Aight, I thought of something.
Let's say we follow a new character instead of playing as Clementine. We start just a little while before where we leave off and it takes place in a refuge occupied by a new cast of characters, most of which are relatively young, say, in college. I'm gonna say we play as a college boy. And I'm gonna say he's relatively insane. But on the outside he's absolutely normal.
Certain circumstances throughout episode 1 will cause him to slowly go over the edge while entrapped within the camp that he's sharing with the others. The dialogue choices you make don't end up going entirely as you intended and the options you choose aren't exactly what you intend either, in the same fashion as the click-bait during episode 5 when Lee lost his temper with Kenny. It goes on like this until you choose a dialogue option for him and he does something else totally unexpected. For example, when he's talking with his girlfriend and you have the three different choices in dialogue to chat her up with, the mean one, the nice one, and the neutral one, and you choose one. And instead he stabs her.
Then he kills everyone else in the camp.
During his killing spree, you have hidden or obvious options or click-bait while the character loses control to try and subdue your own insanity. In the end, you ultimately fail, however, burning down your own camp and everyone inside. This should ultimately send home the message that your choices do not ultimately control the story, they only influence it.
Later, we pick up right where we left off, and our character sees a little girl with a gun in a wheat field.
The connection between our new protagonist and Clementine will be one that helps keep him stable, and dialogue options and such make a significant difference when close to and away from Clementine, which let's say we can choose to do.
Thassit. Just a thought. I also had this other thought that the shadows in the field that Clem saw are actually cannibals that try to eat Clementine, and at their camp they've already captured and eaten Christa and Omid alive, including Christa's unborn fetus which they ripped from her stomach to feast on, and Clem & the new protagonist brutally murder them in a rage. But that seems a bit dark for TWD, so I dunno. :/
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