#Story Concept 01: No Saviors in the Wild

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

No Saviors in the Wild Drabble: Compromised.

Hazel eyes opened beneath blood red brows, to the sun trying to force his way through the red drapes. Atlas blinked, feeling more content than he had in years, even more than the ones he had been free. Shani rested her head on the patch of red hair on his chest and his arms wrapped her up safely. Satisfied...

He gasped and looked down at her. The scent of the room was off. He had gone too far last night.. He gently rolled her naked body over and examined her. There definitely was too much of his fur from last night about. He removed as much of it as he could with his hands and searched her body for scratches and/or teeth marks.

He felt guilty that seeing her bare, sepia skin made him want to be inside of her all over again. What kind of monster would be thinking about that at a time like this? At least she had no wounds that he could detect. Some bruises, but considering how strong he was compared to humans, those were actually not as bad as they would've been had he lost control of himself.

Well... Lost more control. He obviously had lost enough to become wolf without realizing. And he couldn't fully remember, so some portion of his power was overtaken by his passion. Had she been afraid? Had she tried to call him back to his human form? Had he actually hurt her?

The thought broke his heart. He sniffed around, trying to determine lingering traces of pheromones. He wasn't sure what exactly he was searching for, but he needed to know that she was really okay. That he hadn't done anything terrible to her when he changed. His smell picked up an aroma that he knew between her thighs.

His nose searched her vulva and he even dared to slip a couple of fingers gently into her cervix and withdrew them to smell. He'd ejaculated inside of her last night! Atlas shook Shani to wake her up and she started, but her eyes softened as soon as she saw his face.

"Good morning, Packmaster," she teased, tracing her fingers across his freckles and acne.

"Shani." He said it so seriously that her smile faded and she withdrew her hand, worried. He lifted his fingers and announced, "I came last night. You're compromised." Shani let out a relieved sigh and she took his hand by those fingers and pulled him. He allowed her to gather him into her arms and wrap her legs around him. His back rested against her front, but he couldn't relax.

"Just, go back to sleep, Atlas. We don't have to be up yet and we had a long night."

"I lost myself and I've endangered you."

"You don't lose yourself. You find other parts of yourself. I wasn't in any danger at all. You respond to your name and everything. It's.. sort of like being inebriated. You don't forget who you are in those moments. You just have a little bit of your inhibitors lowered. And that's not bad. You could learn to relax."

"I can't understand why I should have to explain that this is a bad thing, Shani."

"I can't understand why you think that you know more than me..." He sat up and she whimpered at the loss of his body touching hers.

"Shani. You could become one of us because of this transaction. This isn't like kissing. This is serious! You've seen it happen to other... People like you. People who subject themselves to entertaining wolfen lovers."

"Studies show that statistically, those who obtain wolfen transformations through intercourse are three times more satisfied with their identity than those who were changed by malicious intent or hunting abnormalities," she said. He winced and she strummed his hair. "The reason you hate it so much is because you were transformed through a traumatizing act of violence. You don't have to worry about that with this situation."

"I still have to worry what being like this would mean for you in the long run. You'd always be in hiding, hunted down, having to hunt for food, potentially harm someone else if you lose control and it.. I don't want this existence for you, Shani."

"I live like that now. This camp is made up almost entirely of wolvens and I love them. I do the work that I do to help you all not have to live the way that the world has you living."

"But if you ever get tired, you can always just go back. You can return to society and nobody would have to suspect a thing. You could have a normal life if you ever wanted to."

She looked like she would cry and he immediately felt guilty. "Why would I ever want to return to a society that does the things that they do to you? You think I'd just wake up one day and be comfortable with knowing that people I love are being hunted, enslaved, killed, or tested on? With my history? With my ancestors' history? You think that I'll be cool with just watching from afar, relieved that it isn't me?"

"No... but you don't deserve this."

"Nobody deserves to be oppressed, Atlas. But we are. I am as a human, and I would be as a wolf."

"But, this is worst. I just..." He shook his head, "I want the best for you."

She sighed and settled into his lap, draping his arms around her body. "Then. Let me be happy where I am. Let me enjoy the life I've chosen." She kissed his pimply jawline and rested her forehead against his face. Atlas relaxed. She felt him do so and she shut her eyes again. She was going to go back to sleep. He would remain awake, trying to convince himself that her happiness was more important than her safety.

As though she read his mind, she left him with a thought, "Since we both know that I'm never gonna turn my back on my mission, a transformation would actually be an upgrade to my safety. I mean, just imagine me with my smarts and my spirit, entrusted with your speed and your strength. Who could freaking stop me from creating a werewolf apocalypse, if I wanted to?" That... Somehow helped him to feel better. A little bit.

[neshatriumphs]

Atlas: No Saviors in the Wild

I had to modify a little bit because Bitmoji doesn’t account for chronic acne nor being covered in freckles and since Atlas has both, I tried my hardest. @shslargue​ told me I could, so I went for it. Our boy is... I guess as close as we’ll get, T. I did all the emotions and called it a night.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Bitch I'm GAGGED. This is sickening. I fucking LOVE it. I live for the description. I appreciate that she's in her uniform, because though I initially pictured her in Savior form killing Commander, its more likely that she would simply ENVISION it and the time that they were face to face, she was still in a jumpsuit.

Let's be real. Commander being executed would BE bringing more light to the world. 🤣

So. Slaughter!Shani. Shani being associated with the color gold. Her being a star student. Her theme song being “I Am Light.” Commander’s head on a stick being like a trophy brought home from the war. …Or like, her final thesis project, or something. Look, I don’t actually have thoughts, I just take vague symbols and motifs and sew them together into unholy abominations. 😂

Anyway, I’ll probably be cleaning this up later, but hopefully you like it @neshatriumphs !!! If there’s anything you’d like me to alter about the composition, please let me know! 💕

[rubinaitoart]

A ['Twixt Tar and Feathers AU] Masterpost

Also known/tagged as "Good Belos AU". Dividers from here

'Twixt Tar and Feathers is an AU for The Owl House, centered mainly around the idea that Belos and Eda are the very people that the Boiling Isles first believed them to be in the canon show. Emperor Belos Wittebane is the savior of the Boiling Isles, having united them under a single ruler and establishing the Coven System for their own safety; Edalyn Clawthorne is a dangerous wild witch that terrorizes the Western Arm of the Boiling Isles.

