#runner au

A short comic from my (wip) tadc au : Runners ( based on maze runners ).

May I present to you all: The Bright Five! You’ve got Rhyin, Sam, Felix, Vinni, and Five! It was Sam’s idea to take the picture which Felix eagerly supported, but it took ten minutes to convince Rhyin to do so. Then it took another five minutes for Sam to try and persuade Five that he could in fact pick her up (he can’t) so the other three had to help!

My friends and I are co-writing an AU where their OCs tripped into ZR roughly in between seasons two and three because crazy time travel magic shenanigans! Ah! What’s gonna happen to them? Are they gonna get back home? SUSPENSE (we are pretty much playing in a sandbox with character interactions and relationships snjsksbsisnsj)

Crossover greatness with @meadow-roses and @masterfuldoodler once more! :D

My poor sweet Five the past few days has been having Major Character Development as she is bonding with Felix as her parental figure healing from a really bad injury (including those fresh scars on her wrists…) on the planet Anturoun. Where she can relax and be safe! And mentally after YEARS have the capacity to air out a lot of her dark and tangled mind, in a place she feels safe in, with a person she feels safe with.

This morning, she was telling Felix about some of her trauma so he could help her pick up the pieces, and after a major PTSD flashback to a time when she thought Sam had died, they went to make leek omelettes and have a breather. Felix brings up his brother Anthony once more, as a potential help or even cure for what Van Ark (evil scientist who experimented on and tortured Five, giving her power ups she didn’t want 😔) and she finally voiced the thought that she thinks his serum is the biggest thing that gives her worth as a runner, because she physically cannot let people down anymore— and then her selective mutism came and held her throat hostage from all the emotion as one of her forced coping mechanisms. And then Felix just had to step in and lovingly prove her wrong and give her a hug and then she can try to start getting out the things in her head— good thing Felix knows sign! And then his words bring her voice back yippie!

ALSO this was Very Epic to write because in Keepers, where Felix comes from, it’s an allegory of the Gospel, and in it God reveals Himself in a different way, while Five is from a fictionalization of this world with the zombie apocalypse, and she’s a Christian. And throughout this story, she keeps going “This dude is so Christ-like it’s insane” but has not yet brought up Jesus because it’s always in moments when she’s sobbing because of trauma probably. But she recognizes the Truth when she hears it and it’s helping her so much to be encouraged this way after years of hardship! Wonder when she will bring up her faith and then his hmmm…

I love them and their relationship so much 😭

It was a miracle that they weren't dead, after countless tons of steel and concrete and furniture and other things came crashing down over their heads. It was a good thing that the lower levels of the old derelict corporate office were basically built like a bunker.

David glowered at the man across from him. He had to be a runner, he simply had to. There was no other reason for anyone else to be in the empty building at the same time as him. The only reason why they hadn't duked it out -- before all the explosions went off -- was that both seemed to be here for different things and figured their missions weren't mutually-exclusive enough to get in each other's way.

SamsonCorp sure had a lot of skeletons in its closet.

Admittedly, Odd was the more reasonable one here. David wanted to shoot the possible interloper out of hand... It was usually safer that way, but he was glad he didn't, even despite the other man's words.

Watching marathon runners pass on the street is one of the most inspiring ways to get in shape; at least, that’s what Character A believed. They knew they were strong and they loved their body, but there was just something about seeing people pushing themselves to the limit that made them want to try a little harder too, in every aspect of life.

A three day marathon was expected to come through their town, and Character A couldn’t be more excited. They set up a chair, brought some books, their phone, and a bunch of water bottles and snacks since they knew they’d be there for a while. 

It wasn’t until Character B started to come around the corner that Character A realized their mistake. They’d brought just enough disposable water bottles to make it seem like they were giving water to the runners, but that wasn’t the case. By the time they realized this, it was too late; Character B was already gone, water bottle in hand, and Character A regretting how they froze up and didn’t tell them off.

Thankfully, Character A didn’t run into anymore thieves since they moved the bottles, but the next day, Character B came around the corner again. And looked for a water bottle. Again. They even went so far as to berate Character A about their lack of water bottles at the station. 

So, with a blessing from our great dad, I present to you Keith and Lance from Runner AU made by the dynamic duo @wolfpainters and @wittyy-name !!