Raya is a nonverbal autistic eight-year-old who gets picked up from school after being expelled. Her mom finishes lighting a cigarette when there's a sudden bang nearby. Using it as an excuse to step away from the house and her kids, her mom goes to check it out. She never comes back. Raya and her brother, Junior, are left alone. At first, they stay inside, but the dirtiness of themselves and their home, the starvation , and constant fighting with each other force them to venture out. When they finally find a camp, the world only becomes more confusing. Raya has to navigate a world full of death while being autistic and nonverbal. People close to her die, and even those she isn't close to still die. This hell is supposed to be the end of the world at least it is for everyone else. To Raya, it becomes the beginning of something else. In all the destruction, she is finally understood and loved. It becomes a bittersweet new life. Her new life truly begins when Daryl Dixon starts noticing her. started 8/14/2025

Ada Walker is a rejected 8 year old girl, navigating a dark world she has yet to understand. When the dead stop dying and bombs are dropped on her home she's forced to evacuate with her family. But when she meets a group and a smelly redneck she finds a new home again. Started: 06/6/24 Finished: in a million years

Callie Walsh was never meant to be part of the end of the world. The daughter of Shane Walsh and the result of a one-night stand, she lived her life split between two homes-caught between her father's chaotic presence and the stability of the Grimes family. Born just three months apart from Carl Grimes, Callie grew up alongside him like a sibling. But when the world fell apart, she was with her mother... and Shane didn't look back long enough to find her. Locked inside her home with her mother Stephanie, Callie waited as the dead took over the streets. When their food ran out, Stephanie left to search for supplies-and never came back. Alone, starving, and terrified, nine-year-old Callie made the only choice she could: find her way to the Grimes' house two streets over. But Lori and Carl were already gone. Broken and alone, Callie thought all hope was lost-until Rick Grimes stumbled through the door, barely alive but determined to protect her. Together, they set out to survive the impossible. Yet in a world where nothing is simple and no one is safe, Callie must learn that family isn't always who you're born to... and survival comes at a price.

𖢥 Half-raised by her older brother, half-raised by an elderly house, Roxanne never learned to be herself. Parts of herself were mirrored of teenage boys, others of older Gen-X's. So she talks back, yet in a polite manner, climbs trees and knows lots about healing, fauna and flora. That's what helped her survive this long through a brain-eating apocalypse. Then, unprompted, comes along some redneck silently offering shelter. Roxanne accepts. Well, follows him like a starved mutt, but that's beside the point. THE WALKING DEAD s2 - ... all platonic found family

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 To Freddie, or more known as Rennie, friends are like some magical thing you only find in fantasy alongside unicorns and pirates. Unobtainable but for sure beautiful... Diagnosed with autism at four, already struggling with life's basics－especially the people part. With selective mutism and echolalia, the only person to really understand her was her brother who could be dismissed as 'just as messed up.' Her and family find refuge at Woodbury while a war was brewing, almost calling it home until it caved from the inside out. Getting taken in by the opposing group, she meets a particularly rough, grimy man that uses just as few words as she did. ➤ season3 － season10 ➤ updates currently set in season4 ➤ kinda dual pov ➤ first draft !! ➤ slow!daryls daughter (they both awkward and don't know how to express themselves) 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 oct 10 '25 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 dec 9 '25 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝

𓃟𓆉𓅰𓆝𓃠𓃹 Frankie, nine years old and undiagnosed with autism. Daryl Dixon finds the girl while looking for another lost kid, Sophia. Brought to a group that seems to already have a place and a roll to play already. She tries making friends with the kids in the camp but the 'friend making skill' hasn't been unlocked yet. From never hitting, kicking, stabbing or harming another in any way, she has to work up the strength and courage so she can survive this world on her own. If it comes to that. ➤ season2 － season? ➤ updates currently set in season3 ➤ 1st person perspective 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 － 18th Feb '24 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 － 30th Mar '24 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 － ⚠︎︎ I am so inconsistent w uploads!

12 year old Cassie Walsh has no idea what's happening. Mom's dead, Wyatt's dead, Uncle Rick's dead, Dad's being weird, and on top of that the world just came to an end, the dead are 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞. This is it, right? 𝗂𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗂𝗌 𝗂𝗍， 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗐𝗁𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖾？．．𝗐𝗁𝗒 𝖽𝗈𝖾𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝖾𝖾𝗅 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾 𝖺 𝖻𝖾𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗍𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝖺𝗇 𝖾𝗇𝖽．．？ 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑:𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐜'𝐬! 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝟑 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. 🦈🦖🦕

The girl who carried her last name like a burden. Atlas Sokolov, a ten year old girl, way too naive for this world. Living with her abusive parents, she only had her older brother to protect her. If he was able to. He was the opposite of her. He was brave, strong, always seemed to be fearless and knew how to protect himself. Unlike Atlas. When the world fell and their parents died, he was the one protecting her, making sure both of them survived. Now that he's dead, Atlas is on her own.

First book of the series Of Blood and Hope. Adeline Dixon was ten when the world ended, but grief had already carved her hollow. She's no stranger to silence, to bruises hidden under long sleeves, to pretending not to feel. She bleeds quietly, like someone used to being left behind. Daryl never wanted to be anyone's guardian. But something in her - sharp and burning and unbearably alive - calls to something in him he thought was long dead. In the ruins of Georgia, amid blood and ash, the two of them learn what it means to stay - even when you don't know how. ** Disclaimer: The Walking Dead and its characters are not my property. They belong to their respective creators. Only the original characters in this story are my own creation. Chapters 1-12: Season I Chapters 13-_: Season II