Above the dead
A Walking Dead spin-off
It's an emotional mess!
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Gaydar is an Above the Dead short film, and a story told by Amy and Rhett, of how they first met, pre-apocalypse.
It’s a comical and suspenseful film that will put your own “gaydar” to the test, and sparks a marriage that will play a HUGE role in young Samantha’s survival, post-apocalypse…
"VISITOR" Short film coming soon!
A film that expresses support for the troops, same-sex marriage and biracial families...
"VISITOR" Short film coming soon!
A film that expresses support for the troops, same-sex marriage and biracial families...
SCENE ILLUSTRATIONS
CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS
It was his visions, and his fortune, that lead to a compound for the Baker family, worthy of surviving an apocalypse.
Using his creative mind to make that fortune in the old world, he's now using it to help rebuild the new one...
It was his visions, and his fortune, that lead to a compound for the Baker family, worthy of surviving an apocalypse.
Using his creative mind to make that fortune in the old world, he's now using it to help rebuild the new one...
illustration by Jared Souza
Stuck on Mt. Hood (Sam's son) with his daughter, it's their family compound in the Tillamook Forest, where they desperately want to be...
Stuck on Mt. Hood (Sam's son) with his daughter, it's their family compound in the Tillamook Forest, where they desperately want to be...
Fish Baker (illustration by Claudia Mckitty)
The entire Baker family knows that the future of said family, is this special child, who is very much like her grandfather. Like everyone in her family, she has been training her entire life, how to survive in a new world...
The entire Baker family knows that the future of said family, is this special child, who is very much like her grandfather. Like everyone in her family, she has been training her entire life, how to survive in a new world...
illustration by Jared Souza
Not related to the Bakers, this kid becomes like family...and in a pre-apocalyptic world that he suffered anxiety from, it's the post-apocalyptic world that has anxiety, of HIM!
Not related to the Bakers, this kid becomes like family...and in a pre-apocalyptic world that he suffered anxiety from, it's the post-apocalyptic world that has anxiety, of HIM!
illustration by Jared Souza
Next in line to lead the family compound, hero doesn't even begin to describe this guy (Sam's grandson) or what he means to the Bakers, especially his uncle Fish and little cousin, Samantha, who he is on a mission to bring home...
Next in line to lead the family compound, hero doesn't even begin to describe this guy (Sam's grandson) or what he means to the Bakers, especially his uncle Fish and little cousin, Samantha, who he is on a mission to bring home...
illustration by Jared Souza
With a pistol to her head, and an escape from the reality of the world below the tree house she survived in, it's this fury friend, who climbs into Samantha's lap, and gives her a reason to go on...
With a pistol to her head, and an escape from the reality of the world below the tree house she survived in, it's this fury friend, who climbs into Samantha's lap, and gives her a reason to go on...
illustration by Jared Souza
A Mt. Hood neighbor of Fish, this guy and his family are pivotal in young Samantha's survival and determination to reach that compound. Of course, the loss of electricity, is brutal for someone with sleep apnea!
A Mt. Hood neighbor of Fish, this guy and his family are pivotal in young Samantha's survival and determination to reach that compound. Of course, the loss of electricity, is brutal for someone with sleep apnea!
illustration by Jared Souza
Married to Scott's daughter, Amy, this guy is also Eli's big brother, and they not only use Samantha's tree house for survival, and her family's compound for hope, but they have come to love that special child, and will go through absolute hell, to keep her alive...
Married to Scott's daughter, Amy, this guy is also Eli's big brother, and they not only use Samantha's tree house for survival, and her family's compound for hope, but they have come to love that special child, and will go through absolute hell, to keep her alive...
illustration by Jared Souza
Cousins (Sam's grandson) with Samantha, this guy's family is also stuck on the mountain, but miles away from where they hope to reach Samantha and her father. Perhaps their stories will crossover...
Cousins (Sam's grandson) with Samantha, this guy's family is also stuck on the mountain, but miles away from where they hope to reach Samantha and her father. Perhaps their stories will crossover...
illustration by Jared Souza
Showing up a bit mysteriously, in the 3rd episode of season 1, is she really as cool as she seems...or as cuckoo as she seems...or both...or neither??? Read and find out!
