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Mrs. David M. Arakawa was Dorothy Umezama Arakawa, Grace Nixon's little sister. In 1952 Stanhope Nixon sponsored their son John for baptism in the Milltown church he went to with them. They also lived in Farrington Lake, Stanhope Nixon's neighborhood, David Arakawa lived on the other side of Farrington Lake on the north side.

From Grace's sister Lillian's Obit in 1965:

Stanhope's sponsorship:

He and Dorothy managed Riva Greenhouses together. According to father Kiyokichi Umezawa's obituary, he was a resident of Milltown as well.

The Greenhouses run by the Arawakwas (And Grace's parents may have been involved too as her Mom got a ticket for passing a school bus in 1956):

Grace mentions visiting her sister in New Jersey in this letter to Dick in 1983:

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first day on hbo war fandom: this is with all respect to the real guys im merely talking about their fictional counterparts. i don't want to offend anyone!

months into the hbo war fandom: this war veteran is a cutiepie. a babygirl, even. dare I say.... my poor little meow meow?

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im obsessed with Harry Welsh. him saving his reserve parachute to give to his fiancée so that she has a silk wedding dress, sending her the cutlery of high-ranking german officers, basically daydreaming about her always, going headfirst against a fucking tank, using the word 'dell', unironically saying "hubba hubba". also obsessed with Harry being one of the only guys in the show to have curly hair (what's up with that?) and the shortest officer; his toothy grin, his nasal voice, his friendship with Nix and Dick, etc. i just love this guy

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I feel like Band of Brothers fans don’t talk enough about the fact that Grace Nixon was like the coolest lady of all time? She played both piano and cello as a music major at San Diego State University, where she was a member of the Nu Alpha Chi Society for Japanese American students (I did some digging to find this page from her 1942 college yearbook, and you can see her front and center in this photo! She would’ve been around 21 here.)

Her college years were interrupted by Executive Order 9066, which allowed the US government to forcibly remove Japanese American citizens and relocate them to incarceration camps all over the western half of the country. Grace’s family was temporarily relocated to Santa Anita Racetrack, where she managed to retain her optimistic personality–she recalls “dancing the jitterbug at Santa Anita with [her sister] Dorothy and some ‘cute boys from Pasadena’” (quoted in her obituary). She and her family were then relocated to Colorado River Relocation Center in Arizona.

Grace was allowed to leave camp behind when she was accepted into nursing school at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where she received her degree at the age of 24. She moved to New York and worked as both a nurse and a flight attendant, proving herself to be literally the coolest lady ever!!

[The Pacific Citizen, August 7, 1948, page 3]

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Grace married Lewis Nixon in 1956. They never had children, but they “often spent time with their [fourteen] nieces and nephews, teaching them cards and backgammon and playing for keeps over the children’s allowance money. Grace and Lewis traveled the world together, raised a menagerie of pets, and remained happily married for 39 years before Lewis’ death in 1995. 

Grace is featured in Ron Livingston’s Band of Brothers video diary. He describes her as an “amazing woman… smart, vibrant, has an amazing story of her own, and she helped me a lot as far as just explaining kind of what the guy [Nixon] was about.” They are pictured together below.

Grace died in 2016 at the age of 94 and cemented herself in my estimation as the coolest person of all time!! She is only mentioned once in Band of Brothers, but I want everyone to read this and realize how fucking fantastic she was! Genuinely such a role model for me!

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how it feels reading all these archives and old documents, letters, etc,. and then going back to my day job

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love starting a war show they just throw 25 identical looking guys at u and then leave u too it. they don't even wish u good luck or nothing just. here have the lads. its like getting into a new kpop group

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What it would actually be like to date various HBOWAR men (modern au):

by me and @guarnerepdf

Speirs:

-is a cokehead finance bro

-you wake up in the middle of the night to him watching you sleep with no explanation given, just an eery smile

-is gaslighting you for purposes unknown (moving your furniture one inch to the left etc)

-buys you the fucking tackiest expensive jewelry and designer clothes as random gifts but half of it is fake

-you justify staying because he takes you to NOBU but you’re afraid to google him

-malarkey keeps telling you he's a serial killer but he has such beautiful hair

-lipton keeps handing you domestic violence brochures when he thinks no one is looking. you throw them away because you want that fucking ugly gucci belt! and the staring is sort of charming after a while

-possibly has a secret child that he is hiding from you. you're not sure.

