beacuse we didn't know her)
You're probably right, I like to think Telltale would be better than that though
It would be unlikely because Pete said he "just" lost a sister so... yeah, weird story. Maybe the cabin group just escaped when they met Clem?
But you'd think Carver wouldn't let a random person into the camp without checking them for bites, he doesn't seem the type
The question is "Why they left at the first place?"
Maybe it's because of Nick's mother, I don't know or smth bigger...
Yeah, maybe.
I dunno. Bonnie said Carver wasn't always the way he was at the end of his life. Maybe he was kinder before or maybe he didn't even know about the fact that a bite turns people at that point. Maybe that's how they found, by taking care of that person who then turned and bit Nick's mom.....On second thought, maybe not. Luke said they thought they could control it, indicating they did know....
Or maybe it just felt recent to him. A tragedy can feel recent for years.
That would indeed be pretty weird...
But maybe Carver didn't run the camp at that time, maybe the group was just several survivors who tried to stick together. Bonnie said something like "Luke and Carver didn't agree on how things should went so they started to butt heads and then Rebecca started showing and things only got worse", so were Luke and Carver fighting for the leadership? If Carver wasn't the boss at that time he couldn't refuse to take in the group the person who bit Nick's mom. Maybe he used the terror created by that event to that take over the leadership and after that, the cabin group escaped.
What do you think?
Yeah, if it happened to them fairly early on in the ZA, that might explain why they were naive enough to be standing "right there" when she turned.
Ooh, that's an interesting idea. Maybe Nick didn't want to be the one to kill his mom and Carver made him. Hmm.
Ooooooh nice idea...
Unlike Alvin/Rebecca (the baby), Carlos/Sarah (trying to keep Sarah safe), and Luke (trying to lead his own group), Nick and Pete don't really have a motivation to leave the camp. At least, not one as clear cut as the others. I kind of assumed it had to do with Luke being his usual pushy self but maybe you're right, maybe it does have to do with Nick's mom.
Thank you! But I would like Telltales to tell us what really happened (determinant dialog for those who kept alive Nick?).
What if Luke's mom was all a dream? She never existed.
Yeah I'd guess she was bitten at Camp Carver and Carver forced Nick to put her down. I hope they delve into each group members personal history with Carv now that he's dead, Nick's backstory including his mom.
Playing devil's advocate, but Nick's mom is dead and Nick had to kill her. Does it really matter when and where she died? Why should Telltale spend another 5 minutes of screen time that will likely equate to a few hours of production, recording, programming, etc time on a dead woman for a subset of players that kept Nick alive through episode 2? That's time that could be spent elsewhere on another plot point. (My Nick is alive, by the way, and one of the few characters I do like.)
While it's nice to know more backstory on characters, Nick is a determinant and his time for development was episode one and up to what could be his death in episode two. At this point, he's walker bait and he won't see more development.
Perhaps Telltale could consider doing a short story series that delves into the background of the characters that would fill in gaps like how Nick and Luke met and their business venture, Nick's mom, Kenny's days after S1E5, etc. While another DLC like 400 Days could fill in some gaps, there's likely just going to be more created.
That sounds very possible.
I love that DLC idea! Then, we could get more than 5 minutes on Nick's backstory and we could get everyone else's backstory too (Kenny, Luke, Rebecca, maybe Jane and Mike). I'd much prefer that to getting a bunch of new characters like we got in the last DLC.
I think they might have left Carver's camp a while ago, since a) they seem surprised at Reggie losing an arm and b) Reggie's arm seems to have healed pretty well by the time Clem and Co. meet him. ( After several replays of episode 3 I can't see a single moment where Reggie is suffering due to pain)
Ben was determinant and still got some decent development if you saved him from the belltower. I think it's safe to expect something like that from a character like Nick, who's already been around longer than Ben.
Maybe Nick, Luke and Pete joined Camp Carver AFTER everyone else? It would explain why Rebecca "made the announcements back in the day" and why no one else mentioned Nick's mum. Since they might've joined AFTER everyone else, that's when Luke and Carver "butted heads".
Just a thought?
Luke's mum? You mean Nick's mum?