Showing up a bit mysteriously, in the 3rd episode of season 1, is she really as cool as she seems...or as cuckoo as she seems...or both...or neither??? Read and find out!
illustration by Jared Souza
Brothers Michael and Matthew, are complete trouble, and thrilled to be living in a world that no longer has rules. This one uses the lawlessness to commit the crime he'd been dreaming of, followed by treating every moment of life, as if it were his last...
Brothers Michael and Matthew, are complete trouble, and thrilled to be living in a world that no longer has rules. This one uses the lawlessness to commit the crime he'd been dreaming of, followed by treating every moment of life, as if it were his last...
illustration by Jared Souza
Not as nasty or cold hearted as his little brother, but loyal to his family...
Not as nasty or cold hearted as his little brother, but loyal to his family...
illustration by Jared Souza
This was a stand up guy at first, until the world loses all hope, and he goes completely savage, below Samantha and the other survivors, in hopes of taking their glamorous tree house, for himself...
This was a stand up guy at first, until the world loses all hope, and he goes completely savage, below Samantha and the other survivors, in hopes of taking their glamorous tree house, for himself...
illustration by Jared Souza
With 5 older brothers and a father building a compound, for whatever crisis might strike, someday, Scout Baker is most definitely prepared for the apocalyptic world. Besides Zane, no one is closer with her brother Fish, and niece Samantha...and no one with more resolve, to bring them home!
With 5 older brothers and a father building a compound, for whatever crisis might strike, someday, Scout Baker is most definitely prepared for the apocalyptic world. Besides Zane, no one is closer with her brother Fish, and niece Samantha...and no one with more resolve, to bring them home!
illustration by Jared Souza
Son of Sam, and father to Zane and Dakota, it's an illness and inconsistency of taking his meds, that prevents this guy from his full potential. His love/hate relationship with Zane, and desire to be the compound leader, was intense even before the apocalypse...
Son of Sam, and father to Zane and Dakota, it's an illness and inconsistency of taking his meds, that prevents this guy from his full potential. His love/hate relationship with Zane, and desire to be the compound leader, was intense even before the apocalypse...
illustration by Jared Souza
Once zombies take over, and his wife dies, he gives up altogether on his meds, and soon after, he and his wife, Mary, are reunited! She tries to control him no differently than she did while alive. He eventually changes his look, abandons his family at the compound, and heads for the coast, to his "secret camp"...
Once zombies take over, and his wife dies, he gives up altogether on his meds, and soon after, he and his wife, Mary, are reunited! She tries to control him no differently than she did while alive. He eventually changes his look, abandons his family at the compound, and heads for the coast, to his "secret camp"...
illustration by Jared Souza
Dakota (Sam's granddaughter) is the female version of her brother, Zane, highly determined to find her little cousin, Samantha, and not someone you want to get in the way of! In Season 2, she is reunited with her woman, Cleo, who regardless of the heartbreaking world they now live in, somehow finds a way to make people laugh...
Dakota (Sam's granddaughter) is the female version of her brother, Zane, highly determined to find her little cousin, Samantha, and not someone you want to get in the way of! In Season 2, she is reunited with her woman, Cleo, who regardless of the heartbreaking world they now live in, somehow finds a way to make people laugh...
illustration by Jared Souza
When his brother Leo, struggles with personal issues in Season 2, it's Mason (Sam's son) who steps up and leads an epic beach "zombie" clearing mission, that only furthers the family plan of survival...
When his brother Leo, struggles with personal issues in Season 2, it's Mason (Sam's son) who steps up and leads an epic beach "zombie" clearing mission, that only furthers the family plan of survival...
illustration by Jared Souza
Pre-apocalypse these guys are just ball players, and great friends with Zane Baker. Post-apocalypse they are members of the "Rough Riders", using their ball skills to fight zombies and protect the people of the Tillamook Forest Compound...
In their spare time, once things settle down, they'll even return to the field and provide encouraging entertainment for said people, because yes, said compound, has ball fields!
