Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Being A Survivor
By Liam O'Leary
Victor Strand is a survivor
1. Learn To Spot Other Good Survivors
Do you remember when Strand first met Nick Clark? It was back in season one when the two were stuck inside the National Guard’s holding facility in Los Angeles. Strand, after making one of Nick’s neighbors break down thinking he was going to die and that some other dude would swoop in on his wife, slides himself over to Nick.
Strand didn’t try to play mind games with Nick; instead, as Nick was about to get dragged off by the guardsmen checking for people who could be turning, Strand bribed the sergeant in charge, saving Nick’s life.
Why did he do this? Because he could recognize that Nick possessed skills that would be useful as the world broke down, skills that Strand himself didn’t have but thought he might need.
If you want to be a good survivor, you need to know your limitations — No one can know or do everything — and recognize people who have the skills you lack and will probably need as things progress/get worse in the apocalypse.
It would also pay to learn to read people. You may want to have someone with you who knows their way around guns in the zombie apocalypse, but not if they’re a shortsighted asshat who’ll turn on you the moment they think they don’t need you anymore.
Learn to pay attention to how people carry themselves, how they behave, how they talk about themselves, how they talk about others, and how they look at the world. All of these things can clue you in on how worthwhile it will be to have the people you meet surviving alongside you.