#ZAUNSPARKED! sporadic writing activity & mutuals-only portrayal of ZERI from riot's league of legends. hc + study based, adapted for arcane and in-game canon. by sara, 27, she / her. please read guidelines beneath the cut before interacting! 💚
COMMUNITY: fielyte. gntlets.
*GUIDELINES.
001. just be normal! usual etiquette applies. don't rush me, don't poke & prod, try to keep unhelpful godmodding to a minimum, etc. i don't really care for drama + callouts. if i deem somebody gross, i'll likely just block and move on. however, some things do call for awareness and those will be reblogged — very rare, i curate my space for my comfort.
— dni: minors (under 18, strongly prefer 21+), people who use / encourage ai / repost art, people who write d*b/n*ncon, are any of the phobes or ists. that's a block on sight.
002. interaction is welcome so long as we're mutuals ( i follow you, you follow me). inbox prompts are always open & unprompted starters / asks are totally fine! these are usually the best way to start interactions with me & you're always welcome to continue them into threads! replies to threads are usually slower than to other forms of interaction but just be patient, they'll come!
003. i'm a bit of a rambler and that carries into my replies which means they tend to get long ( 2-3 paragraphs minimum). with that being said: i never expect my partner to match length or format. write whatever you're happy with, i'll never take it as a slight. i use small + large text with some colored text. if you need anything at all changed for readability let me know!
004. i do practice mains/exclusives/affiliates. mains are people that'll likely get priority in reply speed, exclusives are the only version of that muse i'll interact with, and affiliates (* indicating affiliates ) are muses that are heavily tied into my portrayal of zeri and if said muse comes up in a separate thread, it is referring to that specific variant of them.
005. sporadic activity means sporadic activity; i have a full-time job + family obligations. sometimes i have muse and sometimes i don't. there may be days, weeks, months of inactivity but rest assured i will be back at some point. if that's not your vibe you're welcome to softblock 👍
006. this blog will deal with themes already present in league lore! anything triggering will be tagged appropriately using the format 'trigger cw /'. if there's something specific you need tagged just drop a message in & i'll account for it!
— general trigger warnings for: canon-typical violence, death, poverty as a form of oppression, war, & drugs/addiction as a form of oppression.
007. zeri has been paid crumbs since the e-sports losers got her nerfed into another dimension + since arcane rewriting the lore, therefore my zeri is built around headcanons and studies + any worldbuilding w/ gully.
008. i don't mind duplicates!! i think they're fun and i'm just chilling. i believe that people can draw the same conclusions from reading the same content, but if i get a weird vibe like it's a little more than that going on, i'll just sb and move on.
credits. psd creds to waatsoned, icon border credit to neorph! all graphics are made by myself unless stated otherwise; if i make something that features your muse, you're welcome to rb it! doesn't bother me.
*DOSSIER.
— general.
FULL NAME. zeri. no surname; her family history goes back to early aquatic vastayans who were pushed out of their homes, and thus the name of the tribe lost to time and migratory behavior + assimilation into other cultures.
ALSO KNOWN AS. z, sparks, firebug (ekko), the spark of zaun (largely her known alias in place of her actual identity to piltovans + chembarons)
DATE OF BIRTH. 01 / 20.
AGE. early-twenties.
GENDER. cisfemale
PRONOUNS. she/her.
ORIENTATION. bisexual.
OCCUPATION. vigilante, firelight co-leader.
SPECIES. human, magically inclined due to distant vastayan blood. zeri isn't entirely aware of this fact, her grandma speaking in vague wisdoms and old legendesque tales.
— background.
BIRTHPLACE. entresol level, zaun.
CURRENT HOME. entresol level, zaun.
LANGUAGE(S). fluent in iraya, tagalog, and english — iraya being her grandmothers native tongue and what is spoken in the household, tagalog being the by and large language of the tribes that settled in zaun, and english being equivalent to what all zaunites and piltovans speak on the daily. zeri is the only member of her family fluent in all three.
PARENTS. mother, father. both alive and well and they will stay that way <3
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. aunt, grandmother.
AFFILIATION. zaun, firelights.
— appearance.
HAIR. green, curly when allowed down. always frizzy due to natural static. there's clear indications she would've been brunette without the effects of her magic.
EYES. her eyes are ever shifting, lightning seemingly running through them. this effect pushes their color towards a yellow-green.
