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ghoulbread · 7 months
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ezekiel, trying to sleep: ahh, what a nice comfy bed
his mind: if cecil was here it would smell and feel like home
ezekiel: shut up shut up shut UP
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dsaf-confessions · 1 month
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omg guyz genuine confession timeee expect im too nervous to say what anon i am bc i dont wanna start arguments and make ppl start to hate me everytime i go into the askbox (tw ranting probs)
Dude sometimes i feel so weird for shipping davesport because of all his 'mis-characterization' shit,, plus most of my friends dont even ship it (woah so surprising)
im also like gen scared that I'm mischaracterizing it??? I mean, I make art, post it to my tumblr abt them but /gen its really comforting to me for some odd reason?? Like, ik they're got too great for each other and both shit ppl, but still,, even if it cant last forever they still have some weird twisted kind of love for each other, at least from my perspective
like,, Jack kinda sucks at showing emotion (he still does!! He's just lost sm its hard to, and plus the missing soul thing it'd be harder for him to feel them strongly), and dave's just fucked up in the head and maybe even heartless, but for some reason they still care despite it being, like i said, really damn twisted and shit.
LLike henry both fucked 'em up, but they still somehow find a way with each other,, i guess?? Like, they both know its toxic but they can at least try to work through their fucked up shit, because they'd still most likely care despite Jack's lack for empathy and Dave's combined. They still do feel emotions, just Jack has a hard time and Dave probably does too.
Henry fucked 'em up, but they still try, even if its really hard to do so,, they try.
idk just a rant woah please dont attack me if i got any of it ooc plsplspls tell me i promise ill do better bye
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sinfulsalutations · 1 year
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For the character asks: Hunter🩶
Because your thot about him and his thighs has been living rent free in my head so hottt <33
HEHE IVE CREATED A BRAINROT GUYS 🤭🤭
ok lets go this is fun
one aspect about them i love: his appearance, he just looks so unique and stands out so much compared to like the typical look of clones. ik its done on purpose but they did it so well hehe. and made him so hot too 🤤
one aspect i wish ppl would understand more abt them: HIS HEIGHTENED SENSES! i have like 2 wip's rn focusing on those sensory overloads. i feel like the writers themselves forget about what would come with that ability, the constant overstimulation and shutdowns. i think its so overlooked.
one headcannon: this is so weird, but i bet when they were cadets him and his brothers used to use his bandana as a blindfold and sniff something in a bag and try to guess what it is. just seems like a thing they would do
one character i love seeing them interact with: fennec... like its lowkey a rarepair and idk if i ship it that much but their like two lines exchanged was next level tension dawg
one character i wish they interacted with more: echo. i wish the batch would explore the dynamic between them more, a newcomer in a tightly knit, 'misfit' crew. i feel like there would be some conflicting views and ideas of their identity as clones and GAR as a whole.
one headcannon that involves one or more character: phee comes to him to talk abt tech and how 'HE WONT JUST GET THE KRIFFING SIGNALS!!!!!!1!1!1' and hunters all like 'oh he does honey he just doesnt know what to do with em'
hope u like these 🤍
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saenora · 9 months
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zenzenzen! heh sawry if dis is weird but i luvv hearing abt moot's self-ships & since we're new mooties i was wondering abt any hcs dat u have wit sae! ❤︎ but also how has ur day been?
NOT WIERD I AM KICKING FEETSHDHDH IN EXCITEMENEHTSS ITS MY FIRTS SAE HC ASK 😭😭😭😭😭
OKAY FROM THE BEGINNINHSHS 🥹 (I have a HABIT TO DIGRESS SO BEAR W ME
we’re a bffs to fwb to lovers tropesjdjdj!! SUPER ANGSTY AND MUTUALL PINNINGDHD!! LOTS OF MUTUAL PINNING but not until he is back from spain.
we were friends before he went to spain and ik he is a bit of an arse… at first he was reluctant but he came around.. i am mad awesome. pre-pain sae was lwk a little less dead.. i used to sneak him out in the middle of the nite and we used to stay up late talking.. me mostly i can talk for hours and we went dipping 🤭
but spain changed him.. we lost contact and stuff but pulled through.
we’re veey tired one hyperactive one inactive individual who are lwk dead. tho he is extremely high maintenance and i love to put in the work.. it works for us cause i am low maintenance.
ALOT OF SARCASTIC COMMENTS its the love language... “loser” “princess (sarcastic)”.
uses me as his personal pillow…. he says its to get back at me but i think he likes it.
he outdresses meEVRY SINGLE TIME.. while i shownup in the most normal home clothes ever.
WE RE OPPOSITES BUT WE’re very similar. so with all the fun and teasing.. its our safe comfort space with each other. a bit of a hard nut to cracka dn open but i can hug him to sleep everyday and that’s important.
we spend too much on food and accessories. somebody stop us. like grovery shopping GETS OUT OF HAND.
ooh and he loves watching cliche rom coms.. he ‘says’ he hates em but has developed a taste for the cringe things in life. still in denial tho. i make him take selfies of us.. he rolls his eyes but theure his wallpaper 😌
PRINCESS BEHAVIOUR 25/8. BUT: ROAMS AROUND SHIRTLESS and FEEDSSSSS ME.
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clowniebutt · 1 year
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AUGH SHITUP
hi, my name is ethan/rodent/kevin (i have a few other names n u can ask for those if u wanna know em)
im 13 and i will fight u
i really like uhh
fuck
i likee
LAB RATSS, this is what my blog is mainly abt, its a very nice little hyperfixation of mine, i love it
Mighty med, not this biggest fan n the world but i did watch the fucken show so shut up!!! i like alan :) she’s transfem bc i said so btw
The Villains of Valley View, i havent finished this but i will if i don’t procrastinate forever!! no spoilers or i’ll block u pissboy
Henry Danger + Danger force, havent finished Danger force but i love!!.!:!:’d bug interest in these :)) hensper rots my brain
horrid henry, biggest hyperfixation i have rn i fucking love horrid henry sm
creepypasta, not creepypasta in general but more like jeff fhe killer is my main hyperfixation from tjat rn and ben drowned floats around in my head like that dvd thingy and i know other creepypastas shutnup lemme think uhhhh inlove bloody painter always have always will! puppeteer is cool foo
harry fucking potter lololol
spooky month, i love spooky month!! i don’t support sr pelo tho, fuck him, fucken bitch
DNI YOU FUCK
Proshippers/Comshippers, you guys are fucking GROSS SHUT UPP
Dream smp fans or anyone fans w the ppl in that smp (this doesn’t include ranboo fans and i think karl was n that so that doesn’t include karl either) most of the creators in that thing are fucking grosss ewwewweww
ik some ppl don’t consider this proship even tho it is so ppl who ship the rats or ship leo with the rats or marcus with the rats or dani with the rats or marcus with leo or leo with dani or dani with marcus
if i tell u to dni without reason i just dont fucking like u and if u don’t dni ur blocked bitch
RULES
if ur n adulr dont b weird towards me!! n if ur posting abt nsfw ill ignore it dw
theres no other rule
i like ducks
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weirdcat1213 · 11 months
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trigun bookclub time :D volume 2 thoughts
chap 00.1
-vash's method of meditation is the only one that's valid in my eyes/j
-3 seconds of meditating vs 3 hours of training...huh...i wonder...why is that...and what...that says about him...
