Fan Casting Ezekiel "Zeke" Smith in Skylanders: A Cast of Heroes

A twenty-two-year-old man who was part the team of portal masters that traveled to Skylands and stopped Kaos during the 2010s. Zeke was once a pugilistic military brat poised and primed to follow in his father's army footsteps... But coming to Skylands showed him a different way, one that allowed him to shed the trauma of his upbringing. He chose to stay in Skylands unlike the rest of his teammates, where he honed his skills in magic and became a stalwart advocate for transformative justice and rehabilitation of troubled youth. Eventually, he found that Kaos had escaped when he'd proposed rehabilitative treatment for the evil portal master, and he and Master Eon conspired to get the band back together and stop Kaos's ploys. When his team finally located Kaos and the Book of Dark Magic, however, a rift opened and pulled everyone involved in the fight into the Second Dimension, where they've resided for the past several months. Eventually, his team was found by the current team of portal masters and Skylanders, and they're now working together to return home. Zeke was raised in the army for a good deal of his life, and grew used to the harsh treatment of both his abusive father, a soldier deeply resentful of his choice to become one that never wanted to be a father, and the military schools he attended that prepped him to become another cog in the machine. He used to always throw his weight around, and tried to prove he was the biggest, toughest guy on campus because that's what he was raised to do... But after coming to Skylands and making friends who affirmed to him that this way of life was wrong, he'd begun addressing his trauma and became repulsed by anything to do with militaristic ways. Now, he's a gentle and mellow sort with a quiet wisdom in his eyes, the kind of person that won't raise a hand unless he's helping someone up, and doesn't like to resort to violence unless it's absolutely necessary.