HEIGHT. 5'2"
DOMINANT HAND. right
SCARS. zeri has countless scars from knives and tumbles that stuck around from wounds which took longer to heal than a healthy individual might've experienced. she sports fingerless, elbow length gloves, at the tip of which can be spotted her more prominent scarring. lichtenberg figures cover the backs of her hands, crawling their way about halfway up her arms. this is due to blow black from the energy of her powers and will continue to scale her body so long as she keeps taking her sparkpack off to unleash the full force of them.
OTHER REMARKABLE FEATURES. zeri almost always wears her jacket, attached to which is her sparkpack, a conduit for her excess lightning. there's metal piping attached to this which further serves to direct her power away from anything or anyone valuable. it's a bulky thing that takes up the entirety of her upperback. she also always wears a bandage across her left cheek in an ‘X’, beneath which is a highly conductive piece of metal surgically inserted not long after she was born. this was an early attempt at controlling some of her more destructive accidents and worked well enough until, as zeri got older, her magic grew larger and necessitated the need of her sparkpack instead.
zeri is almost always letting off accidental sparks due to being overcharged & a lack of control over her magic. these are caught by the pack which absorbs and expels them in a safe-ish manner. don't put your hand on it unless you want some serious voltage.
— mental.
zeri has adhd, c-ptsd, and a literal demon but dw about that rn <3 i'll write about it someday just know she's haunted.
*POWERS BREAKDOWN.
electricity magic: zeri can generate and manipulate electricity for several purposes, she can liberate the energy in powerful blasts of lighting and use it as a conduit. super speed: zeri can wrap her body in electricity, increasing her speed many times over. electric conduit: zeri can infuse certain objects with her electric power, empowering them and improving their performance.
*VERSES.
— MAIN, canon.
a headstrong, spirited young woman from zaun’s working-class. she acts as a vigilante of sorts, standing up for the people of zaun with energy in each step. bringing the fight to the chembaron's doorsteps after a mining incident that shatters her neighborhood & those in it. she commits herself and powers to being less of a burden and more a pillar, a vigilante utilizing the sparkpack built by her father ( parts scrounged from the mining incident by herself ) and gun crafted by her mother to disrupt chembaron productions.
— MAIN, intwined with fielyte & gntlets
though most of her character remains the same, the timeline is shifted & expanded upon : pre-s1 & during zeri is working alone to sabotage what she can of anything chembaron related. ekko tries to recruit her to the firelights seeing that their goals align & she becomes a steadfast ally : loudly present when needed, but not entirely beholden, still working as a vigilante prey to whims and recklessness.starting in s2 with ekko's disappearance & presumed death, zeri joins the firelights as co-leader alongside scar, stepping into a more grounded role in their - and her own - development. she assists ekko's parents in leaving zaun during this time, on their behest and thinking it's best practice when shit hits the fan.post season two there's a period of time where the two begin to rebuild *this is good reading for that. once content that everything at home will run smoothly under only scar, the two leave together for a time : zeri to find somebody to teach her about her magic so that she can better protect the people she cares about, ekko to find his parents. zeri only stays away a year, never able to stay away from home long. when she comes back, renata and the runeterra chembarons had used their absence as an easy in to reestablish and begin to wrest power. this leads largely into her canon league character arc, bringing the verses together.
— AU, marvel.
something something mutant vigilante against their oppression. she began her vigilante work fighting back against the harvesting of minerals from & the tourism of mindoro which threatened the community and environment there. sometimes the news would report freak lightning storms, freak electrical incidents at mining sites, illegal mining operations put to rest but not by the police. the community, paralleling her usual lore, rallies around her quietly; they are a strong supporter of mutants, making it a friendly destination for her, and others, to return to. by and large she's always been just on the outskirts of larger issues, if concerned with them at all; depends really on how close to home they hit. she's a passing flash of lightning that crops up quick and is gone just the same. most of her efforts are given to the little guy, the scattered communities that get missed by 'heroes'. she' has a bit of a reputation, referred to often as a spark in the darkness for her tendency to pick out the communities forced into the dark by heavy, greedy hands and for her illumination of people who're generally given the blind eye. her powers all remain the same with her gun as a conduit to direct the energy and the sparkpack to dim her lightning enough that she's not accidentally blowing up streetlights just by existing near them.










