#twd beth

[bambidixon]

Why are people so mean to her :(( she's literally the sweetest girl ever

my baby is so kind, she has so much to share and she does, she cares about people.

to be honest some people need to understand the strength it takes to remain kind.

Beth Greene they could never make me hate you.

[fawnontheweb]

“ . . You’re gonna’ miss me so bad when I’m gone 𝜗𝜚

[twdxtrevor]

I'm just saying that's not the look I'd be giving If daryl did that in front of me . .

[witchqueenvisenya]

daryl dixon did not undergo a reversal of his season 2 arc, did not learn to accept physical affection, did not learn to verbalise his feelings, did not get to believe in starting over and in the inherent goodness of human beings even in an apocalyptic scenario just for people to forget who the catalyst for all that was. it was beth fucking greene. it was her holding him through the loss of her father and still managing to prioritise his feelings. it was her having a conversation with carol when daryl leaves with merle to eventually going on and understanding daryl on such a deep level that even he is struck when she hugs him after saying 'i'm tired of losing people' and going oh! that's what i meant! that's what i am feeling! finally! i don't have to lay myself open so much as acknowledge the presence of someone else who is right there with me in feeling this exact same thing! daryl dixon did not learn to recognise the value of people just for who they are other than survivors for you to forget that it was beth greene who made him realise it first.

[rememberwhouare]

“We can make it together. But we can only make it together.”

The Walking Dead x Characters | 2010-2022

[onefail-at-atime]

Damn, I forgot how much I loved the episode Still just on Daryl's part of it alone. Of course, I absolutely love Beth and how she pushes for them to move forward while also calling Daryl out on his bullshit, but Daryl's emotions in this episode?

Him talking about his family and the kind of life he had as a kid and before the Fall? Daaaaammmmn. The two make it to the moonshiner's cabin, and it's like the flood gates opened as Daryl starts making comparisons to his childhood home.

But then the scene on the porch? Where he jokes about being a dick when he's drunk? When he opens up about his life before the Fall and the kind of life he had just following Merle around?

This is what I wanted more of in the spinoff. More of Daryl opening up, sharing his past, and letting us see the true Daryl Dixon.

Season 3, please give us that.

[sunnykittyzz]

I MISS BETH SM UGH 😭😭

IM REWATCHING THE SHOW AND I JUST FINISHED THE EPISODE AGAIN

SOBBING

I'm a beth defender for life 😞

[magix-winx-club]

Beth was a great Character, you're just misogynistic

Sorry for the title, just want ya'll to read this.

TW: mention of, SA, violence, abuse,

Why Beth is an amazing character and could have been even better:  

Female experience in the Apocalypse: 

We don't focus enough on it, especially in The Walking Dead. We got hints throughout the show. For example the issue with Lori and Birth specifically the talk about her losing the baby with Hershel.

Second Maggie's experience with the Governor. And even though that storyline was well executed to a certain degree. We do not get the full ramifications after her conflict with Glenn was resolved. Yes once more the Female Experience was focused on the man not the woman. Even though the show called Glenn out on his behaviour, it still was about a man feeling angry instead of a woman going through something traumatic. 

So, Beth's experience would have been important going forward. Since she did experience attempted rape. How would she react to people in charge like someone aggressive, loud, outspoken, and unpredictable like Dawn and Gorman? 

How would she take Abraham's unpredictability and outspokenness? How would she deal with the socially inappropriate comments Eugene makes? 

(Again this is not about the men and “oh but they wouldn't do anything” or he is “harmless” etc.) This is about a trauma response. 

So what trauma did Beth experience? 

Firstly she was taken against her will, most likely forcefully in some way (her arm was broken). Her agency was taken, her free will, and the (somewhat) security of her surroundings, mainly her family member Daryl who she knows she can trust. 

So she is kidnapped, put in an unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar people, and she has no idea how to navigate such a situation since she has never been in this situation. The situation mainly being, can she trust them? Can she trust what they are saying? Who are these people? How does it work here and what are their intentions? 

The disorientation she must have felt waking up in that environment must have been traumatic. We see with the camera work if we look at Beth's timeline. Her last words are "I’m not leaving you”. Cut to the car speeding away, cut to Beth waking up in an unfamiliar place. These cuts are very abrupt, confusing, and scary. It serves the purpose of confusing the viewer. (What happened to Beth? I think Daryl put it best “she was just gone") and it makes the viewer anxious, nervous, and the need to know what is going on. So we can imagine that Beth feels these things too. 