-hes bad at chess hes like me fr fr
-yey we love a day without casualties :D
chap 00.2
-the bit about us taking shelter on technology but still not knowing what the future holds...yeah that feels timeless now huh
-vash don't go there! oh no he has earbuds he cant hear me (that would literally happen to me tho)
-i love that panel where no one says anything after the girl is like "yeah i can give you pocket money." nice representation of the irritation people feel towards that kind of people. they arent mad just really tired of that bs
-oh man thats actually pretty horrible (page 23)
-"and i think of nothing but love and peace" besides that we know your head is empty but we love you so its ok
-yeah vash show her the real world
-interesting that he makes her see the chance of her dad dying (he didnt know what was gonna happen) which makes sense cuz she cant run from the truth anymore but its also interesting cuz if we was able to not see it he would. he hates seeing people dying and yet he watches and makes others watch. i dont think its about "if i have to, you have to as well" but more about her seeing the consequences of violence (what her father did) and the cycle of hate so she doesnt repeat it. idk.
chap 1
-rem coming out of his coat....hm....
-weird man coming
-YEAH SEND HIM TO HELL >:D
-if rem is holding him back you say...hmmm...i will go back to that later
-well thats creepy
chap 2
-my boi is in jail nooooooooooooo
-you can feel the size of the ship with one panel nightow is ridiculously talented when creating big spaces, like the sandsteamer shot in the last volume
-..... :c
-my babygirl :c
-i like he started the flashback angry as hell and then it turned into sadness cuz even if he makes knives pay nothing will bring rem back
-also the literal ship crashing into his memories what if I [redacted]
-SEE LOOK AT THAT SHIT! SPACE FEELS MASSIVE AND ITS LITERALLY JUST THE PLANET AND THE SHIP
-aaaand hes angry as hell again cuz the memory finished with knives. interesting
-dont look at me with those kind eyes, we saw you
-YEY ITS DIABLO TIME :D go get em
chap 3
-aw cmon :c
-and there goes the arm
-hey >:[ dont call my girl milly an idiot
-ugh you can feel how fucking stressed out he is ahhhhhhhhh
-ah yes, we love seeing how right knives is...
-huh, i wonder if knives is smiling cuz before he was like "nah she was stupid like the rest" but since she got to correct the ships's trajectory he got a bit of respect for her in the end
-is monev vs vash supposed to be like david and goliath? hm
-my god thats fucking beautiful
-also i dont think thats a ghost but maybe like her presence? like vash is remembering her and her kindness
-AH I HATE THAT I HATE THAT. THE CHAPTER IS CALLED FRAGILE, ENDS UP WITH VASH CRYING AND THE "rem" IS SO LITTLE THAT IS ONLY MEANT FOR US AND VASH TO BE AWARE OF IT WHAT IF I CRIED A RIVER AHHHHHH
chap 4
-oh meryl...oh honey...sweetie...
-the scars appear :D yey :D
-meryl is kinda asking him "arent you tired of being nice dont you want to go apeshit" but not really and i like that
-yknow what meryl is right pls go away and live a quiet life pls, ik whats coming but just thinking about it....
-yee ik the reason why but still >:v
-oh....oh i actually forgot about that...oh
-"rem didnt sacrifice her life for a world like that" im tearing up actually and idk why...its been a hard week
-lmao hes so mad at vash
-yeah hunt him down babygirl >:D
chap 5
-....metal >:D
-they deserved it btw
-huh thats actually kinda nice of him i forgot
-ofc he would blame vash for that, then again vash makes all of us at least a little bit soft i think
chap 6
-i love you vash that takes his sweet time to process traumatic situations, yes that was scary
-vash saying "im the deathwish" means a lot to me as an mcr fan lmao. i will think more about that later tho
-HES HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-YES YOU ARE A PRIEST OMG WHY AM I THIS EXCITED
-THEY MEET, OMG THEY ARE MEETING! AMAZING!
-STOP BLUSHING BRO LIKE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-WHY ARE YOU TOUCHING HIS CHIN LIKE THAT YO
-"go home or go to hell" oh im getting that on a tattoo one day actually, so metal
-...cmon, me me big boi
-THAT SMILE, THAT DAMN SMILE im gonna jump off my local cliff
-vash in the beginning saying he can read people and then wolfwood comes and READS HIM LIKE ITS NOTHING
chap 7
-"is that a friend of yours" he looks so offended lmao
-ahhhh that must be so scary, he already has knives to worry about but the fact not everyone can see legato makes his job harder ahhhhh
-bye baby ily (hes my son that i only share with a couple of other ww enjoyers)
-CAN YOU STOP BEING GAY FOR 2 MINUTES
-OH THAT PANEL IS SO GOOD (also even more princess coded, like looking at really from a castle idk)
-GUYS GUYS MY WIFE IS HERE
-i keep forgetting hes missing his little arm :c
-lmao wolfwood is right, i wouldnt go to a church all the way there :b
-yeah and shes hot while teleporting all over the place
-ok but shes really fucking cool, despite wanting to kill my comfort character, yknow how these things go
-OHOHOHOO THAT PANEL WITH VASH FOCUSING IS AMAZING
-YESSSSS, SO METALLLLL
chap 8
-aaaand...there goes my wife
-ahhhhhh he looks so little :c
-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HES COMING, HES NEAR
-idk ww :c idk when will it end
-OH WOW OH SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
-yeah right i dont like this part :b (its not bad just personal stuff)
-ok he do be looking pretty tho, i wonder if its a family thing
-YEAH MERYL SMACK THAT MF
-im a ball of rugged paper and my feelings are nothing...thanks nightow ily
-oh wait...he actually thought that was the end...thats so fucking smart nightow...wow i never considered that....
