A Better Story for Season 2 and AJ
So Telltale wanted Season 2 to be about protecting AJ, protecting this unborn child that is going to come up in this world and is the centre of this villain, Carver and his plans to deal with this group.
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Since Season Two takes place little over like a week. So why just skip 8 months (as we don't know how far Christa was pregnant in Season 1, so let's just say it's been a couple of weeks) and have the story keep Omid getting shot but the pregnancy revolves around Christa not Rebecca. They meet up with the Cabin Group (not bitten of course) struggling to survive since Christa is pregnant and Clementine is just a kid, without Omid they don't really have an able-bodied person to be there, they're vulnerable. On the brink of escaping certain death through walker infested woods, scavenging and whatnot, they find the Cabin Group who reluctantly take them in.
Clementine could even reluctantly mention Kenny to someone (probably Luke) which freaks them the hell out (not that they think Clem actually knows THEIR Kenny but it's just a reminder for all they've been through). Rebecca is not pregnant and the house is our version of the Drug Store.
We go around, investigating, and talking to people, not doing much until we get the option to go to bed and later on go fishing with the others whilst Christa hangs back at the cabin.
Episode 2 plays up as normal except we only meet Sarita and Walter, no Kenny.
"Carver" catches up with them and it turns out to be Kenny who immediately takes in the group, although Clem/Christa can be trusting. Christa's relationship depends ENTIRELY on what ending you get. If Kenny sacrificed himself for her, she'll appreciate him more. But if you got the one where he saved Ben, she'll be a bit more on the fence. Other things like if Lee told Christa that he wants Kenny to take care of Clementine and their general relationship will impact things.
Kenny of course treats Clem and Christa like guests, but treats the group like prisoners beginning to drive a wedge in between them.
Episode 3 plays normally except obviously Kenny beats down either Nick (Nick will still be alive it will just change whether Walter leaves him or kills the walker himself. If he leaves him then it's up to Clementine to save Nick) who claims to have the walkie talkie. Rebbeca will be the one heavily distraught as Sarita tries to calm her down.
Episode 4 is the same with Arvo, but Arvo will die in the shootout. Rebecca helps Christa give birth as she was a nurse pre-apocalypse.
Mike will also die in this shootout.
The main conflict of Episode 5 is that as a blizzard descends on the group, tensions rise as they have to figure out what to do whilst Kenny is on the hunt for them. How do they know this? Well through walkie-talkies. Yep. The same walkie talkie that used to either beat Luke/Nick until they have one less eye was taken by Clementine when she snuck into Kenny/Carver's office to switch on the speakers.
Obviously her hope was that as they are sneaking out she'd be able to find another, but was unable to and had to focus on the herd. After that, she contemplates throwing it away when walking with Molly (replacing Jane) and a pregnant Christa in the beginning of Episode 4, but then they hear Tavia speaking over it about having to evacuate and Molly tells Clementine to keep it, that information is important in the apocalypse. Clementine or Christa can mention the last time they ran into walkie talkies and Christa even suggests Clementine to give her the walkie talkie after what happened last time.
Regardless, Clementine has been using the walkie talkie to listen in on snippets of Kenny's group hoping that it'll help them know where they are and if they're coming for them.
She does leave the walkie talkie with Christa before going out to places (so it doesn't unexpectedly come on and draws some walkers).
But during Episode 5, Clementine/the group will hear Kenny remark about some "dead Ruskies" and being enraged when finding Christa's dead body, even threatening to kill whoever killed her (which of course is there to scare either Clementine or Luke as either one could have shot the walker Christa depending on your choice at the end of Episode 4).
Tensions flare up as the blizzard comes and as they argue over what to do, during this blizzard they find refuge in "Wellington Park", wanting to stop for a while. But unfortunately that's where Kenny's group comes in and this shootout and your decisions during it will determine who survives.
During the ending, an injured Kenny is there with a one-on-one against Luke and Luke is subdued and knocked out but Kenny stops and drops Luke's machete (which he was going to stab Luke with) when Clementine screams and Kenny turns to realise Clementine has a gun.
Kenny is there, sympathetic and sorry for realising what he's put Clementine through. He begs her to let him leave, his group is dead, his people gone, his community fallen and all he did was wanted to protect the baby (the baby is a boy is called either Omid Jr or Lee depending on player's choice).
The player can either let Kenny go or shoot him.
Either way he is killed or disappears into the snow storm, never to be seen again with his head hung in shame at the monster he's become. Clementine wakes Luke up as they realise they have to go, and Luke wonders what happened to Kenny before either seeing his body or seeing no sign of him. There are numerous things you can say but Luke is broken and asks Clementine where they should go.
Clementine alongside Nick, Sarah, and Rebecca to decide (yes they will all still be alive by the end of the season) will argue that it's best
Other characters like Molly would have left again.
Bonnie would have died during the final shoot out with Kenny, stepping up sacrificing herself to protect the group thus achieving the redemption and forgiveness she has been struggling to attain throughout the season due to her once complicit nature which was now rebellious.
Either way, you end the season with the same ending of "Alone" Clementine, only this time it's Luke, Clementine (carrying Omid Jr/Lee), Sarah, and Rebecca, all of whom look somewhat nervously at each other when they spot the herd but then face it with courage, knowing they have changed for the better and kill a couple walkers to rub the guts on themselves.
They take one final look at the herd and walk together as one; a family.
These characters in particular would have all changed over the season.
Rebecca is someone who had an abusive mother and always wanted to be a mother herself, but due to not having any, it put a strain on herself as a person (believing that she would be a bad mother since she can never even have a child in the apocalypse) and her relationship with Alvin.
Rebecca now walks confidently into the herd knowing that Alvin would be proud of her and that she now has a child she can finally be the mother and the person she always wanted to be.
Sarah obviously was a scared and helpless child and treated as such, a lot of her trauma can be related to herds due to her father's death. But she has learned to shoot and defend herself, she has remembered her father's lessons in suturing and hopes to learn more as she enters this brave new world.
Luke was always stubborn and was resistant to change. He didn't accept Kenny's plans of radically changing the community, he didn't want to change and leave the cabin, and he certainly didn't want to change as the person he is now. But with all the death that has come and gone and guilt that weighs on his mind, Luke is now prepared for anything and understands that now without a proper place to call home, his family is his home, and that he must accept change, good or bad, in order to survive and protect them.
Nick started out similar to Sarah, only he had most of the skills but was mostly patronised/ostracised by others especially for his own mistakes. But from Clementine and Luke, he has learned how to be his own person, making his own choices for himself not for others and certainly not due to his own insecurities. Standing up for Clementine with the walkie-talkie incident was the first time he's ever done something like that and he knows his uncle would be proud as he has finally learned what it is to "be a man" like he always desired.
And Clementine? There is a reason this story sticks much closer to Season 1 than Season 2. Clementine by the end of Season 1 had the possibility to murder and had just begun to kill walkers. 8 months later, she is still killing walkers but she has lost her support network either with it being hostile (Kenny) or destroyed over the season (Omid, Christa, and so on). She understood what it took for people to protect her and keep her safe, now she must understand the same by doing it for her newfound friends, her family, to make sure they are safe and that includes Omid Jr or as many of you would probably call him, Lee. The cycle has now continued with Lee protecting Clementine and now Clementine protecting Lee.