In short: Belos is a good guy, Eda is the antagonist.

I’m going to try and rework some details.

There are three different main storylines that take place in this AU:

The Gilded Castle The main story, set during the timeframe of the canon series. It follows Hunter Wittebane as the main protagonist, with Luz Noceda serving as the deuteragonist.

A Tale of Blood and Brothers Emperor Belos' backstory, sequel to The Cardinal and The Blue Jay, and prologue to The Gilded Castle. Belos Wittebane features as the main protagonist.

The Cardinal and The Blue Jay The story of Caleb and Philip Wittebane, and how they found themselves in the Demon Realm. Prologue to The Gilded Castle. Caleb Wittebane serves as the main protagonist, with Philip Wittebane as the deuteragonist.

LEGEND - ★ - Rendered Artwork ♢ - Sketches/Doodles ✒ - Text/Writing ✎ - Fic Chapter

The Gilded Castle Content

Fanfiction Season 1 EPISODE 1 ✎ Part 1 - A Human in Bonesborough (No longer canon)

Extra Content ♢ Miscellanious Doodles - Here ★ Hunter & Flapjack - Here ★ Darius & Eberwolf - Here ♢ Luz Noceda's First Night (Sketch) - Here ✒ Snippets from CH 1 - Here + Here ♢ Darius (Sketch) - Here

A Tale of Blood and Brothers Content

Extra Content ★ Goodbye (Full Comic) - Here ✒ ★ Belos Information Card 01 - Here ♢ Goodbye (Panel Sketch) - Here ★ Goodbye (Rendered Panel) - Here ♢ Goodbye (Scrapped Panel Concept) - Here ♢ Blue Fang Palisman Concept Art - Here

The Cardinal and The Blue Jay Content

Extra Content ★ Wittewife Concept Art - Here

AU Questions & Answers

Max/Maxxy Asks: "can you please tell me about your au?" Anon Asks: "does hunter know about the past grimwalkers?" Max/Maxxy Asks: “can I draw for your au?”

[mayacatmaster]

Before you argue with someone, think to yourself is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of different Perspectives. Because if not, there's absolutely no point.

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Via and thanks “Mina Milos”:

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Make sure your saints/moral/religion/education help you as alignment-deliberate-creator not kiss any kind of dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass.  No matter who or what topic…! *** *** ***  When he begins to know himself a man sees that he has nothing that is his own... [and] all that he has regarded as his own, his views, thoughts, convictions, tastes, habits, even faults and vices, all these are not his own, but have been either formed through imitation or borrowed from somewhere ready-made. In feeling this a man may feel his nothingness. And in feeling his nothingness a man should see himself as he really is. ~ George Gurdjieff Quotes *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “The Toronto Hypnotherapist” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** One of the most important things I've learned in life is to ignore most of what people say, preach, teach.  I watch what they do instead. *** *** *** Because…: Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Qscar Wilde *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** “Whose mind is it? 01“ ~The little story between "Master"（Mr. Bean）and Solar  *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Whose mind is it?  To whom? ~Ramana Maharshi *** *** ***  Do you really want identify with it as “I am this or that!” as “me; mine; myself” &”real; true”, now??? *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Direct Experience Alone Is the Means: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** One day my "Master"（Mr. Bean) told me to sit down. He asked, “My dear Solar...Are you a learned boy?” *** *** ***  I could say anything to him, however outrageous.  It was the only place where I could be completely frank.  I was never sorry, no matter what I told him.  He used to enjoy my foolishness.  *** *** ***  I replied, “Of course as Solar I am learned,  Because as Chinese man.  Our Chinese have 5000 years great tradition, is this world most-est great country,. We have great saint Confucius and Confucianism. We have great leaders such as Great lead Mao Zedong and the great lead Jiang Zhongzheng  and they are the savior of the nation,  the great man of the world,  and If this world lacks them,  this world will fall into the thousands-years-darkness of the night and can’t help themselves.” *** *** ***  My "Master"（Mr. Bean) he asked, “ What have you learned and who taught you? Explain it to me!  My dear Solar…: Our mother is our first teacher, then our father, and then our brothers and sisters.  Later we learn from the children with whom we play, from teachers at school, and from the writers of books.  No matter what you have learned, you have not learned a single thing independently of others.  So far all that you have learned is a contribution from others. *** *** *** And from whom have they learned?  They have also learned from others.  Yet as a result of all this you call yourself learned.  I pity you because you have not learned anything independently.  You have apparently concluded that there is no such thing as independent learning in the world.  Your ideas are the ideas of others.” *** *** *** My dear Solar, you just like me as Mr. Bean…: OMG, I have finally discovered what's wrong with my brain:  On the left side, there is nothing right,  and on the right side, there is nothing left ~~><!!! *** *** *** When I look into my mind, my heart.  Witness those thoughts, those feelings, those different personality, I see a lot of stupid people walking around my heart acting like they are smart. *** *** *** But they never, ~~~! Watch their own self, as if they are watching another people's self. Watch their own beliefs, as if they are watching another peoples’ beliefs.... inquiry and question it. *** *** *** But they never, ~~~! Question everything they think they know about they "True Self"(Tao；God). Reexamine all that they have been told in parents, school, in church or in any books.  *** *** *** But they never question and self-enquiry, ~~~! Make sure what they have been learned from outside world,  Can help them to get rid of painful and get sweet fruit. Can help them from bondage to freedom. Can help them from personality to individual. Can help them from darkness to light. Can help them from misery to enlightenment. Can help them from ignorance to innocence. Can help them from death to deathlessness. Can help them to realized their "True Self"(Tao；God). *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** As Solar my brain suddenly shut down, two eyes wide-round-open, mouth open and exposed tongue longly…: *** *** *** I said, “Wait a minute, let me think.” It was a shocking realization that whatever I had learned was nothing of my own.  If you put yourself in my place you may well have the same feeling.  The knowledge on which you depend is not at all your knowledge.  That is why it is not satisfying, no matter how much of it you possess.  Even if you have mastered an entire library, it will never satisfy. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Clarity!

