caramelo duro is the relationship between two survivors of a zombie outbreak: the ex athlete javier garcía, and my self-insert, manolo.

about

manolo pulled away when javi expressed romantic interest (being aro-spec it felt like a betrayal of expectation and injected stress into an already very stressful circumstance) but eventually warmed up to being more intimate as he learned the blessing of the unexpected and getting to define relationships on his own terms.

that said, elaborate romantic gestures aren’t their thing. they enjoy playing card games and driving together, sharing a blunt beneath the stars, and occasionally smearing walker guts on each other’s faces (for safety reasons, obviously).

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javier, also known as javi, is the protagonist of a new frontier and a survivor of the outbreak in telltale's the walking dead. javi used to be a professional baseball player before he was booted from the league for gambling. the destruction of his career - compounded with him not being there when his father was ill, which caused a strain in his relationship with his family upon his father's death, ruined his life before the apocalypse could.
javi is a charismatic man who loves the family he has left: his niece and nephew. he’s strong-willed and honest and sensitive, direct, a little selfish.


manolo was a college student visiting his siblings over break when the outbreak hit. sometime during the apocalypse, he and his remaining sister joined the community of prescott, where they worked as patrolmen and eventually met javi. prescott falls and takes his sister with it, forcing him to join javi's family in their search for a new home.
manolo is quiet, absent-minded and blunt, with an air of fatigue about her. she likes cute things.
read more about manolo here.