#c.t rvb

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Carolina: C.T, what does IDK, ILY, and TTYL mean?

C.T: I don’t know, I love you, talk to you later.

Carolina: Alright, I love you too, I'll ask York.

C.T: Wait- Carolina, no-

[itsyouch]

HES ALIVE!!!

Dounut and Doc is the best thing that could've ever happened to me

IM SO HAPPY I didn't realize how good of a dynamic Donut and Doc are

[bugsontoastt]

i love you CT II/Insurrectionist leader...

[heaven-s-black-box]

Perk- York x Fem!Freelancer!Reader

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Recovery date: August 20th, 2023

Description: Hello! Could I request Agent York x female reader during the freelancer project please? Like reader thinks he loves Carolina and she is jealous of Carolina but York actually loves the reader. Thank you so much!

Notes: This work was recovered in conjunction with an anonymous researcher, we thank them for their contribution.

Word count: 711

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In project freelancer, it was safe to say that Carolina was Ms. Perfect. Top of the leaderboard, respected- at least to some degree- by all of her team, strong, and smart. If she were a character in a book, dumb schmucks might even call her a Mary sue. Which Y/N recognizes is a very strange thought process, but she’s annoyed, and tired… and maybe a bit jealous as she watches York and Carolina laugh together across the mess hall.

To her left, she barely hears C.T and Wash whispering to each other.

“She’s doing it again.”

“Why doesn’t she just talk to them?”

Y/N looked up from her plate and Wash gave her an awkward wave.

“Because I like our team, and if I fuck this up I’m gonna get reassigned.”

C.T rolled her eyes and leaned forward on the table.

“Well I think being reassigned is better than ending up dead,” C.T teased. It made Y/N scowl as her fellow freelancers didn’t seem to take this seriously. “Look, if this keep up- this excessive training and studying- you’re gonna pass out in the field or something. Your rank might be going up right now, but it’s only a matter of time-”

She cut herself off and looked up behind Y/N.

“Afternoon Michigan,” Carolina said. Y/N took a deep breath before turning and leaning over the back of her chair. “I noticed you’ve been training a lot more recently, let me know if you want to spar together, and don’t overwork yourself.”

Her face was still as set as ever, but everyone at the table could tell it was a genuine offer. Just another way she was Ms. Perfect.

Y/N nodded, mumbling a small thanks, and Carolina left.

When she turned back around, Wash and C.T had both left. She let out a long sigh and buried her head in her arms. Everything hurt, maybe Carolina and C.T were right; she needed a break.

A gentle tap at her shoulder made her jump, slamming her knee into the underside of the table. She groaned, rubbing at it as York laughed.

“York?” Y/N asked as his laughter died out. “I thought you’d have left with Carolina.”

“Ugh, don’t tell me you think that too. It’s bad enough that North won’t get off my back about it.”

“About what?”

York tapped the chair beside Y/N, wordlessly asking if he could sit. She nodded, waving her hand, so he took a seat and folded one arm against his chest and rested his chin on his other palm. 

“Me and Carolina.”

There was a cold feeling spreading through Y/N’s chest. It made her cross her arms to try and lessen the pressure.

“What about you two?” Y/N raised a brow.

York laughed before swiftly skipping over the subject.

“I have been told, by multiple people, that I owe you an apology.” He leaned forward, getting into Y/N’s personal space. “Y/N, I’m sorry for being an oblivious fuck.”

Y/N felt her face heat up as she blinked owlishly.

“Wh-huh?”

“Look, the thing with Carolina and I is…” he shifted his gaze awkwardly as he tried to come up with an explanation, “it’s a long story. But,” he raised the hand from across his chest and pointed a finger in the air, “I don’t love her.”

“But I thought-”

“You and half the project it seems,” he chuckled. “But that’s fine.”

Y/N frowned. “But, what if you try to date someone? What if they think you’re already taken, or at least-”

York grabbed the sides of her face, a cocky smirk plastered on his face.

“Then I’ll just have to explain the obvious perk to her.”

“Perk?”

