#Sara Smith

[grim-the-dog]

Zombies Run Secret Santa, here we go!

I'm so excited to be back in the fandom, and what better way to get back on track than to participate in the SS.

This year goes to @joggerfive !

I hope you enjoy this little sketch, I couldn't find any color references of your Five, so I left it black and white. But if you have one I'll definitely color it in!

Happy holidays! I hope you like it :)

(Yes, Sam being Rudolph is a reference to A Voice in the Dark)

(Also, @zrsecretsanta you can 100% add this to the megapost)

[joggerfive]

To celebrate finishing the season 1 community run (🎉🍾🎊🏃🏻‍♀️) here are some more dumb text posts based on ZR characters from this season

Sam:

Janine:

Sara:

Maxine:

Simon:

Jack:

Eugene:

[snakesartblog]

hey @wubbelwubbwubb, i was your secret santa! this is an oil painting that i made, i tried to lean a little more into the horror of the apocalypse with it. i hope you like it!

[disabledrunner5]

ZR Season One Community Re-Run let’s GOOO!!

Hearing Sam so youthful and not being able to handle pressure and after he just lost Alice but still making sure Five is safe, and then having to listen and maybe even watch zombie Alice get shot, made me tear up a little. Maxine, Evan and Sara’s appearances too. Also who shot down the helicopter has just makes the inciting incident that much better. And somehow I missed Sara speculating the green shoot thing the first time round. I can’t wait until I properly re-meet Runner 8 in the next mission.

Knowing how important Sara and Sam become to my Five is making the re run that much more exciting.

[lovelybeautifulsleep]

Australian beauty Mali Koopman is delicately captured by Nicole Bentley for the Viktoria & Woods Resort 2020. Styling: Sara Smith, Makeup: Kellie Stratton, Hair: Michelle McQuillan

[runner5ive]

What are songs that remind you of different ZR characters and why?

Simon

Look me in the eye and tell me Pansexual King Simon wouldn’t absolutely devour anything by Chappell Roan.

(This turned out to be a massive post featuring all the zr themed music videos/music fics I imagine during my runs so the rest is below the cut to save space pfft)

Five/Sara

This always feels S1/S2 vibes for me. Very much as if Five is finding their feet as a runner, but the army Sargent-esque voice reminds me of Sara training them up. The chorus especially feels very much like Five’s whole mindset towards being a runner, and reflects the pressure they put on themselves to do their best for Abel. Sara’s voice and instruction echoes back to them when they need it.

Sam

Okay, not so much the main verses, but the chorus for this one. This is pure 5am vibes for me. Very much - well the fic (I will probably never write) features a lot of Sam and Five sort of pining after each other but being scared as fuck to go for it because - well, it’s the apocalypse. It feels very much like the moment they make it ‘official’, they’ll be doomed so one or both of them will die. So, purely for the sake of superstition, they never actually decide they’re ‘together’. They never say ‘I love you’ or even say the word ‘goodbye’ before runs. They smooch and are affectionate and are a couple in every sense of the word, but they’re not at the same time. They very much hide their affections from everyone. If anyone asks, they’re just friends. Best friends.

Everyone figures out they’re a thing eventually, because it’s hard to hide their favouritism, but they still deny it, claim ignorance, and hide it. (Jody in particular is extremely furious about their not-relationship.)

So the song gives me Sam vibes, because Sam is watching Five survive against all odds, and is willing to wait for the end of the apocalypse before telling them how he feels if it means keeping Five safe.

All Abel Runners

This isn’t really about anyone in particular, but the fact that it’s about working out always gives me Abel runners training montage vibes.

Five - honourable mention!

I added this 3 days after answering everything else because it came up on my playlist.

I made an animatic of this ages ago (barely an animatic) but whilst ‘Wait for It’ is Sam’s song for Five, this is Five’s song to Sam. They’re mute, and 100% are proud of that and refuse to be ‘fixed’. Stubborn baby went through so many speech therapy sessions as a child where they sat with their arms crossed like >:T until the professionals gavr up and helped them learn BSL instead. Yet sometimes they wished they had the words to show Sam how much they care.

