Sarah Terringham

Former supply runner and third-in-command for the Clarkson Survivors *(Post-apocalypse)*
 General of the New Buckingham Corps *(Post-apocalypse)*
 Former leader of Bakersfield *(Post-apocalypse)*

### Family

Ben Appleby - ex-lover *(deceased)*
 Mason - husband *(deceased)*

### Series Lifespan

'And So It Begins' -- 'The Final Stand'

"*Hello, AJ...why don't you just...put the gun down? [...] Oh come on. Be **reasonable**, AJ. Think about what these people have doneto you! Think about your **son**! These people - the people you fight with - they **killed** him! Ben is **dead** because of **them**. [...] You were one of **us** before, AJ. You know the **good** we can do for the world. Work with us, and you can be a part of it too,*"
—Sarah begs for her life before AJ shoots her in the head[src]

**Sarah Terringham**, often referred to by her codename **"Javelin"**,is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in *The Walking Dead by EDStudios*, and later a main character and an antagonist in the '*New Age*' Extension. Originally from the US, Sarah's family emigrated to the UK when she was just a child. She returned to her birth country as part of the UK trip to the Clarkson School and was stuck there forever when the apocalypse began. She served as the third-in-command of the Clarkson Survivors, quickly growing out of her shy shell to eventually become a toughened and hardy survivor.

After being presumed dead for nearly two decades, she re-emerged as a general in the New Buckingham Corps. As such, she played a significant role in the Commonwealth's victories over the Frontiersmen and the Government.

It was later revealed she had turned on Edwards and delivered the poison that ultimately led to his death, believing that the Corps were the only organisation capable of restoring order. She then attempted to indoctrinate several members of the Edwards family to the Corps' cause, most notably Hope Edwards, but ultimately it was these very schemes that led to her undoing and her subsequent demise. She serves as the secondary antagonist of the '*Made to Suffer*' story arc.

## Overview

### Personality

Sarah was well known for her shyness and introverted nature, but when the dead started walking her true nature was revealed: brave, determined, honourable and superbly skilled with her machete.

Often embarking on scavenging trips, Sarah was totally devoted to her friends; when James and Harry were absent on supply runs, Sarah would act as the Clarkson Survivor’s leader, making her the third-in-command of the group. Sarah was in support of staying at the school in the later months of the group’s occupancy, resulting in her constant arguments with Alex, who was in favour of leaving. Nonetheless, Sarah was loyal to Edwards and would follow him to hell.

In her older years, Sarah showed an aptitude for leadership and military strategy, with her brutality and aggression being the forefront of her thinking. She also showed skill in politics and diplomacy.

However, when she is exposed as a conspirer against Edwards and the Commonwealth of New Graystone, Sarah is revealed to be a cold-hearted and dark person: calm, patient, cunning and duplicitous.

In her last minutes, Sarah devolves to a state of pure cowardice once she is confronted by AJ, bringing up Ben's death and AJ's former ties of the Corps. Realizing there is no hope otherwise, she proves too slow to defend herself, dying a villain who had betrayed everyone who had ever cared about her.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### United States

Sarah was born in the city of San Francisco in 1996. At age two, she and her family moved to the United Kingdom, specifically the East Anglia area. She had a few friends but was known as an introvert; her only connection to Edwards was that she had a minor friendship with Ben Appleby.

During her time in the states before the outbreak, Sarah continued with her introverted nature, with none of her close friends participating in the trip to the US, her home country.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season 1

#### 'And So It Begins'

At the start of the series, Sarah is a part of the British trip-group staying in the town of Upswitch, Sylvania. She is noted by the others due to her being the only American and her shyness around them.

#### 'A Long Road Ahead'

Edwards has no choice but to amputate Sarah's leg. He cleans his machete using the whiskey they found in the RV and hacks off Sarah's leg with three strikes.

### Season 20

In the interluding years, Sarah, having been abandoned by Ben, Sarah grew bitter and became as much a survivalist as she could. After escaping the herd in the forest, she fashioned herself a set of crutches and eventually a wooden. Years later, she discovered that she had ended up in California and eventually joined the New Buckingham Corps, rising to the rank of Major.

## Death

### Killed by:

* Herself *(caused)*
* Alex Junior

Before Sarah can kill Dominic, AJ appears behind her and questions her on her killing of Edwards. As Sarah tries to persuade him to side with her, due to his past allegiance to the Corps and the death of his son, AJ recalls Edwards' difference between killing and murder and shoots Sarah in the head, proudly calling it murder.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Sarah Terringham has killed:

* Lisa Mitchell *(indirectly caused, alive)*
* Kyle Mitchell *(alongside her fellow survivors)*
* Gabriel *(caused, alive)*
* Leyton Jones *(caused, alongside her fellow survivors)*
* Harry Edwards *(caused)*
* Herself *(indirectly caused)*
* 1 unnamed member of the Chester Woods Bandits *(alive)*
* 7 unnamed members of the Frontiersmen *(1 caused, 6 direct)*
* 12 unnamed members of the Government *(1 indirectly caused, 1 caused, 2 zombified, 8 direct)*
* 1 unnamed member of the New Buckingham Corps *(out of mercy)*
* 42 unnamed members of the New Graystone Military *(caused, alive, alongside Joel)*
* Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people