Furthermore, the show makes a point to show that the world is not what it used to be. I mean the Team Family lived in a prison after all. So having Beth wake up visually in a clean room. Her face clean, her hair brushed out nicely, and professional medical care is like a break from the (her true) reality Beth lived in. Another point is the music and the way she wakes up. It is almost like a dream sequence. Like she had just been in an accident, but all is well now since she is in the hospital. Almost like a sleeping beauty type of deal (but modernized). 

To sum up, her first Trauma is the shift of reality, specifically of her surroundings. The funeral home was not safe, it was a trap. She is no longer with family, but her agency, which she had to a certain point (cannot control things like walkers, or people attacking their home) is taken completely away. Lastly, the new surroundings differ from what she knows from the outside. It is like back at the farm “we were fooling ourselves into thinking we were safe” and “you don't know what it is like out there,” but Beth does know now. And even though Grady likes to pretend that the outside world did not touch the hospital, it did. Maybe not in the sense of walkers, people looting the place, dirt everywhere, but the mentality presented to us, the question of “Survival of the Fittest” is present in Grady. We see this theory of survival of the fittest through the first 4 seasons, but not in this scenario where people deliberately want the weak to enslave them and claim it is saving them. 

Where do we see Survival of the Fittest? 

Randall and Dale 

Is this a world for kids? 

Disability: Hershel losing his leg 

The Governor and the way he manipulates the “weak” residents of Woodberry and takes out the “fittest” f.ex. the military guys. 

Does sickness discrimination against the weak and the strong? (The flu storyline) 

So now we have Beth's storyline mixed with the question survival of the fittest. Beth is constantly underestimated and Dawn constantly says/tries to show that Beth is not strong. I don't want to focus on how this can be used to your advantage but the mental tool it can take on you. This is a form of demeaning people, keeping them in “their place”. It fucks with your head when things in your past (suicide scar) is used against you, your appearance (Beth is skinny, with big blue eyes and generally deemed innocent and non threatening looking). She outright says “I am strong” but no one believes her. Which is a form of silencing therefore further taking her agency away from her. At one point does Beth start to believe this? would it take months or years for this kind of gaslighting to have an effect? This can be compared to Daryl’s inner monologue in Season 2 when Merle tells him “no one is ever going to love you but me little brother” which we can guess as viewers is something he was told/taught for years and Daryl believed it. 

Now this could have been interesting to see in Alexandria. Before everything happened with the fall of the Farm and the Barn incident. (Even to an extent the prison era) Beth would have fit in perfectly in Alexandrias society. The sweet farmer's daughter who takes care of a child that is not hers, helps out with chores, sings, reads the Bible, and hopes for summer picnics and birthdays (which in no way is a bad thing, I love that side of Beth!). Now she has encountered Grady, a place that was from the appearance like the old world and Beth was believed to fit in - so is Alexandria. How does she handle the constant shift of what she's supposed to believe the world is? Is it like Grady? The road from Atlanta to D.C.? Or is it like Alexandria? Could it be like all three or could Alexandria be just another “false” hope? 

To sum up, the Trauma of being taken out of one surrounding and what you believe the world is like and being put in another with different rules and she has no idea how to navigate them since she does not know them and does not have any protection from her family being there. (Grady's system of running things is so vastly different from the Prison, also let's call Grady's system what it is: Slavery. They kidnap people and make them work “work of what you owe and then you can leave” “I haven't seen it work like that”) 

Now to the people: Beth has experienced different kinds of traumas with the people in Grady. 

Gaslighting (“you were alone, we saved you, you owe us, you are not strong,...”) 

Physical abuse (Dawn hitting her, her scars on her face, bruising, a cast on her arm) 

Mental abuse (the doctor making her kill someone and then claiming she messed up (also falls into the category of gaslighting, having to rely on the same doctor to not get SAd by Gorman)) 

Sexual abuse (that is mostly the female experience. He is in charge therefore in a position of power, he is older, and she is just a weak young woman) the abuse was: the fear of it happening, the lollipop incident (yes that is a traumatic event), the constant watching from Gorman, how trivialize it is by the police officers “laughed about the poor girl getting raped”, the top person in charge does nothing to stop it (“ you know what is happening here and you let it happen”), and then the SA in Dawn's office) 

How is it that we never get to see this female struggle? This (more often) female fear and trauma? Michonne and Andrea traveled alone, but this fear never comes up. We have one mention of an incident where Randell tells the story of the two teenage girls. But honestly my biggest fear in this world would be traveling alone as a woman and encountering men. It is already bad nowadays. Can you imagine this in an Apocalypse? 

