As you might know, on the dreadful date of October 2026 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glenn's death.
The lovely bastard took off with half of my heart and, ten years later, I'm still not over it.
One decade without Glenn is one too many decades. To fix this, I've decided to create what I call 💫The Glenn-verse💫 which will consist of four stories (for now) that serve the purpose of exploring Glenn's character from angles that were never taken or properly exploited in the main series.
The four AUs I've created for this tribute are:
1-> In the midst of early apocalypse chaos, Glenn finds himself completely alone with no idea of where to go or what to do. He finds someone even more helpless than him and soon they become everything the other needs. In a nutshell: accidentally acquired child becomes Glenn's reason to keep going.
2->Glenn joins the Vatos gang after Rick and co. decide not to risk it coming back for him. It only lasts for a day before an unexpected someone finds him, and now the most unlikely duo in the entire series must learn how to survive the new world's system without killing each other. In a nutshell: both Glenn and Merle are left behind in Atlanta. They do what they must to survive, even if that means helping each other, even if they hate it.
3->Based on the video game. Glenn told Lee he wanted to help his friends, who were trapped in Atlanta. He never found his friends but made some new ones. After he and Noah manage to escape the Grady Memorial Hospital, Glenn decides to go back to Macon, to the place where he belonged. In a nutshell: a merge of the show's and videogame's stories through Glenn.
4->The end of the world is not easy for anybody, especially not for young girls. Especially not for young girls who run themselves ragged trying to keep an entire group fed and alive while not being acknowledged at all. In a nutshel: what would've have happened if Glenn had been born a girl.
MAIN GOAL OF THESE STORIES:
1-> To explore Glenn’s capability for platonic love, taking the found-family trope to new heights within twd. Having a helpless person depend on him forces Glenn to mature faster, and reshapes his worldview and some of his actions due to higher responsibility.
2-> To explore how much the people around us can get to us, and the formation of bonds under dire circumstances with people we never believed possible. It also delves into Glenn’s “cyberpunk” side (using videogame analogies to dissociate and excuse cruelty).
3-> To explore Glenn’s influence as an active cohesion mechanism for a different survivor group with a different journey than Rick’s. He's just one person but his precense or absence completely changes the fate of these two communities.
4-> To explore how gender shapes the way we act and the way we’re perceived. Lenna takes on the same role as Glenn but with a different perspective.
BACKSTORIES:
1-> Same as show Glenn. Family in Michigan, sisters, pizza delivery boy, no car stealing mentioned.
2-> Comic book Glenn. Rocky relationship with parents, estranged with his sisters, pizza delivery boy for a while, then car stealer for money and for fun, drowning in debt.
3-> Videogame Glenn. Family from Macon, no mention of his relationship with siblings or parents. Knows tricks to steal cars. Has friends in Atlanta, important enough to him to go looking for them into the deadly city.
4-> Still to be determined. Probably a mix of 1 and 2.
If anyone would like to share their take on Glenn or give any feedback to my ideas (which, even if I have a clear idea of what I want for each of them, are still half-baked), I'll gladly read you in the comments!
