#david zep

[zekeyboy]

put the saw bathroom in my gingerbread house

tapp and zepp out front..

[ostendird-oddie]

Guyyys guess who had another boring history lecture

[itsaaudraw]

[dollnightfall]

You're so familiar..

Imagine having to help kill the guy who looks like that other orderly you had a crush on, wouldn't that be odd haha

[cleopatragirlie]

Personally the hottest Robert has ever looked to me was during a random Czech press conference in 1993

[dogramagraa]

okay saw fans have proven to like rare pairs sometimes. what about david (saw 0.5) and zep??🫢

[puppyuserboxes]

Saw character userboxes (part 1, Saw 2004)

please do not get into discourse about whether or not you like the characters in the tags or replies!

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

Same vibes as that one couple that just makes out in the middle of the hallway during passing period that almost every highschool has

[one-annon]

2. orderlyshipping!!!!! typical hallway crush idea you love so much. maybe a little zep imagination moment :3 im giving you freedom there

"That's pretty punk."

-- SHEPARD "ZEP" HINDLE X DAVID RADFORD - ORDERLYSHIPPING

--

part two of the razzle dazzle series! i really need to get these out faster this is like 80% zep angst and 20% orderlyshipping my bad i also like did not follow the prompt but we talked about it HAHHA

shepard always had a habit of biting his nails. it wasnt something he was aware he was doing half the time, it was pure instinct by this point. he had started wearing medical gloves around work so he wouldnt be gnawing his fingers while he was checking in, it was just a sanitary precaution. he didnt want his patients to get the wrong idea or anything. he seemed to care more about his patients than other people.

usually, with his patients, he was working in the oncology section. he was mostly helping out doctor gordon where he needed him, but today, since the doctor was gone due to something with his daughter, he was placed in the er. not totally unusual, hes been there before. it wasnt his favorite place to be, too fast paced for his paranoia, but its whatever. he got paid either way.

all day, he couldnt help the creeping feeling of something being wrong. something was going to go wrong and he didnt know what. all day he's been blaming it on his paranoia, wishing he could just go home and sleep the feeling away. he didnt know why he was feeling this way, he took his medication and everything but it just..wouldnt leave him alone. which sucked when you work in a place where you have to remain relatively calm.

of course, nothing had gone wrong. the night was going by smoothly. zep's nails remained unbitten. until he heard a voice he was all too familiar with.

he had been talking with a doctor about one of the patients when he heard it. "i need a doctor!” they shouted. the voice was one of a patient he knew well. his head snapped around, seeing two people - the only two people who have ever treated him with such kindness. john kramer and his wife. he knew john from his visits with lawrence. zep had been the one to check on him when he needed it. oh fuck.

suddenly, he was panicked. what was wrong? he noticed the blood. zep didnt get nauseated at the sight of blood. hes seen too much of it for it to bother him anymore, but he couldnt help the feeling of wanting to either vomit or faint when he saw the blood on jill. he was the first to her side when the nurse called for an orderly.

he started hitting them with panicked questions. what had happened? being the main one he wanted an answer to. when he looked down at the woman, he noticed his own hands. his hands that had no gloves. he swallowed hard, trying to regain his breaking composure. he knew about jills pregnancy. john had told him. zep couldnt help but feel excitement from it. his two favorite patients were having a child, and now he looked down at jill and realized that wouldnt be happening.

it was a long night. the baby was deemed dead. shepard stayed by their side for a long while. he couldn't help but notice how distressed they both looked - understandably so. the feeling of bile rised up in his throat but he stayed. he kept a hand on johns shoulder, explained to them how awfully sorry he was. eventually, shepard decided to leave them be. the child wasnt his to mourn, even if he did feel like he, too, had lost the poor thing.

he had ended up in the break room, one hand holding his head up and the other with it's thumb tucked between his teeth, nibbling and peeling away the skin near his nail. zep was alone for what felt like hours. it felt just how it did before he met the kramers. he had no one to comfort him at the moment. shepard didnt lift his head when he heard the door open, and honestly, he barely heard that. his mind was full of thoughts - none of them any good to help him.