That is the biggest prize you are looking for.

To feel clear and sure and stable-that is really what you desire. ~Abraham

You're Not Vulnerable To Anything Except To Your Own Sloppy Thinking

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Looking For Truth?

Observe People's Habitual Behavior

Patterns/Cycles. The Truth Is In Their

Patterns And Cycles. Not So Much Their

Words.

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You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with the conversation you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind.

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[maximustherad]

Skype Liveblog of Guardians of the Galaxy S01E12 “Crystal Blue Persuasion”

@thecorteztwins

[1:06:12 AM] Cool Dadneato: I found me an episode of the Guardians of the Galaxy show with Inhumans in it and if it's good I'm gonna liveblog

[1:06:21 AM] Cool Dadneato: or even if not

[1:06:25 AM] Hexiva: -chinhands-

[1:06:26 AM] Cool Dadneato: LIVEBLOG

[1:08:11 AM] Cool Dadneato: so Peter Quill is trying to teach his friends baseball, which sounds like an inherently awful idea

[1:08:58 AM] Cool Dadneato: they are trying but I don't think they even get the concept, much less the rules

[1:10:38 AM] Hexiva: I'm not sure I get the concept or rules

[1:11:48 AM] Cool Dadneato: ... I was going to side with the rest of the team here, BUT NOW I SIDE WITH PETER, BASEBALL IS VITAL KNOWLEDGE TO SHARE

[1:11:59 AM] Cool Dadneato: Lockjaw just appeared on board

[1:12:23 AM] Cool Dadneato: Rocket greets dogs by insulting them, I guess

[1:12:30 AM] Cool Dadneato: get off this ship

[1:13:01 AM] Cool Dadneato: why does Lockjaw have crystals stabbed in him

[1:13:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter, Gamora, and Lockjaw just teleported

[1:14:17 AM] Cool Dadneato: Rocket is not even perturbed

[1:15:04 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter is chasing Lockjaw through Attilan

[1:15:28 AM] Cool Dadneato: Lockjaw stole his baseball and Gamora is yelling to forget it

[1:16:09 AM] Cool Dadneato: forget you, Gamora, I've rped a lost in space Earth dude, this shit is important

[1:17:56 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter is yelling now about how he doesn't even care about the ball, now this is about how he feels like nobody ever listens to him

jeez, Peter, this is only a few minutes in

[1:20:21 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "So who's in distress?! There's nobody here but a giant, slobbering BASEBALL THIEF!!" -dramatic point-

[1:20:29 AM] Cool Dadneato: I want a gif of this

[1:21:16 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter is being so fucking sarcastic to this dog now omfg

[1:21:29 AM] Cool Dadneato: who teaches these people dog manners

[1:22:48 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "You see, on Earth it's totally hilarious."

Gamora: "I see why you don't go back."

[1:25:35 AM] Cool Dadneato: omfg, Lockjaw led Peter to some cryogen chambers and he opened one and it's Medusa and Peter said "aw it's like a princess" and made like he was going to kiss her and Medusa woke up to kick his ass

[1:26:13 AM] Cool Dadneato: kill him, Medusa

[1:26:30 AM] Cool Dadneato: feed his baseball to Lockjaw

[1:26:51 AM] Hexiva: MURDER HIM

[1:27:19 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa: "My husband would have words with you!"

[1:27:37 AM] Cool Dadneato: multiple ones? it's on then

[1:28:18 AM] Cool Dadneato: does she wait to say things like that

[1:31:43 AM] Cool Dadneato: meanwhile, I guess Groot, Drax, and Rocket finally decided to go look for Peter and Gamora

they seem very unrushed for people possibly doing rescuing

[1:32:02 AM] Hexiva: they're like "whatever he got himself into, he probably deserved it"

[1:32:29 AM] Cool Dadneato: yeah, they are all clearly thinking that

[1:33:54 AM] Cool Dadneato: they just tried to muss with crystal statues in the city, the crystals attacked

[1:35:33 AM | Edited 1:35:44 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa asked Peter if he's Kree and that's a surprisingly valid question

[1:35:57 AM] Hexiva: Kree rather than half-Celestial?

[1:37:31 AM] Cool Dadneato: Kree given the Inhuman context and that some Kree are white

in the 616 Peter is half Spartoi

[1:37:45 AM] Hexiva: What's a Spartoi

[1:37:56 AM] Cool Dadneato: and his dad once flirted with Medusa

[1:39:22 AM] Cool Dadneato: Spartoi look pretty much human but they are related to the Shi'ar somehow

[1:40:01 AM] Cool Dadneato: they come from Shi'ar space and share some common ancestor

[1:40:16 AM] Hexiva: what's their deal

[1:41:33 AM] Cool Dadneato: they have an Empire that's allied with the Shi'ar

[1:41:47 AM] Cool Dadneato: that's basically their thing

[1:41:49 AM] Hexiva: oh good, more douchebag empires

[1:42:11 AM] Hexiva: Aren't the Kree . . . like . . . blue . . .?

[1:42:12 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter's dad is J'Son, their emperor

[1:42:50 AM] Cool Dadneato: Kree are usually blue but they have a large white population

[1:43:08 AM] Cool Dadneato: like Mar-Vell and Noh-Varr

[1:43:14 AM] Hexiva: oh

[1:43:16 AM] Hexiva: that's weird

[1:43:20 AM] Cool Dadneato: yeah

[1:43:25 AM] Cool Dadneato: weird af

[1:43:29 AM] Cool Dadneato: why

[1:47:58 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus: "Cease this senseless attack, Alpha Primitives! Oh! This has all been a TERRIBLE misunderstanding! Oh, I'm SO very sorry about all this... I was expecting someone else."

omfg on a scale of 1 to A Steaming Pile of Filthy Dramatic Improv he's scoring a perfect Irving Braxiatel

[1:49:03 AM] Hexiva: DOES ANYONE BELIEVE YOU, MAXIMUS

[1:49:30 AM] Cool Dadneato: "I am Maximus... the Magnificent, Supreme Leader of the Inhumans."