Pre-apocalypse these guys are just ball players, and great friends with Zane Baker. Post-apocalypse they are members of the "Rough Riders", using their ball skills to fight zombies and protect the people of the Tillamook Forest Compound...
In their spare time, once things settle down, they'll even return to the field and provide encouraging entertainment for said people, because yes, said compound, has ball fields!
illustration by Jared Souza
Only a side character for an episode in Season 1, DJ makes a dramatic return in Season 2. His autistic sister was already living in a world scary enough, while this new one is overwhelming...yet she finds ways to contribute, and becomes inspired by young Samantha. ( Renee has her own journal entries, available to read at https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13005317/1/Renee-s-journal-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-autism )
Only a side character for an episode in Season 1, DJ makes a dramatic return in Season 2. His autistic sister was already living in a world scary enough, while this new one is overwhelming...yet she finds ways to contribute, and becomes inspired by young Samantha. ( Renee has her own journal entries, available to read at https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13005317/1/Renee-s-journal-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-autism )
illustration by Jared Souza
She suffered loss in the old world, and more loss in the new one. She's surrounded by youth, and uses it to find her way, and to help kayak that youth, out of the Gorge, and toward the compound...
She suffered loss in the old world, and more loss in the new one. She's surrounded by youth, and uses it to find her way, and to help kayak that youth, out of the Gorge, and toward the compound...
illustration by Jared Souza
Sam's oldest child and leader of the family compound, Hunter is fully committed to seeing his father's dream become a reality. Whether in their lifetime or the next, they plan on their family having refuge, whenever the apocalypse hits...
Sam's oldest child and leader of the family compound, Hunter is fully committed to seeing his father's dream become a reality. Whether in their lifetime or the next, they plan on their family having refuge, whenever the apocalypse hits...
illustration by Jared Souza
He was just a prison guard before the apocalypse, but now leads a large group of those prisoners and has a nice set-up, through a mysterious leader Grover, who remains with a group/camp of his own, but communicates through letters...
He was just a prison guard before the apocalypse, but now leads a large group of those prisoners and has a nice set-up, through a mysterious leader Grover, who remains with a group/camp of his own, but communicates through letters...
illustration by Jared Souza
Popular among the prisoners, and respected/feared for whatever he mysteriously did to land in prison, this guy is an obvious choice to help lead the "Grover" group...
Popular among the prisoners, and respected/feared for whatever he mysteriously did to land in prison, this guy is an obvious choice to help lead the "Grover" group...
illustration by Jared Souza
A love interest destined for Zane, this woman must be amazing to capture his attention. Coke is her son, and playing big brother to the little boy stranded at the shelter, where they all awaited before landing behind the safety of a world built by a team of loggers, funded by the mysterious "Grover"...
A love interest destined for Zane, this woman must be amazing to capture his attention. Coke is her son, and playing big brother to the little boy stranded at the shelter, where they all awaited before landing behind the safety of a world built by a team of loggers, funded by the mysterious "Grover"...
illustration by Jared Souza
Born a woman, but identifying as a man, he considered the world an evil place long before it was walked by the dead. Now...he enjoys walking with them...
Born a woman, but identifying as a man, he considered the world an evil place long before it was walked by the dead. Now...he enjoys walking with them...
illustration by Claudia Mckitty
A mysterious character of this story...
Whoever he is, he was prepared for the apocalypse and well funded for it. With multiple groups and multiple locations, his goal is just as mysterious as his identity, other than the obvious, which is to rule the coast range...
A mysterious character of this story...
Whoever he is, he was prepared for the apocalypse and well funded for it. With multiple groups and multiple locations, his goal is just as mysterious as his identity, other than the obvious, which is to rule the coast range...
illustration by Jared Souza
illustration by Jared Souza
Harris did what she had to do, to survive, even if it meant joining the wrong kind of group. But she is destined for better things, bigger things, and will become a legend, as Queen of the Nike World Headquarters, in Beaverton...
