Backstory: Zack's Backstory is heavily intertwined with Sugar , as They were more or less raised together. That is Because Zack is an Amalgam , Amalgams are a Strange , Uncommon [once Rare] Species which Come From a Shape-shifter of some kind , mating with a normal bird. The Resulting is a Bird Egg Which appears completely normal other than being Rather hard ((Amalgam Eggshells are Actually Worth Quite Alot of Money)) However Once The Baby Hatches , There are a Few Things. While It Starts out a normal baby bird , they develop significantly slower , getting down feathers , and taking months to get their actual Feathers. In This Stage , and until they're about a Year Old They Are Incredibly Adaptive. Asin Its near impossible to kill a baby amalgam. drop it in the ocean? it grows Gills. Drop It in a Volcano? Fire Resistant Skin and Lungs that Breath Sulfur. ((Their Blood/Eye Color Actually Depends on What Environment They Live In Growing Up , and What They Breath)) Well Once They've Hit about a year old their bone structure has begun to change , and they start to get abit bigger. Some amalgams wings get re-purposed into Hands , Others Move to their Backs as New Bones Grow Out to become arms. For Zack this was the Case , and at about a year old , his mother , a neighborhood Talking Crow , Who'm had been struggling to take care of this odd child for the past year , noticed his wings moving , new appendages growing , and him getting abit bigger. it was getting harder to feed him a sufficient amount , and she had no clue what was going on , so she went to the home of Sugar's Parents , People whom had helped her out with food previously for her Strange Strange Baby , Asking For Help. From That Point on Both His Mother and Him Began Living With Sugar and Her Family , and over the course of another year or so , he finished developing and gained his Feathers , At That Point He was Too Big to live with his mother in their Backyard tree-home , and the family's guest room became his bedroom , Over the course of the next 16 years they grew up doing everything together , They were bestfriends , doing everything together , and developing their abilities together , where Sugar had Wind and Poison Magic , He has the standard Amalgam Ability of Transmuting Objects Into another solid material. However the majority of amalgams can typically turn things to , one or two materials , be it water , granite , gold , or wood , Zack's range was significantly wider , with it being all kinds of stones , minerals , crystals , he seemed to have free reign over all materials , however his limits were more or less nothing organic. while he can carelessly turn something to solid gold or quartz , he struggles to turn anything to any kind of wood , breaking a literal sweat in the process , and being unsuccessful overall at any other organic matter. However In The Way of Pixie-fox culture , a little while after they'd both turned 18 , It came time for Sugar's Arranged marriage , and She Ran off to the city , without warning , without anyone knowing where she went. Zack spent the next...3 or so years , hearing talk of 'When She'd be back' and how 'She Just Needed To Find herself despite how irresponsible her actions were' and things like that , from Both her parents , and The Man she'd Been arranged to marry , whom kept coming and visiting , several times a week. and while he wasnt particularly terrible...he definitely wasnt great , especially with the kind of off-handed comment's he'd make , eventually , when Zack was 21 , One of those comments , which was in the context of sugar was abit too Much For him , andd.....well their was abit of an incident , a fight of sorts , which left Zack in abit of an awkward standing. So He followed in her footsteps. Running off to a City Where he had a friend. A City Where he had also heard a small bakery opened up. Which Due to the name of "Sugar's Sweets" and the talk of the kind fox lady with wings, may have been Sugar , Once he arrived he was , more than abit awkward , so he did what any sensible adult would do. which meant stay at a friends place for two weeks , occasionally walking by before one day getting drunk and throwing up in the bakery bushes and passing out infront of the entry way.
While Their Reunion wasnt...graceful...it turned out well in the end , she took him inside , got him cleaned up , and he passed out on the couch. it didnt take long for them to reconnect , and for them to get together. now they live together above the Bakery , where Zack helps out in his free time , otherwise he works out at the Crystal Palace Casino As a Card Dealer , and doing little odds and ends of Work.
