Zeno124

Zenovin Wontafor (more commonly referred to as Zeno and by the alias Zeno124 online) is a carefree blue Emperor Penguin who lives on Club Penguin Island, where he has gained some fame for his occupation as a film director. He is a very creative individual, and it really shows through his movies; they are often revered for having very unique premises and challenging the idea that filmmakers are running out of ideas.

Many consider his current magnum opus to not be one of his movies, but rather an animated show called SnowBob CirclePants. He pitched the concept for the show shortly after graduating college and acted as its director, overseeing much of its production before the show had to be cut short due to stress that Zeno received from its sudden burst in popularity. From then on, Zeno became a fully-fledged film director, instead choosing to direct live-action movies rather than animated TV shows; this turned out to be a much better approach, as he was able to get his ideas out at a slower pace rather than constantly having to produce episodes like he felt obliged to do during the production of SnowBob. He and his best friend Densuke Maeyama often work together on movies, with DevMei composing their soundtracks.

One aspect of Zeno's life many don't know about is the fact that he leads a double life as an Elite Penguin Force agent, using his skill with cameras for surveillance. He also assists Gary the Gadget Guy in many of his EPF-related endeavours, such as inventions and other projects, not getting hands-on with them but instead suggesting creative improvements and renovations that could be done to them. Because of Zeno's assistance with Gary, he considers him to be his mentor. Occasionally he has been asked by Gary to participate in large-scale operations, often causing him to get roped into misadventures with the rest of the EPF. Currently, the only other penguin aware that Zeno is an EPF agent is DevMei, as at one point Zeno accidentally let this information slip. DevMei often requests to join Zeno on his misadventures with the agency, and, reluctantly, Zeno will most often agree while trying his best to keep DevMei's involvement a secret to his fellow agents.

Zeno's immune system is known to be particularly vulnerable to antibody-generating viruses such as the X-Virus, the R63-Virus, and the Y-Virus (he is one of few penguins to have been affected by all three), and as such has an antibody that was produced as a result of each of them. He handles their presence fairly well in public, telling other penguins that his X-Antibody is nothing to worry about and that his R63-Antibody is just himself in different clothes than usual and a falsetto voice (this has since changed as Zena has become more distinct from her host). As for his Y-Antibody, he outright ignores it, figuring that it's distinct enough from him in personality and looks that he doesn't need to justify its existence.

Biography
Zeno hatched on November 17, 1992 on Club Penguin Island. Reportedly, his parents gave him the name Zeno simply because they had heard of someone else with that name and thought it sounded nice. Not much is currently known about his life before high school.

For most of his life, Zeno didn't have anyone who he considered a best friend until he met Densuke Maeyama late into his sophomore year of high school. DevMei was an aspiring music artist, having messed around with music producing software; DevMei's use of technology to create something had inspired Zeno into wanting to do something similar as a career. Eventually he decided on wanting to direct a TV show, having been obsessed with many cartoons at a young age.



Upon finishing his sophomore year of high school in 2009, he began making short films with himself and DevMei as actors during the summer and posting them on WaddleTube. His channel's name was Zeno124, which was a name suggested by DevMei. (To this day, Zeno doesn't understand what the username really means; though he still uses it simply because he thinks it sounds cool.) Needless to say, the videos weren't very good, being made by two amateurs who had never really delved into acting, directing, editing, or virtually any skills that are required to produce short films before. Though they did have heart put into them, and despite their general awfulness, Zeno was praised by the few viewers he managed to round up for their zaniness and unique ideas. Over the years, Zeno became better at producing videos, and eventually garnered quite the fanbase, reaching over 1,000 subscribers in only two years.

In 2011, Zeno graduated high school and attended Beacon University as a film major, with the work slowing down the production of his WaddleTube videos. Over the course of college, he thought up an idea for a cartoon TV show centered around comedy. During his college years, he also made quite a few strange discoveries:

At one point during his freshman year, Zeno found a strange invitation lying in the snow on campus grounds. It said something about an agency known as the Elite Penguin Force, saying that if whoever received the invitation was interested in joining it, they should go to the Everyday Phoning Facility to "take the test." Obviously, this invitation was not intended for Zeno, but it piqued his interest regardless. Somehow, he passed the test and ended up joining the EPF having not even known of its existence beforehand; Gary took note of his confusion and helped him through much of his job as an agent.



At one point during his sophomore year Zeno found Apple, a young wild puffle who he quickly took into his care after seeing that he appeared lost. Zeno soon found out about Apple’s fear of actual apples, and took care not to eat any in front of him.