[1:49:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: who let him out of the house

[1:51:56 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa and Maximus are giving their respective back stories for the Inhumans to their respective audiences and it's hilarious

[1:53:08 AM] Cool Dadneato: and yet I think the best part of all is that they are both delivering the same biased story

[1:53:30 AM] Hexiva: with the same biases?

[1:53:37 AM] Cool Dadneato: yes

[1:54:02 AM] Cool Dadneato: Inhumans are superior, peaceful, and did no wrong

[1:56:21 AM] Cool Dadneato: oh jfc, Medusa just informed Peter that they were escaping a plague on Earth, and she pulled back a sleeve to show crystals growing out of her skin, apparently Inhumans are suffering from some slow Terrigen death thing

[1:57:11 AM] Cool Dadneato: that explains all the crystals sticking out of Lockjaw

[1:59:13 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus is describing the plague to the others very dramatically, apparently it completely changed the slave caste, -dramatic fists- THEIR STRENGTH INCREASED A HUNDREDFOLD

[2:00:59 AM] Cool Dadneato: "Unfortunately, for the rest of us-- " -DRAMATIC PAUSE IN FRONT OF FROZEN BLACK BOLT- "It will prove quite fatal!"

[2:02:13 AM] Cool Dadneato: question, Mad Max, why is your esteemed dramafullness totally fine, you look the least sick of anybody and I call bullshit

[2:03:28 AM] Cool Dadneato: "Fortunately, I have found a cure! Soon, I'll have enough to save the rest of my family!"

sounds fake but okay

[2:04:25 AM] Cool Dadneato: "Even Black Bolt, my poor, mute brother."

aw, even him, in this fake story

[2:06:01 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa: "Since it was the Kree who created the Inhumans, we hoped they'd find a cure."

really? and how's that working out for you?

[2:07:26 AM] Cool Dadneato: for the record, the Inhumans are a race of slave WMDs to the Kree

[2:07:56 AM] Cool Dadneato: that doesn't sound like a place to start negotiations on

[2:10:12 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa: -GASPS- "My husband, the king, is missing!"

-checks the chamber next to his- "And so is his rat of a brother, Maximus!"

[2:10:25 AM] Cool Dadneato: :.) this fam

[2:20:39 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa: "What have you done with my husband, the king?!"

Rocket: "I thought you was the king."

Maximus: -ULTRA DRAMATIC SPIN- "By right, I should be! I isolated the Terrigen plague! I found the cure! While this one said nothing! DID NOTHING! UNTIL HE HIMSELF SUCCUMBED TO THE THREAT! Black Bolt is unworthy of the crown! Maximus is the true savior of the Inhumans!"

Rocket: "Okaaaaay... Well good luck with that."

[2:21:09 AM] Hexiva: that third person

[2:21:55 AM] Cool Dadneato: no time for theatre

[2:22:36 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa and Maximus are going to continue this without Rocket

[2:22:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: the show must go on

[2:25:12 AM] Cool Dadneato: "BEHOLD!"

Maximus, what am I beholding, will you please stop this bullshit if we put you on the Genetics Council with a cute title

[2:26:06 AM] Hexiva: why would you let that guy on the eugenics panel

[2:27:32 AM] Cool Dadneato: what damage can he possibly do there besides suggest terrible marriages

[2:27:43 AM] Cool Dadneato: "COMPLETE AND TOTAL MIND CONTROL!!!" -WILD LAUGHTER-

[2:28:09 AM] Cool Dadneato: okay fine, lock this fool up again

[2:31:08 AM] Cool Dadneato: "OBEY ME, BROTHER! DESTROY THEM! DESTROY THEM ALL!"

ho, they were such a decent audience

smack him in the mouth, Drax

[2:31:31 AM] Hexiva: maximus why

[2:32:16 AM] Cool Dadneato: Drax got his ass beat by mind-controlled Blackagar

[2:32:51 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus is looking through the hole in the wall

[2:33:05 AM] Cool Dadneato: AND LAUGHING AGAIN

[2:35:01 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus: "Finally! One of you will listen to what I say!"

I honestly wouldn't be shocked if that's what this is about

bitch needs attention

[2:36:13 AM] Cool Dadneato: Groot just got asskicked

[2:37:46 AM] Cool Dadneato: Gamora just got asskicked

[2:39:02 AM] Cool Dadneato: Rocket just got shrugged off because he's using an energy weapon and that's non-effective against Black Bolt

[2:39:54 AM] Cool Dadneato: my god Maximus is doing a little dance in the background

[2:40:06 AM] Cool Dadneato: while laughing

[2:42:02 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter decided to use Lockjaw to teleport behind Maximus and MAXIMUS BITCHSLAPPED HIM

[2:42:09 AM] Cool Dadneato: EMBARRASSING

[2:42:27 AM] Cool Dadneato: DEFEATED BY MAXIMUS

[2:42:35 AM] Hexiva: GOOD

[2:45:43 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "Don't... Make me open this box! Inside it is a weapon that can destroy the whole city!"

Maximus: "Oh?! This I must see. Open it!"

called

[2:48:07 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "No, you don't understand! We'll all be vaporised! Instantly!"

Maximus: "How exciting! Open it! Now!"

called again

[2:48:37 AM] Cool Dadneato: this isn't working Peter

[2:52:21 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter gave up and opened his box and there was a cosmic cube inside and the flash of light still managed to blind Maximus and make him lose control of Blackagar

[2:52:45 AM] Cool Dadneato: embarrassing, Maximus

[2:53:46 AM] Cool Dadneato: Blackagar immediately ran to Medusa and Maximus ran the fuck out

[2:56:24 AM] Cool Dadneato: they also found out the cube accelerated the crystal plague the Inhumans are infected with

[2:58:17 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "That's AWESOME!!"