-the first time you have sex he chokes you without asking and is confused when you get mad at him over it.

-does coke while eating dry fruit loops cereal in the morning. somehow looks hot while doing it.

Liebgott and Webster:

-challengers level toxic throuple, these two come as a pair!

-liebgott is xanned out so badly on the regular that he does not remember the last time he washed his hands.

-lieb met bill and toye in rehab and now all his friends are undergrads even though he's going on thirty.

-lieb won't kiss you in the morning "goddamn it woman, brush your teeth" but will kiss webster no problem!

-lieb likes webster more, but web likes you more because you don't call him slurs and you let him rant to you about sharks.

-you and web unionize at some point to get liebgott back into rehab. when he's gone you realize your relationship is 200 million times healthier but also extremely boring. you take him back the minute he releases himself AMA.

-lieb cannot figure out how to work tiktok, meanwhile webster has 100k subscribers on youtube and does grwm story time videos.

-you once had to be driven home by babe from the gas station after lieb kicked you out of the car. the fight was because he didn't believe you when you said you were allergic to gluten. babe lets you play cinnamon girl by lana del rey on the way home.

-lieb keeps trying to weaponize therapy language against you, 'baby you're fucking gaslighting me!' webster just makes it worse when he tries to explain what the terms actually mean.

Bill:

-you start dating Bill after he steals you away from Babe. Babe was nice, but you got the ick immediately after realizing he's not the leader of the friend group.

-bill sends you disgusting dick pics with extremely poor lighting. you can see his bottle of lotion in the background.

-you think it's sweet that he brings flowers when you go out until you realize they're stolen from the neighbor's flowerbed.

-you have an extremely lavish jersey shore wedding that culminates in a horrible fight when he shoves cake in your face ruining your 400 dollar makeup (that you paid for) and your 2000 dollar dress (that you paid for). during your vows babe has to hold himself back from saying something when the priest asks if there are any objections.

-DIRTY fingernails! does not wash his hands. gives you a UTI but doesn't understand that it's his fault.

-Doesn't cheat but is always on the brink of it.

-Follows multiple swimsuit models on Insta, claims it's okay because 'sweetheart, listen, it's all on the screen!'

-Is so cheap he refuses to pay for extra sugar for your coffee, 'you've had it bitter before, babe.' you are ready to murder him. takes you to chili's and acts like it's a michelin star restaurant.

Talbert:

-cheats on you immediately. within the first week.

-sends you anonymous texts to get STD tested, too scared to actually go to the clinic but is certain he's dying of syphilis.

-cries to lip for an hour when you leave him for speirs.

Gale Cleven:

-'sweetheart. are you really gonna wear that out to dinner? it's a bit...well... risque.'

-accuses you of being an alchoholic every time you drink, but Bucky has done four Jeagerbombs tonight and isn't getting any lectures. Also. Why is Bucky with you two on your date night?

-is straight but keeps stringing Bucky along because he reminds him of his father and for narcissism reasons.

-marge messages you on facebook to warn you about him, and also to sell you on her new MLM scheme.

-bucky keeps giving you mean little grins as he hangs off your man....you are very close to murdering him.

-you finally leave him after he calls you daddy in bed. not mommy. but daddy.

Bucky:

-gives you chlamidya three weeks into dating. gaslights you into thinking you got it from sitting on a public toilet seat.

-drives drunk while you're in the passenger seat, goes above 90 and almost kills the both of you.

-is in love with gale and you both know it but refuses to talk about it.

-laughs when you start crying over your new STD diagnosis.

-is the worst boyfriend in the entire world. do not date this man!

Leckie:

-cheats on you with vera, but has a jealous meltdown everytime you talk to hoosier at house parties. you were literally just asking the man for a lighter.

-hoosier is stirring shit up for shits and giggles. he keeps liking your thirst trap insta photos, commenting 'photo cred'

-cries when you confront him about cheating. writes a poem to you about how badly hurt he was by the whole situation. says he only did it because that's how he was raised! no one taught him how to love properly!!

