Zackray

"So, c'mon, I'm begging you... don't let me kill you just yet."

- Zack to Rachel on Floor B3, before confronting Cathy

Zackray is the het ship between Isaac "Zack" Foster and Rachel "Ray" Gardner from the Angels of Death fandom.

FLOOR B6 : Zack
Rachel and Zack first meet on Floor B6, Zack's floor, where Zack kills a bird that Rachel was trying to help. He then tries to kill her, laughing maniacally the entire time as she runs away. Rachel manages to escape from him and goes up to floor B5.

FLOOR B5 : Danny
Zack "saves" Rachel by killing the resident of B5, Danny, who was about to take Rachel's eyes. Because Zack left his floor and attacked another resident, he became the sacrifice instead of Rachel, meaning that other floor masters will try to kill him. He tries to leave the floor and go back to his, but the elevator doesn't open. Rachel comes up behind

him and asks him to kill her, which disturbs Zack, they make a promise that if Rachel gets him out of the building, he'll kill her.

FLOOR B4 : Eddie
They arrive together on B4. Rachel tells Zack to look for a trigger that'll open a door outside as she looks inside, she also tells him that if possible, he didn't destroy her grave. Zack goes berserk and crushes all the gravestones with a pickaxe, accidentally hitting the trigger while he was at it. When Zack was about to destroy Rachel's grave, he thought of her request and reluctantly didn't destroy it.

Rachel learns more about Zack when she finds his file in the archive, she reads out loud to Zack, causing him to threaten her with his scythe. He asks Rachel if she's scared of him, she replies that she isn't.

Rachel is doubtful that Zack will kill her once they get out of the building, she asks him again if he will keep his word. He snaps back that he will and that if she wanted to die so badly why didn't she kill herself. The blond responds that suicide is bad, when asked why she says because god said so, as a question. Zack gets annoyed and tells her to make a face that'll make him want to kill her, like smiling. Rachel asks how, but after a moment, gives Zack a soft smile, which he complains that it isn't enough and that her eyes are dead.

Eddie, the floor master of B4, corners Rachel against a wall and wants her to agree to allow him to kill her. Zack bangs on the wall from the opposite and yells for Rachel, swearing by God that he would be the one to kill Rachel. Rachel then tells Zack to break the wall separating them, which he gladly does, smashing through the wall with his scythe.

They arrive to where Eddie is waiting for them, he asks Rachel who will she choose, Zack or Eddie. Rachel Eddie proclaims his love for Rachel and angrily says that Zack is in the way, turning off the lights so that Zack can't see him in their fight. Zack tells Rachel to find the light switch which she does so.

Ray asks Zack if she's been useful to him.

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There has been controversies about the ship regarding Rachel and Zack's age gap (~7 years, Rachel is 13 and Zack is assumed to be about 20), particularly when the ship is shipped romantically or even just platonically. Most fans compensate by aging up the characters in fanworks to prevent this. Or shipping it as a friendship.

The ship was one of the first Angels of Death ships to exist, as it was between the protagonist and deuteragonist. It grew when fans noticed the metaphors in the show, how in a way, by meeting each other, Zack and Rachel saved each other. Their strengths and weaknesses complement each other, with Rachel's intelligence coupled with Zack's brute strength and fighting ability, they made it out of the building. What happened after Zack broke Rachel out of the mental facility is up to the speculation of the fans.

It is the most popular ship in the Angels of Death fandom.

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Trivia

 * Rachel and Zack are the floor masters of the first and last floor, respectively.
 * The opening song is Zack's theme, while the ending song is Rachel's; likely representing how Zack started a new life in the outside world while Rachel supposingly ended hers.
 * Zack is the one to come up with Rachel's nickname, Ray.