To begin, Zuke is a character from the video game: No Straight Roads. He means a lot to me, and I think he is horrendously cute. The game in itself is very important to me, but I consider Zuke to be one of if not the most important character to my heart. I love him very dearly, and I hope this site as a whole exhibits that.

First, some pertinent information from his wiki page:

" In contrast to Mayday's optimism and hot-blooded character, Zuke is usually cool-headed and mindful of others. He is tactful compared to her and thinks more rationally. It takes a lot to make him lose his cool, and even his most angry moment in the game is quite mild.

He also seems to be good with technology, as he is a technical engineer for his and Mayday's instruments for combat, according to the Upgrade section outside of Vinyl City.

Zuke's mood only changes around his estranged older brother, DK West. After a series of back and forth altercations, Zuke reveals that he actually admires his older brother a lot and that he’s the reason he got into music. After this, the brothers reconcile and become close again."

Going on from the information provided, there is so much to be said about him that can only really be gathered by playing the game itself.

Watching the way he holds himself, the way he talks to Mayday and other characters, just his general demeanor on its own is so admirable and adorable to look at. His appearance, his mannerisms. I can't help but love his entirety, even though it's hard for me to try to describe it in full here.

It goes without saying that his design itself is a very big reason as to why I like him as well. It's so unique in a way I haven't seen before. The art style of the entire game is extremely attractive to me, but Zuke really did stand out to me the whole of the game. Paired with the way he acts, I knew he was my favorite character from the start.

I had considered Zuke an important character to me ever since I first played through the game in full and finished it in mid 2022, but around the last few months of 2023, I went through a lot of very hard very scary things all at once, and ended up being institutionalized for some time due to an incident with a medication. During my time in the hospital, I thought of him often, drew him often alongside some of my other "comfort characters" and often spoke to him in my head as if we could actually communicate with each other.

While I have always had a closer than usual relationship with fictional characters, Zuke was the first I had realized that what I was feeling towards him was an indeed fondness that one would hold for a partner. After being released from the hospital, I decided to push these feelings aside for some time, figuring that I had other things that needed to be focused on, and that becoming attatched to a cartoon character was not something I was to be doing. However, even as time passed, my mind would return to him often. With the same feelings that I had felt while I was in the hospital.

After a lot of pondering and soulsearching within myself, especially within the last few months, I am very happy to consider him my partner, an anchor, and soulmate. He means the world to me, and just the fact that I got to exist at the same time as him and fall in love with him means so much. I love him, and I want to express that love through this page, through making art of him, through purchasing art of him from others, I just want my love to be known and tangible because it is there and it is strong, crushing, and all encompassing.

I love you Zuke, and I will forever.