Carver

Lucas Carver - Biological Son, Alive

Nicholas Randall - Nephew, Alive

**William Carver** is a character who appears in both **"Telltales: The Walking Dead."** & the **"Lines We Cross"** seriesby Mookie; He is the Father of Lucas Carver, Ex-Husband of Trisha, Brother to Pete Randall & Uncle to Nicholas Randall.

## Character

**William Carver**, more commonly known as **Bill** or just **Carver**, is a main character and an antagonist, as well as a survivor of the outbreak in Telltale's *The Walking Dead*. William is a ruthless, brutal, violent, tyrannical, and insane leader of a community built around an abandoned Howe's Hardware. He served as the primary antagonist of **"Lines We Cross"** Season 1;

Carver is highly intelligent and charismatic, but also cunning, manipulative, sadistic, and ruthless. He firmly believes that people must be hardened in order to survive in the post-apocalyptic world, going so far as to murder people whom he deems a threat to his community. He identifies himself as a leader, and frequently alludes to Darwinism when discussing the role of leaders to guide less capable people whose nature it is to follow others. He frequently attempts to sow mistrust and enmity among potential enemies, such as when he attempts to advise Clementine that the cabin survivors could not be trusted. Carver was relentless in his objectives and a brilliant tracker, evident in how he was able to track the cabin survivors to North Carolina from his camp in Tennessee.

Carver's charisma and intelligence also hide both an extremely violent and abusive streak and a twistedly warped sense of humor at the same time. Carver first displayed this aggressive nature when confronting Diego, punching the man in the face for spitting on him after quipping "What was that?", and later tortured him into submission, beating him and breaking his fingers after which he would continue on to murder the man in front of his daughter. When taking the group back to his community, he had no qualms with hitting children. He also enjoyed forcing others to be violent, not minding Troy hitting Sarah and/or Nikki, often downplaying the severity of the situation by saying things such as; Troy's methods are "overzealous".

Later, he heavily beat a captured Luke, bruising his ribs and face only stopping when Pete convinced him. Within the corner of Carver's office lies an extremely bloodied swivel chair, attached to a pair of handcuffs and placed over a sheet of plastic, which Bill uses as a makeshift interrogation and torture area.

Carver's malicious torture techniques towards individuals he deems disloyal or expendable, as well as his tendency for murder, most likely contributed to the Cabin Group's immense fear and hatred towards him, culminating in their decision to escape from his camp twice. Carver justifies his actions by proclaiming they are for the sake of survivalism and that he wishes things were different. The extent of his insanity is noticeable when he threatened & intended to let one of his 'trusted men' Troy, sexually assault Carley before swiftly being foiled by Bonnie.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Location Unknown

Not much is known about Carver's life prior to or as the outbreak began outside of his familial issues. according to Peter Randall, his older brother; he was a "Shitty Father" & "Not Around Much". Carver mentions that he dislikes "Yankee weather" and had not been "north" prior to the apocalypse in quite awhile. Thus, he may have stayed in the southern United States.

## Lines We Cross: Season One

### All That Remains

Carver can first be seen when he enters the cabin unannounced,

## Killed Victims

* Trisha (Luke & Nick's Mother, his Ex-Wife)
* Roman *(Assumed, alongside Bonnie, Troy, and Johnny)*
* Jason *(Caused, Assumed, alongside Bonnie, Troy, and Johnny)*
* 7 unnamed members of Roman's Group *(2 Alive) (Assumed, alongside Bonnie, Troy, and Johnny)*
* Diego
* Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people

## Trivia

Originally, Carver was planned to die off in the same way he did canonically as the Horde attacked Howe's with Carley being the one to snap; though i found the Russian Drug Dealer sub-plot to be underwhelming even when attached to a more interesting fleshed out character like Eddie. Thus the plot was changed and Carver was given more Screen-Time to be reworked as Luke's father.