-aw babygirl :c but i cant even imagine how that must feel, how much hate he feels towards knives rn
-i think besides the "he called me by my name" meryl and milly let him go cuz they just felt he was going to matter what, like you can feel vash and his unstoppable energy on those pages
-oh hes so fucking pretty
-WAIT I NEVER NOTICED THAT BUT YEAH THAT WAS ON STAMPEDE EP 3 HOLY FUCK, THEY SAID THE SAME THING
-knives just fucking reads vash like an open book its incredible and it makes me so sad cuz vash cant escape, he cant hide nothing, not in front of knives
-he cant be knives without the good old gaslighting >:D
-the yelling throughout the page is amazing
-vash is crying noooooooooooooooo :c
-NO. STAY AWAY FROM ME, EVIL PANEL THAT HAUNTS MY DREAMS
-also :c
-im not too sure of what happened with his legs but ok sure
-im afraid my babygirl cant give you an answer ww, i dont think he knows
-.....why is the world so mean to him :c
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quietgamelover · 2 years
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Timeforce was chosen by my wheel of Power rangers. One of my favorite seasons actually, but doesn’t necessarily mean I’m gonna have nostalgia glasses about these mechs.
(Also jesus this season TESTED me for finding pictures that weren’t 96p quality. Like lightspeed and wildforce were rough but damn my dudes)
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Timeforce Megazord: Mode Red 4/10
So the main megazord has two modes so I’m gonna rate em separately cause they’re distinct enough. This one is ok, like I’m not angry with it but I also don’t know that I’m a fan? Going through all these ratings I’ve realized how picky I am about the helmets and this guy doesn’t fall into a good spot for me. It’s so WIDE, I understand the idea and I like the concept but in terms of improving it I wouldn’t know where to start. I do like that its supposed to be a knight with the shield and stuff, which matches the battelizer Wes gets but I can tell the idea of “futuristic megazord” and knight really clashed.
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Mode Blue 6/10
Ok Ik what your thinking but I have my reasons on this guy. The helmet is definitely out there but imo the shoulders and the way the torso shapes up into the head makes it feel like they committed to the design a little more. Ik in the sentai series this one gets a bit more screen time but like the American show should’ve used more footage of this guy cause it’s the better half for me. Also I like that the ship the rangers use to board has a purpose outside of just being an elevator.
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Time Shadow 9/10
(This thing took forever to find even a remotely decent picture cause they like AVOID showing a full body shot at all times cause its supposed to be mysterious but like BRUH i wanna see the cool zord! PLEASE!)
This things pretty badass and the developers clearly knew they popped off on it cause they make this thing so cool in the show. The hand blades are super unique and the overall shape of the zord as a whole is very reminiscent of it’s jet form it takes to make the time jump which I really like. Also everythings sharp in like the perfect place, and they left the legs simple (but not boring) because they knew the blades and the helmet were the stars. Design wise this thing just slaps and I’m actually bumping my rating up to 9 now cause I talked myself into it.
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Q-rex Megazord 4/10
Ik I’m gonna get some kinda hate from the Quantum ranger fans but this thing is kinda a mess 😅 (yes ik its not a good picture! The other pic I found looked like someone took it underwater through a window screen 😑) The shoulders are really round while the chest and helmet wanna be sharp af. The feet are Q-rex feet but like they look super out of place compared to the armored torso this thing has. Also red/green/yellow is a BOLD color theme for a ranger whose suit is red and black. Funny thing is I actually don’t mind the helmet on this guy but the face looks so fucked up to me 😅 He looks like a middle schooler who’s taking a picture and his mom told him to smile with his teeth 😤
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Transwarp Megazord 9/10
This is the one megazord I admit to having a ton of nostalgia for, this mf looks SO GOOD. The episode where this thing fights had me POPPING OFF. The flip down visor, the cool extender arms that look like huge boxing gloves, the super like chunky armored look it has is just 😤 its so good. No one can change my mind on this one and I honestly debated giving it a 10 but I don’t think its perfect just cause the legs feel a little weird and I think thats mostly cause the designers figured they wouldn’t get seen as often cause they’re mostly behind future buildings.
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thepringlesofblood · 2 years
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fucked around and recreated the starblaster in minecraft today bc i am compelled to do weird shit sometimes, anyways here’s fisher’s tank in lucretia’s room, I had to change it bc the glow squid died in like 3 minutes but it was a very pretty 3 minutes. when i’m Satisfied with how it turned out I might do a full tour.
for other taz balance fans out there, below the cut I put my list of rooms/general structure in case you’re thinking of doing some sort of starblaster map or recreation, it took a while for me to get my brains in order so maybe this’ll help you
so my starblaster had 4 decks including the top deck, but you could probably figure out a way to fit it into 3 decks, I just wanted to have the extra room to fill up with clutter lol. 
I named them after the decks on return of the obra dinn bc im a nerd and its a good game, but i’ll put numbers next to em
Main Deck (1)
this is like, the top deck, open to the air
fairly simple except for the cabin, which has the helm/steering, and jump seats for each of the guys when jumping planes.
I imagined them all in a circle but its minecraft so circles are hard
I also did a railing around the outside with torches so a. people don’t fall and b. the torches keep creepers from spawning and blowing up my nice fancy ship. ik you can probably turn them off but I do not know how. im in creative mode obvs so i wont die but i dont want them to blow up either.
Gun Deck (2)
i looked it up and you can still call it a gun deck if there’s no guns, people do it all the time
this is where I put the kitchen and common area, which I always sort of imagined being next to each other and open, bc of the scenes where someone is cooking/washing dishes while talking to everyone else hanging out.
the two that spring to mind are lucretia singing static while she washes the dishes and lup stirring a pot on the stove while merle tries to get her to come dance in presumably a common area of some sort? or maybe they just like hanging in the kitchen.
i also put the lab and medbay here. I always imagined a hallway coming off the kitchen/common area leading to more rooms, and since I wound up putting all the bedrooms on the orlop deck (3) I figured I’d put those two here.
idk if it’s confirmed that they have a medbay, maybe people just go to merle’s room, but it would make sense.
we do know they have a lab, it’s mentioned that barry and lup do research in it sometimes
bow to stern (front to back) it looked like
port (left)
kitchen (open, no walls)
medbay (walled off)
starboard (right)
common area (open, no walls)
lab (walled off)
Orlop Deck (3)
all the bedrooms, and the bathroom. I can’t imagine there was more than one bathroom, it’s fantasy NASA.
I did a main hallway with 4 rooms on either side
there’s 7 of them so the 8th room is the bathroom, since it makes sense that it would be in the sort of ��living quarters’ space.
bow to stern (front to back) it wound up going
port (left)
lucretia
bathroom
cpt. davenport
barry bluejeans
starboard (right)
magnus
merle
taako
lup
it’s mentioned when they get fisher that lucretia’s quarters “were always bigger than yours [Magnus’]” so I resolved that by having lucretia’s room be on the side with the bathroom, and making the bathroom smaller than the bedrooms so her room could take up the extra space. 
I also put both of them on the bow end of the ship (the front/curvy end where it gets pointy) so both of their rooms are longer than the others but taper off, so there could be some ambiguity about room size while the others have straight up 5x5 squares
Cargo Deck (4)
this one is the one you could probably squish into the two above if you made things more crowded, but I didn’t want to and frankly, they must’ve picked up so much shit in that 100 years, i refuse to believe they didn’t have a dedicated storage space.
