Name (what you would like to be called here): Ruby, she/her pronouns

Favourite TDM character: Vida or Priya

Languages you speak: English

Top 5 favourite books/book series: An Ember in the Ashes, The Darkest Minds, Girls of Paper and Fire, Late to the Party, Six of Crows

Books you’ve read from “the Darkest Minds” series: I've read all of them except Through the Dark

Hobbies: Reading, Minecraft, tennis

Suggestions for the wiki: Maybe allow off-topic posts? As of now, the series is finished, and there's only so many times you can make 'who's your favorite character' polls. If not, people could post more fanfiction or fanart.

In what way could you help rebuild the wiki?

Anything else: I've been on here a few times before I created my account. I think I first came on here in early 2021.

Nombre: Podéis llamarme Diana.

Personaje favorito de TDM: Cole, sin duda. Pero tambien me encantan Zu y Román.

Idiomas que hablas: Español, euskera y Inglés.

Los 5 libros/serie de libros favoritos: Mentes Poderosas, Percy Jackson, Los Juegos del Hambre, Cazadores de sombras y no sé qué más poner.

Libros que has leído de la serie "The Darkest Minds": La saga principal y TDL, me faltan los extras. ( Ahora me estoy leyendo Lore de Alexandra)

Aficiones: Leer, escuchar música, ver Youtube...

Sugerencias para la wiki: No se.

¿De qué manera podrías ayudar a reconstruir la wiki?: Se la recomendaré a amigas.

Algo más: No

hey everyone, first of all, happy new year!

I wasn't very active in the last few months due to personal reasons, but I'm back now. And, once again, I'll be trying to make the wiki more active. I thought about different ways to do that, e.g. roleplays, competitions (fan art, fanfiction...), stuff like that. Let me know in the comments if you think it's worth a try, or if you have other ideas.

@Later gator in an hour sunflower

Not related to TDM, but I though I'd just say it :)

But hey, it's another year the books have been around!

Name (what you would like to be called here): Jaz

Favourite TDM character: Ruby or Clancy

Languages you speak: English

Top 5 favourite books/book series: ToG TDM Red Queen Hunger Games and Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

Books you’ve read from “the Darkest Minds” series: all of them

Hobbies: Reading, and reading some more

Suggestions for the wiki: idk more polls

In what way could you help rebuild the wiki? Posting my random about TDM

Anything else: The Darkest Minds is amazing and more people should read it

So Roman's ability is 'Mirror', right?

And it's said in the book that Mercer thought he was 'useless' or something like that, like Roman couldn't be used.

However, isn't that literally the best power you could possibly wish for? You could legitimately be any colour! Like, dude- I need some clarification please 🥲

Name (what you would like to be called here): Pretty much anything, but I get called C or Chris a lot, so go ahead!

Favourite TDM character: Cole and Priyanka

Languages you speak: English and a little Afrikaans

Top 5 favourite books/book series: TDM (ofc), Percy Jackson series (Including HoO, TOA, KK, MC), A single book called Dragon Daughter, Literally any David Walliams book, and Wings of Fire

Books you’ve read from “the Darkest Minds” series: All of the main ones, just not the side books

Hobbies: Reading, drawing, tennis

Suggestions for the wiki: Don't really have any tbh. Sorry

In what way could you help rebuild the wiki? I have no idea, I'm just here browsing and doing stuff, but I can tell some of my friends?

Anything else: I play the flute :)

!!!EXTREME SPOILER ALERT!!!FOR IN THE AFTERLIGHT!!!

Liam says this to Ruby:

“What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.”

Right before Cole was killed. Liam had just regained his faith in life, getting along with Ruby again, Zu speaking, having an actual plan to save the kids in the camps and change the future. And then all that hope, that sliver of happiness, is destroyed by one bullet wound in Cole’s neck.

I’ve heard a lot of people say she’s weak and whiny. Why does everyone think that?

I do think Ruby’s emotions are focused on more than those of the mc’s in other YA books, but I don’t think it’s annoying or bad.

For me, it’s one of the things that made the books as good as they are, because Ruby’s reaction to traumatic experiences are much more realistic than in other books. She went through living hell in Thurmond, loses two of her best friends, is forced to make extremely hard decisions, and somehow still manages to find the strengh to carry on and return to Thurmond, to save the kids there.

While I love books like Divergent and Hunger Games, I think Tris’ and Katniss’ emotions don’t reflect the experiences they lived through.

Tris was sexually assaulted and almost killed and she just moved on, like it was nothing.

Katniss is very emotional during Rue’s death, but I feel like her sadness isn’t described well or at all after Prim’s and Finnick’s death (respectively).

These are just the examples I spontaneously thought of.

Name (what you would like to be called here): I can go by either Rose or Roo!

Favourite TDM character: Zu, but Nico's definitely a close second

Languages you speak: English and Chinese

Top 5 favourite books/book series: TDM (obviously), Graceling series by Kristin Cashore (Bitterblue's my favourite ^_^), Harry Potter

Books you’ve read from “the Darkest Minds” series: I'm pretty sure I've read all of them, but it's been a while since I've actually picked up a book & even longer since I'd read TDM, due to a lot of factors in my personal life, but I hope I can reread TDM soon at least!

Hobbies: reading, writing, digital art, and gaming

In what way could you help rebuild the wiki? I'm planning on rereading the books and I'm pretty good with specific details so hopefully I can assist in patching up some of the major missing gaps plotwise for some of our character pages! I'll also attempt to read some comments to judge what needs to be added onto the Wiki to make it more comprehensive/user-helpful (there have been an abundance of questions about Clancy and Nico LOL)

Anything else: It's been over a year since I actually checked this Wiki, I kind of just forgot about it in the chaos of the pandemic, but I really want to get back into the TDM series so hopefully this can invigorate me into finally reading something!

Hey, I was just wondering if this list of the abilities that Reds possess is correct:

I’m not sure when points 2, 4, 5 and 8 were mentioned. Of course, I haven’t read The Darkest Legacy, and it might have come up there, but could somebody just confirm these points and explain when it was mentioned?