#man im supposed to be doing chem hw

[jackoftheace]

Zone really isn't a kid anymore. he's technically in his early/mid 20s?? depending on how long the gap between the MOI crash and whenever we see Maine/the Meta, so def a few years SO, as one can imagine, he grows up, but not in the literal sense. he gets "wiser" (for lack of a better term), he learns and grows, but he's also still a teenager. he's still immature, cusses every other word, and views the world through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old, because thats what he is, has only ever known, and is one of the only consistent things in his life.

so, again imagine w me, that when he gets hurt, he curls in on that. he defaults to his teenage-view. the one that tells him that, since he spent from age thirteen to age sixteen in PFL and mainly that one toward the end that hit him the most as it was recent, to push people back and away. to make sure he cant get attached like he did with Maine. like he did with York and South. like he did with CT.

so he sits in the hospital. the boy. missing.