Bow to stern, it wound up going
greenhouse
storage
engineering
hear me out w the greenhouse thing.
it’s proven that look at and being around plants it good for your mental health.
PLUS it would be a continuous, reliable source of food and fresh oxygen.
and we know (unfortunately) exactly how good merle is with plants, so I bet he could make whatever wild shit they come across work.
I also put bees in there bc I think they deserve fresh honey. as a treat. maybe magnus learns to make more hard candy with it lol.
idk what they would do in engineering since their ship runs on bonds, but like they at least have like, plumbing and electricity right? something goes there. 
thats it babey ;)
general observations/tips specifically for minecraft
windows windows windows. lighting is so important this is an enclosed space and natural light is supposed to be good for you. also don’t want creepers to spawn and blow up ur shit. always keep a bow and some hurtin arrows on you.
I made the decision that the IPRE came up with some kind of Good glass that can withstand everything so I don’t have to think about the practicalities of where windows should be.
sea lanterns, glowstones, and shroomlights are your friends if you don’t want this place to be torch city USA. something about the open fire on a spaceship rubs me the wrong way. I used some lanterns here and there but mostly stuck to blocks.
I wound up putting a row of sea lanterns down the hallways in the gun deck and orlop deck, and it worked out really well and kind of simulates fluorescent overhead lighting, but in a nice pretty way not an obnoxious way.
soul lanterns/torches do nothing. I know the blue is tempting but they give off so much less light, it makes everything washed out and gloomy.
glow lichen only glows a very little. do not rely on it to light a room or area.
personally, I made the starblaster post-stolen century, not when it was brand spankin new, so I could add more character. while some of the walls are spaceship flat and bare, I used paintings, item frames, and banners to liven things up wherever I could, plus adding carpet in some of the bedrooms (mostly taako and lup’s)
you can dye leather armor by just putting it and the dye of your choice on the crafting table. i mention this bc one of the main ways i added flavor to the bedrooms was by putting in-character stuff in their chests, so I did dye some leggings blue and put em in barry’s chest. in terms of sturdy denim and blue, 2/3 aint bad!
the blocks of iron are like blinding white. i wound up using andesite mostly, occasionally using polished andesite/diorite as an accent.
in case you don’t know the minecraft furniture hacks
fencepost + trapdoor on top of it (spruce or dark oak work best) = table. you can’t put anything on it tho :/
stairs = chair/couch
iron doors only open when connected to a pressure plate or button or something, and iron trapdoors only open one way pretty much - opening them from underneath is very difficult, you need a button. v important if you wanna keep the silver aesthetic. it got a little monotonous for me so I wound up using a lot of birch doors actually lol
my starblaster wound up about 28-30 blocks long, 20 wide, and 20 deep, i think, it looks like a giant fuckin gray slice of cake with windows. i love it, and i have accepted it for what it is.
i’m a fuckin noob and only picked up actually playing minecraft in the past few years (though I knew the Lore for way longer before then, im Old), so feel free to ignore my shit if you know better things.
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subjectsix · 3 years
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Hi Kip! Ik you don’t really do shipping stuff oof, but do you have any non-romantic headcanons for Jesse and Emily?
Bonus if it’s Jesse, Dylan, and Emily just,,, hanging out as a lil family
hecka yeah I love doing stuff like this lemme roll the marbles in my brain around skdjfhkjdshf
emily and jesse specifically
- Emily defo helped Jesse settle in after the lockdown lifted on the House, both with internal stuff (paychecks and how she gets them, benefits, etc) and external stuff (picking an apartment, helping set it all up, showing her around the city)-- Jesse already knows NYC a decent amount and can navigate on her own just fine, obviously, but she's genuinely settling in now-- this is home and she's putting down roots, and Emily makes that a lot less frightening
- relatedly there's a lot of inside jokes (inside jokes!! jesse cant believe she's somewhere permanent enough to have inside jokes again) about how different the two of them are-- jesse will eat anything, doesn't care to cook much, drinks whatever coffee, is fine picking up the cheapest furniture and dragging it in off the sidewalk, having no bedframe-- Emily is like please literally let me just purchase you some cookware or something. a coffee grinder. some coffee beans. you get paid a director salary you can buy a big couch. a tv. you can get takeout. you don't have to survive on gas station snack runs and cereal. its all in good fun and gets the two of them to crack up anytime it comes up in conversation. jesse starts to play into it when she gets more comfortable.
- big "sit in silence and just do your own thing in the same room" type friends, as well as "the other is rambling and I'm happily listening" types-- even jesse, who is realizing she has a lot to say and is comfortable enough to say it
- neither of these fools get enough sleep so sometimes they'll just explore what new york has to offer at weird hours or message each other to be like "hey happy 3am"
- jesse likes to explore places or do things she probably technically legally can't but the excuse of "hey I'm director right it'll be fine" and emily's insatiable need to have questions answered has resulted in them doing so much dumb crap. polaris encourages it because she helps them get away with it. girls stop exploring the unused subway tunnels they dont all belong to the bureau. who's going to stop them tho they seem so innocent or well meaning! go rulebreakers go
- they have very different movie tastes but like showing each other their faves bc they usually end up liking them, they just never saw it themselves
- jesse cannot read emily's handwriting even a little bit. jesse doesn't like texting bc she avoided it even on her burner phone. phone calls it is!
- Emily loves taking care of plants and she and Jesse will go pick out some a lot-- Jesse's apartment ends up having tons of plants in it.
add a brother in there for funsies
- Dylan takes a long time to warm up to Emily. Part of him wants to befriend her, but way more of him can't get over her being Head of Research for the Bureau or her inquisitiveness-- he's been asked enough questions in his life and doesn't want to be observed ever again.
THAT SAID. I think Dylan and Emily have a lot more in common than they realize. I think they think similarly (as in, the way they process things) and that people tend to treat them both in extremes-- as children or as jerks. They also both have a tangled messy relationship with Darling. So there's a lot to bond over, it just takes time, bc Dylan is being extremely cautious/defensive. Emily doesn't mind, which helps a lot-- she never tries to force a connection, just leaves the door open for one.
- [sit in silence happily gang part 2]
- Dylan has a tendency to say or describe things that should make no sense, but Jesse usually understands as his sister, and Emily usually understands bc shes Just Like That
- actually em and dylan had really similar interests as kids, they discover. very tentative and careful bonding occurs over beloved books and movies. they start swapping book recommendations. em shows him her favorite quiet unknown used book store and it becomes a common haunt for him.
- I headcanon Em as an only child, so she's genuinely fascinated watching Jesse and Dylan interact sometimes. Relatedly, if one of the Fadens shares an embarrassing or funny tidbit about the other to Emily, they'll just start one upping each other. Emily sometimes tries to bait them into doing this.