Drax: "I do not think that word means what you think it means."

[3:00:40 AM] Cool Dadneato: RONAN THE ACCUSER JUST SHOWED UP

[3:01:22 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus: "Ah, see, I told you I was expecting someone else."

[3:02:22 AM] Cool Dadneato: yeah how does selling out your species feel you evil fuck

[3:06:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: Medusa: "Maximus! What. Have. You. DONE?!"

Maximus: -mimicking her tone- "Just. What. You. Wanted! I have formed an alliance with the Kreeee!"

[3:13:01 AM] Cool Dadneato: "I give them an invincible crystal army, and in return Attilan becomes part of the Kree Empire, with myself as Supreme Leader, of course."

you negotiated Attilan's unconditional surrender? you truly are our hero

[3:19:39 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter: "He can't do that. Ronan's an outlaw even among his own people."

Rocket: "You cut a deal with the one guy in the galaxy who's crazier than you!"

-Maximus' facial expression is beautiful-

[3:23:31 AM] Cool Dadneato: Ronan: "Get out of my sight, you filth."

Maximus: -pathetically- "But... I don't understand... !"

[3:24:40 AM] Cool Dadneato: jfc, Ronan just curbstomped Maximus

[3:26:11 AM] Cool Dadneato: who was already sitting on the ground looking pathetic

[3:29:18 AM] Cool Dadneato: Ronan plans to destroy the city, he is absolutely not impressed with the tribute army

[3:31:34 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus says this is fine, he rather die than bow to his brother ever again

[3:32:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: he threw a tantrum, destroyed the cure, and ran off

[3:34:31 AM] Cool Dadneato: does Maximus ever get bored of hearing himself

[3:34:47 AM] Hexiva: NO

[3:35:39 AM] Cool Dadneato: that is rhetorical

[3:38:00 AM] Cool Dadneato: he loves hearing himself

[3:39:02 AM] Cool Dadneato: Maximus: "Bravo! A front row seat for the apocalypse!" -LAUGHS MANIACALLY-

[3:45:58 AM] Cool Dadneato: omfg, this episode rapidly escalated to its dramatic ending

[3:54:52 AM] Cool Dadneato: Peter Quill uses the cosmic cube to cure the plague, Black Bolt destroys the Kree warship (leaving Ronan to shout that he will have his REVENGE!!! from within the shielded pieces of the Kree bridge)

cut to Maximus chuckling and talking to himself from where he's chained in a dark, windowless dungeon

Maximus: "Hahaha, oh the irony. Defeated by the great Star-Lord, who can't find what sees with a map, which he holds with both hands; the further he goes, the farther away he gets... !"

-starts laughing until the Inhumans click a mental dampening device in place and his expression goes blank in surprise and he's cut off abruptly-

[3:55:59 AM] Cool Dadneato: and then everyone happily goes home, except Peter wishes he knew what that weirdness was all about

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BFCD Story Concepts by Nesha

Story Concept: No Saviors in the Wild

Shani is smart, swift, and soft but not very strong. After an altercation at the school she works to pay for, she’s given a sentencing to a criminal’s camp as community service for a “violent offense.” The law doesn’t care who started the fight, any physical exchange on school grounds merits sentencing, even if you spent the exchange in question balled up with your arms shielding yourself, as Shani did.

The hard labor assignment given to her includes getting a chip injected into the nape of the neck to keep tabs and administer any criminal control protocol, a cultivating and clean up position in the woods, and a trained chaperone per 12 convicts. Her sentence is a fine to the school (paid off in her hours of community service), 16 weeks in the woods of 16 hours of restitution, per diem. 

Three weeks in, she’s already the chaperone’s favorite, giving no issues and making great marks each day, which displeases some of the others in her detail. For the most part, the chaperone isn’t obsessively watching them every moment of every hour of their shift and misses the times when Shani is bullied (which she dares not report) and is sure that she can tough this out for a few more weeks!

One of the other on her detail, Atlas, a boy with a collar, instead of a chip (indicating that he’s a repeat or long term offender), comes to her aid a few times, warding off her bullies, but refusing her gratitude afterwards. “You’re really gonna have to toughen up, because I can’t be your bodyguard. You’re in the wild. They intend to harm you. Become a beast, or you’ll be eaten alive.”

*

The chaperone goes deeper into the woods one day while the offenders are working, and she doesn’t return by the end of their shift. They’re all chipped or collared and assigned, so they definitely can’t escape without their GPS alerting authorities (which could lead to graver punishments), but they’re unsupervised and some of the harder delinquents take advantage of that. Though they’re slow to come after Shani, with Atlas around, she worries that if anything happens, she could be sentenced longer, when she doesn’t even belong here, in the first place. 

After three days, everyone begins to worry, as chaperones never leave for this long and they don’t know if perhaps someone has taken the chaperone or if she’s abandoned them. Eventually, they’ll run out of food and starve, or be forced to leave the woods and face imprisonment. They’ve been working as they usually did and camping in their bunk, but the accessible supplies are dwindling and they don’t have the keys to storage. The chaperone does.

The group draws twigs to determine who will take a few supplies and go looking for the chaperone, but the bullies wind up just deciding that Shani needs to go, and she knows that even though she didn’t draw the shortest twig, if she declines, they’ll make her life hell and there’s no chaperone to stop them. Atlas feels bad for her and decides that despite insisting that he isn’t here to look after her that he will tag along, too.

They head out in the morning, in the direction that the chaperone had initially left in, with some supplies to hike and potentially camp, expecting to pause by nightfall and set up somewhere, if they had not found her yet.

Then... they get attacked by a werewolf.

No Saviors in the Wild Masterlist

Main Tag Concept Parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

Arcs:

1. A Savior is Born: Rise of the Rebels

2. Atlas is Falling

Aesthetics:  Shani | Atlas | Free | Riggs | Bane | Luna | L.A.

