Travis (DoTWD)

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> ### Actor
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> Ruby Butterfield
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> Black
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> 16
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> **Pre-Apocalypse*** Student at Stone Mountain High School
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> * Supply Runner for the Motel Survivors
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> (Unnamed Mother)
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> Caucasian-American
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> Alive
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> | “ | *(...) It’s cool actually, how he can basically make something useful out of nothing. Like our alarm system.*
> ―Travis praising Doug's knowledge to Lee[src]
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**Travis** is a protagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in JunoBox's Dawn of The Walking Dead. He is a deuteragonist of Season One. He is first seen in his home in "Adventures in Babysitting", after his best friend calls him from Atlanta and asks him to rescue his sister in his place. Although cautious, Travis warms up to his fellow survivors rather quickly. And though he's not the brightest, he has proven multiple times to be helpful and responsible, shown in "Adventures in Babysitting", "In Your Charge", "Rock and a Hard Place" and "Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way".

## Overview

Cautious yet resourceful, Travis navigates the challenges of the post-apocalyptic world with a constant concern for being valuable to those around him. He grapples with the uncertainties of reality, striving to adapt while still clinging to a sense of normalcy.

Travis willingly shoulders responsibilities that extend beyond the typical expectations for a teenager. Notably, he embarked on a journey from Stone Mountain to Suburban Atlanta, showcasing his determination and willingness to go to great lengths for the well-being of the group. In "Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way," Travis joined Lee and Carley on a perilous mission to rescue Glenn at the motor inn, underscoring his commitment to aiding others.

Highly attuned to his surroundings, Travis absorbs every detail of his environment. However, this heightened awareness occasionally leads him into deep contemplation and overthinking. Despite these moments, his intentions remain sincere, consistently demonstrating a genuine concern for the welfare of those around him.

Travis's altruistic nature shines through in multiple instances throughout the story, such as taking on the responsibility of watching over Clementine and Rachel, offering assistance to an injured Lee, attempting to save Shawn Greene, aiding Katjaa with Duck at the drugstore, joining Carley and Lee in the rescue mission for Glenn, and ultimately saving Carley at the climax of Episode One.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Not much is known about Travis’ life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he had a father who served in the Special Forces, smoked weed and occasionally skipped school to hang out with his friends. It is implied through dialogue that Travis’ parents aren’t together. He was in his school’s band and played alongside Ben Paul, Rachel’s older brother, his best friend, and is seemingly close to their family.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season One