He leaned in and pressed a gentle kiss to Y/N’s lips. When he pulled away, she could still feel his breath on her lips as he whispered, “If everyone’s too busy trying to can Carolina and I for personal relationships, no one’s looking at my actual personal relationships.”

She blinked a few times before an uncontrollable grin spread across her face.

“That is a nice perk, but I like this one better,” Y/N hummed as she kissed York again.

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RVB Romantic Relationship Royale- Round 2, Part 2, Poll 7

[tvckerwash]

@joltning I present to thee the elaboration requested:

When broken down to the bare essentials Wash and C.T fulfill the same function within the story, and the differences between them as characters mostly results from how the story was executed when it came to them fulfilling that function. 

For example, everybody (myself included) complains about how C.T exists solely as a plot device in the Freelancer Saga, but nobody complains about how Wash also exists solely as a plot device in Recovery One and Recollection. I mean Reconstruction is literally the ‘omg theres a plot!?!?!?!?” season of RvB, and without Wash there is no story. 

The main reason Wash isn’t perceived in the same way as C.T is due to the level of freedom the writers had when it came to telling the story they wanted to tell. The Blood Gulch Chronicles and Out of Mind set the foundations for Recovery One and Recollection, but it was through Wash that the lore of RvB was reconstructed into a cohesive story. The unexplainable was explained, the unelaborated was elaborated upon, and all the wacky hijinks and random bits and bobs of the previous seasons were tied together in a way that answered the question asked in episode one: Why are all of these idiots stuck in a canyon in the middle of nowhere while being separated into color coded teams that are fighting each other?

C.T however did not have the same level of freedom as Wash, and this is because of pfl’s nature as a prequel combined with the pacing of those seasons. We pretty much already knew everything about her that there was to know, so there was no point in hiding anything or taking it slow because of that, hence the painfully obvious foreshadowing. This approach to the Freelancer Sage, and C.T’s story is what leads to her essentially having the same arc as Wash, just reversed—or more accurately described; mirrored, like Chief and Arbiter in Halo 2.

A majority of the reversal and/or mirroring between them manifests in their personalities, which I actually talk about some here, but some examples of the phenomenon in regards to actual plot points are:

They are both introduced as recovery agents (or rather fake C.T, who was the real C.T at the time, was introduced as a recovery agent). Wash is a single agent recovering human technology from dead Freelancers, and he uses explosives to destroy the rest of the equipment to prevent information leaks. C.T is attempting to recover alien technology from a long dead civilization with the help of other aliens, and he uses explosives to make sure anyone who knows of their operation and presents a problem will be destroyed to prevent information leaks. 

We knew exactly who Wash was, who he worked for, and why he was reassembling the blues. We didn’t know who C.T was, who he worked for, and why he was fighting Tucker in the desert. 

Wash was shot in the back and survived, but failed to subdue the enemy. C.T was shot in the chest and died just as they were going to subdue the enemy.

In regards to the real C.T, some examples include:

The Meta was portrayed as the primary conflict for Wash, but in reality he had always been aiming for the destruction of Freelancer. On the flip side, C.T’s fight to take down Freelancer is portrayed as the main conflict, but in reality, while poorly explained, tracking down the alien artifacts seemed to be her real goal (which is not as insane as it sounds when you remember that Charon Industries was more aligned with the UNSC proper than pfl was). 

Wash never hinted towards his plan of taking out the Meta in Recovery One to South, or his plan for destroying Freelancer to the Reds and Blues until he had the perfect opportunity to strike, and by then he had built enough trust that they were willing to help him out despite his secrecy. If they weren’t, well, he knew what to say to change their minds. C.T however wasn’t exactly subtle with her thoughts and feelings, and she didn’t build any trust with the people around her, so when she finally defected—which didn’t take a genius to see coming—no one was willing to listen to her or take her at her word, and there was nothing she could say or do to change their minds except offering concrete evidence. “I’m starting not to trust you.” vs “I can’t trust you.”

