Daryl Dixon

Daryl Dixon is a deuteragonist and a survivor of the Wildfire Outbreak in The Walking Dead: Something To Fear. He is a main supply runner and co-leader of the group. He is Rick's right hand man and confidant.
He is the younger brother of Merle Dixon and is the calmest and most promising member of the Dixon family. He is an expert at hunting, tracking, navigation and observation. He is also a skilled combatant, wielding a knife and a trademark crossbow. But, unfortunately, he is a brazen, surly, impulsive redneck with a short temper. Even with these traits he is still an integral part of the group.
== Overview ==
Daryl is strong in both parties, physically and mentally. He is very resourceful and helpful to the group, never failing to perform and get them out of situations. Daryl is also compassionate and loyal towards the people closest to him, Merle and Rick per example. Daryl can be violent at times, but he is still more level-headed and calm than his older brother. Daryl is usually shown to be empathetic and selfless at times when extremes come to play. 
== Pre-Apocalypse ==
=== Northern Georgia ===
Daryl grew up in the mountains of Northern Georgia alongside his older brother Merle. They were raised by abusive and neglectful redneck parents, their father was an alcoholic and their mother was a chain-smoker. Merle was the only person in his life that helped him learn anything useful, that and his first grade teacher. Daryl developed a survivalist mindset after Merle left to serve in the U.S. Army. The reason for this mindset coming up was his loneliness at home and his father taking out all of his anger out on him.
At a young age, Daryl would lose his mother in a house fire incident. Some point after this Daryl found himself lost in the woods for nine days straight. He was forced to eat wild berries and use poison oak as toilet paper. Eventually, Daryl would find his way home. Upon arrival, he realized his father had not noticed Daryl's abscence, so he just walked inside and made himself a sandwich.
Later in his life, Daryl would have a violent altercation with his father which prompted him to leave his birth home and moved in with Merle, who would lose his property not long after. The two brothers would become drifters, hunters and survivalists. 
== Post-Apocalypse ==
=== Atlanta, Georgia ===
During the onset of the apocalypse, Daryl and Merle would travel to a safe zone in Atlanta. After Operation Cobalt the two met up with Shane's group and they formed a camp in the outskirts of Atlanta with the help of several other people from outside the group. The brothers would prove themselves worthy in the camp because of their hunting and tracking skills. They would take up the role of supply-runners.
=== Season 1 ===
==== Tell It to the Frogs ====
After Merle Dixon was abandoned on a rooftop in Atlanta during a supply run, Daryl is mentioned by Morales, who notes that he may be the only one who'll be upset at Merle being left behind. He is mentioned again as being away hunting by Dale Horvath, who also mentions that he will become volatile. When a walker appears nearby the camp eating the corpse of a deer, Daryl appears out of the woods, complaining that he was on the trail of the deer that he had shot with his crossbow. He finds it partially eaten by a walker, surrounded by the rest of his group. After Dale decapitates the walker, the head continues to growl only to be permanently silenced by a bolt from Daryl's crossbow.
At the camp, Daryl arrives calling for his brother, but he is informed by Rick Grimes and the others that Merle was insane and a threat back in the city, so he was handcuffed to a roof and left behind. This prompts Daryl to snap. He tries to attack Rick, but Shane restrained him as T-Dog reassures Daryl that Merle is okay, as he had locked the roof door shut before fleeing the city. Daryl then demands the location of the building so he can go there and rescue his brother. Rick offers to go with him. Allen, T-Dog and Glenn Rhee also offer to go. Daryl is later seen telling the others to hurry up, so they can rescue Merle quickly. The four men get in a truck and depart.
Daryl and the others arrive at Atlanta. Rick says that he also came back to retrieve the bag of guns that he dropped when he first came into the overrun city. Daryl silently kills all the walkers in the way with his crossbow, and when they reach the rooftop of the department store, they find that the only thing remaining is the handcuffs, a hacksaw, and Merle's hand. Daryl, shocked and angered at what he sees, breaks down and starts crying.
==== Vatos ====
Daryl, after seeing what he saw, points his crossbow at T-Dog, blaming him for his brother's disappearance, but gives in after Rick holds a gun to his head. Daryl wraps Merle's hand in a cloth and puts it in Glenn's backpack. They begin to follow the blood trail left by Merle. The trail leads them into a room with two dead walkers where all but Daryl are astonished that Merle was able to kill both with just one hand. In the same room they find an iron steak weight covered in burnt skin which Merle used to cauterize his stump. Later they find a window with a hole in it, possibly meaning Merle has escaped. When Daryl decides to go search for Merle on the streets, T-Dog reminds him that they need to get the bag of guns first. Glenn makes a plan to get the guns: Daryl must accompany Glenn to the store's alley, while Rick and T-Dog wait in an alley two blocks away.
