Advent No 3 should had been about zombies. (Part 1)
So, this is a very stupid post written that was inspired by someone telling Advent No 3 should be rewritten
So, here I have written this story as a way on how it could had been a great book based on zombies rather than AOT ripoff.
Warning: This is a very amateur writing so, maybe you will hate the ideas I might throw around. I have poor grammar so, please bear with me. This is a very abrupt post too!!!
ACT 1 Welcome to the Ark!!! A new life begins!
The story begins with Raina, a woman who's stuck in a city that is overrun by nasty zombies. She loses her "family" in the entire chaos, has only a chainsaw to defend herself. The first five minutes show and depends on players choice on how Raina will survive She can be massively injured or fend off well. Just , she's about to be killed by zombies she's rescued by the team led by Xander and Zane. At first she's distrustful of them but, as no options are left she goes along with them.
Raina is taken to the Ark and she's told that Xander and Zane were leading a rescue mission to save people from the massive outbreak. Raina is horrified to hear that only she and one dude made it out alive and the entire population was wiped out.
She's got two choices: Either she gives her life to serving Ark and get millitary training or spend her entire life working as a low class worker in jail, living in solitary confinement forever
This is because, Ark does not accept outsiders well unless they are useful to them in a way. Most cases they are just thrown off because, stupid government and rules
She, of course chooses to work for the millitary as living in jail is definitely not a thing in her bingo card.
The entire 1st season revolves around training and working her ass off to complete her training.. It's not easy she's bullied and it nearly takes a toll on her Max is introduced as one of the guys completing the training with her and the one of the two survivors .
She can enter Ark on weekends only because, again *stupid rules * As she's low ranked her reputation by Ark citizens aren't good so, they don't treat her with respect yet
She during her course meets Adrianna, a former journalist, whose career came to an abrupt end , trying to make a comeback. The life of citizens of Ark are very much protected, the press and media freedom is very bad. Only a few fraction of population hates the idea and rest are just too scared to raise voice.
The entire 1st season shows us characters working in Ark and how they all have conflicting views.
Xander hates the shielded life and wants to overthrow the government that is using shitty laws to control the people and the army. He believes they are selfish living in a world that is too dry and constant.
Zane on the other hand wants to , serve Ark, he believes it's the duty of them to keep all the citizens alive and rules are actually okay as long as peace is there. He's a man of code and there's a good reason for this (This will later be broken )
Adrianna hates the imposed control on media and the lack transparency by the government about the outside world. She doesn't trust them, and feels they are hiding something from the citizens.
Maria doesn't show up till season 2 She interacts through communication devices and keeps her face hidden for the time being.
Season 2 : The Desert Cyclone Mission and the Secret Organisation.
Maria shows up in Season 2, she is leading a mission to find a cure for the zombie outbreak, to create a bioweapon to end zombie population once and for all.
Raina is assigned with Max, Zane, and others to assist in this mission. Adrianna snuggles herself in the vehicle to get through Ark to cover all the mission footage.
This is also the season that introduces us to Octavian, here he is Maria's mentor and also the medical leader of the squad. The first meeting gives Raina a very odd and shuddering feelings which makes her feel something awful and confusing.
The Desert Cyclone mission is to find the missing members of the Ark militia squad who lost their contact and "disappeared" The entire phase is about survival, growing friendships, bonds and Raina getting, flashbacks that holds a key to something dark, sinister.
The missing squad turns out to be dead and mutated zombies who no longer feel anything but to consume human meat. They cause biohazards and chaos
The Secret Organisation is introduced in this whole arc, This arc would show how children were abducted and experimented by scientists which also leads to the key of zombie outbreak. A passion for evolution turning into nightmare. They don't make appearances but their, shitty base and reports are discovered by the squad.
The zombies are mutated beings from the research carried out by secret organization that wanted to use humans for terrorism and despair. They are a very evil and inhumane organisation .
Plot twist Raina was one the subjects who was tested on for 20 years and kept in captivity she's amnesiac from all the traumas rooting from it. She starts to get flashbacks about this "alien life " and is quite baffled. She's actually 50 but looks like 25 yr old because of mutation from the bioserum injected to her. She's also one of the subject capable of infecting others with her blood.
Octavian starts to get closer to Raina which raises suspicion by Xander but, he's brushed off by others Zane starts to feel suspicious of Raina because of her immense strength and powers.
I ,will shorten this post it's way too long and might cause massive headaches Octavian turns out to be a maniac scientist obsessed with evolution of human race, a dream of his father and mother who were mocked for their project and betrayed by the people close to them. They join this shady organisation for their own research even if it takes whatever the cause is. Raina is an exceptional case and was a part of Project Eve creating a new species of human great at throwing off the old world and causing terrorism.
The final season could take place with taking down Octavian and the government who abuse the zombie outbreak trying to make money out of hopeless countries and district keeping money and power to Ark overall. It will be hard to do it but meh
The people in jail are used as test subjects and to create zombies to send these threats to other places. Dirty politics.
So it's about the human nature , cruelty of science, and how, rich and powerful people will do anything to stay in power or keep cycles of abuse go at the expense of empathy and peace.
I didn't wrote significant plot lines for love interest in this post as the idea was about showing how AN3 should be about zombies overall. Octavian is a plot device in AN3 after all.
This will explain the shielded city well, this will also show how millitary training is so breaking and the corruption and true evil within Ark.
Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:10 PM UTC