- Dylan convinced the two to play card games with him. This is how he discovered both Emily and Jesse are extremely competitive. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't a little scared.
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smileposting · 3 years
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hiii habit 4 the character hc thibg ;-P wink wonk
freddie you are so fucking lucky you didn’t go with the other ask meme bc i would singlehandedly cement myself as the most annoying person on the planet with the unpopular opinions section alone
1: sexuality headcanon: The Big Gay. ik general fandom consensus is that he’s Some flavor of not cishet because i mean... Look At His Entire Character Arc Lol. but even with the stuff with martha (at least the machine/concept) a lot of it feels so much like. Ah Yes My Socially Acceptable Conventionally Attractive Female Partner Who Is Definitely Real Whom I Spend Time With, As A Man Does.  that it was the thing that made me go from “well he’s definitely not straight” to “oh he’s GAY gay huh.” obvs no shade to anyone who does see him as bi/pan we’re just talkin about my hcs right now
2: otp: honestly the only thing keeping me from just leaving it at habismal is the fact that i. don’t like most habismal fan content? idk what it is but most of it just Does Not Scratch That Itch for me but at the same time the lil crumbs of what their dynamic is like both pre and post game and the conclusions you can draw from that makes me so unwell that i would be remiss Not to mention it so. i guess my answer is “habismal but only in very specific circumstances”
3: brotp: there’s a good chance this is gonna come out completely incoherent but like yknow how its kind of a trope for like a retired hero to come back into the story for whatever reason and they see a character they were best buds with back in the day and when they see each other they trade a bunch of loving insults and its like they never left at all? dream dynamic for him and fk in my opinion. at least my vision of fk.
4: notp: same shit as this ask but i don’t consider the other person involved to be a major enough character to really count as a ship so. none for now. 
5: first headcanon that pops into my head:  habit has always had weird latent life-granting abilities, hence the carlas and cowboy bed, but he never saw it fit to warn anyone about them because he never thought of them as unusual, since he’s had ‘em since he was a kid. he got a hoot out of seeing staff react to them for the first time. you’d think they had never seen a paper doll before!
6: one way in which I relate to this character: sometimes when i was spiraling really really bad i’ve definitely had like... thoughts about how i can spin my trauma into a good story, something worth paying attention to. i don’t really relate to habit a lot so much as i find how hes reflected in other characters and in turn how those characters are reflected in him super fascinating but that’s the one thing about him that i’ve really been like “Oh shit that might b me”
7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: not really embarrassment so much as frustration but whenever i’m writing fic where he’s typing something to replicate his writing style i get out two paintbrushes and i jab the wooden ends in the general direction of where i think the letters i want are and it’s the most effective method i’ve found so far but GOD is it tedious. let it never be said i don’t struggle for my craft. 8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? problematic fave all the way. you canot change this.
[send me a character for some hcs!]
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warm-starlight · 3 years
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do you like the entire lh/em parallels? ik they are very apparent towards the final chapters of the manga and a lot of fans(of both ships) love them a lot, but its just that em comes off as so.... weird to me, like no offence but lh is just so much healthier and comparing them to em just feels like a downgrade
I like it *Because* Em comes of as so.....
Yams made a parallel between them to show what EM could have been if they were more mature and listened to each other more.
The fact LH did all of it with barely any hesitation and understood what the other needs in a heartbeat while it took Ages for EM to get there is so telling of LH bond.
Those parallels also indirectly confirm LH as romantic love so you know.. of course i like them. 😄
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shoezuki · 3 years
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idk keeping his sexuality ambiguous for the sole purpose of keeping the shippers engaged sounds almost a little bit TOO insidious, and i wanna give him the benefit of the doubt. there could be a multitude of other explanations.
ill hold him accountable for the gay jokes he made in poor taste, and he seems to be deleting them on Twitter anyway so i think he knows by know hopefully, plus hes turnt down the bait a lot these past weeks. and ill hold him accountable for every other questinable thing he does.
but i dont wanna completely assume the worst in regards to the sexuality, it doesn't seem completely fair. he might not like labels or hes working things through or whatever, but i dont think hes intentionally leading people on to think hes queer to keep his lgbt audience. and if he is, ill take the L
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O ya yeayea like. To say that dream and dteam is Absolutely without a doubt manipulating his queer fans for their views is like. Its extremely pessimistic to the point of being somewhat unrealistic.
In my mind tho same goes for the assumption dream and dteam is lgbt themselves but closeted. Thats like. Too optimistic to me to the point of Also being unrealistic.
Like its More Likely to be somewhere 'inbetween" and like im not gon stand up callin him a disgustig homophobe hskdbdksbsd cuz like. Theres always many explanations or ways to interpret such things. ALTHO both the pessimistic and optimistic views arent entirrly outta the ball park. Theres Always chances for like. Either i suppose.
N yeah w him deleting tweets ik i saw he deleted the 'gay list' type tweets. I cant be sure if theres a 'reason' for him deleting them i.e. people calling it out on twitter or if he simply looked back n was like. That sucked actually. The latter would be nice ofc but the tweets being deleted is Nice in itself
Oh oh and like. In terms of ppl being 'hopeful' or 'truthing' dnf being Real. Absolutely like we seen it happen w other ccs whove 100% said they are uncomfortable being 'shipped' in any way. Dream doesnt have absolute control over his fans ofc n sometimes people will do shit Regardless n i cant hold him against that
But like. With dteam's popularity and dnf theres been a Major shift in the perception of shipping real people. Watching it change has been a Huge Trip like a year or more ago if rpf was brought up on tumblr it wouldnt a been easily accepted and honest to god. It was viewed as absolutely horrible and disgusting by a majority a ppl
I wont talk on if thats 'right' or not cuz i dont care. But w dteam in particular theyve encouraged and kinda. Created it being more widely accepted? Specifically in that the cross from Themselves as just. From what is Real to what is fan content and interpretations A Lot. Too much imo.
With how the dnf fic heatwaves is often referenced by them and joked about and all the jokes and 'pandering' and like. The treatment of what Should be kept within Fan Circles is weird as fuck from em
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toutorii · 4 years
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who are your top ten favorite black clover characters & ships? talk about them! - tat!
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Im not good in social situations 😭😭😭
1: MAGNUS X LUCK I almost put Magnus x Magnus
So like, fight me (actually please dont I dont like violence)
But theyre best friends, have amazing chemistey, the scene SPOILERS in the big battle with the Elves when Magna and Luck just hug while Luck is crying? My heart was broken—
Also @crazycookiemaniac made me love them with their beautiful artwork even more
2: ummmmm, Yami x Charlotte
A h e m. I summon thee @eme-eleff to help explain why this ship is so good–
But tHEY ARE MADE FOR EACHOTHER? I honestly could make a whole post on just them, so ill leave it at this for now—
3: Hun. Its gotta be Asta x Noelle
The way that Asta trusted in Noelle's abilities first just really speaks volumes. That and they just have really good chemistry.