The plan gets underway, and Glenn is able to retrieve the guns, but another survivor, Miguel, runs into Daryl from the back of the alley, to which Daryl rationally asks him about his brother and begins to beat him with his crossbow. Miguel screams, alerting Rick, T-Dog, Allen, and two other survivors: Jorge and Felipe. Jorge and Felipe arrive first and beat up Daryl, until they spot Glenn with the bag of guns. They tackle Glenn, who drops the guns, and Rick's hat, which gives Daryl enough time to aim his crossbow and fire an arrow into Felipe's behind. A car arrives at the scene. Jorge and Felipe grab Glenn and get into the car, leaving Miguel behind. When Rick and T-Dog arrive, they see Daryl closing a gate to prevent the walkers from crowding the alley. Daryl throws Miguel against the wall, in which Rick restrains him.
Later, while they are trying to get information about Glenn's whereabouts, Daryl threatens Miguel and shows him Merle's hand, bluffing and threatening that it was an enemy of his. They head to the "Vatos"' hangout, where Rick tries to negotiate into giving Miguel to them and getting Glenn back, but their leader, Guillermo, also wants the bag of guns. They return to the building and Daryl, T-Dog, Allen and Rick decide to go back and threaten the Vatos. They return and then enter the Vatos' hideout threatening bloodshed, but an elderly woman enters the room and they find out that the gang are actually nurses taking care of elderly people. After solving the problem, that was just a misunderstanding, Rick gives the gang half of the guns inside the bag. Daryl, Rick, T-Dog, Allen and Glenn are returning, Daryl comments how he was against giving away half of the guns. On the way back, they notice that the truck they used to get to Atlanta was stolen, they assume that Merle stole the truck to go back to the camp and get revenge.
Daryl and his crew return to the camp on foot, and notice that walkers had infiltrated the camp, where they were attacking the survivors, killing/infecting quite a few of them. Despite the high number of casualties, Daryl, and the rest, are able to kill all of the invading walkers, thanks to the weapons inside the bag of guns.
==== Wildfire ====
The next morning, Daryl helps in the cleanup of the walker carcasses and the bodies of the fallen campers. He and Morales drag the body of a man towards the bonfire but Glenn stops them, demanding that the dead be buried properly. Daryl hesitates but eventually agrees, he ultimately curses everyone, saying that they deserved what they got after leaving Merle behind. As Daryl impales each corpse with a pickaxe to prevent reanimation, Carol stops him as he is about to hit Ed Peletier, saying that she should impale her husband's head. When the survivors find out that Jim has been bitten, the group unites to discuss what to do with him, Daryl immediately grabs the pickaxe to take Jim out, but is stopped by Rick, who points his gun do Daryl's head, prompting him to drop the pickaxe and walk away.
After the funeral of the fallen camp survivors, the group decides to move to the Center for Disease Control in hopes of finding a cure and saving Jim's life. They part ways with Morales' family, who decided to go look for their relatives, and Daryl heads with the group to the CDC. Along the way, the RV breaks down, so Shane and T-Dog scout out the gas station ahead for parts, while a dying Jim is perched against a tree as everyone says their goodbye to him. Daryl glares at Jim and after a moment gives him a nod, before turning back to his car. As the night comes, Daryl and the survivors reach the CDC complex to find it locked, walkers start to close in on the group, but Rick refuses to leave as he says that the security camera is moving. Shane finally convinces Rick to get out of there, but right when everybody is leaving, the doors open at the last minute.
==== TS-19 ====
Daryl and the rest of the group are admitted into the CDC by Edwin Jenner after going through a blood test to ensure none of them are infected. He is introduced to the luxuries the facility has to offer, including hot water and real beds. He enjoys dinner and wine with everyone and learns about Test Subject 19 and Dr. Jenner's work, and the fall of the CDC's infrastructure. After Dr. Jenner reveals the purpose of the countdown timer and shuts the control room's door, Daryl is enraged and tries break through the metal door with an axe. While Rick tries to convince Dr. Jenner to let them leave the building and try their chances on the road, Daryl loses his temper and tries to cut the scientist's head with the axe, but is restrained by Rick and the others. As the survivors finally get Dr. Jenner to open the door for their escape, they all reach the lobby to find the doors permanently locked and the windows bulletproof. However, Daryl and the others are able to escape to their caravan after Rick's grenade explodes a window pane. During the escape he spectacularly decapitates a walker with an axe. After everyone gets in their vehicles, the CDC explodes; Daryl drives off in his pick-up truck following the rest of the caravan, getting away from the complex as the ruins burn.
