Hisokas_Girl2004
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Still Breathing
The Walking Dead - Original Character Story
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama, Slow-Burn Romance
Timeline: Season 2 (Hershel's Farm Era)
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She was bitten. She should be dead. But Rowan Maddox is still breathing.
Two months ago, Rowan was attacked. The walker sank its teeth into her ankle-deep, bloody, inescapable. Everyone knows what happens next. Fever. Death. Reanimation.
Except... it didn't.
She didn't die.
She didn't turn.
She just kept going.
Now, weak from injury and worn down by isolation, Rowan collapses on a rural road and is found by a group of survivors led by a former sheriff named Rick Grimes. Suspicious, cautious, and already on edge, the group doesn't know what to make of her. Shane wants her gone. Hershel refuses to treat her. And everyone watches her like she might turn at any moment.
But Rowan isn't just another stray survivor. She's something else. Something no one's seen before.
As she recovers on Hershel's farm, Rowan becomes the center of unease, wonder, and debate. Is she immune? Infected but resistant? Or the start of something far more dangerous?
With the group divided over her presence and tensions rising, Rowan must fight to prove she's still human-while grappling with the terrifying possibility that she might not be.
Haunted by her past, hunted by the world, and burdened by a secret her body won't let her forget, Rowan walks the line between life and death every day.
And every day, she wakes up.
Still breathing.
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Featuring:
✔ An original, morally complex female lead
✔ A gripping mystery surrounding the bite
✔ Season 2 canon events woven into Rowan's story
✔ Slow-burn tension with Shane Walsh
✔ Found family, emotional trauma, survival drama
✔ A haunting atmosphere full of suspicion, isolation, and longing
✔ Twists that question what it means to be human in a dying world
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