The Fellowship of Dewberry

*"Once upon a time, in a wild teenage wasteland...there was a group of friends. They shared many loves and hatreds. They had their arguments, their fallings out...but they **always** came back together. And when strange things - **incredible things** - started happening to them, to their town and their loved ones...they came together and acted. They fought. And nothing could stop them. Not even the end of the world. Because they - **we** - found their strength not in their powers, but in each other. Because they were a unit. A family. [...] **A Fellowship**,"*
― Max to the Fellowship as they sit around the campfire in the New Era, 1953[src]The **Fellowship of Dewberry**, more simply **The Fellowship** and formerly known as the **48th Street Fellowship**,are the eponymous main characters of the series. It was originally formed by Max Hamilton, James DeLare, Brooklyn Yates, and MJ Baines, a close-knit group of friends who lived on 48th Street, Dewberry, Arkansas. Soon after their formation, they made close friends with the outcast Michael Tomlinson, who joined the group and became a core member. Each member of the Fellowship came together due to their shared love of comic books, science, board games and pop culture. After gaining supernatural powers, they encountered Ellie, a young girl with innate psychokinetic powers who the Institute had been experimenting on. Rose McCarthy, a newcomer to the town, joined the group when she bonded with James and later Ellie. Together, they used their skills and powers in a campaign against the Dark Lord, establishing themselves as the protectors of their world.

Multiple versions of the Fellowship exist. The first, from the original timeline, defeated the Dark Lord in 2012, but could not stop the complete destruction of their reality at the hands of the possessed Jacob Hamilton. The end of this timeline marked the beginning of the New 1989 timeline, which diverged from the Battle of Neverland, where the possessed Jacob travelled to November 1989. The Fellowship discovered that multiple timelines exist and also gained an idea of a much larger threat. In 1990, they split up to time travel to different periods, discovering the existence of a secret organisation, Finis Temporis, which had been manipulating events from the start. The Fellowship then travelled to 1953, where they defeated Finis Temporis, prevented the creation of the Dark Lord, and averted the apocalypse, creating a timeline known as the New Era.

Another version of the Fellowship exists in a timeline known as the Third Branch, a timeline where the time-loop that created the other timelines does not exist, making time travel impossible and establishing it as the one true timeline following the events of *Season 3*. In this timeline, the Fellowship were forced to confront a group of doppelgangers known as the Dark Fellowship.

## History

### Formation

The 48th Street Fellowship was formed in the late 70s by Max, James, Brooklyn and MJ, who all lived on 48th Street in the town of Dewberry, Arkansas. They welcomed Michael Tomlinson, a newcomer in the town, into the group sometime in the early 80s. In the mid-80s, the group began working on their own homemade radio tower for their science project; as a side project, Max and MJ had been working on a homemade Geiger counter.

### 1987

A few weeks before Halloween, the group finished building their own radio tower. Turning it on for the first time, they tracked a strange signal to St. James Woods. While there, the Fellowship were caught in a massive explosion of inter-dimensional energy, granting them superpowers. While investigating the area the next night, they found a young girl named Ellie. Over the course of the week, the group discovered that Ellie was a test subject of the mysterious St. James Institute, and a recent experiment conducted on her had caused the explosion and opened a portal to an alternate dimension dubbed the "Dark Dimension". Together, the group learned to control their powers and faced an inter-dimensional monster they called the Shadow Goblin, and uncovered evidence of the existence of a ruling entity which they named "The Dark Lord".

### 1988

A year after they gained their powers, the Fellowship used them to help people around Dewberry, becoming somewhat local heroes while managing to keep their identities secret. In 1988, they had their first direct fight with the Dark Lord instead of one of its minions. After Ellie closed the Breach, they lost their powers, although Max somehow maintained the ability to summon a small, brief flame, indicating that the connection to the Dark Dimension was not entirely severed.

### 1989

#### Summer

In 1989, supernatural events restarted in the town, and so the Fellowship accepted their duty and regained their powers to combat the returned threat. During their investigation, the group became divided, with Brooklyn heading off with Cooper, Joyceln Tomlinson and Argyle, and James becoming trapped beneath Neverland Mall with Nick, Layla and Anna. The rest of the group searched for a monster they called "Air-Walker", which they discovered was Lucas Norman, their bully, who had become possessed by the Dark Lord and began possessing other Dewberry residents to build a creature from the remains of the Shadow Goblin and craft his own army. The investigation concluded with the Battle of Neverland.

With Air-Walker imprisoned, the Fellowship could finally enjoy their victory. Max, however, speculated the battle wasn't over, pointing out that the Dark Lord had already returned twice before. He took out his knife and cut his palms, saying it was their duty to defeat the Dark Lord if he ever returned. Ellie took the knife and also cut her palms, exchanging blood with Max. The other members quickly followed, and they stood in a circle as Max recited their blood oath to return, no matter where they are and no matter what they are doing, to kill the Dark Lord once and for all.

#### Thanksgiving

During the Thanksgiving holiday of '89, the Fellowship returned to Dewberry for their reunion. In the original timeline, this event happend as normal and the Fellowship returned to their lives beyond Dewberry. An alternate timeline of these events occured in the New 1989 timeline.

### 2012

In 2012, 23 years since the events of *Season 3**,* the Fellowship have settled in their lives. Max lost contact with everyone but Ellie and had a son with her in 2002 named Jacob Hamilton, who inherited their powers. James became a professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, eventually married and had two daughters. Brooklyn moved to Washington D.C, was elected to the US House of Representatives and started her own non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting the environment. MJ worked numerous meaningless jobs before joining the army after 9/11, after which he moved to Seattle. Michael stayed in Dewberry and became a teacher of mathematics and economics at Dewberry High School. Rose became a country singer, currently on a tour of the South in 2012. Brian and Catherine stayed in Chicago, married and have two children with a third on the way. Nick and Layla Domino/AT started their own advertising company, King and Domino Agencies.