Harris did what she had to do, to survive, even if it meant joining the wrong kind of group. But she is destined for better things, bigger things, and will become a legend, as Queen of the Nike World Headquarters, in Beaverton...
illustration by Jared Souza
After separated from her son on day 1 of the chaotic zombie apocalypse, Dominique is all she has left, and it's her artistic talent that allows Harris to dream of better days to come, but then her death, that changes her forever, and sets the pace, for the Queen of Beaverton..
After separated from her son on day 1 of the chaotic zombie apocalypse, Dominique is all she has left, and it's her artistic talent that allows Harris to dream of better days to come, but then her death, that changes her forever, and sets the pace, for the Queen of Beaverton..
illustration by Jared Souza
The rumor is that he killed a big-time prison drug lord named Shark, and with his mammoth size, his nickname took off from there. Whatever the case, this guy makes his way through zombies, like Paul Bunyan does trees, and would be a much better friend, than foe!
The rumor is that he killed a big-time prison drug lord named Shark, and with his mammoth size, his nickname took off from there. Whatever the case, this guy makes his way through zombies, like Paul Bunyan does trees, and would be a much better friend, than foe!
illustration by Jared Souza
With their daughter, Samantha, stuck/missing on Mt Hood, these two are safe at the family compound, but as you can imagine, in complete distraught over what they're left to imagine while praying for her safe return, in which appears more and more unlikely...
With their daughter, Samantha, stuck/missing on Mt Hood, these two are safe at the family compound, but as you can imagine, in complete distraught over what they're left to imagine while praying for her safe return, in which appears more and more unlikely...
illustration by Jared Souza
Anthony serves as Leo's man in charge, at his secret camp in the hills of Rockaway Beach. A mysterious camp that the Baker family knows very little about, other than it's something Leo had been setting up, long before the apocalypse...
Anthony serves as Leo's man in charge, at his secret camp in the hills of Rockaway Beach. A mysterious camp that the Baker family knows very little about, other than it's something Leo had been setting up, long before the apocalypse...
illustration by Jared Souza
Behind every disturbed man is his disturbed wife, and this would be Leo's. His son, Zane, resented her, and knew her influence on his father was as bad as his illness. An illness that allowed him to keep seeing her after her death at the Sand Series Hotel, on day 1 of the apocalypse...
Behind every disturbed man is his disturbed wife, and this would be Leo's. His son, Zane, resented her, and knew her influence on his father was as bad as his illness. An illness that allowed him to keep seeing her after her death at the Sand Series Hotel, on day 1 of the apocalypse...
illustration by Jared Souza
It was almost 3 decades prior to the "zombie" apocalypse when she first began using Leo's illness against him, and although her death comes early in this story, it was the plan she put into motion in which dictates life in the new world, and those trying to survive it.
It was almost 3 decades prior to the "zombie" apocalypse when she first began using Leo's illness against him, and although her death comes early in this story, it was the plan she put into motion in which dictates life in the new world, and those trying to survive it.
illustration by Jared Souza
Griffey's Grandfather takes in Trisha during the chaos on day 1 of the apocalypse, after her family is left "dead" in the street. Once his grandpa breaks them into the Sand Series Hotel, and is responsible for the deaths of Leo's family, he then loses his own life, leaving Griffey and Trisha all alone, and to be taken in by the family who suffered at the hands of his grandfather...
Griffey's Grandfather takes in Trisha during the chaos on day 1 of the apocalypse, after her family is left "dead" in the street. Once his grandpa breaks them into the Sand Series Hotel, and is responsible for the deaths of Leo's family, he then loses his own life, leaving Griffey and Trisha all alone, and to be taken in by the family who suffered at the hands of his grandfather...
illustration by Jared Souza
Everyone lost loved ones on day 1 of the apocalypse, even members of the blessed Baker compound family. Wyatt and his wife Sarah, had wonderful news to share that day, but with the chaos and loss of his brother, the news is put on hold, and will eventually help provide hope, in Season 2 Episode 9, when the family begins "clearing" the beaches and creating a "dead free" zone, on a stretch of the Oregon coastline...