-exploits his family trauma at any given opportunity, shameless about it

-writes you sweet yet cringy love poems

-chuckler keeps trying to warn you but is so awkward about it that you just end up super confused

-blows up the minute you try and critique his writing

-tells you you're acting 'just like you're mother!' during arguments

-eventually you break up because you cheat on him with hoosier and he cheats on you again with vera

Hoosier:

-completely emotionally unavailable

-laughs at you in the middle of a fight, then when you storm out he stares at the wall for four hours straight. no blinking. no moving.

-goes to chuckler thinking he's dying because he has a 'weird feeling in his stomach.' the feeling is literally just a crush.

-catches leckie flirting with you. doesn't cause a scene but DOES immediately cheat on you as a retaliatory action. has no idea why you're mad about it.

-determined to hurt you before you hurt him.

-somehow makes you think you're in the wrong due to the sheer FORCE of his conviction that it was okay for him to cheat on you.

-you two break up but get back together after having a baby. the baby is possibly not hoosier's but he's a genuinely good father. (the baby very obviously has leckie's face. no one is fooled.)

-during your wedding ceremony leckie has to be thrown out after making the worst best man speech of all time.

-parent teacher conferences are a nightmare because your child is biting the other kids and is failing all her classes. hoosier blames you for not helping her with her homework. you all go out to souplantation afterwards and he keeps dropping barbs about you being a dumbass.

-the two of you stay married for 40 beautiful years before dying of old age. within those 40 years you separate and get back together a total of 5 times. leckie somehow outlives you both.

Luz:

-is sweet and lovely and handsome and makes you laugh a lot but

-you're banned from six movie theatres, three bars, the pier, disneyland, and a froyo shop

-you don't even LIKE froyo but the fact that you can't fucking go there anymore is driving you up the wall

-you got kicked out of disneyland because he got into a fistfight with donald duck

-his mother HATES you. she is the ultimate boy mom. they are constantly talking about you in Portuguese behind your back. she wears white to your wedding.

-cannot go grocery shopping because he's stopped every five feet by some old acquaintance. you have no idea how he knows any of these people!

Eugene:

-you're his beard but he doesn't know it

-is the ideal gay boyfriend/husband

-buys you flowers and takes you out on beautiful dates. cringes when you try to kiss him

-everything would be PERFECT except snafu keeps creating dummy accounts to harass you, drives by your house at all hours of the night, and you're pretty sure he's planning to SWAT you.

-eugene has no idea why you hate snafu? he's such a sweet guy!

Babe:

-you're a bit embarrassed to tell your friends you're dating him....he's sweet but just so dorky

-almost puked on you after taking a dab at bill's house. you had to comfort him for ten minutes

-long suffering angel who you cheat on because you know he's just too good for you.... better to hurt him before he leaves you first!

-is popular on tiktok somehow. you have no idea how this happened but it did

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Okay, when I tell you how much I love that Lewis Nixon married a Japanese-American lady after the war and they didn’t have any children and just traveled the world together living off his families’ riches… so good. 

Also, every time I hear more and more about Grace Nixon, I can see if Nix was half the person he was as portrayed as in the Band of Brothers miniseries, I see why her and Nix would get along so well (And why she was basically able to get a lifelong alcoholic who couldn’t get two marriages to work to straighten up, how she was able to manage to live through a literal internment camp, where she literally did the jitterbug and said she was lucky because her internment camp came with “cute boys,” and then how she joined up as a nurse to serve her country and prove her loyalty even though she was going to be a professional cellist in order to escape the camp). 

Like, she’s literally my favourite person in this narrative.

And if this doesn’t convince you, I found her obituary and the fact that this was in her obituary, A LEGEND:

“In 1956, Grace married Lewis Nixon. In marriage, Grace and Lewis had a wonderful, loving life. They happily travelled the world, listened to music, supported charitable causes, and raised pets—among them Anubis the cat, Nicholas the one-eyed dog, and Peter the rabbit—as well as feeding a neighborhood family of raccoons and the annually migrating Mr. and Mrs. Duck. Grace and Lewis often spent time with their nieces and nephews, teaching them cards and backgammon and playing for keeps over the children’s allowance money.”