## Relationships

### Harry Edwards

> *"You're weak. You were all **weak**. Aaron, the moral compass who could **never** do what needed to be done; Alex, the **imbecile** who fucked it all up for us; James, the **psycho** who thought that the end of the world meant the end of humanity; Justinas, the **drunk**; Ben, the **coward** who couldn't do what was neccessary; Jess, the **burden**...Holly, the **slut**,"*
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> -- **Sarah reveals her true feelings for her former group to Edwards**
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Edwards and Terringham initially had a very close relationship. Edwards invested a great deal of trust in Sarah, relying on her to lead the group whenever he and James were out on supply runs. They are shown to have one another's backs on several occasions, especially during their group's encounter with the Mitchell Family, where they paired up to expose the family's secret and later led the group's retaliation against them. This friendship remained strong enough for Edwards to volunteer to amputate her leg after she was bitten during the group's escape of Upswitch. For years, Edwards believed that Ben had taken Sarah into the woods to make sure she would not come back, and mourned her for years. His friendship with her caused him to suggest to Becky that she name her newborn daughter "Sarah". He would often accredit his skill with bladed weapons to Sarah and attribute several of his feats to his respect for her endurance and fighting skill. When struggling with his own role with a leader, he once said under his breath "What would Sarah do?".

When Sarah and Edwards reunited nineteen years after her supposed death, Edwards was deeply shocked; Sarah later says that she did not believe it was him when she heard of The Veteran of Pain and Suffering during the journey from California to Montana. However, the time between their last encounter, as well as their new lives and different causes, has given rise to enough differences to cause tension, with Edwards "not quite recognising" his old friend. Sarah, on her part, privately states that she does not think Edwards is as natural a leader as others tout him to be.

Over the course of the next three decades from their reunion, the once good friendship between Sarah and Edwards becomes tenser, with Sarah believing that the New Buckingham Corps' militaristic style of leadership is superior to Edwards' more democratic one over the Commonwealth of New Graystone. By the time of the Commonwealth-Government War, the two have become rather cold to one another, neither fully respecting the other. However, before he leaves D.C to follow the escaped Antony Eden, Edwards gives Sarah a respectful nod.

In the subsequent years, the relationship between Sarah and Edwards begins to strengthen again, due to their shared experience as ageing veterans of the New World. When Sarah is revealed to be one of the many people conspiring against him, she is quick to turn on him, revealing that she never truly cared for either him or their original group, quickly revealing the actual disdain she held for all of them. She then delivers a serum that, while it was supposed to outright kill him, greatly weakens Edwards; it was this serum that led to Edwards' rapid deterioration and his subsequent murder at the hands of Florence.

Sarah appears completely unapologetic for her role in Edwards' death, simply viewing it as a step towards the Corps' absolute takeover of the Commonwealth. When her role in Edwards' death is exposed, she becomes one of his family's main targets during the West-East Coast War, with Hope attempting to assassinate her on two occasions. Sarah finally meets her demise at the hands of Alex Junior, who shot her in the face despite his past allegiance to both her and the cause she believed in, and only cared that she was largely responsible for the death of the man who raised him.

### Joel

Sarah is completely loyal to Joel and is willing to carry out any of his orders.

### Dominic Edwards

> *"You're as **weak** as your father. What a fucking **waste**!"*
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> -- **Sarah to Dominic as she nearly fatally strangles him**
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Dominic and Terringham supposedly had a stable relationship, with Dominic referring to her as "Aunt Sarah". However, once he learns of Sarah's role in killing his father, their relationship becomes extraordinarily antagonistic.

## Trivia

* She was the last character alive that was introduced in the first episode until her death, giving her the longest series lifespan out of any other characters, not counting Edwards' dream appearance in '*The Final Stand*'.
* Sarah has A+ blood, compatible with Alex's A- blood.
* She is the namesake of Sarah Stanton.
* She is one of the many amputees in the series, having lost her left leg after being bitten in '*A Long Road Ahead*'.
	+ Sarah is one of three characters with a prosthetic leg, the others being Denver and Hope.
	+ Sarah breaking Harry's leg beyond repair is ironic, as he was the one to amputate her leg when she was bitten, saving her life.
* With her death, all original members of the Clarkson Survivors are now dead.
* Sarah and James are the only members of the Clarkson Survivors to become antagonists.
* Her signature weapon is a machete.
* Sarah is one of two characters that appeared in the first episode of the series and the series finale, alongside Edwards.
	+ However, Edwards appeared as a hallucination.
* Sarah holds a distinction with Edwards to be one of only two members of the Clarkson Survivors to be involved in a major conflict, having been involved in the NGA-Frontiersmen War and the Commonwealth-Government War.
* Originally, Sarah's role in the series was less prominent; an early draft of the story had Sarah die of blood loss in '*A Long Road Ahead*' or be killed in Port Collier by Randall.