Zanös Zachary Zakino

* Part 3
* Possible Future Appearance

**Zanös Zachary Zakino**, also known as "Zane" or "Zach" is the only son of gambling ex-millionaire Zavier Zakino and famous author Conny Chai.

He first appeared in part three of The School Field Trip- Secrets of the Museum. He's a transfer student in Sageview High School and is considered an Art Prodigy. He lives with his now single mother after his parent's divorce and his mother earning the rights to take care of him.

He's known to love his grandmother on his mother's side -Yugi Haruka- more than anything, more than his own parents. However, the elderly woman died in a fire in an orphanage when taking care of some children there as a caretaker. He's known to be very distant from his mother and father, and most anyone he comes across.

## Biographical Information

### Appearance

Zach inherited his father, Zavier Zakino's midnight black hair, his mother's pale complexion and his mother and grandmother's same dark brown eyes. He dyed the ends of his bangs with pastel purple streaks, and the sides, pastel blue, as a symbol of changing his roots and leaving his father's legacy behind.

### Personality

Zane enjoys art, as it allows him to express what words can't. Though he often draws things such as his troubling experiences. He thinks those experiences are fine. That they're 'normal', because he's been dealing with them his whole life. He despises pity of any sort and often hides his troubles to prevent crossing paths with it. His paranoid of connections. Paranoid people will stab him in the back when he least expects it. He's learn to hate. To hate weakness. He hates himself. For being vulnerable to weakness. He hides his troubles behind jokes, laughter, casual flirts and a simple smile. He's a good actor, and can pull up whatever facade he wishes. He's learnt the behaviours of people, how they act when they lie, how they smile, he's learnt to read expressions and body language, to avoid making mistakes in said facades. He's pretty disconnected from the world, distant from his mother and father, and most anyone he comes across. He has a fear of fire, as it reminds him of the fire his grandmother died in. He dislikes the rich, as they remind him of his father's gambling addictions. He associates many things with the negative, more than he does with the positive. Few people manage to connect with him, as he often cuts them off before they can. People like to joke that being close to him should come with a warning sign: 'Do not go near! Dangerous social zombie on the loose!' But he doesn't find it very funny. He often acts in ways he isn't, for the point of seeming stronger than he actually is. But if anything gets too personal, it'll break him down into pieces. He's never really liked books, as his mother would tell him about the stories she wrote for hours on end. To the point that he can chant most words by heart. When he does read, it's not in the genre most people expect him too. It isn't horror or mystery, like some people would say from his appearance. But rather romance, like some people would guess due to his usually-faked flirty attitude. With a touch of fantasy. He likes to toy with the idea of the unknown, as it gives him an escape from reality. He often wonders if life is just a dream. Although coming from a religious family, religion scares him. He's afraid about what's real and what's not. And he hates not knowing the answer to things. Zane usually plays the role of a carefree, go-with-the-flow, unintentionally funny, flirty 'prince', which he claims is his most likeable facade. Although genuinely connecting with Zane - in a way that allows one to truly touch his heart - is a rather difficult task, those who do manage will easily grow to be some of the most important people in Zach's eyes. Those who he truly trusts are those he's often over protective of, people who he'll do anything to keep safe. He can be clingy to those who he loves, as he's afraid that the moment he leaves them, he'll never meet them again. This is due to a time when he was younger, around the age of thirteen. He'd been separated from his childhood best friend due to his parents betraying said friend's parents. They proceeded to cut off all connection between the two, leading to Zane feeling a sense of loneliness and want for companionship.

### Pre-series

Zane didn't have the best childhood. His family had started off rich, but it turned out his father had been gambling to earn his money. His mother left them in rage after learning about this. His father continued to gamble and soon lost most of his money. His father was struggling to find jobs due to his bad record. Once, his father had just lost a job opportunity and out of rage and started beating Zane up, leaving scars on his back. The boy got into a fight with his father, and accidentally pushed him off a flight of stairs, leading to his father breaking some bones. His father was brought to the hospital, where he was kept as they soon learned he'd earned a concussion. Zane, out of responsibility as a son, had to often visit his father at the hospital. His father - a man he hated more than anything else. And he hated hospitals, too, for the memories they brought back. His father soon recovered but he was deemed to irresponsible to be Zane's legal guardian. Zane was sent to live with his mother, who hated him as well, but for something as trivial as his appearance, as his midnight black hair reminded her of his father, hence she refused to look at him. The only person who had ever been truly close to Zach was his grandmother who died in a fire when taking care of some children in the local orphanage. After this happened, Zach shut himself out from reality, refusing to make connections, afraid to lose another person close to him.

