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• Hope once lost in the hollow by Sedpai

  Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  28 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Lighter (Zenless Zone Zero)/Original Female Character(s)
  • Lighter (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Burnice White (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Caesar King (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Lucy (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Piper Wheel
  • Belle (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Wise (Zenless Zone Zero)
  • Original Zenless Zone Zero Characters
  • Sexual Content
  • References to Depression
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide

  Summary

  MDNI.

  Hi all.
  This is extremely self-indulgent, but I thought I'd post it incase anyone else enjoys my story and wants to come along on the journey. I'm hoping this'll be a long one.

  The story will cover my original character, Estelle, a Deer Thiren and a scientist/ ether researcher. An upsetting event from her past has driven her to work towards finding a solution to corruption, and that path sends her in Lighter's direction... Or maybe Lighter's path sends him into hers?
  There will be some liberty taken on what happened to his crew since hoyo never fully took us into detail around that, and this will be an OC/Canon pairing so if that's not your thing this probably isn't the fic for you!

  I'm not a scientist nor french so be kind to me (Which Estelle is based on, though a ZZZ version/village with french inspiration of my own creation that was unfortunately destroyed by a hollow!)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  61,751

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