4: Secre x Lemiel (is that a ship?)
Ik its probably just me being weird, but they just seem so cute together????
5: Vanessa x Finral
At first I didnt really ship it, but n o w? Heck ya! Dont get me wrong Platonic Vanessa and Finral give me life, but in a relationship??? Yesssss please—
Good lord we're only half way there—
6: PLATONIC Yuno and Asta
I just love their brotherly love, ik its not really a ship, but I wanted to include it—
7: Mereoleona x Vanessa
I just thought of it while making it and ngl, I can see it happening—
8: Grey x Gauche
Anxiety x Emo ?
Gimme gimme gimme
9: *struggles to think of more ships* U m
Mereoleona x Herself
Cause she doesnt need any man or woman to complete her—
Nahdbahsbshavdhdb I need to read the manga😭😭😭 I dont have any clue for any other ships— sorry anon—
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taketheringtolohac · 3 years
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simon for the ask game!
jshkajhja god victor i love him so much thank u for sending me this ok here we go (sidenote i know theres ppl who follow me who havent finished dd so if you dont want to get spoiled dont read this!! i talk about a LOT of spoilers!)
send me a character ask and i’ll answer!
favorite thing about them ok so heres the thing. i know that there is a lot to be said about him and just the way that he does like genuienly care for people even if he has a funny way of showing it but honestly? honestly? i LOVE a funny king. like his own brand of humor is just so good and when he laughs (at his own jokes, like a real Uncle Figure) he laughs with his WHOLE BODY which. yes king go get em. also hes sexy <3 not in a rat kinda way but he LOOKS like he should be just, outwardly, but simon blackquill himself is just a HOT MAN. yes im a lesbian and what about it.
least favorite thing about them this isnt about him but you know when aa fandom makes him a weeb? bad. stop calling urself/other ppl weebs in 2021 especially if u arent using the term critically/as a way to talk about ppl who fetishize Japanese culture tho most ppl who call themselves weebs dont realize theyre doing this anyways which. ok this isnt the post for this im just (rightfully) Mad
favorite line its not exactly a LINE, per say, bc i dont remember a lot of them, but remember when he shakes athena in SOJ and its like that kermit strangling meme? top 10 ace attorney moments EASILY
brOTP LITERALLY ATHENA AND SIMON BROTP LIVES IN MY BRAIN AT ALL TIMES LIKE theres so much healing that they both have to do from the 7/8 years since the incident and focusing on literally just that one incident and how to fix it (or in his case how to just like. live with it in a lot of ways) and they do some of it together but some of it they very much do NOT do together and i think like the setting boundaries that they do is just. its good. also i love the idea that he lived with her for a while after he was released like. just from a general perspective i love them sort of being a patchwork family but also just imagine being 18 and living on your own then suddenly you invite your 33 year old uncle to live with you who’s been in prison for the past 8 years. he doesnt rlly know how the world works from a cultural perspective and you dont know what its like from a “how do i use a can opener” perspective. together you’re a functioning adult.
OTP honestly i see him as very gay man in his 30s bachelor just living his post prison life and figuring stuff out but i’d be lying to myself if i said i didn’t read nahyuta/simon fics that shit is cute as FUCK and also ppl do a really good job of writing them like??? its about the understanding whats its like to go through an incredibly fucked up situation and not feeling the need to EXPLAIN yourself but to just understand that its beyond your control sometimes and gently helping them through without being making it about you because YOU wouldnt want that and. yeah.
nOTP if you ship simon with the phantom i’m knives out IMMEDIATELY i understand the want for angst but it makes me uncomfy and man has already been through enough please. also You Know What Else. i will not say it but it should be self explanatory.
random headcanon him and aura were REALLY close pre UR-1 incident. like i think they had a lot of issues but i think its just because they probably had to raise themselves in a lot of ways and pretty much really only looked out for each other for awhile. i like to think that he visited the space center a lot bc he was visiting her and thats how he got to meet metis and he was like huh maybe i could use this physcological stuff in court hmm and like thats how he became her student but i ALSO think that aura is just. SO mad at him for what he did about UR-1 and how he handled it because now SHE has to be alone and its not fair to him and she knows its not but she can’t help herself. Not just that but Simon hates seeing her lose it a little every time she visits him (which is often, he doesn’t get many visitors and even if he did he’d ALWAYS take her visits bc he misses her even if they don’t see eye to eye they’re all they’ve GOT) and just. seeing her become more cold and somehow thinking maybe its his fault and her not knowing if she does think its his in some ways but them still loving each other even if they have funny ways of showing it just UGH!!!
unpopular opinion he doesnt talk all posh why do ppl do that he’s literally a funny garbage man who like kinda hates himself a bit. also yes he’s emo but i think he would absolutely ROCK a printed neon button up with like. really loud socks specifically stupid steel samurai/anime socks. ik i said dont call him a weeb but theres a difference between liking anime/samurai/japanese culture and being weird about it. also he’s Japanese die mad about it
song i associate with them god i dont know i dont really listen to music but i GUESS i will say Mike Townsend (Knows What He’s Gotta Do) by the Garages because they’re very similar “i’m gonna do what I think is right to protect/save this other person and these people I care about even if the consequences are extremely detrimental to me”
favorite picture of them i will not say the simon shaking sprite again but you know that funky one with the bird? the one where he’s got taka just. perched on his arm. perfect photo i use it for everything <3
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mrninjapineapple · 6 years
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Fallout 4 Word Prompts - Toddy Leviathan Saloon Juniper
Here’s another 4 word prompt I did a while back. It’s a bit longer than the last one but I hope you all enjoy! :)
The Last Plank was full to bursting, every chair and table packed with people, all craning their necks to get a good look at Marcus and the Mariner. They were sat at the bar, blankets around both of their shoulders as their teeth chattered noisily in the silence.
Mitch placed two glasses of brown liquid on the counter before them, a thick layer of purple skim floating atop both.
Despite his obvious need for warmth, caution tempered Marcus’ reply as he picked up the strange brew and gave a cursory sniff.
‘What’s in this?’ he asked.
‘That’s an old family recipe,’ said Mitch proudly, nodding at the viscous liquid. ‘Whiskey, hot water, and tarberry syrup, all garnished with a couple mutfruit slices.’
The noxious potion bubbled in response.
‘Well,’ Marcus thought to himself as he eyed the glass. ‘It sounds almost like a hot toddy. Just with dirty water, weird irradiated fruit, and no honey…’
He mentally prayed to every God he knew – even mentioning Atom for good measure – before downing the entire concoction in one big gulp. His eyes began streaming as he felt the fire make its way down, his throat feeling as if he had swallowed hot shards of glass.
