Zack

## Felinethropy

Zack was born into being a werecat, has always been proud of it, and doesn’t try hard to hide it. He knew when it was smart to hide it and how to keep it separate from his otherwise human identity, but his friends knew. His community knew that a werecat was in the area, but he was smart enough to not be tracked by those who cared.

Some of his friends would help monthly with securing him somewhere safe and fortified so that on the nights he would be doomed to turn and run rabid, he would not expose himself.

Taylor knew of his cat side, didn’t necessarily “approve”, and was generally unnerved by it, but he never snitched or anything. And now of course he owes a lot of his life to the fact that Zack has been there to save his skin.

After The Fault, Zack does not hide it at all. There is no law around anymore to punish him, so he shifts as he pleases and doesn’t take anything from people who think it wrong to do so. Everyone knows he’s a werecat.

## More

Zack isn’t a very serious or caring person. It’s very hard for him to date beyond a superficial level. He’s great at sweet talking and making others feel like he knows them well, but he very often doesn’t actually care. This is usually because a lot of people bore him. He lives chaotically and feels like most people can’t keep up with him. So love rarely truly develops for him.

But coming across the right person for him, one who can keep up and can always catch his attention, with the added bonus of them being hot, and he’ll fall hard and fast just fine.

He definitely has had boyfriends before. Nothing very serious at all though, he’s never been one to settle down and all his past partners didn’t often agree with his lifestyle enough to get too serious.

Around the time of the Fault, he was involved in a group of other werecats, one of which he was casually dating at the time. Clearly, not serious enough for him to bother looking for the guy.

He's chill and a suave talker but he also lives a life of constant motion. Anybody who can't keep up with whatever he's into or his shenanigans will lose his interest quick. After the fault he sticks with Taylor at first because he feels like he has to, but Taylor is actually able to keep up with him and is absorbed into Zack's way of life as time goes on.

### Morals

Zack’s morals drop to the floor once the mimes crash down. He steals because he can, causes chaos for the hell of it just because he’s a little bored, etc. He gets away with it a lot because he’s such a chill and laid back dude who’s easy to talk to, people just don’t expect it from him.

## Relationships

### Taylor

They went to the same highschool, met there, and remained nothing more than acquaintances who hung out once in a blue moon until the events of the story took place. They sorta just happened to be hanging out at the time of the Fault.

Taylor is a lone wolf and Zack is a people person, so in the beginning Taylor tried to find many reasons to brace the apocalypse alone, while Zack did his best to stick by Taylor’s side to avoid being on his own.

It worked out though, because while Taylor is strong and athletic, it just wasn’t realistic that he’d survive all on his own against monsters many times his size and strength. Zack was always there to help in fight or flight. In turn, Taylor kept Zack from becoming reckless and going overboard, something he is prone to doing when left by himself.

Their friendship grew relatively quickly at the start as they worked to help each other, although they both fought against it from time to time. Even then, when they felt more secure together than alone, there were a lot of factors that made it difficult for them.

The Persuasions of fate and other types never work for them like they do for the main cast. They are not ‘needed’ in the grand scheme that is fixing the world from chaos. They simply live in it, and reap no benefits from that temporal aid. So, they struggle against their fair share of poor luck, hard times, and supply scarcity. This causes occasional tension between them.

Their friendship strengthens later on, though, when they meet up with Hannah & her friends. With no means of safe transportation at the time, little food, and nothing better to do, they helped Hannah out with some RV issues she was having, and in turn she let them hang around for a little bit. (Hannah is a little too nice that way. She’s all for helping strangers in need, even without knowing their true intentions.)

This relief allowed Taylor and Zack’s pressures to ease up for a while, which meant less friction and tension. Taylor prefers hanging around people he knows rather than large groups of people he doesn’t, so he and Zack’s bond only grew stronger during this time as he stuck by Zack’s side.

Zack also rubbed off on Taylor a bit through the several weeks they’d stuck together. Taylor is rational and keeps to himself, but Zack likes to take risks and go for broke quite often. When they feel at their most secure, Zack eventually convinces Taylor to help steal Hannah’s RV in the night and drive off with it.

It’s right around this time that I’d say they’re probably something just a touch more than friends. Taylor would deny this outright, however.

During most of their time with Hannah & the gang, Zack felt secure enough to come on to Taylor– rather strongly at times– and so there was a lot of sexual tension between them for a bit. Even if Taylor persistently denied attraction.

But! When they were alone together again, and felt like they had much more of a chance on their own (now with an RV stocked with much needed supplies!), I’d say that Taylor started to give into Zack’s flirts just a tiny bit. Or maybe a better way of putting it, he tolerated it all a bit more.

It’s a long ass process from there. Taylor is stubborn and resists changes in relationship. It took them a couple of months at least of being by each other’s sides 24 hours a day for him to accept the fact that they were *probably* friends. It takes even longer for him to accept any different.

They eventually lose the RV, get caught up in Bristly’s reign like everyone else, and again struggle through life. But with being so close at this point, their struggles are instead softened from time to time when they know that, in the end, they have each other.

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