Samuel Wellington

Officer (Post Apocalypse)

> I understand... But we're here for you...I know what it feel to lose your entire family, remember? It's...It's painful, unbearable and impossible to believe you'll get over it. Because you won't... But you will carry them with you in your heart...
>
> Samuel Wellington

**Samuel "Alpha" Wellington** is a survivor of the outbreak in The Walking Dead. He is a member of the High School Survivors. He was a student Macon High School (As well as its mascot) when the Outbreak occurred.

## Overview

Samuel Wellington was one of many staff and students at Macon High School before the outbreak. He appears to be highly emotional, sweet and determinated, yet also extremely careful as he doesn't wish for anyone else to die.

At multiples points, it is shown and mentioned that Samuel was a member of the school's badminton team, hence the reason why he was seen carrying a racket around most of the time during their stay at the school. Furthermore, as a mascot, Samuel seems to also be somewhat clumsy as seen when he revealed his own personal medkit in his bag before commenting that he got a lot of injuries as mascot, prompting him (or his coach) to buy the medkit for safety reasons.

It is also mentioned that Samuel, after losing his family, was taken care of by said coach. He also seems to live on school ground as, when asked about where he lived, he mentions that he has his own room in the old appartment-like part of the high school.

## Post-Apocalypse

He was at the gym (awaiting the arrival of his coach while wearing Alpha's costume) when Sabina Jaginari came in, looking for Mr. Mayweather. After offering to help, they headed over to principal Richard Simon where they noticed what was happening outside. As everything went down, Samuel headed to the gym where he grabbed Archie Duncan (as well as helping Sabina save Talia Hall in the cafeteria) before retreating into Saundra Sanders's classroom.

Before going to the gym for safety, he went to scout the area first and reported all he saw. With Saundra's gut technique (and the principal's sacrifice), he and the others were able to head to the gym where they eliminated the walkers present (although Samuel ended up getting injured by his now-confirmed zombified coach).

After getting everyone in a RV and escaping the school (with the addition of Magdalena Vidal), Saundra nearly took the survivors to Naporia, but upon convincing, went back to Macon, where Magdalena departed them. This ended up recruiting Saundra's uncle, Jack Sanders, as well as Bryce Horton and Sabina's mother Maira Jagirani. The group then left Macon for Naporia.

At Naporia, Samuel was able to talk with the leader, Delaney Chapman and encounter the reason why the school went to hell. A drug dealer who left the gym's doors opened : Malcolm Lowe. Samuel also found himself sharing a house with Archie, Bryce and Jack and, as of now, does not have any role in Naporia.

Later on, while going to the abandoned building, he found an officer who Malcolm had murdered, Officer Clyde, having became a walker and killed him. This led to him going to the station to alert the autorities of what he had seen and his worries that the deads weren't simply transforming due to having been bitten. It was ultimately decided that this should be kept secret from the town.

Three months later, Samuel had become an officer, and was experiencing a strain in his friendship with Saundra, which he confided to Sabina about. He and Sabina came up with the idea to bring the survivors together, and Samuel went off as Sabina had to be a teacher.

Later, Samuel discovered that Sabina had died and became a walker, defending Andrew Walker and Samuel went into a depressive arc. Saundra forced him to confront Delaney, which did not go as planned, and Delaney was left only with the knowledge that Sabina had died, and that Saundra was erratic.

Later, Archie helped Samuel out of his depressive cycle and held the group meeting with the other high school survivors. Because of this, Samuel helped welcome more people with a clear head, like Samantha Keys, who told him to make sure that Seinosuke Ikeda did not know of Sake Ikeda's bar.

Later, Samuel went into the hospital, where Andrew and Melodie Dubois were currently at, soon afterwards the Raid on Naporia took place, and Magdalena showed up to help them. during the chaos of the Sarton enforcers coming into the hospital, and walker Sabina banging on the door, Samuel and the others were attempting to escape from the hospital.

During this time, Samuel was forced to kill a Sarton enforcer, his first alive kill. Later, when the quartet had to use a grenade to blow their way out of the hospital, Samuel got severe burns on one arm, but was still alive.

They soon ran off to the police station to hijack a car, where Samuel confronted Lucas Villaneuva who soon ran out of the building when Samuel told him of the orphanage and school burning. not long afterwards Richard Spencer came in, asking about Jason Villaneuva and the Shokens, and Samuel told him where their residence was at.

Shortly after Dick left, Magdalena activated the car, and the quartet left Naporia, quickly meeting up with other survivors and making base at a camp that Samantha and Suke stayed at, Palm Bay.

Within a day, Samuel argued with the grieving Karin Shoken who blamed him and the other officers for Naporia's fall, accusing him of being too used to the status quo. Samuel tried to defend himself, but Karin wasn't having it. Causing Samuel to leave the drive in theater in anger.