Artwork

Characters: Shani | Atlas | Free | Riggs | Bane | Luna | L.A. 

Alternate Universe Saviors

Saviors Memes By Jacks: Here & There

Saviors Artwork by Tina & Tina Abuses the Saviors Tag

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Shani || No Saviors in the Wild

Name Meaning: Marvelous in Swahili, Sanskrit for Saturn, and Hindu God of Karma

Natal Chart: Virgo Sun, Mercury & Rising, Capricorn Moon, Saturn, Jupiter & Pluto, Cancer Venus, Aries Mars, Taurus Uranus, Neptune Pisces, Aries Lilith, Gemini N Node

Element: Earth

Temperament: Chloeric

Myers Briggs: ENFJ-T (Protagonist)

Archetype: The Chameleon - A fierce competitor and cunning leader, embodies strength, wisdom and fierceness, born to be a leader, ruler, and motivator, embodying the source power of change. 

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Folake S. Fashola

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BFCD Story Concepts by Nesha

Story Concept 01: No Saviors in the Wild Pt. 5

Read Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt 3 | Pt 4

I Am Light by India.Arie plays in background, as it is Shani’s theme.

A Savior is Born: The Rise of the Rebels 02 - A Cage Big Enough for Hundreds

Shani knew what it meant whenever she was escorted back to the dormitories and her files were pulled up and changed. She knew what it meant for the administration to remove her arm cuff, explaining to her that the government had given her a full scholarship for the rest of her studies. When her record was expunged and she was allotted a grace days to recuperate and get back to her regularly scheduled classes with her tuition and lodging paid in full and no sign of the unjust sentence in her history, she knew.

They wanted her to shut up and move on. To just forget about not only what happened to her in the woods, but to the others. To Atlas. She tried to see if she could look him up whenever she got back to the library. The directory didn’t cover Wasteland citizens, so she had to give up after a few days. 

Since she now had free time, not having to work for her education, she decided to get a part time job, for a life skills practice and a few non-academic pleasures that weren’t covered in the tuition + nutrition supply. She started a beret collection, and learning various hobbies as a distraction from thinking about the woods every time she wasn’t involved with a school project.

She bought every single type of M&M that she saw in the store, then grabbed jars to separate them - all plain reds in a big jar, smaller jars for other reds - peanut, almond, etc, and the biggest jar had all of the excess red M&Ms of all sorts put into it. Then... she had several bags of several M&Ms that weren’t red. Researching what to do with them, besides toss them, she found a few recipes for cookies and other treats. Maybe this was a nice time to learn how to bake!

She went knocking on doors of other dorms in her building and nearby buildings, "Hi, I brought you some M&Ms cookies." and they're like... You know what idec. Yes, thanks. Because, the dorms weren’t where the rich students lived. It got her a few suspicious folk, but mostly, people were grateful for something to eat that wasn’t a strict and cheap meal or an even cheaper and far less appealing meal paste. It was the first time that people seemed to begin liking her.

She thinks about getting a tattoo, but they're ridiculously unsafe and very expensive, so instead she gets a tattoo art piece, which is a realistic painting of your body part with a tattoo on it. It's relatively costly, but safe, and hers is an Atlas tattoo, holding the world on his shoulders, on her back, because Atlas had had her back.

She researches Atlas and then goes and finds Greek mythology books in the useless books depository, and takes on learning about it as a hobby. Greek mythology, baking, school, part time job doing data entry, and collecting berets. It kept her occupied, though her mind was frequently on what happened. Months had passed, years were beginning to. She thought for sure that one day, her pain had to be numbed and so she tried not to harp on it. But, how do you just forget somebody who was willing to throw away their life for yours?

18 marked the legal age of adulthood. Shani immediately had a job, right out of school as an interpreter and translator. She was hired at a firm that also allotted her to take more college level courses to advance herself in the field and she began saving up for a place in the city that wasn’t a job related lodging when she had the most important appointment set up for her that she would ever have.

“Hi. I’m Shani, I’ll be helping you today with your assessment. Have a seat.” The wasteland woman looked at the chair that Shani gestured to and smiled, her canines showing and the smile wider than Shani was comfortable with. “Ummm... Sit down?” The woman laughed and nodded. 

“Have a seat. Sit down. Yes. Yes, that makes sense. It took me a moment. You might guess, the wasteland isn’t very prim and proper.”

Shani didn’t want to talk about the wasteland. Instead, she began typing into her computer, “So, Miss... Free... What is your first language?”

“I don’t believe that you have a word for it. I’ll call it wolfen. I doubt it is in your machine.” 

Shani furrowed her eyebrows. “No. I’ve never heard of that before. Where did it originate? If you know...” 

“Hmmm... The Epic of Gilgamesh, maybe.” 

Shani frowned and clasped her hands over each other. “Ma’am. What is this meeting about?”

“I remember you, but you don’t remember me. It’s because you didn’t see me. You didn’t know to look for me. But, I knew to look for you. I’m here, because I have finally found you... Did you think it was right? For them to come in that way? They sent us food. We ate, then they attacked and took my people, took your people, took the wolf with the hair like flames...”

“What are you talking about?” Shani whispered.

“Your mate. He was torn open, then he tasted blood. He became as we are. Not fully, but enough. He became a man who is no longer a man, a man who is now a wolf.”

“Atlas.”

“They took my people. They took your people. You.. were special, somehow. You didn’t go where others went. Why were you special? Why were you spared?” Shani had never considered that she had been either of these things. She lamented over Atlas for so long, she figured that she, too, had been made to suffer. “They were taken to a cage. Some as beasts, some as feed. You were taken to a cottage, and given gifts. Are you a queen?”

“Far from it...” Shani tried to remember what happened in those moments. She vaguely recalled a voice saying, “She was falsely accused. She shouldn’t have been there in the first place, much less get taken to the Kennel. She’s got an arm cuff. She belongs to somebody.” The school. She had been property of the school. She still owed them money and had their equipment on her person, to indicate such...

