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Hello everyone, and welcome to Ask the Daggers, where we answer any of your burning questions from naval aviation to relationship drama! If you've got any questions, asks, or just want to hang out with the Navy's best aviators we'll do our best to answer them. If you've someone specific in mind, we'll try to set aside mail for them, and if not you're likely to hear from any of us! Every so often the crew of '86 come round, so any mail for them is greatly appreciated.

See ya soon!

Love,

Rooster, Phoenix, Bob, Hangman, Coyote, Fanboy, Payback, Omaha, Yale, Harvard, Halo, and Fritz

before i forget, Maverick and Iceman are here too!

(wait a minute, Admiral Kazansky's doing this??)

Hello everyone! @booksandchaos-world here and welcome to my dagger ask blog!! I LOVE these characters and so I thought it would be fun to roleplay as as them. A few things before we get started...

I will not be accepting any NSFW content, as I am a minor, nor will I tolerate any hate, everyone is welcome here! ❤️

Please send any asks, questions, headcannons, art, fic ideas, playlists, or anything else and I will try my hardest to repsond as fast as I can!

Thanks!!!!!

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Who’s y’all’s celebrity crush

OOOH now this is a good one!! i'll be the first to say that mine is pedro pascal

that's mediocre, there's nothing even remotely exciting or repulsive about that.

well it's not exactly a hear me out. in that case, we all know who i'd pick-

NOPE. We are NOT doing this again. Also notice how this says CELEBRITY. Mine would probably have to be Anne Hathaway or Charles Leclerc.

From F1?? Good taste! Following that train of thought, mine is Carlos Sainz. Give me a chance 🙏

Thanks Harv, I really feel confident about the marriage right now... but i'd have to agree, him and Lando Norris both

YOU'RE MARRIED???

Yes?

We're going on almost 10 years now...

DID ANYONE KNOW THIS??

NO??

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN??

i did :)

of course you did, stealth pilot. who is your crush anyways?

oh, probably Maya Hawke. Phe?

a young Stevie Nicks

growing up i loved the breakfast club and the outsiders, so i'd have to go with a young Molly Ringwald and Diane Lane

Dua Lipa...

DON'T EVEN - this man gets all goofy eyed whenever she starts playing in the car

Who played Willard in the 2011 Footloose?

Miles Teller

I didn't know you swung that way, Hangman

Well maybe I just think he's conventionally attractive!

sure, sure surely not because he looks like someone in this squad what about you fritz?

Andrew Garfield or Stephanie Beatriz in Brooklynn 9-1-1

For me, it'd be Ryan Gosling!

Selena Gomez

Thanks for the ask-

Wait a minute, we should ask Ice and Mav!

Mav's staying over at the hanger, remember?

How about Ice?

He's here, I'll go get him...

Hello, aviators. How can I help you?

Pops, someone was asking who our celebrity crushes were. Who's yours?

That's an interesting question...I'd have to say George Michael or James Dean.

George Michael or your husband, sir?

On that note, we are ending this! Thanks for the ask and we'll see you soon!

I didn't get an answer

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Does Fanboy get told he looks like Joaquin Torres?

Payback - see, i told you that would be the first question you'd get!

Fritz - wasn't the first ask you answered about your day?

technicalities, technicalities

Fanboy - to answer your question anon - yes, and like you wouldn't believe it! any time i'm deployed or on base anyone (read - anyone who's cultured) comments on this!

Bob - it was actually the first thing i comented on when i met him :)

Ever since we've been permanently stationed at North Island, the squad has started a tally. What were we up to - 15?

16 now...

The resemblance is so exact it's almost uncanny. That and the fact that you're both lieutenants? Creepy.

Who says I'm not actually Joaquin Torres? Maybe this is just my day job! 😉😉😉

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this is a bit of a debate question but what do you prefer dogs or cats?

Fritz - this is a fun one, thanks anon! I'd definitely have to go cats, but dogs are pretty cool too.

Phoenix - just commit to a side 🙄 Cats. For sure.

Bob - I wouldn't have pegged you as a cat person?? but i'd have to agree with my pilot.

I had five cats - Estrella, Luna, Sol, