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Daryl’s POV:
Following the prison’s fall, Daryl sets out to find survivors while Rick recovers. He thought he was ready for anything the world could throw at him—he was wrong. She’s silent, smart, lethal, and somehow manages to make his life infinitely more complicated. Trust is fragile, danger is constant, and distraction could be fatal. Which is a serious problem when that distraction is reading smut in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. She might’ve saved his life—or ruined it. He hasn’t decided yet.Fin’s POV:
Three years surviving alone has taught her to trust no one… until a boy and his injured dad force her hand. Now her orderly life is in chaos, and one newcomer has her thinking—and feeling—things she never should. People are dangerous, the dead aren’t so bad, and Daryl? He could be either a temporary distraction… or total destruction. If she doesn’t shoot him first.Mid Season 4-Departs from Cannon with world building.
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Hannah was nothing if not pragmatic. She took to the end of the world with barely a blink. Killing the dead wasn’t fun, and she hated the constant feel of sticky blood on her skin, but she did it without complaint. And it felt like the role she filled in their survivor group was one she had been born for.
All in all, other than the constant fear of death, the fall of civilization wasn’t so bad.
If only the surly redneck with the very nice arms would give her the time of day.
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The pain in his face wasn’t from the fall or his injuries. It was the same pain he’d carried ever since the people he loved were gone. Ever since Rick was gone. But that was over now. Rick was back. Right?
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Your daughter's birth, which was meant to be a beautiful moment, almost takes you from Daryl.
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Your daughter's birth, which was meant to be a beautiful moment, takes you from Daryl.
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You tricked Daryl into a date, and the universe punished you for it.
(OR: Daryl is mad at you but he has to carry you to safety)
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Our lovely protagonist finds herself unwillingly transported far from home. Struggling amidst the chaos, Alexandrea must learn to navigate her new surroundings and come to terms with her ill-fated predicament. As she races to stay alive, she discovers an unexpected yet familiar face.
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Attention! Major spoilers for later seasons and spin-offs early on
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- Part 1 of Displacement Series
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The day he was supposed to get shot, sitting in a cop car with Shane, Rick remembers everything. At that moment, everyone else Rick met during the apocalypse also remembers.
With only a few weeks to the outbreak, how can they prepare for the worst?
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In The Name Of Someone I No Longer Know by Tillthewheelsfalloff, VictoriaWolf
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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4 years ago, Negan saved Daryl's life and enemies became lovers.
1 year ago, Daryl and Negan married and live happily ever after in Alexandria with their massive family.
2 months ago, Daryl went missing, and Negan nearly loses himself in his desperation to find his husband.
5 minutes ago, Daryl woke up and their happy life started to crumble around them.Series
- Part 24 of Broken and Bleeding, But Never Gave Up
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Still Standing by SarahKBarnes
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead (Comics), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023)
13 Dec 2025
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Lennon Wilde is a vet tech in Atlanta when the world falls apart. Days later, she's in the woods with a dog and a knife, and Daryl Dixon is the one who finds her.
She can field dress game, knows her way around wounds, and learned young how to make herself useful enough to keep around. The apocalypse just requires her to do it faster—survive harder, adapt quicker.
Daryl Dixon doesn't waste words. Doesn't explain himself. Doesn't do people. But survival throws them together, and some walls come down brick by brick—whether you meant to drop them or not.
The dead are walking. The living are dying. And somewhere between the quarry and the highway and every desperate mile after, staying alive starts looking different than either of them expected.
Found family. Survival. Two damaged people learning what it costs to let someone stay.
Canon divergent AU. Major events happen differently. Some characters die sooner, some live longer. (Season 1+)reader interaction=faster updates
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- Part 3 of The After
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This Forbidden Desire by breakingbedyo
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead Series - Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga
13 Dec 2025
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Wild redneck turned into a trophy husband to a wealthy cop who slowly gets more obsessed with him and possessive. And then Jesus, the younger, pretty boy promiscuous and freedom-loving, relative of Grimes comes into the picture.
