I wish people would talk more about Zanka joining the cleaners as an act of rebellion from all things Hellguard. Like, yes, there’s the angst thing that comes with it and the repression, but also Zanka has clearly unlearned a lot of shit and is in a full punk anarchist phase of his life even though he’s still so uptight. Like he wears earrings now; he no longer acts fake nice, he gets visibly angry and swears; his uniform is tight and androgynous (which is very different from his fit at 15); his hair is a mess; he calls his sister a bitch. Hell he’s the first to tell Rudo the cops are useless pigs.
Like the cleaners as a whole are very aesthetically punk and even though he is another punk that fits right in, people focus on his uptightness especially in like modern aus like I wish there were more art and aus with Zanka being a punk or a skater kid — the cleaners as a whole have such 2007 grunge skater kid aesthetics — I’d like to see him in more alt clothing and committing minor crimes, going to protests, hell being an eco terrorist would so be his thing! Like idk let my boy be more rebellious.
