Try again, Clementine

by Elsa best girl

Clementine was slowly deprived of everyone she held dear. With each person she lost she became more cold and calculating. So when a bitten Clementine and AJ are trapped inside of the barn with a single bullet left in the gun, she makes the obvious choice. After her death, she wakes up in her eight year old body, only days before the dead started walking. What choices will she make?

6. Here it is

AN: I said I was gonna do this so here it is, the tweak.In season one the virus had nothing to do with the bite because it was already in everything and in everyone. The virus its self is too weak to hijack the brain of a living person because of their immune system hence why only the dead are raised. Once you were bitten by a walker you die by the horrible bacteria that is in the mouth the rotting walker not the virus. The change that I wanted to make was adding another strain of the virus to exist.

Lets call the current virus strain A, which everyone is already infected by. Strain B is only produced in the saliva of a walker. It is a more agressive form of the virus that can effect the brain before the host is killed. It only can do this once the immune system is already weakened by the all of the nasty bacteria from the walker's bite. So once the body is to busy trying to fight the infection and the high fever, it will attack the brain. The symptoms that it will give are similar to that of brain fever and rabies. The subject will experience: personality changes, difficulty to think clearly, involuntary movement, confusion, increased salvation, agression, and arrhythmia.Once these set in the subject will eventually lose the ability to form normal thoughts and revert to a unintelligent, animal like tendencies. Once they enter this state they called "Virals".

Since virals aren't dead they can move quickly and are very agressive. Because their vocal cords are not decayed, they are quite loud when prevoked which will attract walkers and other virals if they are nearby. Virals exist only to kill, rather it be by it beating you to death via punching and kicking or even their teeth. And once the target is killed, they turn into a walker. Virals don't last very long and will die on their own via cardiac arrest induced by the arrhythmia or hemorrhaging in the brain or other vital organs. Once dead the viral becomes a normal walker. This gives them basically two lives each when they go against the military on top of being faster, stronger, and have a tool to rally more of each other.I believe this will give the infected a huge boost against the military because lets be honest, there is no way an enemy so disorganised can defeat the military even if they didn't know to shoot for the head. Would a soldier waste their entire magazine once they don't go down after the first few shots? In reality they would aim for the next vital area which is the head. So me giving the virus this buff makes it seem more believable why the military lost and why there are so many walkers.

This change won't effect the entirety of the series that much because they will be rare to come by because they don't last long, most people are dead already, and it can only happen if they weren't outright killed by the walker and we know walkers are very effective in killing.All in all this is mostly a change in the threat level of someone who is bitten by a walker. Now bite checks are gonna be a huge thing after this especially in communities of survivors even. Virals can see through the walker blood if you don't "act" like a walker. However they will be fooled by something like James' mask. I want to see Clementine's reaction when she runs into one of these. I am a fan of the ng idea so Clementine will be caught off gaurd by this and will have to react accordingly. These virals will be rare to come by especially when Lee comes into the picture.