ANDREA HARRISON.

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biography.

Andrea used to work as a civil rights lawyer before the outbreak. After the outbreak, she joined a group that made a camp outside Atlanta, led by a deputy named Shane Walsh. Once Shane’s partner and best friend, Rick Grimes joined the group, tension between Rick and Shane started to form as the group started to rely more on Rick’s decisions than Shane’s, thus Rick becoming more of a leader to them. Andrea, however, more often would agree with Shane than Rick, seeing Shane as someone who had come to accept the harsh reality of this new situation they had found themselves in, and more importantly, accept what they had to do in order to survive.

Looking for a safe place to stay, the group eventually came across Hershel’s farm, where they were allowed to stay. Though as a herd eventually found it’s way to the farm, Andrea got split up from the rest of the group, and ended up on her own. She eventually crossed paths with another woman named Michonne, and the two survived together for about eight months until they eventually was captured and taken to a town called Woodbury, ran by a man they called The Governor. Andrea, finding a lot of hope in the place that had over 70 survivors in total, who all seemed to live happy and safe, decided to stay while Michonne, who didn’t trust their leader, left.

Andrea would eventually come to learn that everything was not as it appeared in Woodbury. That most of the people living there had been shielded from the truth of how they had survived this long. When some of Rick's group suddenly shows up to attack The Governor and his men in order to rescue a kidnapped Maggie and Glenn, chaos breaks out in Woodbury, and Andrea, having followed after The Governor in the chaos, finds him in a secret room in his apartment, with Michonne holding him at gunpoint, as he sits, with a glass shard poking through his eye and with a lifeless child walker in his hands, weeping. Several fish tanks with cut off heads are lined up against the wall, some shattered on the ground. Horrified, she nevertheless tells Michonne to leave as she takes The Governor to their doctor to help treat his injuries after the fight with Michonne. But the sight of the secret room lingers in Andrea's mind all the while, realizing that there's a lot she didn't know about The Governor. Confronting him about the fish tanks, and the fact that he had kidnapped two of her friends behind her back. The Governor tells her the fishtanks were to prepare him for the world outside the walls of Woodbury, and as for her friends, they had killed seven of his people first. Not entirely buying his innocence, she pretends to accept his explanation.

Shortly after the chaos has calmed down, mostly thanks to Andrea's efforts, The Governor starts arming the residents with weapons and has his men teach them how to shoot, preparing them for a war against the prison. Despite Andrea's attempts to protect some of the residents, like a teenage boy named Noah who is asthmatic, The Governor dismisses her and continues preparing everyone for the fight. With the help of Milton, Andrea sneaks out of Woodbury and heads to the prison to negotiate on behalf of not The Governor, but the innocent people there, and Rick agrees to meet The Governor for a negotiation. Returning at night to The Governor's apartment, she informs him of this, and they sleep together. However, after The Governor falls asleep, Andrea gets up and grabs a knife, intending to kill him in his sleep. Realizing how it will look, that the people of Woodbury doesn't know her enough yet to trust her, and that they'll likely just put another one of The Governor's men to fill his shoes, she opts against killing him right then and there.

( As Andrea dies in canon during this plot arc, what I describe here will be an alternative continuation for any threads set post Andrea's canon death.)

Seeing Woodbury as a whole as a place with a lot of wonderful, innocent people, taken advantage of by The Governor, Andrea decides she needs to stay in order to be there for them when they realize what a monster The Governor really is. Realizing that there is no stopping The Governor from taking the people with him to launch an attack against the prison, she lies, saying she wishes to stay behind to defend the place, however, as The Governor and his people set out, she waits just long enough for their cars to be out of sight, before she takes a car of her own and starts following after them. She arrives near the prison just in time to see the Woodbury residents fleeing in cars, with The Governor getting into a car of his own and chasing after them.

This time, with no care for if she gets spotted, Andrea drives after them and finds the cars stopped in the middle of the road, and The Governor getting out of his car, blocking the road for the rest of the vehicles, wielding a firearm, ordering them to get back to the prison and continue fighting. As the Woodbury residents refuses, scared and just wanting to return back to Woodbury where it's safe, The Governor starts opening fire on them, upon which Andrea seizes the opportunity. With her rifle, she gets out of her car, aims it straight at him and shouts at him to stop, to get his attention. He regrettably managed to kill three people before she could stop him, and she would feel horrible for not acting sooner, as they might have still been alive if she did. But it was enough for the Woodbury residents to witness for themselves that their leader had lost his mind - if he'd ever had it to begin with.

Having learned about the loss of his daugther, who was the zombified child he held in his arms that night, there is a shred of pity left for him in her heart, and so Andrea gives him a choice; either he can leave and never come back, or this can end with him getting a bullet in his head. His choice.

He chooses the former. Before he gets to leave, she gets him to remove all his weapons, then tells all the residents to get in the cars and drive back to Woodbury, all the while keeping The Governor at gunpoint, until she's gotten in her own car, and drives off, leaving him alone on the road. Returning to Woodbury, she is warmly welcomed by the people who are grateful for her coming to their rescue, and they appoint her their new leader, upon which Andrea says that they should all work together to lead the community. However, despite her sentiment, she can't prevent people from looking to her for leadership.

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