Why everyone so attached to Clementine?

edited September 2012 in The Walking Dead
I mean, she's just another child. Yeah, I do care about her because she seems to trust me, but, I mean, she's nothing special. She does not even play major role in my moral decisions.
Is that just your maternal instinct I am lacking?
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  • edited September 2012
    Doesn't play a role in your moral decisions? i would wait till Episode 4 to say that :D
  • edited September 2012
    To me, she doesn't. I make my decisions based on my own personal moral, I do not really think how it could affect Clementine and stuff.
  • edited September 2012
    Maugly wrote: »
    To me, she doesn't. I make my decisions based on my own personal moral, I do not really think how it could affect Clementine and stuff.

    yea according to your own morals. So she is learning the way you deal with things.
  • edited September 2012
    She's so adorable :D
    Makes me laugh in each of the epsiodes.
    My favorite characther.
  • edited September 2012
    As Clem would say....

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    "I don't know."
  • edited September 2012
    She brightens up my Lees day and she is a little girl, do my Lee has a urge to protect her.
  • edited September 2012
    Maugly wrote: »
    I mean, she's just another child. Yeah, I do care about her because she seems to trust me, but, I mean, she's nothing special. She does not even play major role in my moral decisions.
    Is that just your maternal instinct I am lacking?
    She's not just another child; she's been the moral compass of the whole story. I could even say that, in that [literally] decaying world, she's the only irrefutable evidence that true goodness is still present.
    Besides, she's really sweet, and she's so "d'awwww" all the time. I hope her parents aren't dead, because they've done a helluva job.
  • edited September 2012
    Because after Carley died everyone realized there is literally nobody really likable left besides Clem *and Kennys still a nice guy if you were nice to him 100% of the time so hes still my bro!*
  • edited September 2012
    I'd argue that if you aren't attached to Clem as a character it's because you're either playing The Walking Dead as a video game (I'm going to win the apocalypse!), you're too young to feel any kind of attachment to a kid, or for just whatever reason her character design is too uncanny valley for your mind to pick her up as an actual kid. She looks up to you, relies on you, and you owe her your life. It's a weird, cool relationship.
  • edited September 2012
    Maugly wrote: »
    I mean, she's just another child. Yeah, I do care about her because she seems to trust me, but, I mean, she's nothing special. She does not even play major role in my moral decisions.
    Is that just your maternal instinct I am lacking?

    I think someone is playing Devil's advocate, but yes, I do agree with you.
    She's not even my child, I've known her for about 4 mos now all of a sudden I'm her guardian?
  • edited September 2012
    I'd argue that if you aren't attached to Clem as a character it's because you're either playing The Walking Dead as a video game (I'm going to win the apocalypse!)

    rofl, I guess that's me, come hell or high water I'm crossing that finish line! :)
  • edited September 2012
    L: Clem, Did you break this Flashlight?
    C: No! Did Duck say I did?
    L: No... Did he do it?
    C: No.. He just always accuses me of stuff.
    L: Like what?"
    C: Like putting a bug On his pillow.
    L: Did you do that?"
    C: ....Yes."

    Do I need to say anything else?
  • edited September 2012
    L: Clem, Did you break this Flashlight?
    C: No! Did Duck say I did?
    L: No... Did he do it?
    C: No.. He just always accuses me of stuff.
    L: Like what?"
    C: Like putting a bug On his pillow.
    L: Did you do that?"
    C: ....Yes."

    Do I need to say anything else?

    Not really, but can you quote every adorable thing she says please XD
  • edited September 2012
    Not really, but can you quote every adorable thing she says please XD

    Here's another one, I'll just add the full conversation DreadMagus mentioned:

    L: What's This thing?
    D: Daddy said it's called a salt lick
    C: Yeah, But don't lick it. It's gross!
    L: Did you lick it?
    C: ......I don't know....
  • edited September 2012
    Maugly wrote: »
    Is that just your maternal instinct I am lacking?

    How about you wouldn't have survived the first 20 minutes of the game if she hadn't saved your ass from the babysitter?
  • edited September 2012
    ROFL.... that's a pretty strong reason.
  • edited September 2012
    Xarne wrote: »
    I think someone is playing Devil's advocate, but yes, I do agree with you.
    She's not even my child, I've known her for about 4 mos now all of a sudden I'm her guardian?

    To be honest I have a feeling Clem is going to have a major role in ether Episode 4 or Episode 5 and it will be because of Lee's actions. Reason being is because for most of the big choices Clem has been their watching them. (Save Duck or Shawn, Choice to side with Larry or Kenny, Save Carley or Doug, How to say Manure instead of a swear word, Killing the St. Johns just a few off the top of my head)
    Cyreen wrote: »
    How about you wouldn't have survived the first 20 minutes of the game if she hadn't saved your ass from the babysitter?

    This ^ You instantly gain the Poster with the best reason in this thread award! CONGRATULATIONS! :D
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    ROFL.... that's a pretty strong reason.

