>>720700364
Clementine's inclusion in the final game is weird, she has no reason for sticking around and even at the start she's looking for a reason to get away, it's kinda implied at the beginning that the New Frontier has a bounty on her or that she left in very bad terms with them, seeing how she acted with the idea of encountering them again, like it was a life or death thing but in the flashbacks it wasn't that harsh, sure they were dicks and kicked her out but not in the sense that they almost killed her. Removing the original idea just brought more problems than solutions.

And even in the final game, I find that Clem has a lot of potential narrative foils, with a few explored but not by much. She's similar to Javi in the sense that she's left with a responsibility that she didn't ask but tried to do the best out of the situation, maybe due their own guilt from past failures they are taking care of kids that are not their own. With David is the exact opposite, he's a man with a big responsibility that he never felt comfortable or adequate in assuming thanks to trauma, yet he encounters a girl around his children's age, trying to do what he couldn't, they could have explored Clem's own reluctance in taking care of a kid, if she's fit for taking responsibility after all the things she's gone through being so young. Joan is so undercooked as an antagonist but I find funny that she and Clem did similar things, both are willing do wrong things for what they think is the best for their own, one stole from other communities if it meant that her own would be safe and well fed, while the other stole from the community if it meant AJ would be cured, even if that could hurt someone else down the line. The "We aren't so different, you and I..." applies here. Even with Kate and the motherly aspects of "taking care of kids that are not her own" could have something going one with Clementine.

>>718882512
Totally agree. Still one of the best scenes in that season 2, just Clem and Carver trading blatant lies.
>>718882536
Maybe. These things have a strange way of going, and Clem would definitely have been hungry for a proper authority figure, especially after the death of Lee and...fuck, what was her name? Christa. She isn't locked into becoming the edgy rebellious teen murderer she was in S3, and I'd say that'd be especially less likely within a group like Carvers-not because he'd break her or bend her to his will but because she wouldn't be ALONE, and become bitter through that.

>Introduce new faction that's made out to be a big deal
>These guys are some evil fucks, headshot kids with no hesitation and are so hardcore that they even brand themselves to prove their loyalty
>Turns out, Clementine was also part of this group and even has her own mark
>Want to know how she got along with a group like this? Too bad, the most you get is a flashback when they already kick her out.
I hate when some of the most interesting shit happens off-screen and later it turns out this group only had like two actual evil fucks, one of their leaders and the bald niece-killer, everyone else were cowards following orders or were too clueless to realize they were raiders.

She's so cool