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A character sheet for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Not to be confused with the character of Daryl Dixon.
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Daryl
A redneck from Georgia who became a key member of Rick Grimes' group of survivors. After a search for vanished friends goes sideways, Daryl washes ahore on France and finds himself tasked with a high-stakes mission that has him encounter trouble around every corner. For tropes about Daryl, see his character page here.
Carol
A former victim of domestic abuse who grew into an empowered, pragmatic survivor and the Director of Operations for the Commonwealth in Ohio. For tropes about Carol, see her character page here.
Abbey of Saint Bernadette
General
- Action Girl: They're all well-trained and can handle themselves in a fight. Unfortunately, it doesn't do them much good when they're faced with Codron's soldiers' firepower. Most of them go down before they can put their skills to much use.
- Badass Pacifist: They're a peaceful group but they've trained themselves to kill if they have to.
- Dwindling Party: The entire convent is wiped out in their first episode, save Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie.
- Religious Bruiser: A convent of nuns who can kick ass.
Nuns
Isabelle
Isabelle Carriere
Portrayed By: Clémence Poésy
"Maybe we're the same that way, broken before the world ended."
A headstrong and compassionate nun.
- All-Loving Hero: Isabelle tries to see the good in everyone, in contrast to Daryl's more cynical Jerk with a Heart of Gold nature.
- Big Damn Heroes: She saves Daryl when he's about to be shot by Codron.
- Birds of a Feather: She and Daryl are similar in that they both led insignificant lives prior to the apocalypse only to become much better, more compassionate people after the Fall. They also both had siblings who died relatively early on, and both stepped up to become parental substitutes to kids who were placed in their care. However, while Daryl was merely a surrogate Cool Uncle to the Grimes kids, Isabelle is the actual aunt of Laurent.
- Chekhov's Skill: Her Sticky Fingers come in handy when she steals Genet's keys so she and Laurent can escape their cell.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Isabelle was a thief and drug user prior to the apocalypse.
- Driven to Suicide: She's attempted suicide at least once in the past. She tries to do it again after becoming Quinn's prisoner, but ultimately doesn't follow through when she gets word that Fallou is working on a plan to break her out.
- Heel–Faith Turn: She devoted her life to God after the birth of her nephew Laurent, which she deemed a miracle due to her sister Lily being undead when she gave birth to him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Decides to give herself up to Quinn to ensure that Daryl and Laurent make it out of the city unharmed. It proves to be a Senseless Sacrifice when the two are captured a little over a day later anyway.
- I Lied: Reveals that she lied about Laurent drawing a picture of Daryl a few weeks prior to his arrival at the Abbey. She ordered him to do it to convince Daryl to help them.
- Nice Girl: Isabelle is a patient, warm, and compassionate woman who is nothing but courteous to Daryl when he arrives at the Abbey.
- Number Two: Seems to have the most influence among the nuns, after Mother Superior.
- Self-Harm: She has scars on her wrist which Quinn later reveals were from her attempting suicide.
- Ship Tease: Sylvie accuses her of having a thing for Daryl. Isabelle shrugs it off by saying she's only concerned for him as a friend. Anna also assumes they're Laurent's parents when she first sees them together. The Season 1 finale starts to make it less ambiguous when Isabelle casts several lingering glances at Daryl and clearly doesn't want him to head back to America even when they've arrived at their destination.
- Sticky Fingers: She was a pickpocket who would steal watches from unsuspecting men at nightclubs.
Sylvie
Sylvie
Portrayed By: Laika Blanc-Francard
The youngest of the nuns.
- Good Is Not Soft: She goes to town stabbing one of Codron's men when they open fire on a few of her fellow nuns.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Isabele are shown to be extremely close friends.
- Nice Girl: Sylvie is a kind-hearted person who gets along with everyone and treats them with respect.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She manages to overpower and kill two of Codron's much larger soldiers.
- Ship Tease: She shares a few flirty interactions with Emile, and later dances with him at Demimonde. In the next episode, they share a kiss and she decides to remain in Paris so she can be with him.
- Tagalong Kid: She's the youngest of the nuns, being a pre-teen when Isabelle and Lily arrive at the Abbey's doors in a flashback.
Véronique
Véronique
Portrayed By: Catherine Arditi
The Mother Superior of the nuns.
- All-Loving Hero:
- She tries to stop Daryl from shooting Codron, even after he's wiped out the entire Abbey save for her, Isabelle, Laurent, and Sylvie.
- She's mistrustful of Daryl himself at first, but comes around when she sees how valiantly he fought to save them from Codron's men.
- Big Good: As the Mother Superior of the convent.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Daryl would have ended Codron then and there if not for her interference.
Other Residents
Laurent
Laurent
Portrayed By: Louis Puech Scigiluzzi
A young boy who was raised in the Abbey.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Daryl accuses Isabelle of treating Laurent as one, telling her she's convinced herself he's the messiah so she can give herself some sort of purpose and stability in the post-apocalyptic world.