Closer to the end of his sophomore year, Zeno also found a strange, small, flat board with letters on it, buried in the snow next to a planchette. He brought it back to his dorm room and set it on an end table. When he shut off the light before going to bed that night, he noted that the planchette was moving on top of the board. He and Apple began to panic, but they were intrigued, choosing to pay close attention to what the planchette was spelling out. It quickly spelled out "T-H-A-N-K-Y-O-U-F-O-R-F-R-E-E-I-N-G-M-E" just before, suddenly, a ghost penguin rose from the board. Again, Zeno and Apple were frightened, but intrigued. Apparently this ghost had been dead for many years, but did not expect to be revived as a spirit, and thus became angry at Zeno. Jokingly, Zeno called her GhostieGhost, resulting in her becoming appalled and flying out of the dorm's window. Needless to say, the board was soon disposed of. In addition, "GhostieGhost" occasionally returns to observe Zeno, having a mild annoyance towards him because of the state he put her in.

Eventually, after relocating to Club Penguin University due to a freak accident at his old school, he graduated come 2015, earning a degree in filmmaking and immediately pitching the idea for his show to executives at Treetee. They enjoyed the premise, saying that kids and adults alike would enjoy its humor, and accepted the pitch, offering Zeno the money needed to produce and direct the show. Using the money he rented an office in Club Penguin City and began overseeing the production of the new show, calling it SnowBob CirclePants. It very quickly boomed in popularity, becoming one of the most watched television shows in the USA and making Zeno a lot of money, though he insisted on giving most of it to the cast and crew. Zeno didn’t expect this success, and as such production slowed down on the show very quickly.



On July 27, 2016, Zeno caught the X-Virus, and Xeno124 came about as a result. Since then, whenever Xeno meets his host, he attempts to prank or generally bother him in some way. Zeno tries to stay away from him because of this, but often fails; one instance of him running into Xeno led him into quite the sticky situation. Being quite prolific at this point, Zeno was able to inform the general public of his X-Antibody, urging everyone not to worry about him, as he was truly harmless.

On November 10, 2016, Zeno caught the R63-Virus, creating Zena124. Panicking due to her near-identical appearance to Zeno, he was unable to think of an excuse for her existence, not wanting the general public to freak out due to the presence of another antibody. Zeno ended up making the rash decision to keep her sheltered in his igloo. At this point, he didn't really consider her as another penguin, not thinking of her as anything more than simply a clone of him. The two of them made a deal that if one of them was outside, the other would have to stay inside, and they would make up a lie that Zena was just Zeno but with ever-so-slightly different clothes than usual. Eventually, though, Zena started buying her own clothes and dressing in a manner that was different from Zeno, turning her into her own unique penguin rather than merely Zeno's clone. As a result, Zeno let Zena leave his igloo, regretting his treatment of her; being as nice as she is, Zena forgave him and the two became closer friends.

Soon after, Zeno made the decision to end SnowBob CirclePants, as the demand for constant episodes was getting to him. He called for the last official SnowBob-related release to be a feature film with a higher budget to properly top off the series. Not wanting to give up on directing, though, he switched to directing and writing movies instead of a show in order to put less stress on his shoulders.

Sometime in late 2017 after Zeno switched to film directing, he caught the Y-Virus. At this point, Zeno was quite tired of having multiple antibodies, and so wasn’t really fazed at Yeno124’s existence. Luckily, Yeno immediately went about living his own life after he was created, and so Zeno was able to ignore him altogether.

Future
The future of both Zeno’s career and personal life is unclear to the Time Agency, though they do suspect that he has a strangely high amount of potential, especially compared to the type of penguin he is today. They predict that he will someday be more than a simple clueless film director, perhaps having something to do with his less than ordinary secondary job as an EPF agent, though, as unpredictable timeline alterations have been known to occur, this could be subject to change.

Film
Zeno is also rumored to be directing a movie adaptation of the popular video game Blockcraft in 2022, being a fan of the game himself.

Appearance


Zeno is an average height (4'1") Emperor Penguin with blue feathers and a brown wig that he has claimed before is real hair, though this has been debunked numerous times. His primary outfit has changed many times over the years, but his current one consists of a blue hoodie, a yellow scarf, and red sneakers. Prior to 2017, his signature outfit was a blue and green striped shirt and pants with blue sneakers. He often wore a silver watch before upgrading to a Peach Watch.