"shep?" the quiet voice calmed him immensely. he knew who that belonged to. maybe he wasnt as alone as he thought.

he forced his head up, watching as his fellow orderly take a seat next to him. david was always there for him. he made zep fell less alone. he actually called him by his name. that in itself was a miracle. david made him feel wanted. it was insane to him that someone as cool as david would even think of befriending him. he was pathetic. zep wouldnt admit the slight crush he had on the man.

david's hand on his back helped him relax. which was usually a good thing, but when you're holding back tears, relaxing meant the waterworks were let loose. he refused to cry in front of the other. crying in front of david meant embarrassing himself, which meant being seen as a loser, which meant david would leave him alone. he didnt want to be left alone again.

his voice was quiet, loving. "you alright, big guy? something happen?"

shepard couldnt hold back. he told david how connected he felt with john and jill. how they treated him so well and he was so agitated about the way they lost the baby, how angry he felt that their baby was killed rather than lost. jill had told john what happened at the clinic with zep in the room. he wouldve left if he didnt need to check a few vitals on the woman. she said she trusted him enough to be okay with him listening too. she trusted him.

the first thing the punk noticed about shepard was the way he bit his nails as he sobbed. perhaps it was to quiet his cries, perhaps it was a nervous habit, maybe even an angry one, but he didnt like it. david hated seeing zep in pain, even more so, he hated seeing him hurt himself. even if zep wasnt fully conscious he was doing it in the first place. he lifted his hands, slowly taking zep's wrist between his fingers and tugging his hand downward.

david kept his hand away from his mouth, letting him finish his sentence before he asked, "would you like it if i distracted you? i wouldnt mind. i can help you with your biting problem too.

he offered a lopsided smile, which made zep's heart flutter when he pulled away from his shoulder to see it. davids smile was always so pretty to the other. it took him a long moment to regain his senses, to remind himself where he is. he shouldnt be acting like this at work, its unprofessional, is it not? whatever. shep took a deep breath, wiping his eyes of salty tears. he nods, the corner of his mouth lifting just slightly. "yeah," he replied, "that would be nice..thank you."

dave shrugged. "its nothing, really. just here to help a friend out."

as he dug through his bag, zep couldnt help but smile more. friend? david considered him a friend? he was worried the boy was getting sick and tired of him but hes willing to label zep as his friend. it wasnt very often zep gained a friend. when he first arrived at the hospital, he considered dr. gordon to be his friend, but once he realized how the man dehumanized his patients, dehumanized shepard himself, it made him feel awful. he was disgusted and repulsed by the blonde.

his eyes followed davids movements. after a moment or two, he lifted himself back up, setting black nail polish on the table. now that zep takes a look at his hands (like he does every hour), he noticed some new scars. maybe a fist fight or something. he also noticed davids nails were newly painted. was he going to get his nails painted? hes always thought about having black nails.

"you always seem to have your fingers in your mouth." david chuckled. his words had no bite to them, especially not when he smiled at zep like that. "i thought we could paint them? i did it for my cousin and it seemed to work."

shepard's head moves faster than it ever has in his life to nod. david "super cool punk guy who zep has a huge hallway crush on" radford-stanheight is wanting to paint his nails? fuck yeah! zep would take all the contact he can get from the guy. plus, it might do as david states and help him with his nail chewing.

it was better than constantly wearing gloves, in his opinion.

zep held his hand out, watching at david shook the bottle. the cap put up just a slight bit of fight, even if the polish was new. shepard didnt miss the way the veins in davids hand bulged just slightly for a moment as he twisted. he always noticed little things about david. he noticed when he cuts his hair, when he lets his scruff grow out just a little from neglect, when he changes to slightly taller platformed boots. everything.

to say he was obsessed with david was a smidge degrading but whatever. it was the right word anyway. a jolt of electricity went through his nervous system as dave took his hand and rested his four fingers over his own, his thumb resting just above the nails to hold his hands in the perfect position. he seemed like a professional nail tech, though they both knew he wasnt.

