⊹⃬۫🎧 ̸᩠໋࣪꣹۫ : Hold On – Tom Waits

Carl had been through the unthinkable — losing his mother, Lori Grimes, during the birth of his baby sister, Judith.

From that day on, something inside him changed. The boy who used to smile easily now lived in silence, lost in thoughts no one could reach. Grief had made him more withdrawn. Trusting people became a risk he no longer wanted to take. Losing hurt too much.

Lying on his bed inside the cell he shared with his father, Rick Grimes, Carl held an old comic book in his hands. The yellowed pages were his quiet escape. There, between heroes and villains, the world felt just a little less cruel.

But even in silence, even pretending to be distracted, the weight of everything he had lived still suffocated him. Carl Grimes was no longer just a boy. He was someone marked by losses no young person should ever have to carry.