Following their reunion, the group set out to find the human dimension's version of the Dark Lord's lair, hoping to somehow kill it without entering the Dark Dimension. Even after 23 apart, their friendships remained strong. During the course of their investigation, the group discovered that the Dark Lord had once been a human named Subject 001, the very first test subject of the St. James Institute in 1955. The Dark Lord had also built a goblin nest beneath Dewberry High, leading MJ Baines to sacrifice himself to destroy it. The destruction of the school made everyone in Dewberry aware of the Dark Dimension and its monsters, and Rose, Layla, Nick and Joyceln united the entire town behind the Fellowship on a final assault on a portal called the Crack of Doom, which was closed by Jacob Hamilton. When the portal closed, only those that had taken the blood oath in 1989 remembered the events that had occurred.

In the aftermath, Brooklyn and Michael got engaged and spent Thanksgiving with James and his family; Rose returned to her tour and one of her albums earned a Platinum rating; Layla decided to travel while Nick managed the agency; and Max, Ellie and Jacob moved into Max's old house to finally have a normal life.

### New 1989

The events of 2012, and the preceeding 23 years, were erased by Jacob Hamilton when he travelled back in time to Thanksgiving 1989, starting the New 1989 timeline.

However, it was eventually revealed that Jacob had been possessed by the Dark Lord in 2012 and had only travelled back in time to 1989 as that year was the peak of its power and influence.

Following the final battle beneath MacNamera Power Station, the remaining members of the Fellowship were taken captive by mysterious soldiers.

### New Era

#### 1953

The Fellowship arrived in Dewberry 1953 and took a few minutes to recover from their journey through time. Rose treated Reginald's burns while Lydia and Future MJ contacted Artemis.

## Members

* Mainline (S1-S3 & S7)
* Alternate Timlines (S4-S6)
### Original: =

* Max Hamilton - *de-facto* leader
* James DeLare - deputy leader
* Brooklyn Yates
* Michael-James "MJ" Baines
* Michael Tomlinson

### Newcomers:

* Ellie
* Rose McCarthy
* Nick Mayes
* Layla Domino

### Allies:

* Catherine Baines
* Brian Tomlinson
* Joyceln Tomlinson
* David Cooper
* Anna Yates
* Reginald McCarthy *(deceased)*
### Original: =

- Max Hamilton - *de-facto* leader

- James DeLare - deputy leader

- Brooklyn Yates

- Michael-James "MJ" Baines

- Michael Tomlinson

### Newcomers:

* Ellie
* Rose McCarthy
* Nick Mayes
* Layla Domino
* Arthur MacNamera

### Allies:

* Catherine Baines
* Brian Tomlinson
* Joyceln Tomlinson
* David Cooper
* Anna Yates
* Reginald McCarthy *(deceased)*
* Lydia Hamilton
* Artemis
* Argyle *(deceased)*
* Jacob Hamilton *(deceased)*
* Future MJ *(deceased)*

## Rules

The Fellowship have three rules that each member must swear an oath to follow:

* "Friends don't lie, no matter what"
* "If you draw first blood, you offer the first handshake"
* "Obey the rules or be exiled"

After they gain their powers, the Fellowship adopted four more rules:

* "Never reveal your powers, our mission, your secret identity or the identity of anyone else unless prior permission is given from the rest of the Fellowship".
* "Never use your powers to hurt the innocent"
* "Always help repair any damage done through use of your powers"
* "Obey the blood oath and uphold your promise, no matter what"

## Blood Oath

> *"By our blood, we swear. We swear, by our duty, by our blood, to return. We swear to protect our town. Our home. No matter **where** we are, no matter **what** we're doing, **we will return**. If the Dark Lord returns, then the Fellowship of Dewberry will return. We swear,"*
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> -- The blood oath of the Fellowship and their allies
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In "*The Oath*", the Fellowship, Catherine, Brian, Joyceln and Cooper lock up Air-Walker and each cut their hands to exchange blood. They subsequently swear, no matter what they are doing or where they are, to one day return to Dewberry and destroy the Dark Lord once and for all.

In 2012, following their final victory over the Dark Lord, the Fellowship made a second blood oath to reunite at least once a year.

## Trivia

* After the formation of the Third Branch, there are now four versions of each member of the Fellowship.
	+ The original versions, who defeated the Dark Lord in 2012 and were killed in the destruction of their reality in 2015.
	+ The version from the New 1989 timeline, who defeated the Jacob Hamilton from the original timeline and formed the New Era to prevent the Apocalypse.
	+ The third versions are the New Era versions of the Fellowship; they do not possess superpowers, and welcome Margaret Harrington to their group in 1985. They are watched over by their New 1989 counterparts.
	+ The fourth version are the canon versions of the Third Branch, who defeated the Dark Lord in *Season 3*. Time travel in their reality is impossible as the time-loop does not exist. This reality can be considered the "Original World".
* Rose, Nick, and Layla are the only members of the Fellowship who do not have superpowers.
	+ EDStudios once considered giving Rose superpowers, but decided against it, concluding that her natural abilities were more than enough to match her with the rest of the group.
* Anna and Brooklyn are the only members of the Fellowship who are siblings.
* Almost all members of the Fellowship are or have been in a relationship with another member. The only two excluded by this are Nick and Layla.
	+ Max is in a relationship with Ellie, having a son with her in the 2000s.
	+ James and Rose were in a relationship from *Season 1* to *Season 3*.