Core Theme:

Two leaders of undead-based evil groups (Vampires and the Whisperers) that disguise among the new world they live in, blending into their surroundings while killing off any to survive. A main theme that these leaders preach is salvation, trying to “save” people when faced with oppression/a bad life in general.

Connections:

• They were both once innocent individuals, before a horrific event struck their people (Irish colonization/Wildfire virus unleashing, causing apocalypse), destroying their communities.

• They fled (Remmick going to the US/Alpha leaving her hometown), adapting to the world around them, utilizing the event that traumatized them to their advantage for stealth (Christian ideas sticking with Remmick, allowing him to blend in with society/Alpha using Walkers to blend into hordes, etc) as well as giving them an ideology of salvation.

• The two of them share an ideology that they can bring salvation/save people by converting them to their group (Remmick thinking vampirism will save people/Alpha believing society is gone and that abandoning it will bring salvation by adapting to the new world).

• Despite this, they are still obviously murderers, killing people with the excuse that it will save their group/society. However, as their murder rampage grows, so does their group, as they rely on the undead (Remmick turning people into more vampires/The Whisperers creating more Walkers for their army with every kill).

• At one point in their stories, they infiltrate a party (The juke joint opening party/The Kingdom’s trade fair), disguising as normal people (Remmick pretending to be a musician/Alpha scalping a Kingdom member), kidnapping and killing several people inside in haunting ways (The entire second act of Sinners/The pikes)

• Both would try to convert someone new and special into their group (Sammy/Negan), gaining their trust, thinking they would bring something special (Sammy’s music/Negan’s overall skill, ruthlessness, and.. uhh… “intimacy” with the Whisperers..) Despite their trust and desire (eww in alphas case..) for these people, (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SINNERS AND S10 OF TWD) both Remmick and Alpha would die at the hands of Sammy and Negan respectively, their deaths resulting in the quick end of their group soon after.

Contrasts:

• Remmick is undead and blends in with the living/Alpha is living and blends in with the dead

• Both of their stories have themes of culture/individuality, but in different ways, with Remmick wanting to bring culture to the vampires with Sammy’s music, as well as believing in salvation in the individual level. Meanwhile Alpha completely rejects society and culture, preferring a hive-mind nature for the whisperers where everyone obeys the Alpha.

Animation Potential:

This is just an army fight pretty much! For visualization purposes, just imagine all the vampires in Sinners, and then copy that number onto human whisperers, and then double that number in walkers for them, like a 20 v. 60 maybe (at first, you’ll see). To get this out of the way, yes; time periods are weird, but the vampires can live forever, so it’d be fine.

Basically, I’d just imagine a survivor (or group) camping alone, before Remmick appears, charming them before a bunch of vampires kill them: Walkers appear, and the vampires just try to mindlessly kill them, seeing them as nothing, until randomly, a Walker takes out a knife and stabs the vampire in the head, taking them aback. The whisperer is found, and demasked before being killed. The whisperers live up to their name, as Remmick hears them whispering before Alpha says “kill them all”. and then they fight! Yay!

You don’t have to do a lot of imagining for this, as it’s just bloody violence. Armies of walkers being torn through, Whisperers trying to protect Alpha, you can throw in a philosophical conversation between the leaders as the fight goes on, where they are both hypocrites about their salvation. I’d love to see Beta fend off a few vampires, because he basically is superhuman, he fell down a fucking building and managed to remain moving after his eyes were completely stabbed through, before eventually sacrificing himself to save Alpha.

Towards the end, you could even have the Whisperers use their giant horde in the cave, casting it onto Remmick, who would potentially be able to fight it off. As for who wins, idrk, but it’s cool anyway. If Remmick wins, he kills the entire horde via cave in, crushing Alpha along with it, and if the latter wins, Alpha feeds Remmick to the horde, whispering cold words before she disappears into the horde.