This one isn’t a plot point, but I’m going to mention it anyway because I think it’s a nice example of this subtle yet obvious mirroring I’m talking about, and shows what I was trying to replicate in my blurb that spurred me to finally write this analysis:

Counselor: Agent Washington? Agent Washington? Washington: Sorry, what were you saying? Counselor: Were you thinking about Epsilon again, Agent Washington? Washington: No. Counselor: What happened with Epsilon was not your fault, Agent Washington. Washington: I didn't think it was. Counselor: We have safeguards for the unstable emotional patterns of an artificial intelligence. Sometimes these algorithms fail. Washington: Oh. So then it's your fault. Counselor: We prefer to think of it as no one's fault.

Vs:

Washington: It wasn't your fault, Connie. Connie: Easy for you to say. You didn't drop the ball. Washington: The ball got dropped. We were all there, it's everyone's responsibility. Connie: Dammit, why are you doing that? Washington: What am I doing? Connie: Making excuses for me. I'm not making excuses for myself...why are you?

All I've mentioned above is also why C.T’s relationship with the leader and the plot twist that the C.T in the desert wasn’t the real C.T are disliked by so many, as there was nothing to justify the sudden bait and switch like there was at the end of S6. I mean, considering we see both Tex and South use voice mods to sound like men, it reads as though that was supposed to be the case with C.T as well, which makes it feel like it was changed at the last second because everyone saw it coming.

This is an issue because A) There's nothing inherently wrong with being predictable—a good plot twist always has foreshadowing, even if it won’t be registered as foreshadowing until the twist happens in certain cases—and B) The story of the Freelancer Saga as a prequel was confined in a box created by the previous seasons, and all they were doing was connecting the aforementioned events to tie up a few loose ends and properly establish Carolina's driving force in present day S10.

[maned-wolf-caboose]

First day of RvB OC Week!

Prompt: Introduction (my boy is finally actually properly getting introduced to the internet!!!1)

Meet Aster "Arizona" Ashton, an absolute mary-sue of a guy who exists solely for my enjoyment and nothing else. At lot of things about him are just cause I thought it would be cool. (I gave him his callsign after forgetting that Arizona is mentioned to be frozen by Temple so shhhhhh, he's alive and having a time w/ the Reds and Blues.)

Long post below:

Brought into Project Freelancer as a 16 year old, he was supposed to be an experiment as to how teenagers would react to having an ai, though things went to shit before he could actually have one implanted. C.T. wound up sending him off The Mother Of Invention via escape pod before she up and left then died, where he wound up in Blood Gulch on the Reds Side of the gulch, and quickly scooped up by Sarge.

Though, he doesn't mention that he's a Freelancer, seeing how they didn't ask why his armor wasn't red, and he didn't want to destroy Sarge with the revelation of the truth (which actually leads to a spat with the Reds after Wash reveals the truth.)

He has changed so much since I first thought him up in 2022, to the point where his entire body was fully intact, he was cis, and had and actual shade of red as his armor thanks to not yet being a freelancer. Things evolved and at one point he was Norths kid, where he got his color palate from. (His armor design was/still is Norths colors swapped places thanks to this.) Though he is no longer related to any of them.

Right side explosion scar comes from the incident w/ Tex blowing Donut up (idiot was distracted with trying to figure out what to do now that Freelancers have actually showed up and ruined his plans), left side knife scar and lack of left arm come from the fight with Felix and Locus where Felix got his eye, and in his pain and blindness, Locus's energy sword got his arm. The right arm was lost in the crash on Chorus, and the vivisection scar comes from Temple, who decided he needed to be an even bigger bastard than usual.

He can see due to *insert sci-fi/Sarge invention here* that I haven't/don't care to figure out. Loves to invent and work with cybernetics, and specializes in hand to hand combat thanks to his nerd ass making clawed prosthetics.

[ancient-romes]

We had 10 seasons straight of Church as the main character but apparently no writer except for Miles could stomach the idea of having a black lead. It's so odd because Tucker is the natural conclusion to go with. He's the one who figured out the conspiracy first, outsmarted Wyoming, ran C.T around circles, and managed to create the puncture wounds that eventually lead to The Meta's death, and in the season 10 finale it was Tucker who took the first step to go help Carolina with everyone else following suit.