While in another depressive spiral, Jason came to comfort Samuel in the bathhouse, and with a new shoulder to cry on, Samuel left the bathhouse to find a dead Tommy Marin with no brain in the lake. Samuel got the help of Karin, Jason, Andrew, and Severin Berganza. Karin and Samuel argued again over what to do.

Samuel wanted to find suspects and discover who could have killed the boy, but Karin said that they had no evidence, and should instead wait to see if the killer will strike again, to get suspects. Otherwise Samuel is just causing paranoia. Samuel took this to mean that Karin did not care if people lived or died.

## Killed Victims

Numerous counts of zombies

Officer Clyde (Zombified)

Unnamed Sarton Soldier (Alive)

## Relationships

### Coach

Samuel seems extremely close to his coach, mentioning that he had some kind of fatherly-view toward him. Althought not much is known about their relationship, it is clear that both of them cared a lot for the other as, before witnessing the walking corpse of his coach, Samuel seemed hopeful that he was still alive.

Upon being confronted by his undead coach, Samuel froze, unable to attack as he started to be attacked. Saundra had to save him before Samuel snapped out of it and destroyed his coach's head to make sure he died.

### Sabina Jagirani

Sabina and Samuel had a excellent relationship.

Both of them were always happy to speak with each other and keeping one's another company through the entirety of their survival. Furthermore, through the time spent together, Samuel ended up falling in love with her.

Upon arriving in Naporia, Samuel was sometimes seen going to the school to talk with Sabina staying close despite the changes of atmosphere. Additionally, after seeing the morale of their group slowly falling, the two of them decided to prepare an event for Christmas.

Upon discovering Sabina's dead body and subsequently seeing her as a walker, Samuel was completely heartbroken and completely disconnected from the real world until Saundra and Archie brought senses back into him. As a result, despite being extremely sad about the death of his love interest, Samuel keeps living for her.

### Archie Duncan

Archie and Samuel have a great relationship.

Despite starting off on the wrong foot at the high school, with Archie believing that Samuel was lying to him about having to get to safety during the invasion, they slowly grew closer as time went on.

They kept this relation until arriving to Naporia, especially Sabina's death, where they grew closer after Archie helped motivate Samuel to continue fighting and to not give up on hope.

### Saundra Sanders

Saundra and Samuel have a rocky, yet interesting relationship.

From the beginning, they weren't always seeing eye to eye, but had a mutual respect for one another and tried to protect one another during the hard times.

Samuel and Saundra's relation became rocky after a bit in Naporia, where Samuel heard Saundra screams at a Sullene Leon during school time when she wasn't able to shoot a gun properly. This caused Samuel to confront her, but was only brushed aside, rubbing him the wrong way but still having respect toward the former teacher.

After Sabina's death, Saundra was one of the peoples to comfort the grieving mascot and to tell him to come with her to confront Delaney. Despite the fact that he didn't appreciate how she treated Delaney, Samuel still appreciated her willingness to help and was able to see that Saundra did care for them.

However, the two of them occasionally get in a fight over subjects like the walkers, how to lead and a lot more, while still keeping somewhat of a mutual respect for one another.

### Talia Hall

Talia and Samuel have a good relationship.

Despite not talking a lot, both of them seems to like the other.

Upon discovering that her family was most likely dead, Talia ran off, followed by Samuel who spent time with her and comforted her, getting closer to one another in the process.

He shows a lot of care toward Talia, sometimes checking up on her to see how she was doing.

### Parker Reed

Samuel and Parker have somewhat of a good relation.

Not much is to be said about them, except that they seems to respect one another.

### Jason Villaneuva

Samuel and Jason have a good relation.

Despite not interacting much before the fall of Naporia, as well as the fact it seemed Jason blamed him for it, the two of them were on a bad start.

However, when Jason found a depressed Samuel in the bathhouse, he approached him and the two got to talking. Samuel soon found himself teaching Jason how to swim and promising to the young boy that they would save his friend Dick from Sarton.

Samuel also mentions that Jason reminds him of his late younger brother.

### Delaney Chapman

Samuel and Delaney have a good relation.

Both of them seems to have a mutual respect for each other and seems to try to always be on the same side.

Samuel, out of the High School Survivors, is the one with the closest relation with her, serving under her as one of the officer and reporting his findings to her if needed.

Other than that, their relation seems to be mainly professional rather than an actual friendship.

## Trivia

* Samuel Wellington, along with Rhett Casket, Seinosuke Ikeda, Richard Spencer and Samantha Keys are the only people with nicknames. Moreover, Rhett and Samuel’s nicknames are pretty different from their given name. Though, in the case of Samuel, the Alpha nickname arose because that was the name of the mascot of Macon High School (Alpha the Wolf), while Rhett's arose from his original surname, that of Slicers.
	+ Furthermore, Samuel seems to take his role as a mascot extremely seriously, sometimes even slipping into character without realizing only to be then "confronted" about it and snapping him back into reality.