‘Smooth’ he managed, whispering hoarsely through gritted teeth.
As the feeling subsided, he became aware of the eyes upon him and turned to the Mariner.
‘I suppose you all want to know how it happened, then?’ he asked the room, sending a murmur through the gathered crowd. ‘How we killed the Red Death…’
Looking deep into his glass, he heard the chattering from the Harborfolk around him.
‘What happened?’
‘What was it?’
‘How big was it?’
As he sighed, about to begin his tale, the Mariner put her hand on his. She imperceptibly shook her head; a slight motion which only he saw.
‘I’ll tell you all what happened,’ she said, her expression grim. ‘What really happened…’
All eyes turned to her as the voices grew silent, the creaking wood and sloshing waves loud against the quiet.
‘We took the boat out slowly,’ she began, her tone as morose as her expression. ‘Avoiding the rocks and sunken ships, we came upon the island and saw the red light. When we finally moored the ship and got onto the island though-‘
‘We had no idea what we would actually be facing!’ Marcus interrupted, rising from his seat, all eyes shifting to him. ‘It crawled out of its cave with a great howl of rage, shaking the whole island! We saw its legs first, then its body, and finally the giant head of the great leviathan wormed its way from its burrow and we realised we were staring up at… the Red Death!’
The Mariner rolled her eyes at the melodramatic performance, but Marcus had the crowd enthralled with his story.
Continuing, he told them how the stalwart pair fended off the beast, at one point the Mariner holding it off with nothing but a broken oar whilst he danced and waved to get the creatures attention. His tale grew wilder as he went on, from utilising junk as weapons to a horde of super mutant pirates entering the fray, much to the crowd’s constant amusement.
They also played their part to perfection, their gasps and yelps punctuating the fantastic tale at just the right moments.
Marcus finished with the final breath of life of the Red Death, as it flailed wildly, broken oar handles piercing its hide and riddled with enough bullet holes to make a super mutant look away in disgust. His audience jumped to their feet, cheering triumphantly as they knocked their glasses together, laughing at their vicarious victory.
The Mariner turned to him as the crowd shouted and applauded, her narrow eyes contradicting her small grin.
‘What can I say?’ Marcus shrugged. ‘The people wanted a real story.’
‘Real?’ the Mariner laughed. ‘Like how I “fought valiantly against the foul creature, using only my wits and a rubber duck taped to the end of an oar to stay alive”?’
They both shared a real drink, laughing together as the crowd died down and dispersed.
After a few moments, they noticed that someone was behind them and turned to see that Small Bertha had joined them, hands on her hips as she gave Marcus an incredulous look.
‘Did any of that story actually happen?’ she asked, a little too loud for Marcus’ liking as a few other patrons glanced over to listen in.
He drew in close.
‘Look, Bertha, I’m going to level with you,’ he said quietly, the general bar chatter ensuring his privacy regardless. ‘We told everyone what they wanted to hear… what they needed to hear. You understand that, right?’
She eyed him for a moment before replying.
‘Of course I understand,’ she answered, nodding slowly as if realising a great truth. ‘Got any more stories?’
‘More stories?’ he said, sitting back on his stool. ‘Everything has a story to it, you just have to ask the right questions. What do you want to know?’
Her eyes went straight to the western revolver on his hip and he knew that she had approached only to learn more about it.
‘This?’ he asked, unholstering the weapon and twirling it around his finger expertly, revelling in Bertha’s awed expression.
‘Oh brother…’
The Mariner seemed less impressed.
Marcus asked the girl if she wanted to hear about how he got the revolver and chuckled at her energetic nodding as she took a stool beside him.
‘Well, it all started in Dry Rock Gulch, far away from here, in a place called Nuka-World…’
Marcus sipped the ice-cold bottle of refreshing Nuka Cola Wild as he sat in Doc Phospate’s Saloon. He raised an eyebrow at the familiar taste of the brew as it reminded him of Sunset Sarsaparilla, a popular beverage from his pre-war days, nodding in appreciation of the spicy aftertaste.
As he enjoyed a pleasant conversation with Mackenzie Bridgeman, the saloon doors swung open, the wooden clattering alerting the patrons as they all turned to face the newcomer.
Deputy Codsworth hovered in, a gun-belt tied clumsily above his thruster and a cowboy hat atop his head. A small star-shaped badge had been welded onto his front and he seemed to hold himself with more pride than usual.
‘Good aftern- I mean, howdy, sir!’ he said, his western accent quickly becoming one of the few wonders of the post-war world. ‘I’ve been runnin’ for a mighty long time to find you. Word is, there’s a no-good, yella belly just waiting to test your skill out by the ol’ livery.’
‘Buddy… I think you’ve short-circuited’ said Marcus blankly, prompting a laugh from Mackenzie.
The Mr Handy unit hovered closer and lowered himself until his eyestalk was at the same level as Marcus’ face.
‘Sir,’ he whispered. ‘That’s just my Southern accent. It’s really me… Codsworth! Sorry for the deception but I believe I’m rather taken with this whole dramatic persuasion. It’s really rather fun!’
Marcus sighed.
‘I know tha-’ he began, before pinching the bridge of his nose. ‘What did you want to tell me?’
‘Well,’ Codsworth replied, tipping his hat and speaking at a normal volume once again. ‘Some outlaw callin’ himself One-Eyed Ike has challenged you to a duel… sir.’
‘My my, Overboss,’ chimed Mackenzie from the stool beside him. ‘Looks like its pistols at dawn.’
Marcus sighed again.
‘Fine, let’s get this over with…’
They left the saloon, two on foot, one hovering in mid-air, and headed down the dusty road. As they reached the middle, a protectron slowly began to saunter out of a large wooden building to meet them.
‘There he is,’ said Codsworth, his Southern drawl still going strong. ‘Ol’ One-Eyed Ike himself! No good, yella belly varmint!’
The protectron walked into the middle of the street as they stopped, eyeing him with suspicion.
‘Howdy partner… took your time… heh heh heh,’ droned One-Eyed Ike, his mechanical voice grating. ‘You ready to… test your shootin’ skills?’
‘Sure, but can we hurry this along, I really-‘
Codsworth turned to Marcus.
‘Sir, you must indulge in the drama. I fear One-Eyed Ike will never become a deputy again at this rate,’ he said, his eyestalk zooming in on Marcus’ confused expression. ‘Allow me to explain. Sheriff Hawk felt that Dry Rock Gulch could use some drama to drum up business again, and had a cracking idea. He conferred Ike’s deputy status to me and made him an outlaw, only offering him his former position if he is able to defeat a genuine gunslinger in a duel.’