Her schooling was paid off, not as a means to keep her quiet... but to keep the school quiet. To ensure that they got what she was worth and not ask questions about potential damages she faced while serving a bogus sentence. Sure, she made the most of that, but it had less to do with her and more to do with money.

“They... took them to a cage?”

“A cage big enough for hundreds.”

Tears poured from her eyes and Free took the initiative to offer the woman’s own tissues to her, as she must’ve forgotten that they were on her desk, in her... emotional release. Shani snatched two and tried to clean her face up. They took Atlas to a prison?  “A prison! They... took Atlas to a prison?”

Whenever Free said this, her dark brown eyes glowed amber and at that moment, Shani knew. This... is a wolf. This woman is what she described. A person who is not a person, but a person who is a wolf. “They took everyone there. Everyone but us.”

NOTES: I enjoy the idea of Free being far removed enough from human society that she doesn’t know anything about mannerisms and only has a limited amount of English, that she’s picked up since she’s been scavenging through the wasteland, but that she’s smart (I’d say the smartest wolfen in the series), and she’s adaptable and quick. She’s like a wolfen counterpart to Shani, and that’s why they eventually get on so well. They’re in similar positions, but with vastly different backgrounds. @tiarathief (You are still the first name that comes up whenever I at somebody. Let me know if you don’t want to be tagged to these, please. @shslargue @jacksope-lives

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No Saviors in the Wild Masterlist

1. Red Tape and Red Lines

2. The Stars Are Only the Beginning

3. Why is She Like This?

Brainstorming/Inspo 

Face Claims

Shani: Birgundi Baker

Atlas: Bruno Novodvorski

Free: Quintessa Swindell

Riggs: Elliot Fletcher

Bane: Ryan Potter

Little Alpha (L.A.): Jordan Kristine Seamón

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Free Moodboard || No Saviors in the Wild

Picture the scene where the wolfpack of the woods is rounded up by soldiers, including the freshly transformed Atlas...

Shani is distraught. She's not paying attention to anything but Atlas. Werewolves are being shot, muzzled, bound, tranquilized, and secured. Surviving deliquents are being taken in safely.

And if we pan over into the woods, some distance away, a female presenting naked woman with wild hair, covered in blood, watches from a hiding place, recording each image to memory before she turns away from this painful occurrence.

She turns, runs away, and mid sprint changes into a wolf. Not a wolf-person (as we've only seen this far in the story), but seemingly a typical wolf of the woods, brown and tan fur, running for her life...

Running to be free...

@shslargue @jacksope-lives @racingwest * New Character Alert*

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Nesha Artwork | Story Concept

The Gold League

No Saviors in the Wild protagonist, Shani at different stages of her late teens/early adulthood. She keeps an article of gold clothing because whenever she was paying for school, the Gold League was a prestigious placement for students who remained at the top of their class consistently through their education career. 

Being in the Gold League meant that Shani was at the top of her class, had perfect attendance, good citizenship, etc. She nearly lost the placement whenever she was wrongfully sentenced, but after being awarded a government scholarship, following the incident in the woods, she always has a gold (or technically “Spanish orange” - at least that’s how its labelled in my Prismacolors) accent or accessory, to remind herself that she’s that girl.

Shani has been working since she was 10 to get her education, so being on top, even though she’s from The Outskirts, which is a hop, skip and a jump away from being from The Wasteland, is basically her life’s work (prior to the Rebellion).

Original & Inked Sketch @tiarathief​ @shslargue​ @jacksope-lives​

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No Saviors in the Wild | The Tattoo

@shslargue @jacksope-lives @racingwest

The opening sequence starts out with someone painting the tattoo art onto a canvas, then closing in on the canvas. When it pans out, the tattoo is now on her back and she's moving forward. She spins around and we close back in on her back and the Atlas on her back transforms into a werewolf. And I'd like for her to take off running and have a group of people and wolves running (main group) alongside and the rest of the rebels behind her. They all run into the shadows and then executive producer.

I need to learn how to create story boards.

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Me: Has no story whatsoever for a concept that I created a week ago.

Tina:

Artwork by @shslargue for No Saviors in the Wild

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BFCD Story Concepts by Nesha

Story Concept 01: No Saviors in the Wild Pt. 3

Read Pt 1 | Pt 2

Notes: Not writing out an entire cohesive story, but just hitting y’all with lore and the occasional scene is refreshing for me, but also like... I feel like I leave out so much since I’m not painting the full picture of it. So, because this is an installment of when they “met,” figured this is the good place to tell exactly what they look like. Sure, Birgundi Baker is too old to play the roles she plays and Shani is 16, but Birgundi’s look is perfect, so she is Birgundi at a 16 year old version.

Atlas, has no FC, because the image doesn’t exist in Hollywood, as far as I could find: Brown eyes, red hair, a freckles/acne collab skin type - this kid is covered in freckles - and will have acne his entire life, broad shoulders, tall, large ears, hands, feet, and Adam’s apple. Generally scowling. Has an overbite when he smiles and it's the only thing he's really self conscious about at first because when he does smile, it seems to be the thing that people's eyes move towards.

* Shani tells him it's because they're so used to boring, perfect teeth that a smile with character gives them the wrong reaction. "It makes me smile bigger," she adds, with a little shrug. He blushes and tells her to shut up.*

@shslargue​ @jacksope-lives​  Thank you for putting up with fragments of an idea that I wish I could mold into a world for you both.

A Savior is Born: The Rise of the Rebels 01

Shani: Objective problem solver, analytical mind, sometimes mistaken for being cold or detached, overthinker who doubts herself and tends to worry that she’s potentially acted or reacted without thinking with her heart.

Her field of study is communications, with special interest in linguistics, because comm can get her a media job and this is one of the careers that can make for a comfortable life in their society (lucrative, if she can handle various languages and/or several fields of communications). She’s focused on intercultural and multilingual communications at the start of the story and has a bunch of stuff about language and speech in her brain.

School is only available for pay, and Shani has applied for a program to work for her schooling - which includes lodging, clothing and food, but is extremely expensive. Students in said programs typically only have time for school and work, having to work an equal amount of hours to process payment for courses and meals, and having to put in a certain amount of hours per dollar amount of clothing, food, and class resources. She has everything available for her education accessible, but in the event that she can’t work for it, she loses that access.