First off, MR. AND MRS DUCK.

Secondly, TEACHING CHILDREN GAMBLING AND FUCKING PLAYING FOR KEEPS FOR ALL THEIR ALLOWANCE MONEY IM SCREAMING THATS SUCH A NIX THING

“CHILDREN HAVE TO LEARN SOMETIME” -a literal millionaire taking three dollars off a child-

(Also this is on top of the footage of her behind the scenes with Ron Livingston who played Lewis Nixon in Band of Brothers, and Grace flat out saying he was much more handsome than her husband, Ron Livingston trying to defer and be gracious, and be like, “No, no, THIS guy was the handsome one,” and Grace basically being like LOL NO I KNOW MY HUSBAND AND YOU’RE HOTTER THAN HE EVER WAS. A QUEEN.)

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Band of Brothers | Part Six: Bastogne 

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despite my encyclopaedic knowledge of hbo war actors (“jason o’mara appeared in the first two episodes as lieutenant meehan and actually visited the site of the plane crash his character died in to prepare for the role —“) there are still some actors who, like… they weren't in band of brothers, but they feel like they should have been.

I’m thinking, like, timothy olyphant, paul bettany (in a brief cameo, after which he's violently killed off), andrew lincoln??? don’t @ me, i’m right for some reason

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on the one hand, ron speirs absolutely does not have youngest child energy —

on the other hand, he absolutely does.

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hey lydia you tagged that last win/nix gifset at "richard nixon"

FUCK

HE’S COMING

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Are you still accepting Valentine’s alphabet requests? If so, can you do Speirs?? Thank you so much! 🥰

valentines day alphabet  ( accepting! )

A   :   AFFECTION.   how does your muse show affection?

Ron shows affection by actively seeking out and tolerating peoples’ company; by letting his carefully constructed shields down around them, one by one, allowing them a clearer picture of him; by listening with rapt attention when they speak; and, of course, the constant bestowing of gifts at strange and inopportune times. If he’s really feeling bold, he might go for the lingering touch, cupping someone’s arm or letting his hand linger over theirs. These mean a lot, and are the only physical contact he’ll really initiate, because this man is...  a little touch-starved.

B   :   BOUQUET.   does your muse like flowers? which ones are their favourite?

Flowers sure are...  there. Growing. Yeah, nice colors. Cool. Honestly, not Ron’s thing, he doesn’t really take notice of them, and is certain he’d have a black thumb if he ever tried. The most he’d do for a partner is maybe pick up a bouquet at the flower shop, but he’d just grab the first one he sees. No aesthetic eye, no idea that flowers even have meanings.

C   :   CHOCOLATE.   does your muse like chocolate? which one is their favourite?

This bitch only likes dark chocolate. He doesn’t have rights.

D   :   DATE.   what is your muse’s ideal date? where / who with / etc?

Definitely somewhere private, with someone he feels completely at ease around; Ron’s not much of a movie-goer, and he doesn’t relish the great outdoors, so maybe a quiet restaurant followed by a walk in the park. There would have to be ample conversation, excellent food, maybe a bit of good music...  and it would have to be at night, so that during their walk he can watch the way shadows dance off his partner’s face.

E   :   EMBRACE.   does your muse like hugs? what are their hugs like?

While Ron never actively craves physical contact, and would even claim to dislike it...  he’s actually really touch-starved. He’s suppressed it so long that he literally doesn’t realize, until the first time someone pulls him into an embrace and he just...  unravels. To hug Ron, you have to be someone he trusts implicitly to do so  ---  that’s a list of, like, two people  ---  and you should probably give him forewarning first. While he’ll never initiate the embrace, if he allows someone to hug him, he just kind of...  melts into it. A bit of a teddy bear; will cling tightly, slightly desperate, for a few precious seconds before deciding any longer would make the other person uncomfortable.

F   :   FLIRT.   is your muse good at flirting? how do they flirt?

