Runner 5

Merry Christmas, @runnerfiveready!! I'm your secret Santa and I wrote this short fic for you. I hope you like it!!

ZOMBIES, RUN! SECRET SANTA 2025

HEY THERE ZR FOLK 🎉

IT'S NOVEMBER AND THAT MEANS IT'S TIME FOR THE ZOMBIES, RUN! SECRET SANTA!

It's been a difficult year for ZR, its employees, and those of us who care about the story and its people - still we persist! Into our ninth year (almost ten, look at us).

Entries are open from now (right now, actually) until December 2nd.❄

The form will stop accepting entries after 2 December which means we'll get to work assigning each of you a gifter and a recipient.

Gifts can be art, fic, a combination of both, graphics, compositions, interactive fic, playlists (so long as the playlist is complementing something else!), or whatever you think will bring your secret giftee some joy.

SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/ERzeAQBzN8yLP2916

The only rules are to keep it secret, and spend some time on it!

Dates!

December 2nd: Sign ups end!

December 3rd: You recieve your secret santa giftee

December 24th: Entries due! Post 'em on tumblr, send 'em direct to your recipient, do both! It's up to you.

December 25th: We post all the entries in one mammothly festive post (if you'd like to be included!).

I just want a story behind the artwork now.

I love how you draw Amelia, so smug poise and steady.

Five is steady but also getting by. I love how in this piece Amelia manages to wrangle Five in a suit, and Five brings an axe to a formal event.

Hi Anon! I wasn't going to post this originally— hence the screenshotted ask because the og is deleted BUT since you (presuming this is all one person??) asked so nicely (sent not one, not two, but THREE anon messages) about Five’s skin tone, I'm going to clear some things up!

1. The wonderful thing about ZR is that the characters's appearances (especially Five’s!) are up to the listener. Your Five will not look like mine nor anyone else’s. They are all unique to the individual player

2. My Five is tan because I’m biracial, I’m Mexican, and I have chosen to display Five as being such as well!

3. LEAVE ME ALONE GO AWAY SCRAM GET BE GONE show up in my inbox one more time and I’ll draw the entirety of ZR as mexicans

Anyway here’s two quick drawings for these trying times:

"I think it’s best you just – yes. Stop."

Here’s my entry for @runner5ive’s DTIYS!! This took an embarrassing amount of time but I’ve been looking for the excuse to mess around with colours and flowers and this was the perfect opportunity!! :D

House: faggot

Foreman: I.. don't think you should be saying that

Chase: arh naur I theenk he carn archally. Ave you seenim with Wilson?

Cameron: I think it's a little rude to speculate about someone's sexuality while they're in the room

House: oh no no, let Chase continue. I wanna know when he'll start describing how I take in in the ass-

*house realizes something*

Five and Sam! Five and Sam! :D

Running home right into his arms 🥰

I’ve been wanting to do a DTIYS for a while :)

I asked if I should make this angsty or happy and the verdict was ‘both’ so here you go. Draw one. Draw both. The only thing is - I don’t want you to necessarily draw MY runner Five. One thing I love about @zrx is how every user pictures Runner Five different. So please - draw YOUR Five. Draw YOUR Sam :)