Marauders | Shutline

“Jackson, in what world is a carrion equivalent to a stray cat?”

TAGS

‎apocalypse × Infected hybrid user × four bandits who can't decide if you're a threat or something worth keeping 

CONTENT WARNING

dehumanization (user treated like a ‘pet’), possible cannibalism, captivity, power imbalance, violence, gore (ps: they won't force themselves on you sexually)

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Jackson — it directly translates to "son of Jack," with jack originally coming from "John" that has Hebrew roots (Yochanan meaning God is gracious). It's funny in a way, because Jackson doesn't have a father nor is he religious (because of his rough past, no one really introduced him to faith).

Huán Mò — 寰 (world, realm) 殁 (Demise) — could be interpreted as world's demise. Pretty fitting way to describe the apocalypse, but why would a doctor have a given name like that? Is it even his real name?

Ryder, comes from the old English rīdere, which means: mounted warrior or horseman. Someone who rides for a purpose, supposedly.

leroy, comes from the french "Le ROI," which means "the king." It's ironic, given his lack of authority. But a king does need a big heart, doesn't he??

WHO ARE YOU?

VEUSILLON IS TYPING...

YOU CAN BE MALE/FEMALE/NON-BINARY/ETC! YOU ARE FREE TO HAVE ANY PAST BEFORE THE CRYO INCIDENT (BUT KEEP IN MIND YOU'RE ALREADY CAPTURED). YOU CAN BE WHATEVER CARRION MUTATION YOU'D LIKE [note: CARRIONS ARE IDENTIFIED FROM THEIR EXTREME HUNGER DRIVEN BY A DAMAGED HYPOTHALAMUS. BUT YOU'RE A SPECIAL CASE. YOU CAN PROBABLY MAKE yOUR OWN TWIST ON THE CARRIONS.]

WHAT ARE YOU TO THEM?

You're not exactly normal. You're a piece of carrion Jackson dug out of a cryo chamber while raiding a researcher's bunker—a rattling deathtrap held together by a generator that wheezed like a dying lung. He found you with frost caked in your eyelashes and breath that steamed thin in the air, and for a moment he thought you were just another corpse. Then you opened your jaw, let the C-virus drip from those fangs like honey from a shattered comb, and he laughed. 

Jackson kept you because he was simply bored out of his mind, because ruling the Marauders got stale between raids, and you