    It is a very strong reason. BTW love the Avatar Picture
  • edited September 2012
    RossLGould wrote: »
    She's not just another child; she's been the moral compass of the whole story. I could even say that, in that [literally] decaying world, she's the only irrefutable evidence that true goodness is still present.
    Besides, she's really sweet, and she's so "d'awwww" all the time. I hope her parents aren't dead, because they've done a helluva job.

    I have a feeling the evidence will be destroyed by end of season.
  • edited September 2012
    Not really, but can you quote every adorable thing she says please XD

    What would've been cool if that situation would've been different based on her learning from your decisions/actions.
  • edited September 2012
    deadfan wrote: »
    What would've been cool if that situation would've been different based on her learning from your decisions/actions.

    I think she is learning because for most of the major choices she is their watching you make that choice and I think it will influence her and become something major for her in ether E4 or E5.
  • edited September 2012
    Wha--... you're saying I'm not gonna win the game?

    In fact I think a lot of people have just lost too.
  • edited September 2012
    Think of it this way... If you were going to take care of a child in the zombie apocalypse, would you not feel responsible for her?
  • edited September 2012
    Cyreen wrote: »
    How about you wouldn't have survived the first 20 minutes of the game if she hadn't saved your ass from the babysitter?

    Doesn't really sound like a valid point to me, actually. I was saved by... almost every person in the group, even by Lily. Didn't made me attached to them, either.
    I think in ZA, people will be saving you now and then, and I really do not get why you judge people's deeds from our nowadays moral views.
  • edited September 2012
    Sergiy wrote: »
    Think of it this way... If you were going to take care of a child in the zombie apocalypse, would you not feel responsible for her?

    Ugh... No.
    It's ZA.
    The whole game for me was how moral no longer matter that much. Only who survives matter. Actually, the last choice in ep.2 (no spoilers) was the toughest choice for me.
    And I was... well, amazed about how I make choices whom I want to survive. Turned out to be quite cruel.
    But I myself do not have a strong bond with Clem. She saved me, as did (indirectly) Shawn, as did Kenny, as did Carley, as did Lily. But as of now, I would gladly kill Lily, and Kenny became quite a nuisance despite I thought we might be friends.
  • edited September 2012
    Maugly wrote: »
    Doesn't really sound like a valid point to me, actually. I was saved by... almost every person in the group, even by Lily. Didn't made me attached to them, either.

    Right. When the ZA starts and you're scrabbling for shelter from the oncoming gaggle of zombies, I'll be the chick that trips you and leaves your soulless butt as bait.
  • edited September 2012
    Jesus. She's a kid. K-I-D.
    I don't care how about her. Is she good or very bad?? I'll protect her anyway. I know it''s just a game but please don't lose your human nature, guys.
  • edited September 2012
    Cyreen wrote: »
    Right. When the ZA starts and you're scrabbling for shelter from the oncoming gaggle of zombies, I'll be the chick that trips you and leaves your soulless butt as bait.

    LMAO sounds like you had that as a plan for people you don't like anyway when a ZA hits.
    Two Face wrote: »
    Jesus. She's a kid. K-I-D.
    I don't care how about her. Is she good or very bad?? I'll protect her anyway. I know it''s just a game but please don't lose your human nature, guys.

    Agreed. All I can say is by Episode 5 Clem in his game might leave him to die for treating her bad.
    Maugly wrote: »
    Doesn't really sound like a valid point to me, actually. I was saved by... almost every person in the group, even by Lily. Didn't made me attached to them, either.
    I think in ZA, people will be saving you now and then, and I really do not get why you judge people's deeds from our nowadays moral views.

    Except Clem was the first ever person to save Lee and on top of that had been surviving for days before Lee found her. So yer that is a pretty good and valid point because Lee would have been dead before anyone else saved him. And I guess that Lilly saved you because you tried to save her dad right? If you did not try and save her dad Kenny would come to your rescue and Lilly would rather watch you fry on the fence then save you.
  • edited September 2012
    Zargus wrote: »
    Agreed. All I can say is by Episode 5 Clem in his game might leave him to die for treating her bad.
    Let's see, man...
    Zargus, I'll remember your name. When we finish this game, we'll talk about your story and mine. Ok??? :D
  • edited September 2012
    Two Face wrote: »
    Let's see, man...
    Zargus, I'll remember your name. When we finish this game, we'll talk about your story and mine. Ok??? :D

    Sounds like a plan. I do think Clem is going to have a huge role in the next episode or episode 5 and it is going to be because of the choices we made. Reason being is because most of the big ones she was their watching you.
  • edited September 2012
    Man, I believe Clem. But I think If we meet her parents and they're a bad guys (before maybe they're good but ZA can change their personality). That's a real problem. That's more difficult choice than (like you said) she'll treat me.
  • edited September 2012
    Clem: Duck blaims me for everything..

    Clem: He blaimed me for putting a bug on his pillow.

    Lee: Did you?

    Clem: ....Yeah...

    LOL's all around.
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    edited September 2012
    oldgun wrote: »
    Clem: Duck blaims me for everything..