The show had always built up the idea that Tucker was smarter and more capable than he let on and Chorus just expanded on it naturally. Season 15 even acknowledges how far he's grown with his fighting skills AND has him be the one to mirror temple when the BnRs meet the RnBs. He's the leader of the group.

the biggest problem with rvb is that once it considers a characters arc "done" it doesn't.....know what to do with them. Epsilon and Carolina's plot in the chorus trilogy was so far removed from everyeone else because? watching her fight sharkface is so much more important for her growth than interacting with the reds and blues i suppose. Epsilon is a whole mess i don't wanna get into. Trying to avoid rambling but my point is no one knows how to handle Tucker after his growth because??? keeping him as the lead is just too fucking difficult i guess!!

I’m so sick about Tucker. He should have been the main fucking character dammit!!!!!!!!

[kapkant7]

RvB posting part 2

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Facts about Agent Virginia!

I based her personality off of one of my friends, we were making sibling Freelancer OC's and she based some aspects her West Virginia OC off of me so I based some of Virgina's personality off of her :}

Her sister West calls her 'Vee'

She ABSOLUTELY HATES being called 'Virgin' for obvious reasons

She's a lesbian (Istg I better not be attacked for this-)

Her best friend was Connecticut, she was very sad when she learned when she died

She was fine with Ohio, Idaho, and Iowa, in fact she viewed them as her younger siblings

For reasons unknown she was afraid of North, Virginia claims it's because he "looked scary" (I feel bad now because North was one of my favorite characters-)

She absolutely adored Theta

"Is it possible for me to hug Theta?"

"No Vee, Theta's an AI."

"But I want to hug Theta!"

"For God's sake you two, stop talking and get back to the mission!"

(Up for y'all to decide who yelled at West and Vee to get back to the mission)

[tvckerwash]

@joltning most of my name hc's are pretty self-explanatory, but here they are anyway because I'm normal about fictional characters and over think everything lol.

for Connie her dog tags follow the same numeration used in halo canon, and while the ‘rt’ at the end of her service number is obviously meant to be ‘Rooster Teeth’, going by halo canon those letters would be her first and last initials, so Reine Tays.

For Wash, it's a Washington D.C joke, because of course, everything in David C's life continues to be a sick joke. It's been years since I originally picked out Caito (I wanna say between 2015-2017), but I'm pretty sure I just scoured one of those last name sites until I landed on Caito (which I pronounce k-toe, but iirc it's italian so I think it can also be pronounced cat-e-oh) and went "yeah that sounds nice".

For Carolina, Lilith was chosen since that's the name of a figure in jewish mythology—specifically a demon, because religion and ancient history are very big themes to the halo franchise and RvB followed the usage of those themes with Wash, the Meta, and Pfl.

I recently decided to supplement my original head canon though by giving her a middle initial in order to tie her to the Director. I chose Victoria as in victory or victorious.

For Tex, Bethany is from the “A girl known as Beth now known as Tex” line in A Girl Named Tex, and rather than making it Tex's middle name as Burnie said it could've been in some interview somewhere, I decided to make it Allison's maiden name in an effort to somewhat flesh her out as a person outside of her role as ‘dead wife/mother’.

Women choosing to hold on to their maiden names, at least in western society, are generally career women who are already established by that name in their field, and Allison was no different as a military woman. While being a wife and a mother were important parts of her identity, she was first and foremost a soldier committed to her duty.

For Maine, I'm pretty sure I stole Matthias from a fanfic, and Maine being a spartan is a pretty popular headcanon so a quick halopedia search gave birth to the B170, making him a SPARTAN III.

