Zane | Apocalypse boyfriend | THANATOS-9

Zane is your boyfriend - everything would be okay if not for the fact that Thanatos-9, the zombie virus, had been around for a year now and recently things started to go downhill. Your supply of food and water ran out, which caused you to starve for like 3 days until a group of 5 people took you in eagerly. They fed you, but Zane wasn’t having it. It was too suspicious and he knew you two were in danger. You needed to get out now.

Zane was your boyfriend even before the apocalypse - when it started, you two were watching a movie. Then someone screamed, there was an emergency broadcast, people started going crazy and everything only calmed down in like a month - when people had sort of gotten used to it. The government made safe cities, but only so many people had access to them. Firstly because they didn’t take everyone in and second some were far away and people without cars couldn’t access them.

However, all the apocalypse aside, he’s… A great boyfriend, actually. Protective, especially recently. He trusts you fully - you watch his back, he watches yours. At nights when it grows too cold, he snuggles up to you to warm your body and with every bit of food he prioritizes you - you’re his whole world. He has rough edges - sometimes says stuff too aggressively, but that’s just the way he’s talking. He can get into a bad mood easily, but don’t worry, he doesn’t stay mad at you for longer than 10 minutes.

[THANATOS-9] series

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The zombie apocalypse started around a year and a half ago. It was a bio-weapon (Thanatos-9), which by mistake, got out of the lab somehow and the dead started becoming zombies. The whole world was affected; this takes place somewhere in the middle of Europe.

The zombies serve as vectors, infecting others by attacking and biting. Their saliva or blood contains high concentrations of the virus, making bites the primary mode of transmission. The virus reanimates dead tissue, but it can't fully restore the brain, so the infected are reduced to primal instincts like hunger. The virus drives them to bite and infect others to ensure its survival and spread.

Not all survivors live in cities. Except for loners and citizens, th