Shani has been working her way through this school system since she was 10.

Prior to that, her parents struggled to pay for her to have a bright start, and also homeschooled, when they could, with outdated publications of any books that they could find, to stimulate her mind and figure out what she might excel in, because they couldn’t afford testing and she wasn’t on the successful track that kids with money were put on. Being a smart child and excellent student, Shani soon earned the right to apply for the scholarship. 

At that point, she moved into the dormitories, ate in a cafeteria that was typically full of students BUSY studying, as study hall was more expensive than at home study, and many of them had too many work hours to get a decent amount of study time in. 

Shani rarely struggled with taking in information, performed tests extremely well and didn’t take too long to complete homework, as to not interfere an extreme amount with her work schedule. A lot of the kids who were barely hanging on resent her for it, and one particular event that occurs when she’s 16 between herself and a few students who were being removed from school due to grades or insufficient work hours (both of which, at the time, Shani had the displeasure of having to be record keeper of), she was jumped and while she only shielded herself to prevent maximum damage, the aggressors had a matching story that she was involved in a fight with them and she received her sentence (and lesson that kids like her better know their place), along with an academic probation and a fine from the school. 

It was taken into consideration that for all 6 years of being in the program, she made excellent scores in all school assignments, performed admirably in all job assignments, and held perfect attendance. She wasn’t removed from the program during her sentencing, but would have to complete her courses remotely while serving her time, or repeat her semester later (having to work to pay off both the “abandoned” one and the one that she would have to make up. So, she chose to continue remotely, through her sentence.

She’s the only kid enrolled in school for the sentencing assignment and that automatically puts a target on her, from the other kids, particularly because she also clearly doesn’t belong here. They can just *tell* that she didn’t earn the sentence she’s serving, and (as always in her life when she gets into a group setting), others resent her for being where she “doesn’t belong.” The rich kids did it in class. The less adept kids did it in the dorms. These kids did it during assignments. She was used to it. But, she was actually terrified of these kids. 

They were criminals! Especially, that one. 

He was tall and imposing. Not… dangerous looking, really. He didn’t ever smile, but that didn’t mean much in a place like this. What was there to smile about? She noticed him before anybody else, even though he was quiet and not rambunctious like some of the others were on the bus ride to the worksite. She noticed him first because of his hair. 

It was bright red, but she didn’t think it was dyed. She had seen red hair before, but not as bright and it definitely wasn’t common. She’d read that it was rare, and had only gotten more rare as time went on. She could think of maybe 3 redheads that she had seen in her life, and none of their hair had ever caught her attention that way. He was covered in freckles. Every visible part of his skin that could harbor freckles appeared to. She couldn’t remember if she knew anybody with freckles, but she liked them. She could stare at them and pretend to make little images by connecting some of them. Her brain imagined a series of patterns while she looked at his arms, slightly less vivid red hairs coated them. 

And on his face, he had severe acne. She was a little entranced by it. She found herself also mentally tracing patterns in the bumps, sometimes even incorporating freckles for accent. Up until the point where her brown eyes met his and his were not as dark, but way more mean. She smiled uncomfortably, and his expression didn’t change. She made prayer hands and awkwardly turned away. She could feel him glaring at her, though. She could feel it for the rest of the ride to the woods, and didn’t dare to glance his way when they unloaded. 

They wound up standing next to each other as the chaperone took roll call, and verified their identities and sentences. Shani only looked at him again whenever the chaperone read his sentencing as “aggravated robbery.” 

He didn’t even blink. He just said, “Allegedly.” Shani noted that although he wasn’t muscular or that solid, he was even taller than he seemed on the bus… maybe 6’1 - 6’3. He was nearly a foot taller than her, at 5’5, but not quite. Still, with his broad shoulders, his brooding expression, and the collar on his neck (the consecutive crimes collar); she felt very unnerved not just being next to him, but being on this site with him. Aggravated Robbery was SERIOUS. You couldn’t even purchase an education with that type of charge. Of course, Shani WOULD be thinking in terms of education. She didn’t even know this boy. His education wasn’t her business... 

Next, the chaperone read her name, and stated, “First time violent offense?” And she read it like it was unbelievable and all of the kids looked at Shani as the woman continued, “Judging from your record, I’m assuming that you’re here because of a misunderstanding?”

Shani felt her face grow warm with everyone staring, including Mr. Collar, but she explained, in a low voice, “All I did was try to shield myself. I’ve always read that if you never attempt a hit, you can plead self defense. There were multiple assailants, therefore, my defense was futile and the judge sided with my aggressors, that it was a fight instead of a gang attack.” She heard groans and snickers. She looked at the redhead. He shook his head in disbelief. She didn’t know why, but it made her feel very insignificant. She didn’t realize that the last thing that she should have done in that moment was tell everyone THAT. The chaperone gave her a sympathetic smile and moved on. Mr. Collar scoffed, laughed a little and turned away from her. She studied his profile. His eyes drifted over, checking to see if she was looking at him. Whenever he turned to face her again, she quickly looked away, her face hot from being on the verge of being caught staring again. 

Whenever she glanced back, he was still staring. He didn’t look as mean as on the bus. He seemed to be... studying her. She would have loved to know what he was thinking. Whatever it was, his brown eyes were softer than before, at least. She offered a smile and he didn’t return it, but at least he wasn’t glaring. He turned away very suddenly, like something had happened. She noticed that he looked like he was turning red. That was... interesting. Imagine somebody tall and dangerous blushing over one little smile. Her own face grew warm at the thought. He might be... whatever the records alleged... but he was a tall boy with features she liked, too.

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No Saviors in the Wild Face Claims

Shani: Birgundi Baker

Atlas: (That's just a free placeholder. Sorry)

Free: Quintessa Swindell

Riggs: Elliot Fletcher

Bane: Ryan Potter

Little Alpha (L.A.): Jordan Kristine Seamón