Been thinking about The Walking Dead Telltale series lately. Like how regardless of your choices, thing still go the way the game designers had intended for it. Cause no matter if you decided against something or save another character from dying, you still end up where they want you to and most characters you save end up dying anyways...
At some point, I would really like to do a zine or comic book or graphic novel where you actually get a choice in the outcomes of your decisions so they aren't pointless. You save a character, they live longer than the game let them. You decide to go a different direction, you get to.
This idea is solely because there were characters who I think could have had a chance and maybe even made a difference later on. For example, by saving one character could be potentially saving others down the line (or other characters may die sooner due to the change).
Cause I got this one idea for if Duck hadn't been bitten in Season 1, and instead it was Katjaa (sorry Kat, I love her character but I really don't think she would have made it long in the world of the dead). I think had this been the turnout, it would have changed quite a few things. Not necessarily the course of the game, but some of the characters' development.
With Duck alive, Kenny may not have went as far off the deepend and kept him from having as much anger issues as he did. And with Katjaa having died the way she did, it would have affected Duck kinda like it did Sarah with her dad in season 2. But he wouldn't have been in denial after her death and possibly snap out of it on his own with given time.
He would start wanting to learn how to survive. Kenny would teach him best he could, but at some points Lee would might have to take over since his mind still wouldn't quite be in order after Katjaa.
Time skip, he'd end up being a pretty good survivor like Clem. (And I noticed how in season 1 he was actually a really observational kid, noticing things others didn't and had really good hearing). I'm not gonna talk about season 2 cause I don't think his being there would change any of the others' deaths, but I think he could change at least 1 in season 3.
Mariana.
The reason she had been killed was due to no one knowing or noticing the New Frontier were hiding in the woods waiting to ambush Javier's family. But I thought with what I just mentioned of Duck being observational is if he'd made it to then, it's possible he could have noticed the glint of a gun in the bushes or saw someone moving out there. And just before the shooting could start, yell at the others to take cover and tackle Mariana out of the way.
(Just my thoughts and ideas 🙃)
