Fern

Gender Female Hair Color Brown Age Early to Mid 30s Occupation Post-Apocalypse Former New Frontier Quarantine Guard Family Rufus - Late Husband † Ida - Daughter † Ethnicity Caucasian-American We're all fucking dead because of you! You blew a hole in our wall! Got my little girl killed! Got my whole fucking family killed! Richmond was fine until your stupid ass showed up! We're dead fucking meat, David! Might as well take out this asshole whilst I can! Ida was my baby! Initially, Fern is just a normal and loyal member of the New Frontier, acting as one of the guards. However, after walkers get into the community after Kate García accidentally crashes into a wall, Fern's daughter and husband (Determinant) both end up being killed. This causes her to become completely hysterical and desperate. When Rufus is bitten, she begs the group to amputate his arm to save his life. When he ends up dying, Fern goes crazy and blames Javier for her family's death, to the pointing of aiming her gun at him. It's unknown whether she would've gone as far as killing Javi or Kate, but David takes matter into his own hands and breaks Fern's arm to get her to drop the gun, which ends up causing controversy within the group. Nothing is known about Fern's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that she was married to Rufus and had a child, Ida. Nothing much is known about Ferns time at "The New Frontier", other than she witnessed a bite victim being successfully amputated and living afterwards.

Fern is first seen rushing to Javier's group, telling them that they have to follow their procedures and regulations. Fern and Tripp argue and determinately Javier can too. She escorts all the group to the quarantine holding area. Eleanor is reunited with the group meaning that Fern most likely took her there herself. Fern then locks the group in the quarantine holding area. During the madness and mayhem, Fern was shot in the arm and she confirms that her daughter was behind her but fell behind and died. She is seen beside her dying husband Rufus (if he was spared in Ties That Bind - Part 1) in Eleanor's apartment where she is treating him. When Javi and his group enter the room, she becomes hysterical and points a gun at him, blaming him for her family's deaths and the walkers invading Richmond. With the help of Kate, Javi helps Fern lower the trigger and out of nowhere, David breaks her arm to ensure she doesn't do it again. Scared and wounded, Fern stumbles back away from David, who thinks she's reaching for a gun, and nearly kills her without his son Gabe's intervention. She is last seen dazed and tearful, a freshly widowed and childless woman, as she's looked after by Eleanor.