He’s a magpie. Ron flirts by giving gifts, preferably things he’s stolen himself (it’s more meaningful that way). He’s also not above just… bold-faced compliments, not even beating around the bush. Intense eye contact? Check. The kind of smile that could mean about ten different things, and there’s no real way to guess which one? Absolutely. Maybe Ron doesn’t flirt the way most ordinary people do, but he definitely flirts.

G   :   GIFT.   is your muse good at gift - giving or do they struggle to get it right?

Listen — if Ron’s giving out gifts, the first thing any recipient needs to do is figure out where he got it from. Hopefully, he bought it with his own money. More than likely he picked it up somewhere, and someone might be missing it. Ron’s not really a gift person, and doesn’t give out his treasures lightly — if he does, that means he really cares for someone — but when he offers them, it always means something. Either it’s something he knows they need, something that reminds him of them, or something he thinks they’d like. Maybe his gifts aren’t always obtained fairly, but they’re always thoughtful.

H   :   HEART.   is your muse quick or slow to give their heart away?

Ron’s motto is “finder’s keepers”. If you can steal it, you get to keep it...  but that thing’s under some tight security, so it’s no easy task.

I    :   I LOVE YOU.   does your muse find ‘i love you’ easy or hard to say?

He hardly ever says it out loud… but his eyes scream it, every time he looks at the person he cares about. It’s impossible to mistake Ron’s love for anything else.

J   :   JEALOUSY.   does your muse get jealous in a relationship?

Oh, without a doubt. He is very possessive of his treasures, and is used to keeping an eye out for anyone who might try and steal them; the same goes for romantic relationships. Ron isn’t overbearing with his jealousy, and he wouldn’t do things like snoop through a partner’s mail or follow them...  but if he catches someone flirting with them in public, it would be over very, very quickly. (Ron’s not above sweeping up behind them and pulling them into a kiss, right then and there, staring the errant flirter down the whole time.)

K   :   KISS.   is your muse a good kisser? why / why not?

Ron is a very confident kisser, actually a bit earnest. He’s...  not eager to please, but determined to. On reflex, he’ll cup his partner’s face, leaning into their body while pulling them closer against his own. The closer the better, in Ron’s opinion  ---  that makes it easier to find a rhythm and move with it, as though two pulses have suddenly fallen in sync. His breathing gets heavy; his pulse picks up speed; he’s guided completely by instinct, and it’s working, because as long as his partner’s body is responding well to him, Ron knows he’s doing something right.

L   :   LOVE.   who does your muse love?

He guards his heart very carefully, and doesn’t let a lot of people in; the more you love, the more it hurts when you inevitably lose them. Sad to say that by the time Ron enters the war, he doesn’t have a lot of people he cares about. His relationship with his parents is strained, and he’s not particularly close to his older siblings. While he loves his mother deeply, he rarely sees her  ---  and while he loves Margaret, well, something in his gut feels more unsettled by the day. By the time Ron chooses to stay in the army, it’s in large part because the connections he’s made there are some of the closest he’s ever had. While Ron has a deep capacity for love  ---  deeper than he realizes, or would like to admit  ---   he doesn’t tap into it often.

M   :   MOONLIGHT.   is morning or night a more romantic setting?

At night you can hide in the darkness, unseen, unknown… and so many things can happen in those shadows.

N   :   NAUGHTY.   what is your muse like in bed?

Intense is the only word that really comes close to describing a night with Ron. He does not mess around when he takes someone to bed; like anything else, he commits with a ferocity that might intimidate a weaker partner. Ron is very attentive in bed, very observant and devoting; he’s willing to try anything once. Ron’s more of a tease than one might expect; nothing satisfies him more than driving his partner to the brink of helplessness, delirious and trembling with pleasure. While he likes being in control in the bedroom, usually marking him as the dominant one, he never objects to switching  ---  indeed, those rare moments when his partner is guiding him along gives him a surprising thrill. In Ron’s mind, the job hasn’t been done right if they both don’t go over the edge at least twice.

O   :   ODE.   does your muse have a way with words?

Actions speak louder than words, and get more done. Ron’s a fast talker, but he’d never call himself gifted; if something can’t simply be done, what’s the use chattering about it?

