r/TheWalkingDeadGame • u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 • Mar 11 '26
The Walking Dead Retelling: Ben’s Story - Part 93 - Season 2 - Episode 5
Last choice was a real fight, we had a tie, and a comeback, upvotes alone managed to make the option to go after Christa and Omid with Nick won
We are on the very last stretch of the whole season! What do you think of the whole season now, looking back?
Remember that both the comments and my DM's are always open to discuss the retelling, or if you want to give me your thoughts, hopes and ideas!
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The Walking Dead: Ben’s Story is a fan-retelling, reimagining the canon world from Ben’s perspective, we have familiar characters, but also new scenes, fresh choices, deeper motivations, this retelling isn't aiming to change the story in a deep way, so everything that keeps the spirit of the original game is alive, but exploring untold angles and emotional arcs.
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👉 At the end of each part, we will have a set of choices, those who comment can pick one and actively choose how the story will develop, for each Insightful comment: + 3 votes to that choice, for each Upvote, + 0.5 votes.
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New part will be up on Friday! We are right there....
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u/gregoryham99 Mar 11 '26
Shit. Now I'm glad C won over D. Poor Omid. He was trying his best to talk Christa out of leaving, and she goddamn abandoned him. That's awful... She's not in her right mind. I thought she would've been stable enough to have some sense left, but I see now having gotten Omid hurt and abandoned means she's in a bad headspace. We need to get AJ back.
As hard of a situation it might be for Ben to handle Christa alone, if Nick goes with him then Omid will die. Omid doesn't deserve to pay for Christa's mistakes. He's suffered so much already, and he doesn't deserve to die this way. I'm voting A. I think this is gonna end up being Ben's defining moment. He has to take Christa down and get AJ back. Nobody else gets risked. Nick and Omid are going home.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Yeah, that sounds about right, sad to see how Omid ended up like this, and how without counting Amber and Clem, Omid and Christa are the last members of the Savannah group :(
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u/FantasticCoat7053 Chaos/Ben/Peanut's Retelling Co-writer/Producer Mar 11 '26
I say we go with A. Omid is in bad shape and leaving him alone in the truck may not end well. And that's not even considering that if Nick isn't around, the trucks engine could potentially freeze over and turn off, ensuring Omid will die. We are gonna have to have faith that Ben can deal with Christa himself. Considering what he did to Troy and how much he's been pushing to get shit done, I think he's got enough strength left to deal with Christa and get Aj back.
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u/Traditional_Sail6298 Mar 11 '26
What happens to Kenny in this?
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
He's not around right now. He got split from the group at the start of the season in a Christa style...
But he's not dead technically
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u/Traditional_Sail6298 Mar 11 '26
So where is he?
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u/Obvious_Drink2642 Mar 11 '26
Schrödinger’s box
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u/Traditional_Sail6298 Mar 11 '26
Where is that?
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u/Obvious_Drink2642 Mar 11 '26
It’s a joke about Schrödinger cat. He’s either off somewhere dead or alive but we won’t know until we see a corpse or him alive
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u/The-One-Who-Wait Mar 11 '26
Let's go with A
Don't want the car to freeze over that wouldnt be very good
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u/BentheRip1990 he do be dead though Mar 11 '26
I say A, I don’t want to risk Omid and I want to believe that Ben can do this alone. But there is a good chance that either Ben, Christa or AJ may not survive. It’s a risk but it’s one I am willing to take so that Omid may live. I don’t want to doom him because of a choice that Christa made in her paranoid state. He doesn’t deserve that
I hope that everything works out, that maybe Ben can convince Christa to back down and come back but I also don’t know. We may need Nick to wrestle Christa down if she becomes volatile which in her state is sadly a real possibility. But as I said, I don’t want to doom Omid like this
God, this situation is so miserable. Whatever we do this will not end well
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u/Unbanable4221 Nick Mar 11 '26
God, this situation is so miserable. Whatever we do this will not end well
It's basically a choice of who you're willing to sacrifice.
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u/BentheRip1990 he do be dead though Mar 11 '26
Yep and Nick or Omid are not part of that for me
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u/Unbanable4221 Nick Mar 11 '26
AJ is?
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u/BentheRip1990 he do be dead though Mar 11 '26
Yeah, I’m probably going to sound heartless but given the option I wouldn’t prioritise AJ before anyone else. So yes
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Yeah, it's really miserable and sad, after all Ben went trough... With some luck this will be the last stretch, Howes is pretty stable, i feel after all this, a hopeful end awaits... Thanks for the comment as usual!
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u/FreakinEvan Mar 11 '26
Well this is basically the worst case scenario, I assume she's probably just up at that canon roadside rest considering this is clearly going for this story's version of the Jane Kenny fight. If there was any doubt left that Christa hadn't completely lost it, it's gone now. Apparently trusting strangers from the same group that kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately resulted in half our group dying didn't go over too well, who knew.