Everyone lost loved ones on day 1 of the apocalypse, even members of the blessed Baker compound family. Wyatt and his wife Sarah, had wonderful news to share that day, but with the chaos and loss of his brother, the news is put on hold, and will eventually help provide hope, in Season 2 Episode 9, when the family begins "clearing" the beaches and creating a "dead free" zone, on a stretch of the Oregon coastline...
illustration by Jared Souza
Brother to Wyatt, son to Hunter, grandson to Sam, and class clown of the Baker compound family, this guy finds a way to keep his personality, even into the apocalyptic world of the dead. What good is surviving, if you can't laugh?
Brother to Wyatt, son to Hunter, grandson to Sam, and class clown of the Baker compound family, this guy finds a way to keep his personality, even into the apocalyptic world of the dead. What good is surviving, if you can't laugh?
illustration by Jared Souza
Those Bakers are endless! Cousin to Wyatt and Gunner, this one belongs to Mason, and like his dad he is not one to be messed with. His leadership value begins to show in Season 2 Episode 9, while the family accomplishes the unbelievable...
Those Bakers are endless! Cousin to Wyatt and Gunner, this one belongs to Mason, and like his dad he is not one to be messed with. His leadership value begins to show in Season 2 Episode 9, while the family accomplishes the unbelievable...
illustration by Jared Souza
Married to one of Grandpa Sam's grandchildren, she loses her husband during the chaos of day 1, but is left with a part of him growing inside of her...
This family uses such news, only as more motivation toward the new world, they are building...
Married to one of Grandpa Sam's grandchildren, she loses her husband during the chaos of day 1, but is left with a part of him growing inside of her...
This family uses such news, only as more motivation toward the new world, they are building...
illustration by Jared Souza
A loyal leader, soldier and friend of the Baker family, this guy leads the troops into whatever mission is at hand, and uses his forces to provide crucial protection toward the safety and success of those missions. He also spends time training the survivors, in how to remain as such...
A loyal leader, soldier and friend of the Baker family, this guy leads the troops into whatever mission is at hand, and uses his forces to provide crucial protection toward the safety and success of those missions. He also spends time training the survivors, in how to remain as such...
illustration by Jared Souza
Best friends with Porter and just as loyal to the Bakers, this guy will fall in love with the sad/amazing story behind Griffey and what brought him to the compound. He becomes a father to him, teaching him how to survive, and providing hope of a life with memories that overshadow the scars he now lives with...
Best friends with Porter and just as loyal to the Bakers, this guy will fall in love with the sad/amazing story behind Griffey and what brought him to the compound. He becomes a father to him, teaching him how to survive, and providing hope of a life with memories that overshadow the scars he now lives with...
illustration by Jared Souza
What's an apocalypse without ping-pong, and no one has better "Gump" skills than this guy. Eventually he cuddles up with DJ, and together they become like "my two dads" for survivors Trisha and Ashley, who like Griffey, have sad stories of their own. Rich is Mason's son and grandson to Sam, and like his grandfather he works hard to find the good in all that has happened...
What's an apocalypse without ping-pong, and no one has better "Gump" skills than this guy. Eventually he cuddles up with DJ, and together they become like "my two dads" for survivors Trisha and Ashley, who like Griffey, have sad stories of their own. Rich is Mason's son and grandson to Sam, and like his grandfather he works hard to find the good in all that has happened...
illustration by Jared Souza
A Freshman ball player coached by Zane and Blake, this kid is now a member of the Rough Riders, who serve as a secondary line of defense, whenever the compound army is elsewhere. In their spare time they remain "boys of summer", and no one more than Joshua, can appreciate the fact that baseball has survived the apocalypse...
A Freshman ball player coached by Zane and Blake, this kid is now a member of the Rough Riders, who serve as a secondary line of defense, whenever the compound army is elsewhere. In their spare time they remain "boys of summer", and no one more than Joshua, can appreciate the fact that baseball has survived the apocalypse...
illustration by Jared Souza
While several of the Bakers are on Mt. Hood, searching for Samantha, they find themselves prisoners of the "US Army", and find a pair of allies in Gia and Major David. Once the Major takes over command, fights off those who "abject", and frees the Bakers, he becomes known as "Mayday", and punches their ticket into the Baker family, and it's army...
