headcanon that Ghost doesn’t know how to drive a manual transmission. Military vehicles are all automatic, and he’d never had a reason or opportunity to learn, so he just… hadn’t. At least, not well. He’d driven stick shifts enough to understand the basics and not stall every time he got behind the wheel, but it’s not something he’s super comfortable with
When he retires (or is forced to retire), the car that Price sets him up with is a manual. He makes it back to the flat (that Price also set him up with) with no small amount of frustration, and he spends the rest of the following week in a state of near-paralysis
If it were just the car, it would be fine. He’s not afraid of learning new things, and he’s definitely not one to let his own pride get in the way of being a functional adult human being. But it’s not just the car. It’s the disruption to his whole routine, the stark unfamiliarity of civilian life, the fundamental alteration of his entire life being uprooted and hastily replanted. The car is just the physical embodiment of it
He’s avoids driving as much as possible, because he hates the reminder that things are different. If he just stays in his flat, he can almost pretend that he’s just on leave. So he lives on take-out, he doesn’t furnish his flat past the bare essentials, he doesn’t let himself settle in
It all comes to a head when Johnny tries to visit on his leave. He asks Simon to pick him up at the airport, and Simon… can’t. He’s built such a mental barrier around his car, the physical manifestation of everything slipping out of control in his life, and he just… can’t
He calls Johnny, who’s obviously still at the airport if the background noise is any indication, and he pours it all out. The empty flat, the constant take-out, the unmoored feeling, and above all, the fucking car. He’s scared, he’s alone, he’s in over his head, and it’s the first time he’s admitted any of it. When he finishes his outpouring of uncharacteristic emotion, Johnny just says, “I’ll help you buy a new car,” like it’s that easy, like that will solve everything
And it does, because the car was never just a car. Johnny cashes in all of his built-up leave time and helps Simon pick out a new (automatic transmission) car. He helps Simon shop for furniture, even if it takes all day and they both leave the store frustrated with nothing to show for it. He helps Simon stock his pantry with ingredients, snacks, and pre-prepared meals, because some days are worse than others. He helps Simon get his feet underneath him, because it’s something he’s never had to do before
He never drives a manual transmission again and he thinks that maybe that’s okay
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i am not immune to sidestep hg sibling au
The truth of his actual relationship with HG is kept secret and is only privy to Jake and Nocturne. Same old broody yearner, but his brother makes him put up an act of an affable and charismatic lieutenant to get in the good graces of their accomplices and keep them in check.
He makes sure his brother's threads' integrity remain intact for threaded individuals, and tempts unthreaded ones with ideas of sedition/treachery/etc. to test their loyalty and dealing with them properly if they fail.
I'm imagining a rivalry of sorts for HG's favor between him and Jake with some underlying sexual tension (flirting on each other to get on each others' nerves, the works). HG finds it amusing but, ultimately, it doesn't really go anywhere (Jake's threads makes sure of that).
Damien himself has grown tired of the his life and wanted to break free, but it went horribly wrong the first—and last—time he tried* almost a decade ago. He's practically resigned to his fate until he meets Charge once more who thought he was legitimately planning to betray HG and proposes a partnership between them.
*sidestep days (never showed his face); heartbreak; kidnapped by the farm; eventually escaped and found by HG
(idrk where i'm going with this i just wanted to draw wearing something fancier than a pair of jeans lol)
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Money is starting to feel more and more like arcade tickets. You spend a bunch of money with the hopes of getting profit and than when you've racked up a bit after hours of work, you go to the prize room and all you can get is a single unwrapped twizzler or a small race car while you are starving. So you buy the twizzler only for some dipshit to come out of the wood works and call you an idiot for buying the twizzler because you could have put it in the bank and had a chance of losing it all or in 70 years you can buy 3 twizzlers. Idk. This makes sense to me
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we need to de-gender all clothing but specifically especially shoes. I have little manlet feet so most of the time my options are either children’s shoes (have lightning mcqueen and paw patrol on them) or women’s shoes (divine feminine fur lining)
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Jinman didn't leave Jian to fend for herself for no reason, that man came back bloodied and needing to be carried to walk, he was not taking a nap and eating popcorn while watching her get wrecked. He also prepared a defense system for her (that didn't work and I hope those 18 code reds that didn't follow the rule get fucked), he also made the house and the shop fortresses he also knew his closest friends would be there to protect her. He did what he could.
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Postin m' fuckass Denton design b'fore I forget.
(he doesn't deserve another eye. (I didn't wanna draw th' other eye.))
A little Denton headcanon I have is that he has synesthesia, which goes hand-n-hand wit his masochism a bit.
Being in pain makes him see explosions of colors in his head!! N loud sounds like drills, or yellin or.. other things, make him see color too. What a freaky lil guy!
(Orin's voice makes him see a dark navy blue wit sparks of red—especially when he's drillin.)
Now have this fuckass mini-comic I made based on headcanon I saw somewhere on Tumblr a while ago that I added a bit more onto.
Basically summary of the headcanon is that:
Denton n Orin keep runnin into each other out in public. Denton is always excited t' see his (new) favorite dentist, n always shouts at him from across th' street.
Orin, however, hates these interactions. He doesn't like Denton, n is actually pretty freaked out cus they keep running into each other. It's happened so much that he's convinced Denton is stalkin him.
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