Zayden

Zayden is the main protagonist in The Bacon Hair series, and is a bacon hair living inside Bacon City, eventually becoming part of the Bacon Resistance. Zayden is voiced by Tom Aglio.

Appearance
Zayden has red hair and always is wearing a dark jacket with a striped blue shirt underneath. When he joins The Bacon Resistance, he receives a blue and black motorcycle jacket and a bandit mask, which is used in combat only.

Personality
Zayden is kind and isn't good at masking his feelings. He is very understanding despite his age, and has matured since his younger years. He is very trusting of others and is very good at expressing himself.

Early life
Not much is known about his young life, but his family was deeply impacted by the way their kind were treated, as well as Zayden's mother's death. He used to believe that the Resistance murdered his mother.

Chapter 1
Zayden first appears in The Bacon Hair where he and his father are sitting at a dinning table, watching the news on a television. He asks his father if there is any more food, but his father says that he could only afford that much. He offers his food to Zayden, but he refuses out of care for his father., who gives his food back, telling him to appreciate what he has because they are fortunate to at least have a home, while others have to live on the streets. While washing his hands, he sees his father's study area with a curfew bot inside. However, before he can see more, his father shuts the door and tells him to go to sleep.

That night, Zayden gets a nightmare of his mother being killed by The Resistance. He recalls this to his friend Kenzie at school, but before they can say much, their conversation is interrupted by the teacher, who quizzes them on what is the use of the city walls. Later, Kenzie tells him to meet her at the East Wall because she has something to show him.

It is revealed that Kenzie had found a crack in the sewers leading to the outside world, where there is a beautiful forest instead of wastelands as they were told before. Excited, Zayden and Kenzie play hide-and-seek together. During his turn to hide, he meets a pink haired guest named Primrose who tells him that she has the best hiding spot. They talk for a while about why she was here before Kenzie says that she gives up. Zayden returns home shortly after.

The next day, Zayden is gifted a present by his father, which is a doll of his late mother. Zayden and his father then head to down to a restaurant where they eat their first pizza in years, enjoying it very much. Time flies past, and as they are about to leave, multiple curfew bots show up early. Hiding behind a counter, Zayden can do nothing but watch his father get electrocuted to death before his eyes.

Depressed and shocked, Zayden wanders about the streets, having escaped the curfew bots, and falls in with a group of homeless bacon hairs. However, they are attacked very soon but the curfew bots, and Zayden narrowly escapes certain death when he is saved by one of the curfew bots' own kind. The reprogrammed curfew bot shows itself before Zayden passes out.

Zayden wakes up in the forest outside the city walls, where he is tended to by the reprogrammed curfew bot, which he names Guesty, and draws a smile on Guesty's face. They are joined by Primrose shortly after, and spend many months in the woods happily.

However, the bliss would not last long. Multiple Guest Agents corner the trio, along with their President. Zayden and Primrose hide on top of the tree that was formerly their hiding spot, and Guesty fends off the Agents bravely, despite being outnumbered and outgunned. Up on the tree, Primrose regretfully tells him that she would have to give herself up to the guests in order the save the other two, and swears a pact with Zayden to remain friends before jumping down, ending what might had become a slaughter on Guesty's part. Unsatisfied, the President captures Zayden from the tree as well, and prepares to have him terminated.

Just at this moment, the knocked-out Guesty reawakens and swiftly dispatches the agents, before carrying Zayden on his back and escaping. Primrose is left behind in the ensuing chaos. They return to the city, where they are found and cornered by multiple vigilantes of the Bacon Resistance.

Trivia

 * Zayden is the only person in his family left alive.