So why do we ignore this very real fear women face? Why do we kill the one character who actually has a storyline, who focuses on this female fear and female trauma, without any connection to a man or the typical motherhood storyline TWD does? 

Why not show that this was ACTUALLY traumatic. Since we even see Beth smile at Dawn after getting SA, killing him, and then leaving the office to go escape? I am glad Beth could put on a smile so Dawn wouldn't know but why do we never see Beth scared, look around her, keep an eye on the door while she sleeps, even trying to lock the door in some way so no one can get in while she sleeps. Why do we not see a far away look when she is trying to first process what happened. There are soo many trauma responses, and everyone is valid in the way they respond to trauma. So why do we not take trauma into account in female storyline? This is my biggest issue with TWD. Lori got one scene of her crying after Shane SAd her and then it was back to the love triangle (which is absolutely disgusting). Why did Rosita not get to be angry with Eugene like Abraham? There are so many storylines even when the woman is involved that focuses on the male response instead. 

Let Beth be human, with human responses and more than just another dead girl. Show me how she would cope with her personal space being violated, the perception of personhood being breached. Could she react aggressively when Eugene makes a socially inappropriate comment. Would she be tense, nervous, keep an eye out for him? How about Abraham's imposing statue? What about men in Alexandria? Could she struggle socializing with men? Keeping to the people she knows and clinging to the safety they once represented to her like Glenn, Rick, Carl and Daryl. They are the men that never did anything to her. Or could she even pull away there and struggle to come to terms that they are safe but also men. And men had not been safe for women in Grady. 

How could Beth respond to Deanna knowing how Dawn presented herself. Would she be uneasy? Would she be able to tell that Deanna is not like Dawn since she knows the signs of a bad leader because of Dawn. 

I am just mad how we ignore this big (and unique to TWD) storyline of a young woman witnessing her father get beheaded, her home destroyed, her relationship with Daryl, her kidnapping, enslavement, physical/mental/sexual abuse? All that just to further other people's storylines for a couple of episodes just to forget about Beth after that.

What do you think? Comment below

[angrypeacepoetry]

Nobody understands just how much I am Beth Greene early twd season coded I am

[favorite-characters]

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔻𝕖𝕒𝕕

Emily Kinney as 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐞 (sh. Glen Mazzara / S03 / 2012-2013)

[bambidixon]

Beth is important to Daryl because she shows him that being strong is not always about being tough, that strength can come from softness and kindness. I think that's so important for a person like Daryl because sometimes you just need to see that there are other ways to deal with pain.

Even when he lashes out at her, she is still kind and understanding, offering him comfort for his grief despite her own. He sees that she handles grief differently from him. Instead of being mad and angry, she is hopeful. She is clearly hurting, but she is not letting that define her or the way she wants to live. He sees her kindness.

And then they burn the house. After we hear Daryl talk about how he used to live in a crappy place with an alcoholic, abusive dad, and later about how he was just Merle's shadow, it is Beth who suggests burning the place. This act shows him that he doesn't have to be a person he doesn't want to be and that he can leave that life behind. He can be his own person, rather than a shadow of his past.

I'm not saying she made Daryl kind; he already was. It clearly shows in the way he wanted to teach her how to take care of herself or how he wanted to find her a good first drink after knowing that it was important for her (that's so older brother of him, by the way).

She just made him realize that kindness is not something you should be ashamed of and that there's a way to be kind and yet strong.

So he started to allow himself to be kind and vulnerable with her, and he enjoys the time they spend together because he can be someone he didn't think he was capable of being.

“What made you change your mind? Oh”

She just made him realize that kindness is not something you should be ashamed of and that there's a way to be kind and yet strong.

He's finding kindness in himself that Beth always knew he had. And please, he's so cute; look at him all soft, carefree and domestic

When he lost Beth, he lost a part of himself that he feels he just found, so he doesn't just feel he "failed" her, but he thinks he failed everything Beth meant to his life. But Beth is always going to be with him because now she is part of the person he has become.

I'M SURE I'M MISSING SO MUCH ABOUT THEM BUT YEAH I LOVE THEM THEY'RE SO SPECIAL FOR ME

[xer0-dr3amz]

imma do more, they r fun to stylize w my art style

[restlessgazelle]

[opallilydraws]

started the walking dead can’t wait for her to live a full and happy life

[v1rtualv4mp]

❝ If you don't have hope , what's the point of living ? ❞

[alyslovesflowers]

Okay I'm gonna need you guys to be nice with me cause I don't know how to draw real people that well :')

Anyway, Daryl is one of the girls 🎀