This officially starts off their relationship. She notices Tyreese's slight nervousness about being this close as he puts his hand on her shoulder, but, she calmly keeps his hand on her shoulder for comfort, with the two embracing each other as they wait to fall asleep. Holding each other's hands, they leave with everyone else for their housing quarters and the two end up sleeping next to one another. Tyreese makes a physical advance toward her and gropes her leg which Carol visibly enjoys. During the group's campfire dinner, she makes admiring comments towards him, such as how grateful she and everyone else were for him and how they wouldn't have lasted without his help. Several times she flashes sexually suggestive glances at him, to which he gladly reciprocates. She and Sophia managed to survive the deadly attack at the campsite, nearly being attacked, but, saved at the last second by Glenn.Īfter abandoning the quarry campsite and hitting the road, they come upon a man named Tyreese, who Carol is almost instantly drawn to. Lori was also who she relied upon the most for support whenever it was needed. The person she most bonded with was Carl's mother, Lori, with the two of them constantly conversing about the current happenings around them. Usually coming off as a friendly and chatty (albeit neurotic) woman, she was able to befriend most everyone around her fairly quickly and usually tended to stay close to the women in the group. Throughout her time at the quarry, she constantly assisted the other mothers in domestic duties such as washing clothes and looking after the children (though often she let Donna and Lori do work for her while she observed and made sure they were washing right). On the way to Atlanta, she and Sophia met up with Shane and the other band of survivors in Atlanta and set up an initial campsite in a nearby quarry. Shortly after his death, Carol had decided the best next move for the two of them would be to move to Atlanta to be with her sister, where they both would be safe and secure from the zombies.
Even despite talking a distressed and doubtful Carol into staying with him, he ended up giving up on life eventually and committing suicide, leaving her and Sophia to fend for themselves. After this event, he was driven into a deep depression and Carol's relationship with him became increasingly strained. Once the apocalypse broke out, her husband was traumatized, forced to see his parents die in front of him and supposedly become zombies.
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She tended to indulge in a lot of arts and crafts during her free time, including knitting and scrap booking. Because of the large amount of money he brought in daily, she herself didn't have to venture out into the working world, so she played the role of an average housewife, although she occasionally brought in some extra money by maintaining an at-home business where she would sell Tupperware out of catalogs (though her customers were mostly just friends and family). Her husband was the breadwinner of the family, working as a successful car salesman. Carol also mentions her husband occasionally hit her, but still dubs him a "good guy". It's been heavily implied that she faced little satisfaction throughout her many years of marriage and only stayed with him because she both needed as much help as she could get taking care of Sophia and also because of her needy tendencies. She had dated her husband for a significant amount of time, before he eventually talked her into marrying him (the proposal she only accepted because of her fear of being alone).
She had always had a good relationship with her sister and, specifically when she was a teenager, had dated a number of guys. Not much is known about Carol's life prior to or as the outbreak began, expect she was born in 1979. The boundaries between rationality and irrationality became blurred to her, as she fully believed that she and the Grimes could be a family together. However, once she no longer received this support from them, she gradually began to slip and lose the control that she initially had over herself. The people around her kept her balanced and helped the woman maintain the image of a sane individual. One major theme throughout Carol's time in the comics is her need for companionship among the daily chaos, due to the fact that she is a weak and dependent person. A relatively calm and collected individual at first, Carol's friendly and normal attitude served as a façade to hide some of her underlying mental instabilities, which would later reveal themselves and eventually lead to her untimely death.