For the Innie Leader, I had an idea for a scene in my C.T lives AU pop up on a walk one day, and without spoiling anything I wanted something that sounded formal and gave the same energy as a parent or other authority figure using a child's full name to indicate how much trouble they're in. Joshua Daniels fits that vibe to me, but since it sounds so formal I wanted him to go by something more casual in other situations. J.D fits that, and it works as both a nod to his adoption of Connie’s identity in canon, but also explicitly contrasts how she used C.T to distance herself from others.

share with me some name hcs for characters who don’t have full ones! (or at all) =)

[artificialsniper]

rvb women carrying sick!you to bed headcanons

based on this text from my best friend after i mentioned i think all the rvb women are built as fuck

Scenario: You threw up and are nauseous, you cant walk to your room. Youre friends/teammates with this person, they carry you to your bed. You have nausea medicine in your side table drawer.

Tex: picks you up somewhat haphazardly, but doesn't jostle you. she holds you close and runs her thumb on ur side (the hand under ur arm.) - She places you in bed and pats you on the shoulder before covering you with the blanket. Maybe she tucks you in, if youre friends.

Carolina:(post-pfl/current) picks you up very carefully, is pretending she doesn't care that much. Your head is on her shoulder, she would have her hand on the side of your head if she could carry you that way. She asks if youre ok. You say you are even though youre still feeling gross, she knows this, but goes along with it anyway. She puts you in bed and lightly tucks you in. Youre drifting off when she comes back in the room to give you [meds] and water. When you eventually wake up she fell asleep at the end of the bed.

Carolina:(project freelancer) picks you up carefully, is pretending she doesn't care. Your head is on her shoulder, she sighs with lighthearted annoyance. She brings you to your bunk/room and lays you in bed. She takes [meds] from your side table drawer and hands you them with a water bottle. She tells you to be on time for training in the morning and to go to medbay if youre still sick.

South: picks you up and accidentally jostles you. She does not want to be doing this, but feels obligated to. She cares just enough that she would feel bad if she didnt. Neither of you enjoy this, but you dont feel well enough to walk, so its whats happening. She brings you to your bunk/room and puts you in bed. "need anything?" she would bluntly ask, obviously not wanting to get anything. You say no, figuring you can get [meds] from your side table yourself. If you say yes, you also tell her where they are. She will groan and complain that its "right fuckin next to you." The comment doesn't sting, this is just her personality and youre used to it. Its reassuring that her demeanor doesn't change, she isn't interested in babying you.

Kai/Sister: She picks you up effortlessly, she has definitely carried her drunk and/or passed out friends before, while drunk. It's a learned action. You sort of curl into her. You know that, even though she is known to be a bit careless in a reveler way, she is safe and will take care of you. She asks how youre feeling as she carries you to your room, you reply truthfully, and she tells you one of many stories of how she got wasted as shit and threw up. its an attempt to make you feel better. it helps. She lays you in bed and gives you [meds] and water. "need anything else?". She asks if you mind her staying awhile, she doesn't want you to choke if you get sick again. You say yes. She tells you more drunk party stories, including one where she carried multiple friends home and "banged" a different friend the same night, until you drift asleep. When you wake up she is asleep next to you, as far as she can be from you on the bed, and there is water and crackers on the nightstand.

C.T: picks you up easily, though seems to be having a little bit of a hard time. She can handle it, she wouldn't drop you. You both have a light conversation, if you feel like you dont want to talk she doesn't mind the quiet. She taps her fingers on the side of your knee where shes holding it as she walks. It seems like she doesn't realize shes doing it, but it comforts you. She brings you to your bunk/room and puts you in bed, turning the lights on dim. Your [meds] and water are given to you, she asks if you need anything. You ask her to stay until you fall asleep. She looks torn, but says she'll compromise and stay for 15. She sits on the edge of the bed with her hand on your shoulder. She is humming a familiar song and you fall asleep surprisingly fast.

Dr. Grey: She cant pick you up, she may train in her free time, but she isnt that strong. yet. She makes a passing soldier carry you and walks at their side, asking for your symptoms and how youre feeling. You answer truthfully, she is a doctor after all. The soldier ignores the conversation, less out of respect for your privacy, more out of fear of Dr. Grey. When you arrive at your room the soldier lays you down carefully and is waved away by Grey. She gives you [meds] and water, she advises you to stay in bed the rest of the day, and says she will send someone to check on you in the morning. Grey reassures that you'll likely be alright, its just a cold, and you have her to watch over you. She says to give her a call if you need anything further as shes leaving.

