#*zak

Emmerdale Underappreciated Character Week 2025

there's also headcanons floating around the fandom on how zombie pregnancy is super hard on the body of the pregnant person because of the inherent nature of zombies. zombies tend to be only children with no mothers because of this. (a post on the hc if you're curious)

building off of these headcanons, i headcanon that zed didn't want kids. or rather, he wanted kids, but he didn't want addison to have to go through what his mom & most of his friends' moms went through.

so when zak was first conceived, zed was terrified. if zombie kids hurt their zombie mothers, what horrors would a human (she may be a quarter alien, but she's functionally human) go through trying to have a zombie kid? he had nightmares of their child poisoning her just by nature of being non-human. GORE TW // he had nightmares of their child ripping through her uterus or lungs to get to her brain. TW END but he didn't confide these fears with her. instead, he told her that there's a reason there aren't many zombie mothers and left it at that.

“It hurts.”

zak started learning sign language (asl) at four years old. as soon as it was revealed that his younger brother was deaf, he wanted to learn. zed & addison knew it would take forever for their blind son for learn to communicate with their deaf son & that he would always be shaky, so they wanted to get started right away.

they knew they couldn’t put him in asl classes as they would be to visual, they had to teach him at home. so his parents started looking for asl tutors for zak because, while they were doing their best teaching zak small signs & how to use them, they weren’t the best at it.

zak’s tutor ended up being a woman named freedom edwards (though she told zak to call her ‘miss freedom’). she was a sweet woman who had been using sign language for decades. she tried several techniques before settling on physically taking his hands & forming the gestures & shapes they were supposed to be for that word.

anakin, not being helpful: bring him dead mice and birds. that way he knows that you won't let him go hungry.

acid: what does that have to do with anything?

anakin: have you not seen animals? they bring dead things so that mates will know that they can care for a family.

acid: what the fuck anakin. we're not going to get married... yet

crack discord starters.

he sighs, “it proves that you’re who you say you are and not some rando claiming to be atticus winchester.”