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OC is Ophelia Walsh, Shane Walsh’s wife, ex-wife? Well they were separated, but what matters most is that she is the mother of his oldest child, his first child, his first everything...
Phoebe Walsh. The world has ended but Phoebe still had a lot of growing up to do. Phoebe, Carl…and a new baby too.
It’s 2010.
Dead people have started walking around, the world has gone to shit but Blu still has a little girl to raise and keep safe…Shane was going keep her safe too. No matter what. And he was also going to keep his best friend’s wife, Lori, safe. Shane could do it all.
“…You’ll live a life anew.”
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“This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot
The world ended. They lived.
In the uneasy safety of the quarry, survival is a constant negotiation. It’s a choice of who to trust, a question of who to become, and what leadership costs in a world stripped bare.
Shane Walsh held the group together. Rick’s return doesn’t feel like salvation; it feels like a reckoning. His presence cracks the fragile balance Shane built—and Scout Dixon, a Marine bearing her own scars, sees the fractures with unsettling clarity.
Scout didn’t arrive by chance. She came overland, convoy in tow, with siblings and survivors who’d already faced the worst. A burned combat veteran with an intel background, she reads people like terrain—and in Shane, she sees the dangerous slope between protection and control. She’s not here to take over. She’s here because someone has to remember how to hold a line.
As others—Lori, Daryl, Carol, Merle—grapple with shifting identities, the camp teeters. Not just between life and death, but between who they were and who they must become to survive. Hope is a distant shore. For now, survival has to be enough.
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- Part 1 of Homestead's Echo
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A Walking Dead 24 days of Christmas advent calendar - a new short story every day!
Cute, cozy, or reflective holiday shorts from a plethora of characters - Baby Hershel's first Christmas, Merle & Daryl’s gift giving, Carl reflecting on past and future holidays, Daryl's husband dressing like a reindeer, Michonne finding reasons to celebrate with Rick, etc.
Will also include the multi-part ficlet, Ebenezer Merle: A Christmas Carol.
Merle is visited by four ghosts from his past as they try to push him towards being a better man in one single night. Can they pull the stick from his ass before morning?All but one chapter is rated for all audiences, while the fic is rated mature for one chapter due to a reindeer butt plug. That chapter will have a warning. **Open to scene requests!**
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Hannah was nothing if not pragmatic. She took to the end of the world with barely a blink. Killing the dead wasn’t fun, and she hated the constant feel of sticky blood on her skin, but she did it without complaint. And it felt like the role she filled in their survivor group was one she had been born for.
All in all, other than the constant fear of death, the fall of civilization wasn’t so bad.
If only the surly redneck with the very nice arms would give her the time of day.
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The Evergreen Directive by psordean
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead (Comics)
08 Dec 2025
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Sonia Evergreen doesn’t need saving. She doesn’t need anyone. Except maybe someone to roll their eyes while she bulldozes through the apocalypse on pure spite and bad attitude. She’s loud, infuriating, and too damn stubborn to die.
Daryl Dixon can’t stand her. He also can’t stop watching her. And in a world this unforgiving, that might be more dangerous than either of them are ready for.
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Still Standing by SarahKBarnes
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead (Comics), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023)
08 Dec 2025
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Lennon Wilde is a vet tech in Atlanta when the world falls apart. Less than a week later, she's in the woods with a dog and a knife, and Daryl Dixon is the one who finds her.
She can field dress game, knows her way around wounds, and learned young how to make herself useful enough to keep around. The apocalypse just requires her to do it faster—survive harder, adapt quicker, prove her worth before someone decides she's not worth the resources.
Daryl Dixon doesn't waste words. Doesn't explain himself. Doesn't do people. But survival throws them together, and some walls come down brick by brick—whether you meant to drop them or not.
The dead are walking. The living are dying. And somewhere between the quarry and the highway and every desperate mile after, staying alive starts looking different than either of them expected.
Found family. Survival. Two damaged people learning what it costs to let someone stay.
Canon divergent AU Major events happen differently. Some characters die sooner. Some live longer. Some relationships never happen. (Season 1 and beyond.)
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- Part 3 of The After
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Riley writes instead of speaking, Daryl grunts instead of explaining himself. Somehow they still understand each other more than anyone else ever has.
Silence kept her alive. Knives and arrows kept her alive longer.
Riley Fletcher has spent years learning how to disappear, how to move without a sound, and how to make herself untouchable.
She doesn’t speak. She doesn’t need to. Her notebook, her blades, and her instincts do the talking. But survival isn’t just about staying alive anymore, it’s about trusting someone enough to let them in.
And when Daryl Dixon starts noticing the small, silent hunter in ways she isn’t used to, Riley learns that even the roughest person can make a life worth fighting for.