Kimball: picks you up haphazardly but carefully, she is not the best at this, and thats ok. Your arm is around her shoulder, your hand resting on her opposite shoulder blade. She smiles when she notices. As you walk, she asks how youre doing, reassures you, and comments on how she noticed youve been doing well during mandatory training. You feel comfortable with her, and engage in conversation if youre feeling up for it. Kimball lays you in bed and pulls the blanket over you. She gives you [meds] and water, and asks if you need anything. You say no, she nods and reminds you to visit the med bay if you feel worse or still feel sick in the morning. Before she leaves, she tells you to "get some rest, you deserve it." and to "sleep well." Youre glad you know her.

Four Seven Niner: picks you up cautiously, though she seems like she isn't trying to. She holds you close, not on purpose, but it's comfortable and you feel like you could fall asleep. She chatters with you as she walks, telling you shit about spaceships. She asks if youre ok, and complains if you lie. Youre deposited in your bed, and she quickly tucks you in in a joking matter. Youre both laughing a bit, she gives you [meds] from your side table and gets you water. She asks if you need anything, and says she will come check on you later. Youre asleep when she came back, but she brought crackers and juice. If she isn't scheduled for something she will stay until you wake up.

Jensen: picks you up uneasily, but is determined to get you to bed. She tells you things you can do to ease sickness/feel better, and that she knows how annoying it can be. She almost trips and drops you a few times, she apologizes profusely each time, you forgive her. She lays you in bed and asks if you need anything. You say no, but thank her. She smiles and says it wasnt a problem. She dims the light and waves as she leaves.

Dylan Andrews: picks you up easily, shes pretty strong for a reporter. She asks if youre alright immediately, and disproves you if you lie. She holds you firmly, like she is afraid she will drop you if she doesn't. She does not prompt a conversation, but would not object to having one. This isn't because she doesn't want to talk, just because she doesn't want to force you to talk. She places you in bed and lightly tucks you in. She gets you [meds] and water, asks if you need anything, and reminds you to check with a doctor if you still feel bad in the morning. Before leaving, she asks if its ok if she checks on you later, you answer truthfully. Youre comfortable with her, you know you can trust her.

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RVB Romantic Relationship Royale- Round 1, Part 2, Poll 9

[tvckerwash]

shdhjsjsjhdj ty!! I love talking with people and reading about their headcanons, especially when it comes to RvB’s lore since there are so many ways to interpret it.

My interpretation of Project Freelancer and Charon Industries as organizations, and RvB's lore in general relies pretty heavily on using Halo Canon as a base, as well as using it to fill in gaps or add context. It's not necessary to do so, but imo it clears up a lot of the more vague or under explored aspects of the series since RvB does take place in the Halo universe, albeit its own weird little corner. Using Halo as a base admittedly does cause some issues because of RvBs already fucked up continuity within itself, and certain aspects had to be changed from Halo canon for plot convenience.

A good example of that in action would be the origins of the Sarcophagus, aka the Huragok. In RvB the Huragok was created by Charon and the Director had it in his possession in 2547-2548 (I can't remember what year it is in the timeline from the fanguide atm, but it's 2547 in the timeline I've made/am making to better accommodate Halo canon), but in Halo canon it was one of the alien species apart of the Covenant, and it was first seen by humanity in 2552 (the same year the war ended).

RE: Why Freelancer was created, we learn in s6 that its original goal was to find a way to help turn the tide of the Human-Covenant War in humanity’s favor by equipping soldiers with advanced technology, and they were specifically experimenting with the effectiveness of smart AI in combat.

The Director wanted more than one smart AI for the project, but the UNSC refused to give him another one due to the risk that smart AI’s posed to humanity if the Covenant ever managed to get their hands on them. So when his request was denied he was probably Big Mad over the UNSC not catering to his wants, but surprise surprise, Alpha spontaneously created Beta (Tex), who was a fully functional AI, and that’s where he got the idea of fragmenting Alpha from.