P   :   PARTNER.   what does your muse look for in a partner? looks / personality?

Ron needs someone with self-possession, a decided self-confidence  ---  someone who knows their own mind. Nothing is more attractive to him than being able to keep a cool head in tense situations. He needs someone capable of rolling with the punches and thinking on their feet. They also have to have a gentle touch, because even if he won’t admit it, this is something he needs. Ron has a thing for dark eyes and warm smiles. Likes big butts and he cannot lie. Scars are sexy.

Q   :   QUESTION.   would your muse ask the big question or expect their partner to?

If he gets to the point where he feels like he could, he’d feel like he should...  ohhh, but here’s where that overthinking kicks in. How to do it? When’s the right time? What if they say no? This man accomplishes incredible feats of human badassery by simply...  not thinking anything through in the moment, just doing it. It’s hard to “just do” a proposal. Ron would be so nervous that it would take him ages after buying the ring to work up the courage to actually propose. Even then, it would be a very private thing  ---  no one around, no one there to witness it. He might even leave the ring box somewhere, like sitting on a desk in full view, or in the middle of the table at breakfast, and just wait for his partner to figure it out.

R   :   ROMANCE.   is your muse a romantic or a cynic?

“Romance is a myth and we’re all on the slow but inevitable march towards death anyways.  Would you like this shiny thing I found on the ground?”  (Romance him, please. Change his mind.)

S   :   SWEETHEART.   did your muse have a childhood sweetheart?

Oddly enough… yeah. Ron bounced around a lot in his childhood, moving from Scotland to Boston at a young age, but still going back for occasional European visits. It wasn’t easy for him to get close to people, but he managed it with one girl — a pretty classmate named Mary Rose, with a soft voice and self-possessed manner, who wasn’t afraid to answer math questions up at the chalkboard. She looked him in the eyes without flinching and eleven-year old Ron fell in love on the spot. They had a bit of a springtime romance, holding hands underneath the desks and kissing outside on a school bench. It was Ron’s first real experience with intimacy, with loving someone and wanting them to be his… and it was his first brush with heartbreak, too, when she moved schools the next year and simply never wrote to him again.

T   :   TRUE LOVE.   does your muse believe in true love?

He’s not even sure he believes in love, man. You have to earn a thing like that — it’s not naturally guaranteed to anyone, and even when two people love each other dearly, nothing is promised in life.

U   :   UNREQUITED.   has your muse had their heart broken?

See: Mary Rose. Then there was Ron’s wife back in England during the war, which was an absolute disaster from start to finish. Not only did Margaret leave him a whole hoard of stolen things shorter, she turned him into an inadvertent polygamist. To be fair, no one could have predicted her husband would show up alive at war’s end, after being missing in action for years… but it sure made things awkward. Separating from her was one of the most painful things he ever had to do, especially given how truly he loved her, and the son they had together. That whole experience left a bad taste in Ron’s mouth regarding marriage, and relationships in general.

V   :   VALENTINE.   how does your muse feel about valentine’s day?

He doesn’t...  actively dislike it...  just chooses not to partake, for the most part.  It makes him feel a little lonely, and then he feels stupid for feeling lonely.  In a relationship, he honestly wouldn’t know what to do on Valentine’s Day, and would let his partner plan it.

W  :   WEDDING.   would your muse get married? why / why not?

See: Margaret. Ron’s got a history. It’s not that he’s afraid to get married again, he just… knows how easily things can go wrong, and isn’t prepared to put himself on the line for that much heartbreak. Sure, allowing himself to love in the first place is also taking that risk, but — marriage is more formal somehow. Lots of legal red tape. While he likes the idea of his lover being his, and him being theirs in return… he’s ambivalent towards marriage. If it’s gonna happen, he’ll need a little convincing, and to feel absolutely confident that this is the right step — that he’s not going to be left out to dry again.

X   :   XOXO.   does your muse use / like pet names?

Not his thing, to be honest. He might try, but can never make them sound natural.

Y   :   YOURS.   does your muse get protective easily?

