There are only so many times you can love and lose before you assume taking “love” out of the equation would stop it from happening again. But she’s learned that these people will probably die, just like all the others, and avoiding them is the only way she can protect her heart from breaking again.
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It’s clear that Clementine still cares about other people, you can see the regret in her eyes as she refuses to stay with Javier and his group. The only person Clementine had left after that (as shown in flashbacks) was Rebecca’s baby AJ from the end of the second season - but, given the fact AJ is nowhere in sight when Clem finds Javier Garcia in the third season, one can assume the worst. Sarah, her teenage friend, was the most tragic death, because it didn’t matter how many times you saved her in the game (like when she’s trapped in the trailer), she was always dead by the end of it. While Lee’s death was probably the most impactful, the second season was what really nailed in the coffin, as practically her entire group of friends was killed by Walkers or human enemies. She even kills a former contact for selling her bad bullets.īy the time the third season starts, there isn’t a single person from Clementine’s past who’s still in her life. Her only goal is to survive, and she’ll screw anyone and everyone over to save her own skin. The new Clementine is cold, unfeeling, and hardcore. Then, when preteen Clementine arrives in the middle of the first episode of The Walking Dead’s third season, surprise! That little girl is gone. All she wanted was someone to protect her, and she bounced from group to group seeking a place to belong.
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When we initially met her in the first episode of The Walking Dead’s first season, she was sweet, kind, and trusting. Clementine was destined to go dark, because she’s a survivor. While that might seem like a betrayal to the young girl players grew to love over the first two seasons of the video game series, it actually makes perfect sense. Somewhere after the last season, Clementine morphed from a child into a killer. When fan-favorite Clementine shows up in Telltale’s The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, it’s kind of devastating.