(I found this picture on Pinterest)
Ben can be a coward and a fuckup at times, but yeah he’s a kid. Everyone got thrusted into the Survive-day-by-day life in a moment, some have seen it before, or already going through it. Hell I know I would most likely die within the first week or 2. Even so, Clem and Duck were in the same/similar situations (When Clem got kidnapped and Duck helped get Marshal’s son get killed). We have all been there. That’s why I didn’t want him to die. He had a lot of potential, and a lot of growth as a character. He just wanted to help and prove himself. We saw this when they raided Crawford, and even when they went to go find Clem. He would have died at any other given chance. But he had good intentions (like when he found the axe that they shoved into the door). I know if fucked up numerous times, but they may or may not have risked someone’s life. Ben may not have been cut out for that life since a it’s a literal dog-eat-dog world, but the weak grow stronger. Some people who were in power probably were no bodies in the lifetime before. Ben was given numerous chances, and he fucked them all up, but he proved himself though each time. He may not have been a natural leader like Clem, but he was a hard worker.
I know this is long, but I wanted to get it off my chest. I loved him as much as I loved Lee and Clem… he was a good guy with good intentions.