watching david paint his nails felt a little odd. zep didnt usually indulge himself in self care like this. was it considered self care? he did feel more relaxed - wasnt that the point of most self care routines? he didnt know. he barely cared for himself, even in the shower. hell he used a fucking 3 in 1. was that bad enough? it didnt matter to him, really.

the brush felt a little weird against his nail, and the polish was a tad cold. zep didnt mind. just having david in his mere vicinity made him feel comforted. he doesnt know what it is about david but he felt so safe with him around. maybe it was the fact that david was able to stick up for himself and zep needed the comfort of having someone to stand up for him. zep wasnt the type to be able to defend himself. he just took what he was given.

he enjoyed watching his nails get painted. occasionally he would look up at dave, make sure he was still there, and the pure concentration on his face was wonderful. seeing him to focused on zep and zep alone has his head spinning. the touch, the attention. it made him dizzy with some feeling.

the feeling which hes felt around david before. he wasnt a stranger to it, unfortunately.

he knew there was no chance of david and he being an item. whatever, he can fantasize. having him here, so dedicated to making shepard feel better, was enough. david was enough. he was a wonderful person and yet he just couldnt see that. zep wasnt aware david thought the same about him. to david, zep was a wonder. a curious little thing he wanted to study. how can one be so utterly pathetic and utterly beautiful at the same time?

they stayed silent as david switched hands, allowing the first to dry properly. the color was lovely. dark, like ink, but not as shiny. zep didnt mind the matte coloring, in fact, he preferred it. his eyes wouldnt catch the color as often when the lights shined on it. and, as much as he wanted to remember this moment and keep it in his mental david files forever, he had to stay focus on some of his own tasks.

it was a treat watching him work on something other than cleaning up around the hospital. zep knew david hated his job. he wished the other would quit to go pursue a job he would actually enjoy, he wished the other would stay so he could see him almost every shift. he couldnt decide what he wanted. as much as he wanted david to be happy with his life, he couldnt bare to think about him leaving.

david finished his nails, that cute look on his face slowly relaxing into his usual cool guy state. a pleased smile graced his face. shepard couldnt have been more grateful for this moment. he felt so blissful and almost wanted to thank whatever deity was watching for making jill lose her baby. oh goodness, that sounded awful. deity watching them, he takes that back. he said almost, it doesnt count.

the punk leaned back, examining his work. "nice." he commented with a smile. "that's pretty punk."

something about hearing that made zep's stomach turn. not that he was going to puke, but that he was nervous. he was the total opposite of punk and yet david, who did his nails, is saying hes punk? well, he wasnt saying shepard as a person was punk, merely his newly painted nails. either way, it made him feel that feeling again. it was a mix of nervousness, embarrassment, and excitement.

shepard wouldnt realize it until his punk went missing, but he was feeling love. he loved david and it was stupid and shameful and he couldnt help it. david made him feel important, even just by spending time with him. he was pathetic. so stupidly pathetic. and in love. jesus fucking christ, get a grip, shepard!

by the end of his shift, zep felt ten times better. david made him feel better in every way ever. when he visited the kramers again the next day, he brought up his nails, happily showing them off. jill complimented him, saying they looked nice. of course they did, david did them! john, on the other hand, just stared. sure, he gave a slight nod of acknowledgment, but he said nothing. zep wasnt offended. the man was probably just processing everything.

even when he was nervous later on, zep didnt bite his nails. they stayed painted for a while. david painted them again when they would chip. he kept them painted when he saw john the next two times, one being for a screening and the other being another er visit, this time from a suicide attempt. he wanted to bite his nails, but he refrained.

until 2003. that fateful day that david was deemed missing. he couldnt help it. like many things in life, shepard went back to his old habits, biting at his nails and destroying davids work. he would always be a nail biter, even to the day he dies.