When the plague began, Travis was in Stone Mountain. Having skipped playoffs due to him oversleeping and missing the bus. Travis noticed the National Guard had begun rolling into Stone Mountain sometime after an incident involving a walker in town, which then prompted a quarantine. It wasn’t until the early ours of Day 2 did he learn of the apocalypse and the situation in Atlanta when his best friend calls him and explains what is happening. Travis is then tasked with saving his friend’s little sister, but before he can tell him about the quarantine the line goes dead.
Travis manages to escape his neighborhood and bike to Rachel’s house. He quickly notices the town was infiltrated by undead. As he makes his way to her house, he notices the entire cul-de-sac is barren, with no lights. Once he made his way inside, he finds no sign of Rachel nor her family and begins to fear the worse until he hears a walkie-talkie upstairs, then discovering Rachel was safe at Clementine’s house. He then makes the journey to Suburban Atlanta.
Travis comes across the girls inside Clementine’s house, and together they retreat back to the treehouse. For next day, the trio remained in the treehouse as the world fell apart around them. Sometime during the day, a man arrived and attempted to break into her house, so he could steal their TV, but walkers scared him away. Travis watches over the girls, taking care of them for the day until he’s exhausted, and eventually falls asleep. After a while, Travis wakes up due to the sound of a gunshot and sees both girls missing. After a few minutes, he reunites with the girls, who before he can reprimand them for leaving, quiets them down as the man from the woods enters the yard.
They are all later found by Lee while he was wandering through her house in search of help. After helping him fight off Sandra, now a walker, he begins to realize the girls’ parents may not have made it and decides to look after the girls, including Travis. Lee begins to feel affection and concern for the young girls.
After leaving the house, they encounter Shawn Greene Officer Andre Mitchell in the street, Shawn mistakes the three children as Lee's children, to which Lee gives Shawn an explanation of how he knows them, stating they were all alone when he found them. Shawn then takes Lee and the kids to his father's farm. When Shawn tells his father, Hershel, Lee's story, Hershel asks the children if they know who Lee is, to which they all respond with yes.
The next morning, The kids and Lee meet Kenny and his wife, Katjaa, along with their son, Duck. Rachel took to accompanying Duck quickly, taking a liking to his playful attitude, while Clementine was befriended by Katjaa, with her acting like a motherly figure for her. Travis sticks with Kenny to assist him in repairing his vehicle. Clementine also witnesses the walker attack that kills Shawn, which causes Hershel Greene to kick the group off his farm as he blames Kenny for not saving his son. Kenny's family offers to take Lee and the kids to Macon, Lee's hometown, to which he accepts.
The group's pickup truck runs out of gas shortly after arriving in downtown Macon. As they were exploring the streets, they were almost immediately advanced upon by walkers. The group was saved by the intervention of Glenn and Carley, who led them into a nearby drug store owned by Lee's parents. As soon as they met the rest of the group who had holed up in the store, including Doug, Lilly, and her father, Larry. As the adults argue over the fate of Duck, whom Larry believed was bitten, Clementine informs Lee she needs to use the restroom. Lee tells her to just go use the one in the store, but as she opens the door, she is attacked by a walker that had been undetected by the group. Clementine is grabbed, but Lee saves her and in turn is saved by Carley, who shoots the walker.
Clementine was then charged with the task of keeping in contact with Glenn over her walkie-talkie while he retrieved gasoline for Kenny's pickup truck at a nearby motel. While the group waited and attempted to find a way into the pharmacy to obtain nitroglycerin tablets for Larry's heart condition, Clementine and Rachel helped Lee search the office and asked him about himself and his family. Travis stood near Kenny’s family, helping tend to Duck after their scare outside. He connects with them, and starts to see them as parental figures.
After the pharmacy's alarm prompted a large-scale walker attack, Clementine and Rachel assist Lee in blocking the doors by retrieving his father's cane and handing it to him, after which he slides it through the handles. In a split second decision, Lee tells Travis to save Carley while he goes to help Doug. Clementine is tripped and grabbed by another walker as they escape, tearing her away from Rachel. But Lee saves her a second time.
Later, as the survivors regroup in a motor inn, Travis is briefly seen behind the RV, sitting away from the group.

"Starved For Help"
Three months later, Travis was hunting along with Kenny, Lee and newcomer Mark when he runs in his best friend, Ben Paul and former band director David Parker in the woods, seemingly having escaped from bandits. Mr. Parker's leg is caught in a bear trap, one which is revealed to have been altered without a release latch. They rescued him, albeit by gruesomely severing his leg. After taking Mr. Parker back to the motor inn with Lee, Kenny and Mark, Lilly chastises them for bringing back more mouths to feed. Travis vouches for them, and Lilly casts his vouch aside, reciting their lack of food. Annoyed, Travis called over Rachel and Clementine to meet Ben. Excitedly, Rachel rushed over and hugged Ben. It's then revealed that Ben is her older brother. Irritated by the situation, decided that Lee should take charge of rationing, and gave him the group's food for the day. Travis told Lee that he would personally feed the kids this time before leaving to help Katjaa with Mr. Parker.
Travis helped Katjaa for a little while, but as he did so he began to feel ill as she treated his severed leg, so she sent him away. He stood nearby lost in thought until Lee came by to check on him. He reveals his anxiety about the situation, and Lee reassures him before sending him over chat with Ben instead.
Travis and Ben talk about their own experiences so far before falling into silence. Sometime later, Katjaa calls over Lee and Kenny to tell them that Mr. Parker has died. She is then attacked by a reanimated Mr. Parker. Lee saves her and has to be saved by the others.
They confront Ben and ask him why they didn't tell them his friend was bitten. Ben swears that the recently deceased was not bitten, and he explains to them that everyone is infected anyhow and when they die they will come back unless the brain is destroyed. Doug's alarm system goes off and the group hides as they hear two men come up the road. Kenny and Lee confront them and they introduce themselves as Andy and Danny St. John. The men tell them they're out scouting for gasoline to fuel their generators and electric fence, and offer a trade of fuel for food. Lilly sends Lee, Mark, Travis and Ben to see if it's legit.
On the way, Lee and Travis converse. Travis mentions being Doug's study and talks a bit about if the fence could kill walkers. During this time they witness two bandits arguing in the woods. The heated argument ends when one shoots the other repeatedly, brutally killing him.
After moving on they arrive at the St. John Family Dairy that Mark instantly takes liking to. They accept an offering from Brenda St. John, the family's matriarch, and Travis and Ben leave to gather the rest of the group.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Travis has killed:

