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Take that, Beth haters!
"Let’s talk about how strong and intelligent Beth Greene really is, and why she’s the new motherfucking Sheriff in town. ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ


 * Strength branches off and can be defined into two categories, physical strength and mental strength. While Beth might not be the first one that comes to mind when people think of “strong characters”, and she might arguably be the physically weakest in contrast to the rest of Team Prison (though she’s shown that she has no qualms about defending herself, and her loved ones, if need be), she’s definitely the strongest character, out of everyone, emotionally and mentally.


 * Losing her mother, and her brother, who’s dead corpses were being kept in her family’s barn, until Rick and co. open the doors, chaos erupts, and she has to witness these people gun down her family.


 * So, she’s forced to see her mother’s death (again) and horrific reanimation, which leads to her sobbing over her mother’s dead corpse, only for her ‘mother’ to attack her and try to take a chunk out of her neck. That’s pretty traumatic for a young girl who was very close to her mother. Her father disappears, she’s grieving and she goes catatonic.

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 * Suicide Attempt
 * This is where, I think Beth’s emotional strengths start to play out, because after attempting suicide, she realizes she wants to live. A 16 year old girl, figures all of this out, before a middle aged civil right lawyer does. She quickly realizes that her life is worth fighting for, that she wants to survive. She’s asurvivor.

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 * Her empathy and compassion
 * Her speech about the corpses in the funeral home is really intriguing to me. Because, she finds it beautiful that someone cared enough to remember that “these things were people, before all this”. I’ve seen some ridiculous arguments about the dialogue in that scene, and I think some people completely missed the point she was making. Beth values life, and she’s not sorry that she wants to live, not just survive. She values her humanity.


 * This girl’s affection for people is one of my favorite characteristics about her. She sings to regain that little bit of normality for the group. She’s the primary caretaker of the group leaders child, and she takes care of the children, along with the rest of the group.


 * Beth took care of Judith, a responsibility she took on, without anyone asking her to, and without a single complaint. She made it her responsibility to watch over the kids at the prison, which led to her guilt of not getting them on the bus, finding Luke’s little shoe was a huge blow. I also have this headcanon, that during the break between 3 and 4, she made sure everyone had fresh clean clothes waiting for them, after they got back from a supply run. Made sure they ate, too.


 * She cares a lot about people, and she see’s the good in people, when she /knows they’re good people, because she’s very intuitive.


 * The group needs normality? She’ll sing for them, because she’s good at it, and they enjoy her singing. Daryl needs a hug? She hugs him, under the facade that it was her, but it was also for him. Daryl is feeling guilt and blaming himself about the fall of the prison? She hugs him from behind, and helps him burn down his traumatic childhood, in the same night. This girl restored an emotionally damaged, abused man’s faith in humanity, she picked him up and dragged him out of his sorrow, you HAVE to have super inhuman emotional strength to break down Daryl Dixon, and rebuild him back together. This woman’s emotional capacity is on another level entirely.


 * When Maggie was sexually assaulted, she handed her the baby, because she knew her sister was upset, and because she’s super fucking smart, she hands her the baby, who’s very much a symbol of hope for the group, and holds her sisters hand. Glenn couldn’t get through to Maggie, but Beth could, and she did.

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 * Refuses to give up, despite her odds being favorably low
 * When Hershel got bit, and he was unconscious, Maggie was preparing for the worst, while Beth was getting his stuff prepared for when he wakes up, because she refuses to give up.


 * She stubbornly refused to give up hope, that the group was still alive and that they’d find them, even after witnessing her father’s demise, and losing her sister and everyone she loves.


 * She just refuses to revert back to her hopelessness, she’s a survivor and she’s going to survive.


 * "I made it." and she’s proud of that.


 * she’s lost two of her boyfriends already, she lost her entire family, she’s a suicide survivor, she’s witnessed her father get brutally decapitated, she’s lost the child she loves and raised, she’s been through a lot and she’s still functioning, to the point where she’s even comforting Daryl ‘I’m a jerk’ Dixon.


 * Beth Greene is resilient, and she’s a strong young woman. After everything she’s been through, she continues to rise from the ashes. She’s going to be back, and she’s going to be strong in every sense of the word.


 * There’s a new Sheriff in town y’all, and she’s cute as heck."

- normanreedus on tumblr

Here is an excerpt of the conversation about Beth
"Beth is an amazing Character. Beth doesn't do "anything": because she's been overly sheltered by Hershel, Rick and the others in the group because sh's both young and loved. She still takes any task that she is asked of proudly because she knows how far her abilities can do and so does everyone else. But now that her sheltered life is gone, she now faces the world knowing that her chances are slim because she's not a zombie slayer like her sister or Michonne. And to be honest, she's like the rest of us. Clueless and affraid. I mean ask anyone else here if they know how to be samuri zombie killer.


 * And the whole thing about "booze" is obsurd, she wanted liqoour because she wanted some sort of actual comfort because Daryl didn't show any, even after what they've been through such as sleeping in trunks, running away from zombies, the beheading of her father, and the loss of her familiy/ friends/ home and every possesion she had and Daryl still had not shown any remorse because of his personal guilt, sadness and personality. And who can blame her.


 * I love how people say Beth say "Beth sucks" or "all she does is sing" but in reality they need to take a another look at her. Unlike all the other characters, she's not developed as greatly as the rest of the them are. But it only took her one episode to give her name such attention and create herself a massive dramatic development and a spark a chain reaction of constant gossip about romance, sanity, morality, mistery etc and thats amazing."

- Atomic Yawn

"I always analyse Beth in another way. You are absolutely right. How come most of the people don't appreciate her pureness and balme her for doing nothing and getting "booze", when she should be getting some to relieve her sorrow over her father's death and seperation with Maggie? She has taken so much but she still remained emotionally strong. In a way (emotionally), she is stronger than Sasha."

- Myself

"I don't expect people who like Daryl and Michonne or Rick to like Beth because those are characters that "kick ass". But I do expect people to respect Beth becasue she hasn't done anything wrong in the series, and has contibuted herself as much as any person in the group has, listened and done what she's told to do, and helped in any way or form she could, even if it was something simple like taking care of a baby. People tend to overlook little things that she's done which is sad because it shows how faithful and caring she is. Example: She was the only one of Hershel's daughter to belive that he would survive his amputation, while Maggie didn't. She was the only one who wanted to look for survivors after the prison while Daryl, and everyone else didn't feel like it was necessary too. And she was the only one who got a stoic persone like Daryl to break down and talk about why he is the person that he is, while no one else came close since Carol. She's just a wonderful character that people hate because she what? She can't fight? Slice and dice zombies? We already have soilders in the group, and throughout the series, it's time we have saints. And for Sahsa? She's just iner stress, and disorder I hope things will come together with her in the future now that Bob's around <3"

- Atomic yawn

"as for sasha being so strong...i don't see that at all (but i admit i may have a different opinion of what constitutes emotional strength). being stone cold and all but giving up (leaving bob and maggie to set up by herself in the warehouse) is not emotional strength. even when she started to cry, she stopped seconds later - you have to meet and embrace your emotions, acknowledge them, get through it and move on. beth does that which is why i think she will survive a while still - she is resilient and true to self.  i think her character is very mature and people who get all pissy about her wanting a drink are about as perceptive as daryl was in "Still." (which is not very)."

- Watermark



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