École Maternelle Simone Veil
General
- Everybody Lives: Downplayed. Madame DuBois succumbs to her illness while Daryl and Lou are away infiltrating RJ's castle. However, they do manage to regain one of their members, Hérisson, so for once, a community is left relatively intact and thriving even better than when they were introduced.
- Expy: The group is very similar to the kids from Ericson's Boarding School in the final season of The Walking Dead video game. Like that group, they are a tight-knit crew who have been surviving together since the start, only to be besieged by another party who killed one of their members and kidnapped another.
- Good Counterpart: To Jocelyn's group from the parent series. Basically they're what you get when there's an actual loving maternal figure watching over a bunch of kids who were born during the apocalypse.
- Mirroring Factions: To the Vatos from The Walking Dead Season 1. They put up an intimidating front to scare outsiders, but are genuinely tight-knit and revealed to be benign through their care for the elderly. Daryl parts ways with Lou much like Rick did with Guillermo, explaining that the others follow her because she stepped up when she needed to.
- Nice Guy: The kids are all good-natured. Even though they mock Laurent at first, they quickly warm up to him and wish him to stay.
- True Companions: Some mild friction aside, all the kids get along well and genuinely care for each other's safety.
The Power of the Living
Genet
Marion Genet
Portrayed By: Anne Charrier
"Today we celebrate our rebirth and the rise of the 6th Republic. Today, and ever after, we will be free, and strong, and unafraid!"
The leader of The Power of the Living.
Codron
Stéphane Codron
Portrayed By: Romain Levi
A high-ranking guerrier who develops a murderous hatred towards Daryl.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He clearly loves his brother and nearly breaks down when he finds him having become a walker.
- The Heavy: He's one of the top enforcers for the Cause and the most direct threat to Daryl and his allies in the first season.
- It's Personal: He comes to hate Daryl for killing his brother, unaware that Maribelle was really the one who did it.
- Pet the Dog: Revealed to have a decent side to him when he spares Daryl's group because he doesn't want to kill Laurent or condemn him to death too.
- Sole Survivor: He's the only member of his initial party to survive.
- The Worf Effect: He wipes the floor with Daryl in their first fight and almost kills him, establishing that Codron won't be an easy adversary to defeat.
- Would Harm a Senior: He murders Guillaume both out of annoyance and to make an example of him in front of his granddaughter.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The reason he turns on Genet's soldiers is because they order him to kill Laurent after Daryl and Isabelle.
Michel Codron
Michel Codron
Portrayed By: Paul Deby
Codron's brother.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: By the time his brother arrives he's reanimated as a walker.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets stabbed in the chest with a spear by Maribelle.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears alive in one scene, but his death spurs his brother into action and fuels his vendetta against Daryl.
Demimonde
Quinn
Quinn
Portrayed By: Adam Nagatis
The owner of the club and Isabelle's ex-boyfriend.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Quinn is not a good guy. He cheated on Isabelle with her sister and, over a decade later, feels entitled to Isabelle's affections, using his own son to blackmail her into remaining with him, at which point he believes she'll still fall in love with him. However, he does clearly care about Isabelle all the same, and makes a Heroic Sacrifice so that Daryl can find and lead her to safety.
- A Lighter Shade of Grey: Quinn is a seedy nightclub owner who pulls an I Have You Now, My Pretty on Isabelle and cares nothing for his son except as a means for his own selfish ends. However, he's small potatoes compared to the ruthless Genet and the Cause, and ultimately dies giving Daryl a chance to escape.
- An Arm and a Leg: After Quinn is bit, Daryl cuts his arm off to keep them from being chained together.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Out of necessity, but he's forced to work with Daryl to fend off variant walkers when they're chained together in Genet's arena.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Knowing he's doomed to die, he allows Daryl to hack off his limb so they're not chained together and offers to buy him enough time to find Isabelle.
- Killed Offscreen: He's last seen charging at Genet's soldiers to buy Daryl time to escape. By the time Daryl sees him later, he's already turned.
- Last Request: Before charging to his death, he asks Daryl to inform Isabelle of his Heroic Sacrifice and keep her safe.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He is Laurent's father, born from a fling with Isabelle's sister, Lily.
- Mirror Character: To Shane Walsh. Both were involved in a Love Triangle that resulted in the woman they had an affair with getting pregnant. Both feel entitled to the affections of the woman they saved at the start of the apocalypse. Finally, Quinn is Laurent's first walker kill much like Shane was Carl's. A major difference is that Shane's last actions were to try to kill Rick and take over the group while Quinn's are to make a Heroic Sacrifice so Daryl can lead Isabelle and Laurent to safety.
- Zombie Infectee: He is bitten by one of the variants during the fight in the arena.
