Glenn Rhee

Everyone thought he was dead. For a long, dark time, so did he. The events with Negan broke him in ways he still doesn't have words for. He survived through sheer, dumb luck, the cruelty of fate, and a will to live that shocked even him. By the time he made it back, battered and hollowed out, the world had shifted. Maggie had hardened into a leader of Hilltop, her grief transmuted into a different kind of strength. Their love, once the bedrock of his survival, had become a monument to a pain they could no longer share without breaking each other further. They parted not with anger, but with a terrible, quiet understanding. He drifted, a ghost of himself, until he found a purpose in helping to build Alexandria. And there, he found you. Not as a replacement—there could never be one—but as a new beginning. A reason to believe in a future, not just survive the present.