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- Part 8 of A Story of Lust and Blood
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Livian Lavender, a French-American librarian raised in Virginia, flees home after a chain of events leaves her drowning in guilt.
She rebuilds her life in a quiet northern mountain town in Georgia—new job, new house, new everything—seeking solitude and a chance to start over.
But that fragile peace shatters when the wildfire virus reaches the United States, dragging her hard-won escape into a world of uncertainty and survival.
REVISIONS: 07/07/2025 - 07/21/2025
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When the dead come walking by animelover1236
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Dec 2025
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Everyone was having a good day. In one universe Rick and Daryl were scouting. In another class 1-A was chilling in the dorms. Well when does anything good ever last any way.
What started ok for class 1-A turned into a villain attack and ended in going to another universe.
What started as scouting for Rick and Daryl turned into taking 20 terrified teenagers and 2 startled adults panicking about something called a quirk back to Alexandria.How are they gonna get home? How will they adapt to being in this world with zombies and where killing is the norm?
Will Rick and daryl ever get a break with these crazy teens? What the fuck is a quirk? -
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Paul was going to ask Daryl to babysit his cat.
And he already hated every second of it.(a modern au fic in which they're apartment neighbors)
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When the Bullet Missed rewrites The Walking Dead from Season 5 onward, beginning with Beth’s survival and the fragile, tender bond that grows between her and Daryl Dixon. From the road to Alexandria, through the walls of supposed safety, and into the shadow of Negan’s reign, Beth and Daryl navigate love, loss, and fight to build a family in a world determined to break them.
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- Part 1 of When the Bullet Missed
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What If? by SarahKBarnes
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023)
10 Dec 2025
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In August 2010, the CDC contained the outbreak. The world didn't end. Life went back to normal.
But on a rural highway outside Atlanta, a stranded woman and a man on a motorcycle cross paths anyway.
What if they met without the urgency of survival? What if they had time? What if fate worked differently when the world wasn't ending?
Daryl Dixon and Lennon Wilde—different circumstances, same pull.
(AU of Still Standing. No Walkers. Updates will added based on interest.)Series
- Part 4 of The After
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In This World - A Daryl Dixon Love Story by SunshineMagic35
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (TV 2023)
10 Dec 2025
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"In this world, nothing else matters except you and me."
Brandy and Daryl Dixon have had a marriage of heartbreak and tragedy. On the day Brandy planned to leave her husband, the world ended. Now, the two are given a second chance at life and love as they are thrown into a new world of death and destruction.
-Story runs from Pre-apocalypse to end of show and Daryl Dixon spin off with the time frame staggered between chapters-
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To Alexandra (Andi) Peletier not much changed when the world ended. She still only cared about one thing - keeping her Mom and Sister safe. She never expected to find a kindred spirit in Daryl Dixon and he certainly didn’t expect a pretty girl to take an interest in him.
“She’s lucky.” He said quietly looking down at his boots.
“What?” She asked, her turn to look at him. The way his blue eyes picked up the rays of fresh sunshine.
“Sophia. She’s lucky to have ya.” There he went again dissolving all her anger towards him with one line, uttered with an undertone of vulnerability that somehow didn’t weaken him at all. Only strengthened him in her eyes.
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He could accept hallucinations or fucking brain cancer if it meant that when he was asked by a child what his favorite color was, he could see orange and red firelight dancing in her blue eyes with stunning clarity, as if sparks had fallen into a quiet ocean.
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"This was the price to pay to maybe, maybe, maybe one day be accepted as part of the group. He just had to show them that he could be useful, he could be good. He could rise above the curse of being a Dixon, he could make them forget the unpleasantness that stuck to his skin more stubbornly than dirt. If he tried hard enough, maybe they could stop thinking about how stupid and rash and undeserving he was. And even if they couldn’t, maybe they could simply overlook it, overlook him, forget that they were supposed to have an opinion on him in the first place. He would never give them another reason to cast him out. Then, he could stay."
Or, the one in which Daryl overworks himself and the group deals with the aftermath.
Set in between season 2 and 3 (before the prison).