While several of the Bakers are on Mt. Hood, searching for Samantha, they find themselves prisoners of the "US Army", and find a pair of allies in Gia and Major David. Once the Major takes over command, fights off those who "abject", and frees the Bakers, he becomes known as "Mayday", and punches their ticket into the Baker family, and it's army...
illustration by Jared Souza
Named by Grover, after he hired them as moonshiners for the post apocalypse, these old timers have it good, and provide the Glenwood camp with the kind of stuff to make others "feel good"...
Named by Grover, after he hired them as moonshiners for the post apocalypse, these old timers have it good, and provide the Glenwood camp with the kind of stuff to make others "feel good"...
illustration by Jared Souza
Father to the Queen of Nike World, this man is also an ex navy seal and instructor, which plays along perfectly for a community that teaches its people how to survive in the new world. His grandchildren were lost before these communities come together, and now he and his daughters get over that loss by doing what they can to protect and prepare the children of these communities...
Father to the Queen of Nike World, this man is also an ex navy seal and instructor, which plays along perfectly for a community that teaches its people how to survive in the new world. His grandchildren were lost before these communities come together, and now he and his daughters get over that loss by doing what they can to protect and prepare the children of these communities...
illustration by Jared Souza
Shawn's other daughter was almost more of a rival than a sister to the Queen of Nike World, but now they fight side by side and are a force to be reckoned with. The way they were raised might not have been ideal, but it becomes ideal in the new world they are helping to build...
Shawn's other daughter was almost more of a rival than a sister to the Queen of Nike World, but now they fight side by side and are a force to be reckoned with. The way they were raised might not have been ideal, but it becomes ideal in the new world they are helping to build...
illustration by Jared Souza
Part of a group of survivors who had to fend for themselves the first 6 months, by season 3 these two and their friends will find themselves as part of the Baker compound community, once saved while on the sandy shores of Rockaway Beach, where a "zombie" free-zone, has been created...
Part of a group of survivors who had to fend for themselves the first 6 months, by season 3 these two and their friends will find themselves as part of the Baker compound community, once saved while on the sandy shores of Rockaway Beach, where a "zombie" free-zone, has been created...
illustration by Jared Souza
illustration by Jared Souza
This one does not arrive until midway through the 3rd season, but by the end of it, proves herself as the true villain of this story. Karma catches her in a cage for over a year, by people perhaps even worse than herself, and holy hell on the world she would be, if ever set free...
This one does not arrive until midway through the 3rd season, but by the end of it, proves herself as the true villain of this story. Karma catches her in a cage for over a year, by people perhaps even worse than herself, and holy hell on the world she would be, if ever set free...
illustration by Jared Souza
Mary's father is a Seattle mobster who secretly set-up his "undercover" daughter's marriage to Leo, as a way of having an inside contact of the Baker family. He knew of their apocalyptic plan to continue life, long before the dead began taking over the world, and now that they have, he has all the more reason to go after their compound...
Mary's father is a Seattle mobster who secretly set-up his "undercover" daughter's marriage to Leo, as a way of having an inside contact of the Baker family. He knew of their apocalyptic plan to continue life, long before the dead began taking over the world, and now that they have, he has all the more reason to go after their compound...
illustration by Jared Souza
One of Victor's two grandchildren, and boyfriend of Jordan, this guy is in charge of the Seattle racetrack, where a community has been built, with entertainment, assassinations, and gladiator style training for those who they "take in"...
One of Victor's two grandchildren, and boyfriend of Jordan, this guy is in charge of the Seattle racetrack, where a community has been built, with entertainment, assassinations, and gladiator style training for those who they "take in"...
illustration by Jared Souza
These killing machines are part of the Seattle "gladiator" army, but their loyalties to their master mobsters become vulnerable to an inside influence, before sailing off with an army led by Jordan, heading from Seattle to the Oregon coastline...