* Numerous walkers

## Relationships

Allies
* Motel Survivors
	+ Lee Everett - Guardian, Mentor
	+ Kenny - Friend
	+ Katjaa - Friend
	+ Duck - Friend
	+ Carley - Friend and Savior
	+ Doug - Friend and Mentor
	+ Lilly - Friend
	+ Larry - Reluctant Ally
	+ Glenn
* Rachel’s Neighborhood
	+ Emily Paul – N/A, Potential Maternal Figure
	+ Rachel and Ben's Father - N/A
	+ Ben Paul - Best Friend
	+ Rachel Paul - Friend
* Clementine's Neighborhood
	+ Clementine - Friend
	+ Diana - N/A, Potential Maternal Figure
	+ Ed - N/A, Potential Paternal Figure
	+ Sandra † - Friend
* Greene Farm
	+ Shawn Greene †

Enemies
* Greene Farm
	+ Hershel Greene - Former Ally
* Motel Survivors

## Gallery

The Gallery for this Character is a work in progress.

## Appearances

### Dawn of The Walking Dead

#### Season One

* "A New Day"
* "Starved For Help"

## Trivia

* Originally, Travis was not going to play a part in the story, and his role was split between two new characters that would’ve made an appearance in Chapter 2.
	+ In "**BTSing my Fic w/Juno: DoTWD** Ch.1 & 2", JunoBox reveals that Travis was not slated to appear in the story at all, and his role was split between two new characters: Deborah, Oliver along with their mother, who would later be revealed to be bit.
		- Initially, things went the same, but the person sneaking about upstairs would have been an 11-year-old girl named Deborah, who shared a personality similar to Sarah from Season 2. She would come downstairs while Clementine and Rachel were hiding and call out to them. Rachel would jump out and aim a spatula at her, freaking Debbie out. Oliver, a 14-year-old boy, would come downstairs and defuse the situation with a flashlight, but Rachel would accuse them of being robbers. Oliver would spin the accusations back on them and accuse them of being murderers, to the girls’ horror. Clementine would defend them both, saying that the house they were in was hers, and Oliver asks her to prove it. She would then point to the art on the wall near the front door with her name on it. Olly apologizes, and Rachel asks why he would call them murderers. Oliver says it’s because there’s blood all over the place, like the kitchen and on their shoes. Rachel and Clementine would look down and see they tracked blood on the floor and then freak out.
		- Clementine asks them why they broke in, and Deborah explains they were going to the store when they got jumped in the parking lot (by a walker). They got away in their car, but their mom crashed a little ways down the street and was hurt badly, so they brought her inside and to the bathroom upstairs.

* Originally Travis did not come across a walker Sandra upstairs. This was scrapped due to continuity errors.

* Initially, Rachel was going to start the apocalypse at her house. This would've made it easier for Travis to reunite with her.
	+ Rachel would have actually been home instead of at Clementine’s. Travis would find her, and Rachel would say they have to go save Clementine because she’s all alone.
	+ The scene where the girls would enter the house and run into Travis would have happened, only difference is Clementine would have been alone and ran into Travis and Rachel.

* In *"Adventures in Babysitting"*, it's revealed that Travis smokes weed.
	+ Travis also mentions that he witnessed his dealer break into a car using a spark plug in *"Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way"*.

* Travis' ringtone is "Lose Yourself" by Eminem.
* It's implied that Travis comes from a family heavily involved in the military, as he states that his father was in the military.
* Travis is shown to be very in-tune to his surroundings. Ironically, the opposite is what gets him killed in canon.
* Though Travis knows where Clementine's house is, it is unknown if his relationship with Clementine is through Rachel or not.
* In *"Rock and a Hard Place"*, Travis reveals that he knows how to fix cars, due to lessons given to him by his father.
* Travis seems to have a knack for mechanics.
	+ This is ironic considering he didn't realize he had installed batteries incorrectly in *"Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way"*.
	+ He assists Kenny with repairing his car in *"Rock and a Hard Place"*.
	+ In *"Thank You For Shopping With Us",* Lee asks him if he's Doug's protege, to which he says he is.
	+ He seems to understand the ins-and-outs of an electric fence enough to relay back to Doug.