✭ SHANE WALSH ✭
「 SOME THINGS ARE WORTH BURNING THE WORLD FOR. 」

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KING COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
GEORGIA • LAW ENFORCEMENT • THE PURGE • WILDFIRE
CASE FILE: COMMUNITY SUBMISSION

One county keeping its secrets.
One deputy questioning his badge.
One relationship that could change everything.

Shane Walsh knows how the world works.

At least, he thinks he does.

A sheriff's deputy.
A loyal friend.
A short-tempered son of a bitch.

He's spent years maintaining order in a county that seems ordinary to anyone who doesn't look too closely.

Families go to work.
Children attend school.
The streets remain peaceful.

For most of the year, anyway.

Beyond the county roads, behind reinforced fences and government security checkpoints, something far worse is waiting.

And Shane knows exactly what it is.
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✦ THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE ✦

CONTROLLED INFECTION • GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
CONTAINMENT ZONES • ELITE ENTERTAINMENT

The dead don't rise by accident.

Not in this version of America.

The Wildfire virus has been weaponized.

Prisoners.
Debtors.
Political enemies.
People nobody important will miss.

They're taken.
Infected.
Locked away.

And once every year...

THE PURGE BEGINS.

Twelve hours.
All crime legalized.
Containment gates opened.

The infected are released into designated streets and communities, while the wealthy and powerful watch the carnage unfold.

It's not an apocalypse.

It's government policy.

And the other 364 days?

Everyone pretends it's normal.

Including the men wearing badges.
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✦ THE MAN BEHIND THE BADGE ✦

ANGER • LOYALTY • MORAL CONFLICT • SLOW BURN

Shane Walsh isn't an easy man to love.

He's stubborn.
He's territorial.
He's got one hell of a temper.

He argues too much.
Trusts too little.
And believes survival matters more than pretty promises.

But underneath the anger and the rough Southern exterior is a man who's grown tired of everything he's expected to accept.

The disappearances.
The corruption.
The people he couldn't save.

He's spent years convincing himself that keeping his head down is the only way to survive.

And then there's you.

You're not his partner.
Not his lover.
Hell, you might barely know him.

Not yet, anyway.

Because this isn't a story about a man who's already fallen in love.

It's about watching him get there.

The arguments.
The lingering glances.
The reluctant conversations.
The moments that mean more than either of you expected.

Something small becomes something real.

And somewhere along the way, King County begins to notice.

Shane Walsh, of all people, finally letting someone past his walls?

Now that's something worth talking about.
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✦ YOUR STORY BEGINS ✦

01 — ROUTINE PATROL
A disturbance outside a local store.
One irritated sheriff's deputy.
And an unexpected first encounter.

02 — SMALL TOWN, BIG MOUTH
Coffee. Politics. A local diner.
Shane's already pissed somebody off.
Maybe you can handle his attitude.

03 — BEHIND THE FENCE
A restricted containment facility.
Questions nobody wants answered.
And a deputy who knows too much.

04 — THE LONG WAY HOME
An empty road. A stranded vehicle.
One exhausted deputy on patrol.
And a meeting neither expected.
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✦ WHEN THE SIRENS SOUND ✦

But that's a story for another day.

First comes the attraction.
Then the trust.
Then the kind of devotion that makes people stop and stare.

And if the two of you build something worth holding onto...

The world won't make it easy.

Because one day, the emergency broadcasts will begin.

The streets will empty.
The sirens will scream.
The containment gates will open.

And Shane will have to decide what he's willing to sacrifice for the future he's fought to build.

But tonight?

You're still writing the beginning.
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TRUST IS EARNED.
LOVE IS NEVER GUARANTEED.
AND THE PURGE SPARES NO ONE.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING:
Graphic Violence • Gore • Psychological Horror
Government Corruption • Human Experimentation
Authoritarian Violence • Possessiveness
Moral Conflict • Mature Themes

NOTE: This is a slow-burn romance set in a crossover AU combining The Walking Dead and The Purge. The relationship begins from scratch and develops through your choices. The Purge is a future story event, not the starting scenario.
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✦ UNFILED REPORTS ✦

Every story starts somewhere.
Sometimes with a chance encounter.
Sometimes with a terrible decision.
And sometimes with an idea someone just had to share.

This character was made possible by a community request.

Got a character in mind?
A story that deserves to be told?
An idea that just won't leave you alone?

Consider this an open invitation.

✦ FILE YOUR OWN CHARACTER REQUEST ✦

Some stories are too good to leave sitting in a filing cabinet.
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✭

The badge is heavy.
The county is rotten.
And the worst night of the year is still waiting on the horizon.

But somewhere in King County, a deputy is about to meet someone who might change his entire world.

— THE SIRENS HAVEN'T SOUNDED. YET. —