What types of missions the Freelancers undertook outside of the ones we see is unknown, though I believe every mission undertaken against Charon’s forces weren’t official missions cleared by the UNSC or ONI or whatever body Freelancer was overseen by (probably ONI Section Three, since pfl is essentially RvB’s version of the SPARTAN Program). Due to the project’s nature they would’ve presumably been sent on lower profile missions that kept them away from public eye, much like the missions undertaken by the SPARTANS before ONI declassified their existence for morale. This most likely did include strikes against real insurrectionists, and probably the Covenant too.

Anyway, all of the missions against Charon see in the flashbacks were essentially the Director going “Fuck the UNSC, they’re a bunch of idiots, and I’m going to complete my experiments even if that means I need to steal from my allies, commit acts of terrorism, and psychologically torture an AI all while lying to my own operatives."

Though the missions in s10 are more to finish up C.T’s arc, and consequently explain what the hell was going on in the desert during Recollection by answering the questions that had been left unanswered, such as:

Why did the Director want the artifact hidden in the temple? Because it was a Forerunner AI that was capable of functioning for billions of years, and since smart AI have an average lifespan of seven years, he probably wanted to use it so that Tex could live forever or something along those lines.

Who was Tucker fighting against in the desert, and why were all of pfl’s forces who had been with him (sans Donut) slaughtered by “C.T”? He was fighting against Charon Industries, and they were killed because Project Freelancer was a terrorist cell as mentioned. 

Why was Wash shocked to see C.T and her armor in the desert? Because the real C.T was dead and they had failed to recover her armor from Charon’s forces (and yes I’m ignoring the fact that Wash canonically didn’t learn the truth until s10 because I think that’s dumb). 

On to the next point, despite no longer working for pfl Tex and Wyoming still wanted to win the ‘Great War” (which is what RvB calls the Human-Covenant War) for the same reason as the rest of humanity: Losing meant extinction, and in the words of the Director “When faced with extinction…Every alternative is preferable.” 

RE: Proto Recovery, I agree that there were recovery efforts prior to THE Recovery Force, though it was probably just recovery missions conducted by the Freelancers like we see with the attempt to recover C.T and her armor in s10.

I actually like to think that when the Director wasn’t being a moron and purposefully sending the wrong people on the wrong job (like the twins at the start of s9), Wash and C.T would typically be sent on the quieter recovery missions involving any and all digital data, whether that be collecting it, or wiping/destroying the information and the systems it would’ve been on via The Cole Protocol so that it wouldn’t fall into the wrong hands.

After all, C.T is HackerwomanTM, and while we don’t see it past s6 I headcanon that Wash is a secret not so secret enjoyer of explosives who is very good at breaking things in a fiery manner (tbh this is mostly because I think it’d be really funny if the reason C.T wears armor designed to protect the wearer from explosives is because she’s often paired with the guy who will blow things up if it is acceptable to do so. Coincidentally it’s also a fantastic allegory (analogy? metaphor? idk my vocabulary is failing me rn but you know what I mean lmao) to Wash’s history of sudden, violent outbursts fueled by rage).

On the flip side North and South would typically be sent on the smash and grab recovery missions where stealth is optional, not mandatory, hence the Counselor being like “Yo this is not the right team for this mission Director.” at the start of s9 as mentioned. 

The rvb fandom ignoring the fact that there's the implied existence of at least 7 other recovery agents we know nothing about is wild to me.

[tigereyes45]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red vs. Blue Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agent Connecticut/Agent South Dakota (Red vs. Blue) Characters: Agent South Dakota (Red vs. Blue), Agent Connecticut (Red vs. Blue), Agent North Dakota (Red vs. Blue), AI Program Delta (Red vs. Blue), Agent Washington (Red vs. Blue) Additional Tags: One-Sided Attraction, One-Sided Relationship, Angst Summary:

This is a story about South as she comes to terms with how she feels about C.T., her betrayal, and facing death after. Constantly she thinks about C.T. and what could have been, but in the end, at least the Meta can't get her too.

[lalaboy]

I wonder how Wash felt after learning about Tex killing C.T