Clem is growing up: Deal with it
*puts sunglasses on*
Deal with it!
It seems a lot of people don't like "badass Clem" as much as innocent Clem, and I can see why and respect that opinion, but there is a line between what we want and what is real.
Let's be honest: innocent Clem was naïve. She was inexperienced and her hope was only false hope. The problem here is that we don't want Clem to grow up. We want her to be the same old Clem.
Sorry to say, but that isn't the way it works in The Walking Dead. Those who usually hold onto hope are disappointed, and those who are innocent can't protect themselves from the ones who aren't. Clem had to grow up in order to survive. This is reality. We don't have to like it very much, but we have to understand that this was an important and necessary change for Clem.
Anyway, just my thoughts on the subject.
Deal with it!
It seems a lot of people don't like "badass Clem" as much as innocent Clem, and I can see why and respect that opinion, but there is a line between what we want and what is real.
Let's be honest: innocent Clem was naïve. She was inexperienced and her hope was only false hope. The problem here is that we don't want Clem to grow up. We want her to be the same old Clem.
Sorry to say, but that isn't the way it works in The Walking Dead. Those who usually hold onto hope are disappointed, and those who are innocent can't protect themselves from the ones who aren't. Clem had to grow up in order to survive. This is reality. We don't have to like it very much, but we have to understand that this was an important and necessary change for Clem.
Anyway, just my thoughts on the subject.
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I do think she *could* kill if it eventually comes down to it, but it would probably weigh heavy in her mind for a long time afterwards.
Just my viewpoint. I respect it if anyone else doesn't agree.
I like her season 2 self a lot.
It was literally where the world started falling apart. Maybe she just associates it to the start of the ZA, now. A terrible thing.
That's why she hates it now.
The ZA is a life changing thing. It's so significant, that I would be surprised if she DIDN'T associate bad memories with the treehouse.
She's a kid, they're more sensitive to scary stuff and the like. She pretty much lived through her worst nightmare in that treehouse, alone. Just think about it, what it was like to be there, alone and scared to death, wishing to wake up from that terror, with no one coming to save you. It's the kind of thing that would haunt a kid forever.
That was my opinion. I apologize if it was too unclear/unrealistic.
It's your own choice, so I won't interfere it.
Bad real memories are going to have a stronger associative effect, becaues those are memories of stuff that actually happened.
EDIT: Images are down, but I imagined the OP with the pic of Clem wearing sunglasses. :3
Bad memories overpower good ones...
Christ if she was still the little innocent Clementine she was two years ago I don't think she would've lasted much longer without Lee.