#but I'll never beef (ha...) with strength for strength's sake

[kringelorde]

wholeheartedly endorsing doing steroids for strength gains I don’t even give a shit man trans or cis

if I wasn’t on the Man Juice for gender reasons and I was even remotely aware of how much faster the results come, I’d be crawling in through windows to get my hands on this shit, swear to god

[sleepingsun501]

Do you have any HCs about Fox?

Hi Anon! Happy Fox Day! (10/10)

Ohhhhh boy do I ever... I don't know if I'll be able to fit them all here in one post, but I'll try!

Part 2 here

Fox is so underrated because we saw so little of him in TCW. And the only times we did get to see him, the audience was already biased against him, so I think he gets a ton of unnecessary hate for literally just doing his job.

He canonically deserved so much better (just like all the clones). I think he gave up trying to explain to everyone outside the Guard just how hard he really works to keep his brothers safe. He started out as super morally upright and followed orders perfectly, but soon realized that was getting his brothers hurt or killed, so he adapted and learned how to give orders that would protect his brothers, and he is always ready to take the fall first if shit hits the fan.

Despite how hard he tries to hide it, every single Corrie knows just how exhausted Fox is all the time. They’ve all seen the grey hairs. I think they do their absolute best to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible for Fox's sake because they know how hard he works for them, and they respect him all the more for it.

He's extremely smart and selfless because his biggest goal is to protect his brothers. I think he learned how to play the politics game purely to survive. He has his opinions but keeps them to himself because he knows he doesn't have a voice to change the circumstances, and he just has to endure. However, I think because he is so quiet, the politicians treat him like an afterthought and aren't super careful about what they say around him. So he sometimes learns about shit in advance and is able to plan accordingly and prepare the Corries for it.

To go along with that, Fox learned the value of subtle communication, secret codes, double meanings, and veiled phrases. He listens to it all every single day, so he taught the rest of the Guard how to communicate with each other in their own codes and phrases.

Palps was an absolute terror to work for. I firmly believe he used Fox like a test dummy, manipulating his biochip very early on and over the course of the war to make Fox do things he didn't want to do. I also think he made Fox forget those things, so whenever Fox came to, he would have to deal with the aftermath of those memory blackouts (orders he didn't remember giving or doing some really horrible things he would've never done on his own), and that scared the living shit out of Fox because he was afraid of being decommissioned. (If you haven't already, go read my work Set to Stun. I go into more detail about this in that ficlet).

There's a lot of debate in the fandom on whether or not Fox is either absolutely beefed under his armor or agonizingly thin. Personally, I think he's beefed because he spends what spare time he has in a gym beating the ever-living shit out of a punching bag, scrapping with the other Corries, and doing so much strength and cardio to vent all the bullshit he has to put up with every day. I think it also helps him sleep.

Ok, I'm gonna do a part 2 to this because this is getting kinda long.