God's Will First

God's Will First is a fundamentalist extremist cult in Calisota that is one of the major antagonists in *With Pearl and Ruby Glowing.* Their leader is Judge Nathaniel Hopkins.

## Information

God's Will First feels that it is their duty to punish "sinners" in order to please God. They deem anyone that doesn't follow their interpretation of the Bible worthy of punishment, which includes gang-rape, torture, mutilation, murder. Family members of the cult's members are not exempt from punishment, although their lives will be spared.

## History

God's Will First had emerged in the mid-80s, with their first targets being August and Agatha Prenderghast. After raping them, they lynched Agatha and attempted to kill August as well, but he managed to escape and was thought to be insane. In the decades since, GWF attacked several other people as detailed in several chapters and the side story *In Harm's Way: The Cult's Victims*, only managing to get away with it for so long because no one wanted to believe it and one member, Jake Cardoso, managed to blackmail officer Abel Rango into sabotaging evidence.

However, GWF's luck ran out when they attacked Panchito Gonzales, who managed to get help from his family and got Felldrake Sheldgoose to give up all their names. Most of the members of GWF were arrested, with the remaining eight going into hiding in their cabin in the woods. They continued attacking people during this time. Eventually, with Professor Ratigan's assistance, they kidnapped several people in order to rape and beat them. Prometheus Prince, one of their past victims, managed to lead the cops to the cabin where they were and the victims were rescued, with seven of the remnants being arrested. Nuka Abbas died from his injuries, Wilbur Robinson has been left comatose since then, and Jake is still free.

## Members

#### Adults

* Nathaniel Hopkins (leader)
* Jake Cardoso
* Barrett Bennett
* Lemuel Spalding
* Thaddeus Blackton
* Eben Hardwick
* John Ratcliffe
* Augustus Wiggins
* Bud Gleeful
* Albert Grey
* Trout Walker
* Jughead's uncle

### Teenagers

* Foxy Loxy
* Lucy (Goosey Loosey)
* Terence
* Kristen's manager
* Gloria (child bride to Hardwick)

## Victims

* Agatha (murdered) and August Prenderghast
* Hector Rivera (murdered)
* The birth mother of Cornelius Robinson (murdered)
* Sam Wilde (murdered)
* Isaac (survived) and Abraham Dillamond (murdered)
* Winnie, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson (murdered)
* Sergeant Vela (attempted)
* Holli Would (murdered)
* Bambi's mother (murdered)
* Nick Wilde
* Gideon Grey
* The mothers of Todd Tweed and Copper Slade (murdered)
* Jack Frost (murdered)
* Rita Tilki (survived) and her parents (murdered)
* Megara (murdered)
* Dulcie Baker and Lyra Harper
* Charles Lefou
* Ruth Thorston
* Philip Haddock
* Fru Fru Bigg
* Matty Powhatan (attempted)
* Bernard Kekata (murdered)
* Elsa Aren
* Korra Pamuy
* Prometheus Prince
* Mackenzie Gibbs
* Jughead Jones
* Wendy Corduroy (intended victim was Merida Dunbroch)
* Lynn Loud Jr.
* Lucy Loud
* Unnamed child mentioned in Three Stories About the Teen Girl Squad
* Tadashi Hamada (murdered)
* Charley "Psycho" Thompson (attempted)
* Miguel
* Panchito Gonzales
* Todd Tweed
* Mulan Fa, Shang Li, and Mitch Downe
* Skipper Roberts
* Kristen (attacked twice)
* Basil Baker
* Milo Murphy
* Riley Andersen
* Coraline Jones (physically injured only)
* Wilbur Robinson
* Rita Malone (attempted)
* Wallace Herbertson (physically injured only)
* Gromit Herbertson
* Vitani Abbas (physically injured only)
* Nuka Abbas (murdered)

## Trivia

* They were originally going to kidnap more than eight people in *Part 4*, but the authors thought it wasn't realistic.