#[ 𝐜𝐡. ] - the press‚ 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 .

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☢️ ⸺ SPECIAL :

* based off of fallout 4 perk board and what those perks mean more exactly to each stat. modified because a lot of them have to do with VATS , so i'm taking them outside of VATS and using them as a basis in battle.

S (TRENGTH) , 4. piper's ability to get out of dangerous situations is dependent on other factors opposed to brute strength. melee is not her go to. she probably wouldn't be able to carry a ton's worth of junk for your sole survivor.

P (ERCEPTION) , 6. general perception allows her to perceive threats in a timely manner and even aim for certain body parts. an ode to AWARENESS , where piper is more than capable of knowing a lot of creatures weakness based on experience.

E (NDURANCE) , 6. piper is generally very physically fit and has an increased resistance to physical damage. she can be rather hard to take down. C (HARISMA) , 9. exceptionally skilled in charming and persuading other people. a lot of which means producing a convincing lie. an ode to LOCAL LEADER and INSPIRATIONAL specific perks that points out her abilities as a companion. this really only lacks being a 10 because sometimes her good karma alignment keeps her from being brutally intimidating. this also means she can not be intimidating , she will threaten and coerce , it is not her favorite course of action though.

I (NTELLIGENCE) , 5. she has the ability to use scrap to fix up her guns and her property , including a printing press she's been acutely taking care of for years. she has certainly spent no time understanding how to make drugs or how science orientated weapons work , she has a certain choice in weapon.

A (GILITY) , 6. piper has actually used stealth to her advantage quite often , it's just more in tune with charisma. this is more in junction with the fact she has a preference of handguns and can deal quite a bit of damage with them. L (UCK) , 6. sometimes her ability to get out sticky situations is luck , most of the time it's charisma and perception , but she has been known to get in quite a few critical hits. IMPORTANT EXTRAS , she has the 'gift of gab' perk. gameplay wise , that's extra persuasion for your PC , writing wise that notes that she's exceptionally talented certain persuasion categories.

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things about diamond city mayor!piper i like to think about :

-- she keeps publick occurence as her house because it's also her business, obviously. -- she turns the old mayor's whole entire building into sections to create more housing. -- she allows ghouls back in. -- nick valentine will always be someone she goes to for advice, so he definitely becomes a type of vice-mayor.

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i always like to reiterate it because a) i think it's fucking neat and b) i feel like a lot of people severely underestimate piper :

she's absolutely a survivalist. do not underestimate what she will do to survive or protect a love one. most of the time it's under a sense of moral duty and kindness. "i'm trying to give the people what they deserve. the truth." her actual quote , she's a reporter in everything they should be. for the people. for the truth. in the name of justice. yet , do not underestimate that if you threaten nat of all people , she won't hesitate to kill you. the commonwealth is not kind.

she has done things that include : realizing she was poisoned and getting absolutely stone cold drunk to wash out her system. accidentally joining atom's cult and playing along until she can get out. those are the two that stick out in my mind , she mentions at least one other , but she's just pointing out she's had numerous attempts on her life that wasn't even just a raider trying to kill her. each time she's figured it out and walked out of it.

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Bullet for Kath/Kirsten or awake for piper/Sole Survivor Alex. [This meme is so entertaining with the Matrix dashbaord]

fallout scenarios , always accepting , @kleinewahines .

" hey blue! you're finally awake. " piper breathes out when alex stirs. it's actually kind of surprising what piper's capable of when she's really trying to save a loved one or her own life. also , to be fair , alex is a lot lighter than she expected. they're held up in an old building , diamond city is probably only a mile away. there's just a stretch of land from here to around 400 feet away from diamond city that can be inhabited my either super mutants or raiders that want to try and take a stake of the nearly impenetrable city walls. walls that were like that because of people like her and nick. not the mayor.

piper's partially gloved hands actually take the woman's face in them , studying alex with another deep breath in.

" i thought i lost ya there , that took two stimpacks , all the sterile cloth i carry around and maybe some panicking. "

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{@ Piper} "Hey, can you try this and tell me what you think?" Liana held out a fork with a bite of her newest experiment on it. Having harvested a slab of nukalurk meat, she was trying to find the right combination of spices to work with the strange taste of Nuka-Cola Quantum that leeched into the meat. "Be as mean as you like, this is hard to work with."

this was random , @ofauroradreams , always accepting .

piper actually reached up a hand without looking away from the last of what she was writing , now just a pleasant little habit to go along with whatever liana is doing. when a period is pressed onto the paper , she finally looks up , lips instantly curling into a smile. listen ... in a world where a city is trying to build back up from an apocalypse , anything that has been cooked with spices and love tastes a lot better than the rushed meat of survival and death's door. fingers reach up to pluck the fork from liana's fingers , eyebrows raising in delight.

" not gonna lie , the quantam's still there , but i think it's delicious. full reporter's truth. "

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‘We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying.’ (For Piper)

deathless , always accepting , @that-kid-from-vault-101 .

" are you some kind of poet now? maybe i should take some notes. then again, these people don't care for allegories and alliteration or even being deep. they just wanted the truth. actually, they don't know what they want. i just know what i am. a journalist. the press. i know what i do. "

... big, big emphasis on the last 'i' of that statement because by some false god, piper would like to think she's helping the masses. that the truth truly matters. she doesn't think it does.

piper just turns, hand with fingerless gloves dismissing him over her shoulder. she doesn't go anywhere though. she just lights up a cigarette, head tilting back, hand falling to rest on her handgun resting in it's holster. this whole entire world is severe and maybe in the end all she wants is a softness for nat. a world that isn't bloody and severe all for the teenager.