Protective is Ron’s middle name. When he loves someone, they immediately become the prized jewel in his hoard of precious things… and he lets no one, no one get away with hurting them. At times, Ron’s possessive streak can definitely get a bit out of hand, verging towards unhealthy at times. He needs a strong partner, able to assert themselves and set boundaries, which he will be sure to respect once established — otherwise, if Ron catches someone flirting with his lover, there will be hell to pay.

Z   :   ZZZ.   how many people has your muse slept with?

Not many at all. Ron… doesn’t make friends easily, and sex with Ron is a very intense experience, so you have to be prepared. Not many people are. He had two partners before the war, two partners during… so, a total of four people have been to Ron’s bed and lived to tell.

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(the paramedics in question were Roe and Spina)

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“One small detail I do love, private David Webster, who’d left Harvard to join the paratroopers and had established himself as a thinker, a philosopher, a writer; I will be honest, I do love him regretting his instinctive reaction to being shot. A writer editing his own words, mourning his use of cliché.” - Band of Brothers Podcast, episode 5

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most feral men in easy company, ranked :

RON SPEIRS

ron fuckin’ speirs, y’all

somebody should make a highlight reel of speirs’s most feral moments

steals things. literally just pockets them right in front of people, looking them dead in the eye. just. takes them.

took on a german machine gun and lived

stalks people silently in the woods

delivers ominous nihilistic speeches without blinking

has a cult of rumours surrounding him, each more feral than the next

Y’ALL KNOW WHAT HE DID IN FOY

working knowledge of roman history which apparently comes out of nowhere???

after v-e day, a few easy company guys brought their buddy dressed as a german right to speirs and said “sir we found this german prisoner”, and speirs, without even looking up, just said “shoot him”

“WHEN YOU TALK TO AN OFFICER, YOU SAY SIR”

(historically, said “i’ve killed better men than you”, which is possibly more badass)

pistol-whipped a bitch

uhh, remember that time he got so mad general strayer was trying to take his car that he destroyed it with extreme prejudice before shoving it over a cliff??

 T H E   G L A R E 

earl mcclung

could smell germans??  how even the hell

remember that one time the germans blew up the bridges in holland while mcclung was literally on it, and as the dust settled everyone thought, “well, there goes mcclung”, but he literally tuck-n-rolled himself over the bridge and behind a log while the explosion was happening??  and lived??

they called him freaking “one lung”.  just imagine you’re in the woods all alone, just vibing, when some guy called One Lung comes barreling out at you.   “what’s your name,”  you ask between screams of mortal terror.  “THEY CALL ME ONE LUNG”  he replies.  that’s objectively terrifying.

joe liebgott

needs therapy.

winters knew.  winters knew exactly what was up.  do not leave liebgott alone with the prisoners.

cut off a guy’s finger???  as a souvenir??  jesus freaking ch—

i think he tried to bite webster in that one scene

definitely tried to maul guarnere  ( he had it coming )

remember that one nazi

bill guarnere and joe toye

they go together because they’re the exact same level of wild animal

bill gets +1 point because they literally called him “wild bill”

stole a motorcycle, broke his leg, and tried to go awol from the hospital a few weeks later…  by painting his cast black and trying to walk out. it did not work. when the hospital staff caught him, he basically said “and i’ll do it again” 

they tried to demote him to private for this, and simply failed

joe + brass knuckles

once don malarkey was being threatened by another paratrooper, and joe came out of nowhere, slamming the guy into a wall, almost off his feet, screaming “NO ONE THREATENS MALARK”. imagine it and tell me you’re not shitting yourself a little.

both got their legs blown off, at the exact same time on the exact same day, and not only LIVED, but wisecracked at each other while waiting to be taken away

bill tried to jump out of a med-evac plane with one leg.  there was some turbulence, so he literally hopped up and was like “GIMME A PARACUTE, I’M GOIN”

joe tried to kick his brother’s ass with his own prosthetic leg

donald malarkey

“what?” you say. “malarkey was so chill.  one of the chillest guys in the company!”

what about that time he stole a motorcycle

or jumped off his roof with an umbrella just to see what would happen

or ran into open fire to try and score a luger

OR THE TIME HE CHUGGED STRAIGHT METHANOL AND ALMOST DIED

lewis nixon

“tune in or check out hoes”