#runner five asks

@artist-issues’ Runner Five metaphorically and literally found Lydia in a dumpster after she’d been Runner Five for a few months (mid Season 1). From being alone for a LOT longer than in her original story, and younger in this version, Lydia is a Lot Worse mentally. It takes quite some convincing, but Five brings Lydia back to Abel to learn to trust and rely on people again, and that life does in fact have meaning and even though it seems like the end of the world, God still has a purpose for it and her.

They take to each other quickly because of their shared faith which they mutually strengthen, they both love literary analysis, and Lydia recognizes Five is mute but is instantly able to communicate with her because her brother was deaf and she knows sign language. So when Chris McShell dies, Five convinces Lydia to become Runner Ten. They go on all their runs together so that Ten can dictate Five’s signs for Sam (who instantly also adopts her as a young and fiery bean who needs Help™️ and people to love her)

In this AU, my girl is 17 while Artist’s is 21, and they adopt each other as sisters. Ten is a chaotic, goofy, slightly annoying younger sister who just ADORES Five, while Five has to restrain Ten common sense/advice-wise at times and occasionally from physical violence 😂 They speak in sarcasm, movie quotes, Bible verses, and Twenty One Pilots lyrics. Whenever they’re not running or playing DnD with Sam, you can usually find them curled up in their bunk room reading a book and debating it together.

so obviously each runner has a file right? i imagine it has notes from sam, janine, and maxine at the very least

please comment the most memorable/funny/sad notes below for your runner 5, lets just go with up to, like, season 1 and 2?

ill start

"five has an artificial throat that was in trial phase that needs to be checked AT LEAST once per week for any changes, please see attached reference for daily throat stretching exercises to prevent stiffness and a build up of fluids and scar tissue" -maxine

"IMPORTANT: DO NOT OFFER RUNNER FIVE FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING GLUTEN, despite being fully aware of their allergies they will still eat anything they deem to be "worth it" and cause significant bodily distress" -janine

"RUNNER FIVE GOES LIMP IF YOU STROKE THEIR HAIR!" -sam (janine chewed him out about it)

"please be aware that sudden changes in temperature can cause runner five severe breathing difficulties, and that they have an extremely high bar for what is considered "severe"" -maxine

"please be careful about making them laugh as it can send them into a choking fit that could turn dangerous" -maxine

inspired by @kaoticfive

Thanks @running4chaos for the asks I really like your 5 as well 😊:

3. what would your five’s 6 pokemon team (based on favs, not team viability):

Five’s Pokemon team would be mostly Gen 4 Pokemon because that’s the Pokemon game she remembers most fondly from playing as a child but also has a couple from Gen 6 and Gen 7: Chimchar, Pikachu, Eevee, Skiddo, Darkari (if we’re allowing legendary Pokemon if not probably Shinx) and probably Poppilo.

8. if your five had a youtube channel, what would be on it?

Five’s YouTube Chanel would be a mixed Content Channel, mostly focused around Doctor Who related content and also probably gaming videos.

13. Any medical issues?

Five has Left Side Hemiplegia (which is a type of Cerebral Palsy that effects the right side of the brain and makes your arm and leg on the left side not work as well as your right), Autism (which is kind of classed as a medical issue but it’s more a condition than an issue but I’ll include it because it still is medical) and Generalised Anxiety Disorder (which I think is a medical issue it’s a mental one anyway).

She also has Epilepsy (which sometimes goes hand in hand with Cerebral Palsy) however, it’s completely under control and she stopped having seizures when she was eleven and and the doctors let her off her medicine at seventeen. But there’s still that worry that she has that the seizures could come back and if they did whilst on a run then it’d be game over. Only Maxine (and maybe Paula??) knows about this, because Maxine’s the settlement Doctor and because Five had to put it down on her medical form. So at least someone knows. Nobody else knows, because she’s terrified if there are too many medical things wrong with her she’ll be A) treated differently from the other runners which she hates being treated differently to other people or B) she’ll be kicked from being a runner and kicked out of Abel.

Thanks @kaoticfive!

I already answered number 11 earlier but I’d be happy to answer the other asks:

4. what’s your five’s favorite weapon?

Five’s favourite weapon used to be a cricket bat she had from her home that she used as a weapon in the early days of the apocalypse. Unfortunately she left that at Mullins so she doesn’t have that anymore but her new favourite weapon is an a one handed axe she found on a run, it hasn’t failed her yet in a sticky situation that involves killing zombies. It’s handle is carved with the names of her parents and her younger brother.

17. if your five could get any existing pet, what would it be?

(Spoilers for ZR Season 2)

Five actually gets a pet right after she was almost murdered by Nadia, a little Jack Russell Terrier puppy she called Scraps, that she found when he was about seven weeks old, along with his dead mum and siblings on the way back to Abel (Five really wasn’t having a good day that day).

She tried to hide him at first but Sam found out pretty quickly (as he’d raced to the gates to see if she was okay and he heard yelps coming from under her hoodie) and Maxine found out soon after that at her medical examination that Sam dragged Five too so they helped her hide him from Janine (because she wasn’t sure if Janine or the Major would let her keep him, a sickly little puppy who’d use up medical and food supplies) but Janine found out eventually and after she’d been reassured he wouldn’t be an issue and ran it through with the Major, she let Five keep him.

He’s called Scraps because Sam noted on the first night she had the puppy that said puppy was constantly asking for scraps of food from Five (even after she’d fed him probably because he didn’t have enough food out in the wild) and Five thought that would be a good name for a dog. The name stuck.

Thanks for the asks @scarypressive!

I’ve just answered number 3 but I’ll be happy to answer the other two :) :

7. how does your five react to horror movies?

Five will watch horror movies.

BUT, not by herself as she reacts really really badly to them! and even when she’s with someone else she usually ends up hiding behind or having a really tight grip on whoever she’s watching it with (it usually ends up being Sam, Maxine, Paula, Jack and Eugene who she watches them with and of course, out of all of them, it’s usually Sam who suffers the consequences of sitting next to Five watching horror films and ends up with a bruise on his arm afterwards from Five’s grip). It’s a bit funny because she’s probably seen worse out on her runs and a bit ironic because her favourite film is technically a horror (it’s Shaun of The Dead, which she’s not scared of because it’s more horror comedy but still a horror).

9. how does your five sleep (light/heavy sleeper, on their side/stomach/back, restless/still, nightmares/dreams, etc):

(Slight spoilers for Season 1 & 2 ahead)

Thanks @anothermeansofprocrastination for the ask

11. does your five have any habits?

Five reads before bed. It’s a habit she’s had since she was very little, even if she does read the same book over and over (sometimes) as there aren’t many books at Abel or New Canton.

She also has a very bad habit of skipping meals, that started off because she just forgot to eat but then it became a habit and It’s gotten to the point where Sam has actually noticed and been reminding her to eat something and slipping small bits of food into her rucksack before a run just to get her to eat something. She’s seriously trying to break this one.

21. what is the now-100%-expired-and-gone food your five misses the most?

Avocados. Avocados are grown in Mexico, and distributed to the UK and you can’t grow Avocados in the U.K. so her favourite fruit is non-existent until trade deals with the rest of the world are established and that could take years!