## Relationships

### Macchiato Ellora

Due to an awkward moment in which Machi saw Zane shirtless, their relationship had a rocky, awkward, teasing-filled start in the beginning of Part Three. Machi had replied to the scene with an unhealthily red coloured face, a high pitched shriek and a voice crack. He teased Zane for it constantly afterward, with Zane teasing him in reply for seeming to be unembarrassed that he was, as Zach quote, "staring at his skin with no shame", which Machi quite literally did. Machi would often try flirting with Zach in an attempt to 'counter attack' Zach's flirty ways of teasing, only getting more and more red with embarrassment with each comment. At one point in the role play, it's revealed that Machi and Zane had been childhood best friends. The two were rather close but due to complications between their parents, the two had been forced to lose contact with each other, with one's family moving away. The two's parents had met in a high-class event, with only the richest of the rich being present. They became very close, often meeting up for banquets, balls, parties and other events. Their two children, Machi and Zane, became best friends in the process. After almost 2 years of friendship between the families, Zane's family went bankrupt due to a mysterious mass destruction of their properties. Machi's parents, out of pity for their dear friends, borrowed them a large sum of money, to get them back on their feet, under the false promise of getting their money returned once the family did so. It was all a lie. The family had never gone bankrupt. That was just a lie Zavier and Haruka -Zane's parents- had come up with, in order to steal money from the 'friends' that appeared to them as more of 'money making opportunities'. They'd moved to Perth, Australia, far, far away from Machi's family, to escape the wrath of Machi's parents. It turned out that Zane had never been informed of his parents' schemes. He fully believed that his family had gone bankrupt. Only after what happened had happened, did he learn what horrible, money hungry people his parents were. Zane and Machi had managed to keep contact through a number that Zane had obtained for the sole purpose of keeping in touch with Machi. He'd given Machi the number on a slip of paper he'd hidden in a locket he'd given to Machi before he had moved. Zane had repeatedly apologised for what his parents had done but he knew he couldn't do much to change it. It had already happened, after all. After a lot, and by that, I mean a *lot* of apologising, Machi finally forgave him and the two remained as close as ever. Though they had to hide the fact that they were secretly conversing from their parents. However, one day, Machi's parents learnt that Machi and Zane were still in contact. They ordered Machi to block and delete Zane's contact, and even had him switch phone numbers, so that the two wouldn't be able to keep in touch. They claimed Zach to be a bad influence. Someone that Machi shouldn't associate himself with. Zane had never known what had happened, why Machi had suddenly stopped texting him. He believed that Machi had simply started hating him, that his parents' bad actions had finally affected his relationship with Machi. The two lost contact and hadn't spoke to each other for years. That was, until Zane moved back to California at the age of 17. His family had actually gone bankrupt this time, with his father losing all his money and being exposed as a scammer-gambler. His family became known as one of many scandals. After getting tossed around from parent to parent, his mother finally earned the rights to parent him. They moved back to California as Zane's one and only condition for accepting her as his mother. Although he knew it was a long shot, he held onto the slightest bit of hope that he'd meet Machi again. And at the age of 19, he finally reunited with him.

## Trivia

* Zane has roots from multiple different ethnicities
	+ Zane's grandfather on his mother's side was Chinese
	+ Zane's grandmother on his mother's side was Japanese
	+ Zane's grandmother on his father's side was Spanish
* Zane can speak multiple different languages, those being:
	+ Chinese
	+ Japanese
	+ Spanish
	+ English
* Zach is of the Christian Religion
* Zach baptized at the age of 15
* Zach has autophobia, also known as isolophobia, eremophobia and monophobia, which is the fear of being alone. He also has FOMO - fear of missing out. This tends to add to his insecurities.
* Zach and Machi became friends at the age of 10. They had been friends for 3 years before being separated. By the time they reunited at the age of 19, they had been friends for a total of 9 years.
* Zach's love languages are Physical Touch and Quality Time
* Zach has a very low spice tolerance and the littlest bit of spice, which may not seem much to others, may cause him to have the need to chug down a whole glass of water
* Zach's favourite colours are pastel blue and purple. He even dyed these colours onto his hair in streaks.
* Zach's favourite flowers are Gypsophila, otherwise known as Baby's-Breath. Specifically the Blue and White ones. His second favourites are Roses -typically those of a lighter, more pastel colour.
* Zane's favourite Genshin Character is Xiao, with Venti coming as a close second. But he loves all of the Male Anemo Five Stars equally.
* Zach's favourite Genshin Element is Anemo, if his simp list didn't make that obvious enough.
* Zane has about three body pillows, four themed pyjamas -one for each of the male anemo five stars: Venti, Xiao, Kazuha and Kunikuzushi-, ten posters and thirty keychains of Male Anemo Five Star Merchandise.
* Zane is a huge simp but is extremely embarrassed if anyone is to learn about this. Before anyone goes to his house, his room goes through an extremely quick and thorough five minute anti-simp cleanup.
* Zane enjoys singing and doesn't really have a favourite genre. Although being more than willing to sing in front of strangers, weirdly enough, he's afraid of singing to those who he does know. This is because he figures he'll only ever meet strangers once in his life and once he leaves a street, he'll never face the embarrassment ever again. Meanwhile, he's quite afraid of embarrassing himself in front of his few friends.
* Zane's English Voice Claims are all three of his Chinese, Japanese and Spanish Voice Claims. Those being:
	+ Shayne Orok
	+ Leroy Sanchez
	+ Alec Benjamin
* Zane's Chinese Voice Claim is Alec Benjamin
* Zane's Japanese Voice Claim is Shayne Orok
* Zane's Spanish Voice Claim is Leroy Sanchez

## References

1. ↑ Previously Maya Millander
2. ↑ Previously Madeline Mel