[autumn0689]

ALWAYS ASSUME IM SOMEWHAT THINKING ABOUT SAW (2004) THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD WITH MULTIPLE PLOTS PLAYING OUT THE DETECTIVE FLASHBACK PART AND THE GORDON FAMILY HELD HOSTAGE AND THE TRAPPED IN A BATHROOM PART!!!! This movie has so many iconic traps (namely the Bathroom Trap and the Reverse Bear Trap) it introduces the Jigsaw killer and Amanda Young, not to mention the Hello Zepp theme is so FUCKING ICONIC!!!! It has Lawrence Gordon and Adam Faulkner Stanheight and honestly, every character is enjoyable in this movie. Not to mention the movie commentary is so good. It’s no wonder the Saw Franchise is still so popular. This movie is so good.

[septic-9mil]

they are frens to me :)

[ostendird-oddie]

Magma doodles with @littlesapphicraccoonguy ! Be sure to check their post when it's out ^^

First drawing is saw rehab. Mandy lives with jill during the mourning and adaptation period. She often wakes up from nightmares but jill is there for her.

Furry TappSing angst

Also i personally don't really subscribe to apprentice adam idea. I think if he survived he'd help Tapp investigate the case

[motheroftheantichrist]

Hannibal would have monologued for the full time slot and Will would have cut his foot off just to escape him. This of course leads to Hannibal cutting his own foot off to follow.

Jack is Tapp, Miriam is Sing, and either Chilton or Gideon is Zepp. John outs himself as not actually dead by standing up in the middle of the test to argue with Hannibal about philosophy. Somehow everyone except Will and Hannibal end up dead.

what if it had been hannibal and will in the saw bathroom

[madame-mortician]

I read the Saw (2004) script today, out of pure boredom and realised that they changed a lot of things. I don’t wanna list everything they changed, but one that stood out to me was Amanda.

In the original script, she’s named Amanda “Mandy” Denlon, with the last name later being reused in Saw 3 for Lynn Denlon. Here she’s a 27 year old nurse, who actually works in the same hospital as Lawrence Gordon, who faintly recognises her but doesn’t remember her name. It’s mentioned likely to allude to the fact Gordon is rather apathetic to both his patients and coworkers. He doesn’t refer to the patients by their names and he doesn’t care for his coworkers, hardly remembering Zep’s name. Because of this I’m assuming her being another one of Gordon’s coworkers that he didn’t remember the name of was intentional.

The reason she is being tested is NOT because she’s an addict, but because she attends therapy and Jigsaw feels like she complains too much. Which like… dude. Tbf, Jigsaw in the first movie was always an asshole and in the original script he’s even worse and arguably more evil than nuanced. It’s likely this was her original reason for being tested because of the original Saw short film her trap is based on. In that movie David was only being tested because he said “Living is overrated.” Amanda’s reason is stupid just like all the other ones: “You skipped work”, “You take anti-depressants”, “You cheated on your wife.”

Anyway. They actually reveal in the script that the same thing her cellmate was injected with that made him paralysed so Amanda could kill him, was the same thing Jigsaw used on himself during the course of the bathroom trap. Speaking of, at the end when he gets up he injects himself with something to regain control of his body.

The final change is that Amanda actually goes to either jail or a hospital afterwards. They have this kinda nasty dialogue where instead of Amanda saying that Jigsaw saved her, she says “I’m alive.” They then say to her “Where you’re going I’d rather be dead.” Which like, Jesus dude.

Honestly I’m glad it was changed. The direction they went with Amanda’s character is so much better and without those changes we’d have never gotten her back for another movie. I doubt Mandy Denlon would’ve been revealed to be a Jigsaw apprentice, especially if she was in jail or a mental hospital. Again, it is interesting how she was originally going to tie into the overarching narrative surrounding Lawrence Gordon, but her being some random nobody makes it more impactful than her being Gordon’s coworker IMO. It really shows that Jigsaw is willing to do this to anybody he deems necessary, whilst the original felt more like she was only tested because Jigsaw was planning to test Gordon later.

[itscalledsawpollscuzyousawpolls]

(platonic relationships and x reader fics excluded bc i wanted to focus on shipping as i think most people would define it. let me know if you want a version of this poll with those relationships included)