Burden • TWD

In the early days of the apocalypse, survival isn't the hardest thing to learn-it's living with what you've been given.

Eli Walsh is Shane's son, a quiet boy carrying bruises no one asks about and fear he's learned to hide. While the world collapses around Atlanta, Eli grows up in the shadow of a father ruled by anger, violence, and control. Walkers aren't the only monsters teaching him how to survive.

As the group struggles to build something resembling safety, Eli is forced to learn what strength really means. Every choice, every lesson carved into him by pain, pushes him closer to a crossroads: will he become the same kind of man who broke him-or someone better, someone good?

In a world where brutality is often rewarded, Burden is a story about trauma, legacy, and the terrifying power of choice. Because sometimes the heaviest thing you carry isn't the dead-it's what you were taught to be.