Okay but we genuinely need more Dark!Guard in the fandom because I feel like everyone save for Nile has a reason to be vicious, feral, and bloodthirsty for each other.
Give us a Dark!Andy who has become possessive of the others after losing the first two immortals she found after being alone for thousands of years. A Dark!Andy who doesn't even like it when a mortal gets close to the others, no matter how good or kind they seem, because the loss of Quynh and Lykon isn't something she can watch repeat (even if it means keeping the others under lock and key within her reach).
Give us a Dark!Joe and Dark!Nicky who are overly possessive and protective of each other and the others while doing it all in the name of love. Because love can be volatile and bloody, it can be sharp teeth and sharper smiles, and making choices that seem extreme for the sake of love. As two romantics forced into immortality after experiencing religious extremism and severe war are going to have a dark edge to them.
Give us a Dark!Booker who kills and makes morally questionable choices to keep his immortal bond family tied to him because he can't lose his family again (no matter how much he wishes to lose himself still). A Booker who has become a wolf in a man, stalking alongside those that he knows is his, even when he knows full well that they are no better than he is.
And Nile (poor, sweet, innocent Nile) who doesn't realize what exactly she has stepped into because the bond and the dreams on the surface don't seem like much given the whole immortality thing. Until she notices the way that the others look at her, at each other, the very way they speak and act, and suddenly she begins to realize that she really is surrounded by wolves (and they wish to eat her too).

