‘…And he chose me?’ Marcus said, sighing for the third and, he hoped, final time that day. He cleared his throat and remembered the time he had pretended to be the Silver Shroud, fighting crime across the Commonwealth with his sidekick, the intrepid reporter from the Great Green Jewel.
She always hated being called a sidekick.
He felt a pang of worry as he thought of her venturing around with Nick and Curie, chasing another story, but he cleared his mind and focused on the ridiculous task at hand.
‘One-Eyed Ike, I presume? They call me Mar- I mean… Butch… Butch Cassidy, and this here’s the Sundance Kid,’ he said, pointing his thumb at Codsworth. ‘Heard you been lookin’ for me?’
‘I see that iron on your hip… Butch… We draw on three… May the better man win.’
‘Oh… I intend to.’
Mackenzie and Codsworth moved to the side of the street as bystanders followed suit, everyone peering from windows and doorways, eagerly anticipating the action.
‘Knock ‘em dead, Butch’ shouted Codsworth before slipping back into the shadows beside Mackenzie.
The street grew silent.
The wind whistled through the dusty street, sending a tumbleweed rolling towards the saloon. From his position at the side of the road, Codsworth began playing a sampling of music from the Dry Rock Gulch archives, which Marcus recognised from pre-war radio spaghetti westerns.
The music continued as the pair eyed each other, Marcus’ steely gaze meeting the focused camera lens of One-Eyed Ike. As the song began to swell, Marcus unbuckled the holster to his 10mm pistol and time seemed to slow.
He watched as One-Eyed Ike drew his own revolver, as he raised his own weapon. He had the pistol aimed at Ike’s chest… but the handle slipped slightly from his grip.
As he fumbled with his pistol, he heard a shot and felt the blank round strike his shoulder.
‘Looks like I won… partner… Too bad… Now, I gotta go see the Sheriff… See you around… Butch.’
With that, One-Eyed Ike trundled away and the bystanders began to return to their normal activity. Codsworth and Mackenzie sidled up to Marcus.
‘Bad luck Butch, we’ll get that varmint some other time’ said Codsworth, before hovering close. ‘Sir, don’t forget… It’s only me, Codsworth. I’m not really the Sundance Kid.’
Mackenzie chuckled and Marcus holstered his pistol, the trio retreating into the saloon. As they entered, Deacon approached, holding out a bottle to Marcus.
‘Here,’ he said. ‘I saw what you did for Ike out there. I’ve seen you take out everything from radroaches to behemoths and you’ve never messed up a shot.’
Marcus took the bottle with a shrug, feigning ignorance. In reality, he was thankful that nobody realised that his pistol had jammed. He made a mental note to repair the battered weapon as soon as he was able.
‘Fine,’ Deacon continued, grinning. ‘But you should know by now, nobody can’t get anything past me.’
‘Really?’ asked Mackenzie, a smile growing on her face. ‘Not even me?’
Deacon’s cheeks grew hot, a crimson stain spreading across.
‘Well… obviously I… y’know…’
As Deacon floundered, Marcus examined the cold bottle of glowing, deep purple liquid. It had no markings or label but had a strangely familiar aroma as he drew it up to his nose to smell.
‘What is this?’ he asked, interrupting the awkward exchange between the couple.
‘Oh, right,’ said Deacon, thankful for the intervention. ‘That is a genuine bottle of Nuka-Gin. Only one of its kind. Apparently, Bradberton was some kind of genius with these things. Made a ton of products that never made it to the shelves.’
‘Hey Butch, I think that-’ Codsworth faltered at a stern look from Marcus. ‘Sorry, sir. It’s becoming something of a habit. I shall purge my addiction chip later. What I was trying to tell you was that Miss Sierra would want to have a look at that, I’d wager.’
Marcus eyed the Nuka-Gin, remembering the last time he had tasted genuine gin. It was back in his army days, just before his retirement. He could still remember the distinctive taste of juniper berries melded with the myriad spices added during distillation.
‘I’m sure she won’t mind if I just took a sip’ he said with a small smile.
He put the bottle to his lips, savouring the feeling of the cool liquid as it ran down his throat.
He instantly regretted his decision.
The acrid tang of burnt metal assailed his nostrils as the noxious concoction burned his tongue. He spat the drink onto the floor and stayed there, doubled over with his hands on his knees, until the retching had subsided.
‘So… you liked it?’ quipped Deacon as Marcus regained his composure. ‘Look, at least we know why Bradberton kept it off the shelves now. Silver linings.’
Marcus gave Deacon a cold stare.
‘That. Tasted. Like. Sh-’
Gunfire from outside the saloon interrupted him.
Moving to the window, he could see a group of raiders at the far end of the street, firing wildly into the air as they approached.
‘Stay here’ he said as he walked out, leaving his companions behind.
The street once again empty of bystanders, he found himself facing a small group of raiders. There were six in total, all of them in matching cowboy outfits save one, who wore a darker set, bulky with extra armour beneath.
‘You the one who cleared those lily-livered pinheads outta Nuka World, boy?’ asked the lead raider.
Marcus merely nodded, acutely aware that the group’s attention was focused solely on him.
‘Then you’s the one who’s been sayin’ Dry Rock Gulch is yours,’ continued the raider. ‘See, this here gulch is mine. Name’s Mad Mulligan, and you in my house, boy. So, I think s’only fair that you… compensate me before you leave.’
His eyes flicked to the exposed stock of Reason, still strapped to Marcus’ back. He drew the revolver from his hip and gestured to the rifle.
‘That’s a mighty fine weapon you got there. Now, I’m a reasonable man… so how’s about you throw it over to me or I take it from your cold, dead hands?’
Marcus unstrapped Reason, feeling the familiar weight in his hands. He noted the positions of the raiders, what weapons they had, any cover they could utilise, and any exits they could run to, all in a fraction of a second.
‘This old thing?’ he asked, holding up Reason. ‘No, I have an offer for you… Mad Mulligan. I like the look of that revolver of yours. How about you give it to me and you can leave… just walk away with your pals there? Or… I can take it from you?’
Mad Mulligan and his crew began to laugh, confident in their numbers.
‘You must be one duck short of a shooting range, boy! I’m gonna enjoy taking that gun!’
Marcus smiled as he flicked the safety off his rifle.
‘I’d like to see you try…’
‘No way you said that!’ exclaimed the Mariner, who had poked holes in Marcus,’ logic throughout the tale. ‘That’s something you think of afterwards and shoehorn into a story.’
Marcus began to protest but Bertha caught his attention.
‘What happened next? Did you kill Mad Mulligan? And his men? Is that how you got his gun? Why did you try ancient Nuka-Cola?’
All valid questions.
Marcus laughed, easing back on his stool as he drained the remnants of his beer.
‘Well, kid… they all saw Reason in the end.’
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