These killing machines are part of the Seattle "gladiator" army, but their loyalties to their master mobsters become vulnerable to an inside influence, before sailing off with an army led by Jordan, heading from Seattle to the Oregon coastline...
illustration by Jared Souza
Anthony's #2 (chosen by Leo) at the beach camp and a key player during the battle that becomes known as "Red Christmas", while leading an army by horseback from the coast to the compound. He may be forced to place his loyalty between Leo and Anthony...
Anthony's #2 (chosen by Leo) at the beach camp and a key player during the battle that becomes known as "Red Christmas", while leading an army by horseback from the coast to the compound. He may be forced to place his loyalty between Leo and Anthony...
illustration by Jared Souza
This guy is a sloppy mess, and named after the scar on his face from the claws of the wildlife they hunt. Born and raised in the hills of the coastline, his collection is all he knows when it comes to love, until rewarded with a new pet, after Jordan is caught and caged on their property, and where she resides for quite awhile at the mercy of this "man"...
This guy is a sloppy mess, and named after the scar on his face from the claws of the wildlife they hunt. Born and raised in the hills of the coastline, his collection is all he knows when it comes to love, until rewarded with a new pet, after Jordan is caught and caged on their property, and where she resides for quite awhile at the mercy of this "man"...
illustration by Jared Souza
SYNOPSIS...
Above the Dead is a Walking Dead spin-off. Different characters but same universe, world and problem...
An absolute emotional mess, and a total suspense/thriller...
FYI...the term "zombies" is used in the beginning for explanatory reasons, but not by the characters, as the term does not exist in their world/universe. Eventually, those characters will create their own term, known as "huffs". Care to know what it stands for? Read and find out!
Season 1 is brutal, but the character development it creates is something that will carry into the seasons to come, in which this family has the resources to do something that most people cannot, as they work to rebuild large sections of Oregon, and eventually into Washington, even creating "dead free" zones along stretches of the coastline...
With both wealth and wisdom working toward their survival in the upcoming apocalyptic world, this family also has a head start, working in their favor. Preparing most of his life for such an apocalypse, Sam Baker raised his family to prepare as well. He also raised them with a ton of heart.
With their support, he has a compound constructed, and over the years the family has been adding to it. Once the dead begin attacking the living, the family find themselves desperate to gather at said compound. With chaos taking over, most of the family is already secure, but where this story finds us is with Sam's son, Fish, and granddaughter, Samantha. They're stuck in the mountains trying to wait out the storm, before making their way home, to the compound.
It's not where they want to be, but with this fairly secluded property, next to a lake and huge 3-tree, tree house, that has running water and an outhouse, things could be worse. Fish and his little girl, find the tree house much safer than the cabin, and for at least the beginning of this "zombie" apocalypse, they find themselves dependent on it.
Surviving above the dead is something young Samantha begins to believe may become the way of the future. As creative as her grandfather, she begins envisioning how such a thing would be plausible. She dreams of reaching her family to share these visions, and she dreams them while leaving the mountain, through the gorge, kayaking the Columbia River, past Multnomah Falls, and into the coast range.
What will they find once reaching the family they haven't seen since before the world and its rules went to hell? Who will be leading the family? Will they be the same ones we get to know through flashbacks, before meeting them in the present world? Will Samantha see her visions come to life? The compound certainly has the resources and man power for it.
By the third season, with a group surviving at the barricaded Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, another group behind the walls built by a team of loggers, and one more in the hills of the coast, the Bakers will have themselves some neighbors!
The material is endless, so sit back and prepare for a hell of a ride, with a family that takes its greatness from the past world, into the new one...
