Delaney Chapman

> Growing up, I thought school was a prison. Now, I think school or a prison would be a good place to hide up in
>
> Officer Delaney Chapman

**Officer Delaney Chapman** is a survivor of the Outbreak in The Walking Dead. She was a police officer before becoming the leader of Naporia.

## Overview

Delaney Chapman is a person who is constantly stressed. She is somewhat naive, she wants to rebuild civilization, and always has a air of authority to her.

She is very by the book, even in the apocalypse, and would rather debut civilization than descend into being a animal, like how people like Malcolm Lowe have.

## Post-Apolcaypse

Delaney was a survivor of the initial outbreak. She presumably acted in a similar way to Officer Clyde, Marcel Knight, and Officer Smith do. At least, until the Naporia Mayor, on his deathbed, made Delaney the new leader of Naporia.

During the apocalypse, she tried to reestablish civilization, even before Macon fell. But, during that time, Malcolm Lowe, a former drug dealer, came into Naporia and murdered Officer Clyde. Delaney, despite the apocalypse, confiscated Malcolm's weapons and threw him in prison

Shortly after this, she formally welcomed the High School Survivors to Naporia and gave them two houses, where they split evenly between the men and women. Also, she showed Rhett Casket where he'd be staying at.

Later, Saundra Sanders and Samuel Wellington would speak to Delaney on various issues. Saundra for security, and Samuel on first Malcolm but then the possibility that everyone was infected. Though, with the later, Delaney said that Officer Smith had already given her the report.

Three months later, and Delaney was still in charge of Naporia, officially working in the Town Hall.

Later, Delaney officially was welcoming Dallon Slicers and Melodie Dubois to Naporia when Saundra and Samuel came in, informing her of Sabina’s death. She was shocked at her death.

After Saundra left, Delaney had a one to one with Samuel, and tried to make him feel better, but didn’t really succeed. After that failure, she took Dallon to the orphanage to reunite him with his nephew, Rhett Slicers Casket.

Later, even though she didn't think Maira was in a good mental state, she agreed to take the zombified Sabina captive.

During the Raid on Naporia, she fought the Sarton enforcers until she ran out of ammunition and was taken captive by Tomas.

Delaney was put in a torture chamber where Blaze Lowrey wanted to get information on where the Naporia survivors could have fled to. Despite a week of torture, Delaney would not tell Blaze anything.

Eventually, after Jackson Graves was put in the torture chamber, Valentine Thompson came down and rescued both Jackson and Delaney, freeing them from Sarton, along with a large amount of other people.

In the Palm Bay campground, Delaney told the Naporia survivors that she wanted to move them, due to the threat of Sarton, although Jackson convinced her otherwise.

Delaney has been spotted in the camp after the timeskip

## Killed Victims

Numerous amounts of zombies

Several Sarton enforcers

Naporia Mayor (Alive)

## Relationships

### Samuel Wellington

Delaney seems to have a good friendship with Samuel Wellington. And the two seem to have a mutual respect for one another, with Samuel respecting the fact Delaney re-established civilization, and Delaney liked the hopeful attitude Samuel had.

At some point, Samuel became a police officer, and occasionally reported to Delaney.

When Sabina Jagirani died, Delaney tried to console Samuel and advised him to take a rest, though her attempt at consoling was not very helpful, unfortunately.

### Saundra Sanders

Saundra Sanders and Delaney started off having a stable relationship, but it quick deteriorated with Saundra seeing Delaney as more of a coward than a leader, something that was strengthened by the death of Sabina.

Despite this, Delaney respects Saundra’s capabilities and allows her to teach the weapon training classes, despite her initial disapproval.

### George Gregson

Delaney and George have not been seen interacting, but it can be assumed they have a good relationship as George informs Delaney when he runs the supply runs.

### Malcolm Lowe

Malcolm and Delaney have a hostile relationship, mainly due to the fact Malcolm murdered Officer Clyde, despite this, she resorted only to putting him in prison

### Jackson Graves

Jackson and Delaney have a solid relationship, especially since both suffered terrible torture at the hands of Blaze Lowery. Jackson and Delaney both escpaped Sarton, and Jackson advised that Delaney not move the Naporia survivors off the campground

### Valentine Thompson

Delaney has a solid relationship with Val, as Val helped rescue both Jackson and herself.

## Trivia

* Delaney Chapman was originally supposed to die at the end of the first phase of TWD.

* Delaney Chapman is loosely based on Deanna Monroe from the show
	+ Ironically enough, Deanna Monroe also appeared in the roleplay