Personality
One way that Zeno is often described is a "pure right-brain." He is extremely creative, constantly coming up with unique and innovative ideas for stories and movies. However, he finds it hard to think logically, often attempting to incorporate his wild imagination into the real world. This is one reason why he and DevMei hang out, as DevMei is able to think things through in a much more logical manner rather than emotionally. His imaginative personality often causes some penguins to call him strange or childish, though most others greatly enjoy that aspect of him. His imagination often leads him into being overly optimistic, though as he has gotten older he has developed a very slight pessimistic side.

Abilities
As mentioned above, one of Zeno’s most dominant traits is his ability to think up overly imaginative solutions to problems; sometimes, he’ll need someone like DevMei to remind him of what will realistically work. Though, miraculously, his seemingly crazy solutions will oftentimes work out in his favor, especially when he’s under pressure. This is beneficial to him as, since he has no real knowledge in the field of combat like DevMei does, he substitutes this by using objects around him in creative ways. Some penguins speculate that he is luckier than most penguins when it comes to this, as certain objects will always seem to be in the right place at the right time for him to use.

Densuke Maeyama
Zeno and DevMei consider each other to be best friends. Whenever Zeno works on a movie, he will most likely get DevMei to compose the soundtrack, that is unless he feels that a certain movie requires more orchestral-sounding music. The two will often go on trips and outings together, and through these they often end up going on adventures they didn't initially expect to go on. Zeno likes having DevMei around on these adventures since he balances out Zeno’s imaginative way of thinking with more logical suggestions. The two of them have shared knowledge of the Fourth Wall and some of its properties, and they have often attempted to find its source, albeit unsuccessfully.

Zena124
Zeno's relationship with his R63-Antibody was a bit complicated at first due to Zeno’s decision to keep her sheltered in his igloo. Once Zena changed her appearance to be more unique from her host, it made Zeno see her as more of a person and convinced him to let her live on her own. This marks the point where the two of them became true friends, not just roommates who only tolerated each other. Occasionally Zeno calls upon Zena to make cameos in his movies under the guise of it being a guest starring role from Zeno himself. This has gotten Zena interested in becoming a full-time actress.

Apple
Apple is Zeno’s first pet Puffle. Since the two of them met when Zeno was very young, they have a special bond and are practically inseparable. Zeno is notable for being the only penguin Apple will not act aggressive towards if presented with an actual apple, though this doesn’t happen often as Zeno is more than familiar with the fear. However, Zeno will often forget to tell others about Apple’s fear, leading to some unfortunate accidents.

Xeno124
Being what is essentially Zeno’s evil counterpart, Xeno and Zeno consider each other enemies. While Xeno prefers not to do anything terribly evil like many other X-Antibodies do, he will still attempt to annoy Zeno with mean-spirited pranks; however, there have been times where Xeno has taken it up to eleven and attempted genuine torment on Zeno.

GhostieGhost
Since Zeno was the one who summoned GhostieGhost into existence after her death, GhostieGhost has a natural distaste in him; however, Zeno doesn’t feel quite the same way, only feeling mildly annoyed whenever he sees GhostieGhost. This annoyance did increase slightly when she turned him into a ghost, however.

Trivia

 * Zeno’s favorite color is blue.
 * Zeno’s favorite TV show is Willy and Kody. He didn’t expect to like it at first, putting it on because he had nothing else to watch, though he eventually became a big fan of the show, with some aspects of SnowBob CirclePants being influenced by it.
 * He's also a fan of Snowy Falls.
 * Zeno has attempted to spar with DevMei in Card-Jitsu. Note "attempted."
 * Zeno's EPF codename was formerly "Bigmouth," though the Bureau of Fiction noticed that this was at one point entirely retconned and erased from everyone's memory for some strange, unknown reason.
 * Zeno has been spotted occasionally visiting the Club Penguin Weekee starting from February of 2015.
 * Zeno once ashamedly confessed that, for a very long time, he thought the "I" in "DevMei" was an "L," and therefore pronounced DevMei’s nickname as "DevMel." DevMei never bothered to correct him, and still doesn’t when he mispronounces it.
 * Penguins who are unaware of the Director's true identity often incorrectly speculate that Zeno himself is the Director, since he is part of the EPF and has a career as an actual director.
 * Zeno appears as a Hidden character in Penguin Kart 3: Race Through Time. His character is included in a downloadable content pack, along with Snow, SnoX, Wikipenguino45, and Penguinpuffdude.