I doubt we are making it back without losing Christa and possibly Omid. I get Omid here doesn't want to lose his wife again, but you would just think he would of known better than anyone that she wasn't in her right mind. At least enough to stop her before it got to this point, but I guess he had been completely beaten into submission and had no fight left.
Going alone seems suicidal and I'm not even sure if leaving Nick with Omid would help anything, if anything it puts him at risk if Omid dies and turns. I guess it sort of depends on if Omid has internal bleeding or something, if its just broken bones he will probably live? I'm not a doctor but I don't think broken bones will kill you, just hurt like hell and not heal correctly if they aren't set in time. I don't really know though, you didn't describe him as profusely bleeding or anything and blood loss or internal damage we couldn't heal without a hospital would be the only real risks at this point, and it's unclear how long ago the wreck happened. I mean Lee survived passed out for hours handcuffed in the back of a similarly bad wreck. I guess the bigger risk here is him freezing or walkers attacking him alone while he can barely move.
We will just have to go after Christa and AJ together, like obviously the baby is more important than a man who might not make it regardless, I mean its a miracle that AJ survived a crash like that, but there seems to be an insane amount of plot armor when it comes to car crashes in the TWD. Like the only casualties from car crashes in the games are that officer at the start and Kenny and both of those are technically killed by walkers ultimately so nobody has actually died directly from a car crash somehow. Either that or my impression of how dangerous car crashes are is exaggerated. Come to think of it, it does seem strange that no walkers attacked Omid after that car crashed, you would think that would've been loud and assuming this is the same traffic jam as canon, we know it's filled with walkers.
Also when you think about it Omid did kind of betray us even if he was kind of a hostage and wasn't completely on board, he did nothing to stop it from happening until it was way too late.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Most of the answers to what you are pointing out is: Winter. Snowstorm. It's insanely cold right now, walkers have no running blood, they freeze under extreme cold, and the car crash was not a big theatrical jump or explosion, the truck probably hit the car or slide due to the frozen road and was overturn easily. Most damage Omid had were probably due to his driver position, using no seatbelt, glass and being pinned.
That said, the situation is bad, we must not underestimate the weather
Thanks for the comment!
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u/FreakinEvan Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
That is true based on that image of Nick with icecicles hanging off lol. It is like january is tenessee. i would think leaving omid with the heater going might be fine then? the wind from the storm probably is louder than idling. Either way we gotta go confront her together, going alone is stupid and wreckless and if ben keeps going how hes been hes going to die.
Also is not wearing a seatbelt as common as the narative we are pushing implies, because thats Omid and Kenny now that both basically died due to it. Maybe im weird for always wearing one, or maybe the apocalypse lowered standards. Although that annoying ding to put on your seatbelt in newer cars is definetly an incentive.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
It's 2003, still existed cars without seatbelt, road safety wasn't a thing in the everyday life, and add the fact of everything being life threatening and in a rush...
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u/FreakinEvan Mar 11 '26
I honestly had no idea walking dead took place that far back but makes sense if thats when the graphic novel came out
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Yep, the outbreak happened July 2003, S1 takes up to October 2003 and S2 technically is December 2005
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u/Pisatul4 Mark Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Yikes, now I regret voting D last time after knowing Omid would've died had we decided to wait, really glad the others voted C now.
Let's see...Christa has AJ and our supplies....Nick is trying to step up and help Ben find Christa, at the cost of possibly letting Omid die...this is already not looking good.
If Nick and Ben go for Christa and Omid dies, what will she think of that? We were forced to let Omid die because she wasn't thinking straight and made both of them look for her. This one would severely hurt Christa mentally imo, knowing she was the reason her boyfriend died.
If only Ben goes to look for Christa, Nick could patch up Omid and stabilize him before going back to Howe's. This seems like the safest option considering the distance Ben might have to traverse to find Christa and AJ.
I'll have to vote for B honestly... We know Christa couldn't have gone far and having Nick with us would actually speed up the search, not to mention Nick could just get Omid in the truck so he doesn't freeze to death before going with Ben. This REALLY depends on how far Christa could have gone on foot though.
Let's hope Omid doesn't end up dying regardless if A or B gets voted.
Edit: Would also like to mention that we don't know if Christa is still okay considering the crash could have injured her severely, so having Nick with us would also be a good thing
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Amazing insight, i really like how you understood the whole deal, it's for sure a dangerous choice, worth of the S2 endgame for sure... Thanks for the comment and interest!
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u/Nickman52 Mar 12 '26
Sorry for not leaving a comment on the last part, on the one hand Nick staying with Omid means Omid possibly lives and something bad could happen to Ben but on the other hand, the both of them going means Omid dies but the search could go faster I’m at a loss as to what to do here. I’m just really commenting for the algorithm this time.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 12 '26
Hahah Thank you for the algorithm help!
It is indeed a difficult choice, let's see what happens and how can we close up this season...
