#bite book

I'm an only fan

I'm in a fandom so small, I'm the only fan blowing any air in this gods forsaken desert.

If you don't know Bite, it's a book by K.S. Merbeth. It's like if the raiders you hear stories about in Fallout were the main characters, cannibalism included, and it's in the POV of a 16 year old who slowly sees them as her sort of family.

Anyways. One of the characters is Dolly. While she's a badass who can keep a stone face, she also cares about her group, especially the MC, Kid. And she's not always stone faced, she also smiles or gets visibly angry.

And her character and the way she acts and such, she somewhat reminds me of Darlin.

Ironically, one of the members of the crew is named Tank. And their leader is named Wolf. Which, you may be noticing a pattern. They all go by nicknames instead of official names, there's also Pretty Boy (which, funnily enough, I've seen people give Vincent that nickname, especially jokingly from Darlin...although this one is far from Vincent's level.)

And if anything, the guy, Tank, makes me think of David's patience mixed with a bit of Asher's optimism.

It makes me want to see Darlin switch between electric blue and hot pink wigs.

I was actually in the middle of a reread of it, trying to note characters appearances (there's actually a lot of good descriptions) because there was no fanart whatsoever, when I got into RA and just...didn't get back to the book for a few months XD

I feel like Wolf would like Milo and his take-no-bullshit attitude. I feel like those two would banter for a while.

Meanwhile Pretty Boy somewhat reminds me of Kody. Pretty Boy has his moments, but he's a bit similar. A coward who will leave others behind for his own ass. He does try to push himself on the MC when they were both drunk (Dolly stops him, and he later apologizes but it's never made where Kid just smiles and forgives. She straight up tells him that, and that he'd have to work to regain any trust from her). He uses his charm to manipulate. The only difference is I can feel some pity for Pretty Boy because he's like 17 or 18 who is abused by an old woman, implied to be going on for a while and he's stuck just accepting it (doesn't excuse him though). And that he's part of the main crew (spoilers: he does die, though).

Like, it's hard to really classify them as adoptive parent and their kid. But there's definitely a close mentor bond. With both.

Also, both Jinx and Wolf are a little unwell in the head, but that doesn't mean they're without care. AND they both like explosions.

Wolf is like Jinx if she were a cannibalistic guy in the apocalypse (which is ironic considering the setting of Bite is like Fallout some, while Jinx's VA is in Fallout), and had just a little more of a Tough Love thing. Maybe a little more selfish.

And then you've got the young girl, who people have mistaken for a boy, who just sort of became attached. Who fell into the lap of this older wanted criminal and tagged along. And while there was pushback at first from the older, they eventually do care.

And I can totally see Wolf smiling as someone gets torn apart while Kid sits in a mix of horror and curiosity. Like, I might need to draw that as them.

And Dolly, too. Dolly actually also starts off with blue hair, and then later gets red hair. And she does care about Kid, too. She keeps like this stoic mask on, but she does care.

And I'm upset this book has almost no fans at all, save for me and two people who went quiet seemingly, because it's one of my favorites.

They not only did it strictly because the antagonists were targeting them, but Wolf, the leader, said he wanted to go raid a town immediately after everything was said and done JUST because he realized they were the heroes.

It's giving similar vibes to Brom's Child Thief with the group, but set in a Fallout or Mad Max type apocalypse, and the group is a bunch of cannibals.

And it's one of those stories where instead of characters going by normal names, they all go by something else. There's Wolf, Dolly, Tank, Pretty Boy, and Kid. Kid is the main character. No one, not even the readers, know what Kid's real name is. Only she does, but it's a little joke that when she did try saying her name, she'd get caught off, and Wolf gave her the name Kid. Though it almost feels like Kid is a side character who got roped into the plot, but in a good way.