=== Season 2 ===
==== Miles Behind Us ====
Daryl has Rick's back when checking out the Vatos headquarters, which was raided by an unfriendly group not so long ago. Daryl and Rick decide that a closet in the auditorium is the best place to stay for the night. In the closet they eat, drink and plan where to head to next. They decide to go to Fort Benning when the sun rises, knowing that they have a long road ahead. For the night, Rick and Daryl would take watch.
During their excursion to Fort Benning, the group is forced to hide from a herd of walkers, Daryl saves Allen from one of them, then covers himself and Allen up with corpses to fool the rest of the walkers. When Allen's son Ben goes missing in the aftermath, Rick enlists Daryl's expert tracking abilities to help find him. During the search, Shane and Glenn join in with the search, and after they return to the highway to create a bigger search party.
The group find a tent in the woods, and upon inspecting it, Daryl finds that Ben was never there and that it was just the site of a suicide. The group then get lead to a church in the middle of the woods, thinking Ben was tolling the bell. But the group come to find out that the bell was just a prerecorded audio. The group then splits in two groups, Daryl leading the biggest group of people and Rick leading the smallest.
==== Bloodletting ====
On their way back, Lori hears a gunshot and is suspicious about it as Rick or Shane wouldn't risk wasting or alerting walkers to kill a single walker. He reassures Carol that they are going to find Sophia and she is going to be fine. When Andrea is facing a walker and Maggie Greene comes in by horse for Lori, Daryl rushes with the rest of the group as Lori jumps on the horse. He says that they don't even know her or who she is so how could they trust her, but in the end with nothing really to stop her, he lets her go to the Greene family farm. Later, the group decides what to do as they need to head to the farm and meet up with Rick but don't want to risk Ben coming back to an empty highway. Daryl offers to stay one more day and set up signs to tell her just in case, after Dale mentions that Allen is in bad shape and needs medical attention. Daryl goes to Merle's stash and gets him some "first class" antibiotics for his blood infection. 
==== Save the Last One ====
Daryl would be suspicious about a new person that T-Dog brought to the highway. Daryl eventually decides that it's Rick's call if they keep the new member or not. Daryl is seen in the night, approaching the Greene family farm with the rest of the group and the new member, Jameson. The group come to the farm to check on Allen and Glenn, who went to the farm to get medical attention for Allen. The group eventually decide on staying after finding out it's a safe sanctuary.
==== The Heart's Desire ====
Given Rick and Shane are unable to go out and search for Ben, Andrea and Daryl are deemed the only people that can go out and search. They collect their stuff and go out into the woods, Andrea hesitating because she had to do her job as a lookout, but Dale insisted and tells her he'll fill in.
While in the woods, Daryl assures Andrea that Sophia is going to be fine. Andrea protests and tells him that Ben is only eleven years old and is not yet capable to survive on his own with no food or weapons. To reassure Andrea, he tells her a story about his childhood when he was lost in the mountains living off of berries and cleaning himself with poison oak. No one ever knew he was gone, not even Merle because he was in a juvenile detention center, and when he finally made it back, he walked into the kitchen and made himself a sandwich. The story lightens the mood and Andrea laughs.
Daryl and Andrea continue on down a path and hear something that they suspect to be Ben but are mistaken and arrive at a campsite where a man hanged himself and had turned into a walker. Daryl read the sign that the man wrote that said, "Got bit, fever hit, world gone to shit, might as well quit" Daryl describes that the flesh that had been eaten off the man's legs by other walkers and that it would be stupid to kill him. Andrea then asks if he was planning on just leaving him hanging up there which Daryl replied that he wasn't doing any harm up there. Daryl asked Andrea if she still felt like dying and Andrea said she would answer for an arrow. After answering with a fairly confusing answer, Daryl shot the walker in the head and said it was a "waste of an arrow." 
Andrea would call Daryl back to her after inspecting the campsite the walker was from, seeing it had been ransacked and someone had executed the members of the camp like how The Vatos were killed. Daryl says that they should bring this to Rick's attention and only him. Andrea agrees and they both continue on the search.
Daryl and Andrea return empty-handed and go to tell Rick about the executed campers nearby the camp, fearing that the same would happen to the group. Rick said that they shouldn't worry about it cause the farm's fields offered them protection, Daryl continued to argue but Rick insisted that they shouldn't worry about it cause they already had lookouts that would spot the executioners from miles away.
== Killed Victims ==
* A couple of Atlanta Camp Survivors (Before Reanimation)
== Relationships ==
== Appearances ==
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Category:Deuteragonists
Category:Atlanta Survivor Camp