SEASON 1 RIGHT HERE
EPISODE 1, "Family"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/1/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 2, "Grief"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/2/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 3, "666"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/3/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 4, "Jumping Ship"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/4/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 5, "One who flew over The Cuckoo's Nest"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/5/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 6, "Misery" (Season 1 Finale)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/6/Above-the-Dead
SEASON 2
EPISODE 1, "Unsteady"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/7/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 2, "Piece of Shit"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/8/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 3, "Riders On The Storm"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/9/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 4, "What Can Brown Do For You"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/10/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 5, "Stalled" (Mid Season Finale)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/11/Above-the-Dead
SECOND HALF
EPISODE 6, "Grover"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/12/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 7, "Rough Riders"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/13/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 8, "Show of Power" (Extended)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/14/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 9, "Bonfire"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/15/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 10, "Beaverton" (Season Finale) (Extended)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/16/Above-the-Dead
SEASON 3
EPISODE 1, "Queen of Nike World"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/17/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 2, "Holy Titanic"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/18/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 3, "Happy New Year, PA 1"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/19/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 4, "Good Times"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/20/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 5, "White Christmas"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/21/Above-the-Dead
SECOND HALF
EPISODE 6, "Red Christmas"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/22/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 7, "Like Father like Son"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/23/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 8, "Only Human"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/24/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 9 - "Below the Dead"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/25/Above-the-Dead
EPISODE 10 - "The Christmas that wouldn't end"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12489457/26/Above-the-Dead
SEASON 4 FIRST HALF, COMING DEC 2020
EPISODE 1 - "Grandpa"
EPISODE 2 - "Karma"
EPISODE 3 - "Fort Vancouver"
EPISODE 4 - Undetermined
EPISODE 5 - Undetermined
SURVIVING THE APOCALYPSE WITH AUTISM...
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13005317/1/Renee-s-journal-surviving-the-apocalypse-with-autism
SOUNDTRACK...
After the series opens with a quick scene, on the beach and in the past, it then goes into a montage scene of events, occurring that dreadful first day, of the "zombie" apocalypse.
Leading you away from the past, and into that montage scene, is the classic, Bad Moon Rising...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YlTUDnsWMo
At the end of Episode 3, of the first season, is a twisted scene, in an episode that introduces a villain, to the story.
Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the way you lie, seemed like a perfect ending, in a scene that reveals just how diabolical, this new character can be...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUNTdFX8G8
The first season ends in the 6th episode, with a moment, and a song, that will bring the tears...
X Ambassadors - Unsteady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjryf8zH_M
A bonus scene, will follow the credits, to the season one finale, and no better apocalyptic song than Radioactive - Imagine Dragons...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_WxYC34eM
The second season opens with the immediate aftermath, of the devastating season finale, and my personal favorite, Amy Lee of Evanescence - New Way To Bleed, leads the way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezeSk0mIi0
Season 2, Episode 3, finds characters kayaking themselves to safety, through forest fires, weather, floating "zombies" and of course, the danger of other people!
You could say they're "riding the storm"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SpyO6bcwc
The 4th episode of season 2, finds them using UPS as shelter, and a gassed up and ready to go, delivery truck, for transport. So of course. M.I.A. - Paper Planes, is perfect for a scene...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISaAnMUkto
Later that same episode, after having kayaked off the mountain, and scored the delivery truck, they were kayaking for, they feel very much on the verge of completing their long journey, and making it to the safety of the highly anticipated, compound. So only one song, comes to mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_OfmrPAfo
In the mid season finale, episode 2.5, another heart breaker is played, as the revelations of the tragedies, of season 1, are discovered by the family, and characters we've only read about, in flashback scenes. Until they catch up with us, in time, and with tons of emotion...
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
Season 2, second half is about the aftermath, of the mid season finale, and in episode 9, the family finds itself, ending a week of grieving, with a mission that gives them an excuse to drink, celebrate, and ease some of their recent pain, and it just so happens, that playing extremely loud music, is a part of their mission, as much as it is a reason, to party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ztENhDCmu8
Later in episode 9, the family is again in need of playing loud music, to fulfill their mission, and before it begins, a special announcement is made, that gives them even more hope, and reason to celebrate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WYxwg94L4
In the Season 2 finale (episode 10), Zane finds himself away from his family, and suddenly motivated, to do whatever it takes, while leading a different group, into battle, with his masterminded creativity, as an advantage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66U_DuMCS8
Also in the finale, Leo finds himself a complete mess, and in need of leaving the compound, for another mysterious camp...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwb7JemfU2I
Season 2 ends with the same song the mid season finale ended with, except with a more positive beat, and different voices, as the dark cloud of the mid season finale, is lifted, and hope is restored, to the Baker family...