#runner 4

[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]

oooooOOOOOOOO Maxine the matchmaker is in the house

CACKLING at Owen and Jody. I never knew that Jody could be so annoyed by someone lol.

[tazzy-zooming]

Continuing with procreate portraits of ZR characters with Jody! Precious, precious Jody. I treasure her.

Image ID: a digital drawing of a woman with red hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. She has light freckles across the middle of her face and is wearing a shirt that reads “Abel 4”

[notforconsumption]

runners three, four, five ready for business 

(nature of business may vary)

thank you @lime-pigeon for letting me pinch your five!!

[iamacolor]

It's becoming a habit. What? What is? You holding my hand. You hold it so easily and casually.

LOVELY RUNNER - EPISODE 15

[optimus-rhyme]

[alyx-sp]

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

[baifengxis]

anny’s favorite 2024 asian dramas

when the phone rings, south korea fangs of fortune, china a tale of love and loyalty, china reverse 4 you, thailand the double, china lovely runner, south korea blossom, china yong an dream, china the legend of shen li, china the story of pearl girl, china

[fresthered]

i'm on time. don't even worry about it

[fujunfuren]

worried bf x crying gf

THE MIDNIGHT STUDIO (2024) QUEEN OF TEARS (2024) LOVELY RUNNER (2024)

[homestarrunner]

[runner5ive]

I challenged myself to draw a city scape and thought early seasons zr for the vibe better 😌

[nunafilms]

Whoever runs this convenience store has a good eye for beauty.

No Gain, No Love 손해 보기 싫어서 (2024)

[konakoro]

This is definitely my favorite runner in book 6

[scodeeyodee]

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[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun