#road 96 zoe

[danieesketches]

Headcanon that Kaito can’t use skates and Zoe can’t use a skateboard but it would be funny to see them try.

[mc-tummy-blur]

Hello again Road 96 community I finally got an original post after a while

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

today i am bringing you niche memes that incorporate 2 of my fandoms. tomorrow? who knows. Anyways this is Road 96 characters as things that Julian The Arcana has said.

Bonus three:

[vortex--cordis]

just two stargazing galpals

[caught-in-a-landslide]

Me and the ginger girl trying to escape to the border be like-

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Back with another Road96 drawing, it’s a bit of a old one but I love how I’ve drawn Zoe so I’m uploading here now.

(Plus, here’s a runaway teen Oc)

[splosh-crime]

I fell for the hot green-eyed redhead character again dammit

Road is my home

[ellenent]

Zoe and Sonya from Road 96! ✨ finished this game twice last week and had to draw them lol

[funk7-m4x]

Oh whoops! Sorry I dropped my head canons, be careful with them. Or don't, I don't care

[maripr]

I'm reading and playing the road 96 books after having played the original game and mile 0 and enjoying them both to death and... Jesus fucking Christ, jarod??? Chill???

This such a fascinating insight tho. Why does he speak like he's on a holy crusade?? That might explain why he buries the teens he himself kills, in the game. Maybe he thinks... He's doing them a favor?? 😰

[youraveragedeltafan]

Zoe Was Done Dirty by The Narrative

Honestly the biggest problem with Zoe's story is that the player character is forced to be friends with her due to the narrative (which, I repeat, isn't her fault). During each journey, your crosser has the chance to call Jarod crazy, clown on Stan and Mitch all day, or just arguably be a jerk to even John in some scenarios, but you can NEVER turn Zoe down. The only ones where you can (and the one I feel flows the most naturally loosely alongside No Concession) is Fire Starter, where the player can deny Zoe, and later tell her off OR forgive her if they so choose.

In almost every encounter (disregarding fire starter), YOU as the player have to either follow her lead, or be super interested in her presence and plight no matter what. This isn't a bad thing on its own, as almost all of the encounters have you forced to go through with whatever character's scheme anyway, but with Zoe, there REALLY needed to be a better excuse. If you refuse Jarod, he kills you (literally almost every encounter), if you refuse Stan and Mitch, they ignore and or threaten you (Wild boys, Thieves, etc.) if you deny Fanny, she will arrest you (Infinity), you are stuck hitchhiking for most of John and Alex's encounters, but Alex admittedly does have this problem too, to a lesser extent. With Zoe, you don't get any option to deny her in most cases, or a valid excuse--especially with her Road 96 encounter, where if you say no to going with her, she just laughs at you. At that point, just don't give us the option and bring light to it??????? It turns the situation into a 'oh, my character has a way out with Zoe and is set on it, cool' to a 'my character is being forced to cross with Zoe' for NO REASON. It could have been avoided.

I feel as if (disregarding the crazy blatant haters who dislike her for the crime of being a teenage girl who does immature impulsive teenage things. The horror.) this, along with her encounters being the slowest and most drawn out, makes others who were otherwise on the fence resent her, and gives blatant ill willed haters an excuse. Another problem I'd like to quickly touch on is the fact that you will always get her encounters in the same order no matter what. While this is needed for her story work, it makes her encounters get old extremely quickly for avid players (this isn't a problem for those who play it once, mind you). She was in desperate need for more SHORT encounters that weren't locked to happen at the same time every run, like the rest of the characters. Even one or two would do variety and justice for her character.

The thing is, most of this is a problem of plot and game design, not the character herself. Zoe isn't a bad character in the slightest, but I think that the fixation on her being important and well liked had the opposite effect for some people.

Her being a martyr and essentially the main character of a game about kids who are purposely faceless to fit the theme (and mile 0 as a whole) is a whole other beast, but that's more of a personal opinion on my part rather than clunky writing, and I respect the dev's choices and goals with her character. But for being a very important character, her story is undermined and done dirty by only being shown in cutscenes and the game telling the player how to feel about her.

[danieesketches]

Three weeks ago, Crosser Studios proudly released Road 96: RECROSSED with much support and love from the Road 96 community! So as always, thank you for your kindness! 💖🥹

I had the honour of being able to create many illustrations and animations for the project, but this piece is ome of my absolute favourites to have created!

A special thanks goes to @sampoststuff , another artist involved in the project, for creating the beautiful Polaroid photo of Kaito and Zoe for their post credits scene! 📷

The full video can be watched on YouTube and there is also a Google Form link available- if you have comments, questions or feedback you wish to give, that’s the place to do so. We’ll be answering all questions and such in a future video! ☺️

[dinosaurlover-96]

HEYYY

[vortex--cordis]

mile 0 is out, you say? (has already purchased the game)

here are some things with my road 96 oc, lily! and her and zoe's furry versions because cringe is dead

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Zoe Muller from Road 96-Lesbian

Requested by Anon

Status: Alive (Depending on Player Actions)

[jams-sims]

Idk what it is with me playing Indie games that have like this hint of having supernatural undertone. But I finished Road 96, I got the election day ending everyone lived except for the main character of course.

Im typing this directly after finishing it and getting that long as cut scene. They did my boy Max so fucking dirty. If the brain frying didn't kill him the crash sure did. It broke my heart-

Cause heres the kicker I don't think the character we play is a human. I think their a little life jumper some form of time traveler. Something supernatural! Because heres the thing in the elecrion day ending I never learned Max name on that character if we are to believe the whole each life is a different character and person. But I had learn max name in another life.

Multiple times while playing characters will ask if they know you from somewhere. An you could write that off as in you can meet character twice on the road. But it never felt that way and your answers are always something like "yeah maybe." It really hit me at the motel scene cause i hadn't interacted with Fanny at all until the motel. An she asked if shes seen me from somewhere and i go "maybe idk."

What cemented that idea for me is at the end to get the election date ending you have to stay and fight. You die twice for Zoe but this second time. She like lockes eyes with you as your character dies. And she has a full blown break down.

An it makes me feel like she knew it was the same person she met the first day in the trailer park. An it was cemented at the camp when you sleep. Why she initially process you off because before she said she didn't want to travel with anyone. Then its like a total change when you get the listen to the radio. She is 100% onborad with you coming with her, she doesnt want to be alone. An im assuming during the final scene. The reason she came to the borader anyway was to help you cross. But again you save her life by being meat shield an she loses you again.

That just my little theory on it now im off to play road 96 mile 0.

[rabiddogjournal]