    Clem: He blaimed me for putting a bug on his pillow.

    Lee: Did you?

    Clem: ....Yeah...

    LOL's all around.

    What the hell! as I know the conversation wasn't like that :eek:
  • edited September 2012
    I see the validity of the point the OP is getting across, but looking at this forum I see some behaviour that stands out much more. And it makes me ask the question:

    Why do people give so much of a damn about Carley? After EP 1 she played a much more minor role, disappearing for the centre portion of Ep 2. Hardly enough communication to rationally get so attached.

    Perhaps because she was the best looking, perhaps because some tail seemed promising. I don't know what it was that made people think she was so much more special and valuable than the rest of the members. And to make it funnier, when I read people moaning wishes for her to come back/survive the shot, it always sounds more like they're talking about a dead pet.
  • edited September 2012
    I mean, let's face it. Most women only care about themselves even before a zombie apocalypse hits.

    Wow. Misogynistic much?
  • edited September 2012
    Wow... just... wow.
  • edited September 2012
    Jesus. She's a kid. K-I-D.
    I don't care how about her. Is she good or very bad?? I'll protect her anyway. I know it''s just a game but please don't lose your human nature, guys.
    Agreed. All I can say is by Episode 5 Clem in his game might leave him to die for treating her bad.

    That would be so hilarious of that could happen.

    "Screw you, Lee! Im only eight but Im better off by myself. Im a crack shot, after all."

    Then she takes a shot at him if he tries to follow.
  • edited September 2012
    Two Face wrote: »
    Jesus. She's a kid. K-I-D.
    I don't care how about her. Is she good or very bad?? I'll protect her anyway. I know it''s just a game but please don't lose your human nature, guys.

    It's amazing how you say 'kid' as if it gives her some special bonuses (be it practical, moral or something). I guess my main misunderstanding is this.
    And well... what is the human nature after all? Every animal cares about their cubs. Doesn't make them any more human.
  • edited September 2012
    I think not just because she is a kid, extremely cute and adorable, and makes laugh quite a bit. She's a ray of hope that everyone and everything in the world hasn't turned into a twisted mess and that maybe, just maybe the world hasn't lost everything that it once was.
  • edited September 2012
    I was totally gonna make my move (with or without her help)... even after I slipped twice in the kitchen.
    But if she didn't warn you the lurker would have bitten you whilst you was searching her house. Sandra was hunting you the whole time you was in there. Lee would not have survived the attack if Clementine didn't give him the hammer. humans get tired walkers don't. He couldn't move very fast with his damaged leg.
  • edited September 2012
    Cooperal wrote: »
    I see the validity of the point the OP is getting across, but looking at this forum I see some behaviour that stands out much more. And it makes me ask the question:

    Why do people give so much of a damn about Carley? After EP 1 she played a much more minor role, disappearing for the centre portion of Ep 2. Hardly enough communication to rationally get so attached.

    Perhaps because she was the best looking, perhaps because some tail seemed promising. I don't know what it was that made people think she was so much more special and valuable than the rest of the members. And to make it funnier, when I read people moaning wishes for her to come back/survive the shot, it always sounds more like they're talking about a dead pet.
    Carly is underrated. Lee,Kat,Clem,Duck,Kenny all owed their lives to Carly. She led the charge in their rescue. She was the only one with the courage and the compassion to leave her group's place of safety and risk giving away their position to save Lee and his companions much like Glenn in the TV show. Why is Carly loved and favoured, the same reason Glenn in the tv show is, for her heroism. Then she sticks up for you, falling out with Lilly and Larry. It's only Carly and Glenn that stand up for Lee's group when Larry is convincing his group that you should be tossed out. Then Carly either saves Clementine from the walker in the toilet or saves Lee if Lee saves Clementine. Two rescues from Carly in quick successions. Then she establishes a bond with Lee by trusting him in spite of his past setting her self up as an ally as a direct contrast to Larry your antagonist who chooses to use his knowledge of your secret as a weapon against you.

    Carly is influential in your attack on the motor inn zombies and shoots many walkers when the pharmacy is over run. It's hard not to save her after all of this and it is hard not to value her as a group member. she is the most consistent of the characters going into season 2. Where Kenny has changed in his behavior and Lily is defensive, expecting you to side against her Carly is supportive and understanding. The encouragement that she gives to Lee during their one to ones are quite similar to those given in relationships and marriages. She always says the right thing like when she advises you about shielding your past in episode 2 and how it doesn't make you a bad man, she encourages you to take charge more reminding you that people look up to you and there is the intimate moments in episode 3 when she is encouraging you to trust other group members as if she knows she won't be around much longer. Generally after Clementine Carly shows Lee more care than the other survivors. She will tell Lee to stay safe and even cuddle him. As a character I think telltale went through much effort to make her convincing and detailed, she is probably one of the most in depth characters. As fan favourites go she is probably the closest in Lee's group to Andrea from Rick's group. Andrea is not a fan favourite in the walking dead because she is pretty it's because she's badass!
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