It wouldn’t let me add the original animatic as I’ve already got the Simon one above, but here’s the link, and the song.

[i-will-go-with-you-five]

to think that two days ago I wanted to punch Sara in the face and now I want to punch Simon in the face instead is mind-boggling to me.

[notforconsumption]

googles how do u make arms big and strong in pixel

[softballrunner]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Zombies Run! Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Runner Five/Sam Yao, Runner Five & Sam Yao, Simon Lauchlan & Runner Five Characters: Runner Five (Zombies Run!), Sam Yao, Simon Lauchlan, Janine De Luca, Sara Smith (Zombies Run!), Maxine Myers, Jody Marsh Additional Tags: Zombies Run! Season 2 Summary:

Minor season 2 spoilers.

Janine, Five, Sam, Jody, Maxine, Sara, and Simon go to an abandoned ski lodge to follow a lead about one of VanArk's possible research facilities. Lots of stuff happens.

[tazzy-zooming]

Hello @curiousobsession101 !! I am your ZR Secret Santa!! You said you like 5ara so I ran with that! I think the biggest show of love post-apocalypse is guarding your partner so they can sleep without anyone waking them up for an emergency mission.

Five is there, deep, deep under the blankets.

Thank you @delucadarling and @notforconsumption for organizing this!

Image ID: a digital drawing of a woman holding an axe leaning against a blanket pile with an affectionate smile on her face. The pile is labeled “sleeping five. Do not wake”. There is a window on the wall behind them. It is snowing outside. There’s a flag reading “Abel Township” out the window and a tower with a red light at the top /endID

[drowsystarlight]

Zrs2 spoilers!!

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Funny how the episode titles for these episodes are a greeting and a farewell (Hello, The Final Countdown)

[sourb0i]

@qkhilltop Merry Christmas! A bit of Five/Sara fluff for your enjoyment :)

@notforconsumption @delucadarling

[joggerfive]

Running a bit behind on the S1 Community Run because I still have the plague from SOMEONE and also I fell on my arse and broke it at roller skating class on Sunday so I've been taking it very easy (other than, you know, working in SEND and facing things like pushing kids on the roundabout all day and having a chair thrown at me)

BUT

I just walked S1 M16, and Janine calling Sara by her first name instead of Ms Smith like she does with "Mr Yao" is absolutely adding fuel to the fire of my Janine/Sara headcanons (that I may or may not write for sparktober)

I'm absolutely loving seeing the ZR fandom being more active during this community run, I hope they do this again with more seasons at some point!!

[snakesartblog]

hey @wubbelwubbwubb! i was your secret santa! you mentioned enjoying friendship (and 5ara) as well as the horror of the apocalypse, so i drew sara and five running from some zoms :)

[runbookzombie]

Zombies Run S3M44 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

I ran this on Oct 1st and had such a great time. It was a really nice day with me going around the block over and over for thirty minutes. The sidewalk I was on had uphills and downhills in a 1km loop. Perfect.

Spoilers after the image below:

This is an AI-generated image of a person in a mind-controlled haze.

In my personal life, I often listen to those self affirmation audios before bed. After doing this mission, I am very sure that’s not a good idea.

How dare you, Moonchild. How dare you and your yellow aura trick me like this.

The monster following me. What was it? Was it a figment of my imagination or was it real? In my head it looked like the Ice Warriors from Doctor Who.

I thought mind control would never affect me. Guess I’m just as vulnerable as the rest of them.

Season 3 has been a whirlwind with secrets and backstabbings, friends that turn out to be enemies, enemies that are kind of friends…. I don’t know who to trust anymore.

[abeltownshipslittlebitch]

In those race missions between S1 and 2

Five and Sara Smith: *Save Van Ark’s ass multiple times from zoms.*

Van Ark, internally without a second thought: Nice! Someone new to manipulate!