Josie Kimura

Josette "Josie" Rae Kimura is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. She is a resident of Alexandria Safe-Zone and former resident of Oceanside. She is the adoptive sister to Cyndie and Rachel, she is also the adoptive granddaughter to Natania and the last known surviving member of her biological family. She was also one of the soldiers of the Militia.
==Overview==
Josie is level headed, borderline brilliant, and comfortable in her pansexuality. Having losing her biological parents she was raised by Natania and her adoptive mother. Josie feels she has in inner darkness. With Cyndie gone she feels all alone until Mariana helps her with her emotions.
Unlike many in Oceanside who have become ruthless and brutal after the Saviors killed all the males above the age of 10, Josie is merciful towards outsiders and often goes against protocol to kill on sight. This is shown when she prevents Rachel and the other Oceansiders from killing Tara, even helping her escape as long as she swears not to reveal Oceanside's location. Though she is hurt when Tara breaks this promise, Josie is among the few to consider joining Rick's group in the fight against the Saviors, but is forbidden by her adoptive grandmother, Natania, to do so.
After Enid kills Natania, Josie is forced to step up as co-leader of Oceanside with Cyndie by her side. Despite having killed her grandmother, Josie allows Enid along with Aaron to leave. However, it seems that she has taken on her grandmother's mindset and now refuses to join the war against the Saviors. Aaron stays at Oceanside and continues to try to convince her to join the fight. She initially ignores him, but later hears him out. He tells them that the Saviors are the reason they constantly live in fear and begs them to join the fight. During the final battle against the Saviors, it's revealed that Josie had listened to Aaron and finally decided to join the war. Just as the Saviors arrive to slaughter the people at Hilltop, Josie, Cyndie, and the Oceansiders throw Molotov cocktails and save the town.
Now with the Saviors defeated, Josie lets go of the untrusting ways Oceanside carried for so long and integrated her community with the others. However, Josie, Cyndie, and the other Oceansiders still harbor resentment towards the Saviors that had raided their home and killed all the men. After seeing Maggie execute Gregory for his crimes, both Josie and Cyndie becomes inspired to get revenge on the Saviors that had killed their own. They kill Justin, who murdered Beatrice's husband and then Arat who killed Josie's adoptive brother with no remorse.
==Pre-Apocalypse==
===Location Unknown===
Nothing is known about Josie's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that her adoptive parents were killed before the outbreak and Cyndie's mother took her in as her own. At one point, she attended the county fair where she once fought with her brother on a canoe ride.
==Post-Apocalypse==
===Virginia===
Josie, Cyndie, her mother, younger brother, and grandmother survived the early stages of the outbreak and eventually formed a community of survivors situated at Hollowbranch where they enjoyed a peaceful existence. Unfortunately, her group would be discovered by a large, hostile organization of survivors led by Simon (who later became Negan Smith's ruthless and sadistic second-in-command) and under his orders, Josie and her people were forced to gather and provide supplies for them under threat of death. Eventually, under her grandmother's orders, the group initiated a rebellion to fight back against their oppressors. However, due to being outgunned and outnumbered, their group was defeated and suffered many casualties, with Josie's adoptive mother being among them. As punishment for their defiance and to deter any further resistance, Simon had his group murder every male survivor above the age of 10. Despite her pleas, Josie's 11-year-old brother was personally and sadistically murdered by a woman named Arat, earning Josie's hatred.
Following this and being unwilling to continue working for Simon and his group, Josie and her group, consisting mainly of females now, fled their community and established a new home at a location called Oceanside and reestablished their community hidden from them. In order to prevent Simon and his group from finding them again, Natania ordered any survivor who happened upon the community to be immediately killed in order to maintain the secrecy of their new home.
==Killed Victims==
This list shows the victims Josie has killed:
*Arat (Alongside Cyndie)
*At least 18 unnamed Saviors (Alongside her fellow Oceansiders)
*Some unnamed Whisperers
*Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
==Gallery==
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