William Carver (TWDG)

ALIASES

Bill

GENDER

Male

HAIR

Dark Brown (Graying)

AGE

Mid to Late 40s

OCCUPATION

Pre-Apocalypse

Engineer

Post-Apocalypse

Former Leader of the Howe's Hardware CommunityCarver 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, such as Reggie. 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 Carlos, punching the man in the face for spitting on him after quipping "Nice to see you too", and later tortured him into submission, beating him and breaking his fingers. When taking the group back to his community, he had no qualms with hitting children, slapping Clementine to the floor. (Determinant) He also enjoyed forcing others to be violent, not minding Troy hitting Clementine and/or Sarita (Determinant) and forced Carlos to slap his daughter, Sarah, while joking around and saying that Troy's methods are "overzealous", before asking him if he is using that word right. Later, he heavily beat a captured Luke, bruising his ribs and face then (when Kenny claimed blame for a stolen radio) Carver used the radio to knock Kenny down before savagely beating Kenny so viciously that it may have caused brain damage.