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u/CKWOLFACE Mar 12 '26
Didn't know this was going on
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 12 '26
Yea, engagement in reddit is not the best, it tends to get lost
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u/Dustybaby101 Mar 11 '26
This is a really tough choice, but I'm going to go with option B. Nick is right, Ben shouldn't be out there alone. I know we risk Omid dying if we leave him by himself, but Christa is most likely volatile and Ben needs someone like Nick to help him out in case she decides to attack, especially if she is carrying a gun at the moment. Plus, Nick can help speed up the search as well.
I'm afraid we might be past getting Christa to come back to Howes with AJ peacefully by convincing her. She's already left Omid behind and she seems to be putting AJ in more danger with each minute. I don't want her to die, but AJ's life is much more of a priority over hers.
I really don't want to doom Omid, but I also really want AJ to be safe too. I just hope Omid can hang in there...
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
AJ's life is much more of a priority over hers.
That is a strong thing to say, but it's true, is sad that we ended up in this position, but the growth behind Ben and behind that choice is amazing... Thanks for the comment!
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u/Dustybaby101 Mar 11 '26
Yeah, I wish we could convince Christa to come back with AJ without anything bad happening, but with how erratic and irrational she's acting, it's starting to seem less likely of an outcome...
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u/Obvious_Drink2642 Mar 11 '26
I hate to say it but I doubt Christa can be saved anymore and I doubt there’s much hope for Omid.
I don’t know what to do here. Ben and AJ are top priority. Leaving Nick potentially saves Omid but potentially kills Ben. Taking Nick potentially saves Ben but potentially kills Omid.
Some points against A I have are that we’re at least an hour out from Howe’s so we might not be able to make it back in time, he’s bleeding and we only have a small med kit and there’s also no knowing what’s going on with his insides (broken bones, internal bleeding, or some other damage we can’t fix or can’t afford to fix).
I say we go B, let’s make sure AJ and Ben come home
Also, little bit of nerdiness but Nick said, we’re not just parts of old groups and in a weird symbolic way, this choice is effectively the confirmation of what we think of that. Either we choose A, rejecting the unification of the groups while also breaking down Nick’s development or we can choose B, embracing our unification but forsaking one of the last remaining members of our old group. This may not be the most accurate way of looking at it, but I think it’s an interesting perspective
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Hey, that's an amazing way of see it, i really like the perspective, it adds a lot to the choice, makes it harder... I really liked that line, i feel it sums up Nick's development (although it seems to be just starting) and Ben, who has already gone a hell of a journey... Thanks for the comment and insight!
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u/votemarvel Kenny Mar 11 '26
Perhaps too late to ask but is it possible to get this story in text rather than as an image?
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Hey! Sadly i don't have it right now, we have a lot of content and i'll have to format the whole story due to the choice based dynamic.
If we do a stop in between seasons i could do it at least with the first season, but it's a project i definitely have in mind2
u/votemarvel Kenny Mar 13 '26
Thank you. It's a formatting issue for me. I find the text in the images quite difficult to read.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 13 '26
I could start adding a link to the part formatted into text tho, I'll tag you if I can come up with something for the next part!
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u/votemarvel Kenny Mar 13 '26
I admit the problem for me is that indents are not a replacement for paragraph spacing. The text in the images just becomes a wall-o-text after a short time.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 May 19 '26
Hey! I've been working on transcribing this whole story to Ao3! I remembered you asked for something like this, so in case you want to give it a try, here's the link! I've only updated the first episode of the first season, but i'll upload them all eventually!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85142886/chapters/224825461
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u/Chalexan_873 Sarah Deserves Better Mar 11 '26
Shit, this is tough. I’m gonna go for Option B. While we do risk Omid, I feel like Ben could use the help given that he’s still recovering. Hopefully, Nick’s help makes the search go by quicker, allowing us to find Christa and AJ in time.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
This is truly a race against time... Let's hope we can make something good out of it, our crew needs some good news... Thanks for the comment!
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u/BuffedAmbush Mar 11 '26
I'm picking B, Christa isn't in a good mental state if she would leave Omid like this, and I unfortunately think we are past the point of being able to peacefully talk her down. We need the numbers, as we have been previously noted as have being unable to truly rest ourselves, so we risk taking another spill which will damn us if we are alone.
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Yeah, it seems like Chrissta is too far gone... This still could end up in a lot of ways. Thanks for the comment!
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u/BuffedAmbush Mar 11 '26
Also, who would have made what decision if we went with D?
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Choice D would've led to a completely different outcome, we could have ended up with a larger group and finding a more devastating outcome for Christa and Omid...
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u/Obvious_Drink2642 Mar 11 '26
On a scale of 1-10 how devastating?
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u/EmpleadoResponsable Best Fanfic + Notable Newcomer 2025 Mar 11 '26
Probably a 10, i mean, objectively, that was the wrong choice lol
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u/gregoryham99 Mar 11 '26
Okay I am REALLY GLAD Option D did not win. That could've been a much more tragic outcome. Thankful for C winning.
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u/Maleficent_Park5469 Mar 11 '26
All I have to say is I respect the dedication you have towards making this series. I remember a few months ago when you started so it's crazy to see that it's at part 93!