#eventually meeting insurance gals (married) and then tiff n nick

[vaultsixtynine]

darcy thoughts;

is like 5'10", a kind of lankiness in the limbs somewhat offset by the fact that she's not super hard-edged - soft in the chest and stomach and thighs but hard to tell under her weird desertgear overalls. arms and legs are actually pretty muscled.

can really fucking haul ass (has a long loping stride at speed) when she has to; is a pretty good climber and overall capable of surviving most desert conditions on her own. knows better than to brave stupid shit like sandstorms and stays out of them if she has any choice.

keeps live plant samples on her person (i mean literal plants like tree seedlings not Plants) in her terrarium and has a second one on bec (her drone)

bec has a Land Form (legs, less power draw) and an Air Form (hovering/can fly, big power draw) and solar panels that mostly keep her ready to go. she's also loaded with tons of sensors and measurement equipment and a camera or two.

hair is always a bit of a nightmare to manage; she settles for finger-detangling and putting it up in a big clip most of the time.

since her hair is darker it's more obvious that she has fine curly hair on her forearms and a darling strip of fine hair down her belly underneath her navel when she lifts her arms to stretch - [v*sh averting his eyes Immediately]

is kinda meh about guns mostly bc she has an aversion to blood (yes this is embarrassing, yes she swallows the aversion when v*sh is attempting to hide injuries)

earth sign. gives wildly astute observations and advice before awkwardly pausing and saying "uh, maybe i shouldn't have said that, my apologies"

can get semi-frequent nosebleeds if she doesn't drink enough water bc the desert air really takes it The Fuck out on her. nosebleeds suck for many reasons for her.

relatedly: big water advocate. drink your Fucking water.

sleeps with big noise-cancelling headphones on bc it's one of those little travelling adaptations that make her life way easier

HAD a toma named yoyo (idk i'm drawing names out of a hat here) but her toma is how she and v*sh meet - he's making a Quick Getaway and her toma was the only one saddled, so he made off with it while she was getting bec ready for travel and was gonna get out clean except someone had A Braincell and shot his ride. he was eventually going to let it go but it's kind of immaterial at that point.

darcy had hoofed it out after him At Speed (far closer and faster than the people hunting him) because THAT'S MY TOMA - oh my god they shot him. You Got My Bird Killed. basard.

she activated a guilt debt on him and made him tag along after her for a cloud survey a few towns over, which went actually very well bc he is actually highly intelligent and just entered compliant service-mode (for the most part.) bc he DID feel bad

after which she released him from her service (as if that would've stopped him if he'd actually wanted to leave) and they continued to run into one another in stupid situations / travel in the same general direction