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Reality has become more washed red then it's ever been. Corpses stalk the living and cannibalize anything with a pumping heart. Their bloated rotting corpses just a hairs breath away. Forever stalking, forever following and painting reality with a thick smear of blood. Immani is just trying to get home, but with all flights suspended and phone lines cut she's forced to backpack through Georgia. She doesn't intend to meet anyone along the way, but as her journey grows longer and survival becomes harder, she needs a foundation to keep her sane.
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Before the end of the world, you were a social worker who worked in the prison. Before you can get back inside you realize you're being tracked by a blue eyed, crossbow wielding, man who is not so happy to wake up hog tied after you got the jump on him.
Fluff, follows most of the prison storyline, feedback is always welcome.
Hope you enjoy!
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At the last second, Lucretia doesn't go through with dropping her journals into Fisher's tank. The rest of the crew, their memories intact, agree to erase the Relic Wars from the consciousness of the people of Faerun to buy them some time while they figure out another way, a better way, to defeat the Hunger once and for all.
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The Ferals and The Magicals by camcamq
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Walking Dead (TV)
08 Dec 2025
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Wild wonky magic and feral swamp dwellers.
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The world keeps falling apart, but having someone warming Daryl's life makes it worth living for more than just the next cig; If Daryl is the outdoor cat, his partner is the indoor dog.
While scavenging the group hears some batshit guy actually singing! Although drawn in by the affable, bodybuilding musician straight from the off, Daryl has a lot of darkness in his past to work through. Struggling to accept who he is, even when he sees himself shine in the sky-blue reflection of his lover's eyes, it takes time, patience, and a hell of a lot of foreplay.
Their family unexpectedly grows when they find a feral boy with daggers for eyes. Parenting in the apocalypse is no easy task, especially not when Merle comes back from the dead, angry at his brother for playing house with a man. Not to mention a new enemy that makes Daryl's skin crawl - his lover's ex. Can Daryl be a husband, father, and leader?
Enjoy Daryl falling in love against his own reservations, existing in that love, and the family they make. Even ol' Unc'ey Merle.
[Daryl x Male OC Longfic
200k Romance / 300k+ Dad Daryl/Family
Starts before season three, goes until at least nine
Semi-canon compliant; Merle/Beth/Glenn/Jesus lives]Series
- Part 1 of Dixon-Caruso
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Daryl and Merle Dixon were born with wings, like a small percentage of the population. Will, wingless, hated them, so he broke his sons, wings and all, irreparably.
Now, Daryl finds himself with Merle's infant Winged son and has to keep him whole.
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When Daryl Dixon extends a helping hand, Maude realizes that in this post-apocalyptic landscape, she can be anyone she wants to be. Survival gives her a freedom she's never experienced. But as her relationship with Daryl begins to blossom, the more she realizes how little he truly knows about her...and how little she knows him. Will her stories catch up to her? Or will the stains of time drive them apart?
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Whatever Rick was expecting to find on his first call-out to the Dixon house, it wasn't this.
THIS IS A REWRITE OF AN OLD FIC.
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///All hell breaks loose. You don't even hardly remember who you used to be. You jus' know you wanta' live. You run across two brothers who don't run away from you~~Beginning of The Walking Dead. Rough & Sweet. -
The Walking Dead And The Coven by Supernaturalnerd21
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Walking Dead (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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It was ment to be a fresh start.
A new beginning for the sisters, but the raising of the dead halts that...
Join the Potter coven as they carve a place of belonging in this new world where death hangs above them on a thinning thread, and danger surrounds every step they take. Watch them as they fight and maybe just maybe find love along the way.
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Run (Daryl Dixon x OC) by ladycielphantomhive (SuperSuspicious)
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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Lilly Watkins has always been the strong one compared to her twin. That doesn't change when the dead start walking. Taking care of her family during the apocalypse, she never relied on anyone else. When she meets Daryl Dixon, a more temperamental person than her, circumstances change.
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- Part 1 of Run
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In the bustling halls of Ravenwood, where young witches and wizards discover their destinies under drifting orbs of magic, two girls stand unknowingly on the edge of a fate far larger than themselves. Katie Redblood a reckless fire wizard with wild outback roots, blazing spirit, and a stubborn belief in the good of all things, has never once expected greatness—only adventure. Scarlett Deathscythe, the quiet death prodigy feared for her lineage and misunderstood for her solitude, never expected anything at all—only survival.
Their partnership begins not with formality, but with a mistake, a vanished orb, and a single moment of courage. When fate refuses to choose a partner for Katie, she chooses one for herself: the trembling girl with noir eyes.
Together, the two embark on what should have been a simple rite-of-passage journey—but the Spiral is unraveling. Realms crack under rising shadows, old magic wakes hungry, and whispered rumors of two wizards who will either save the Spiral… or burn with it.
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A Young Wizard gets called to save Wizard City after dying in an event they can't quite remember. How will their technically-undead status affect their journey as they fight other undead and try to find the source of the rampant Death magic?
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- Part 1 of Every Lightning Strike Leaves a Mark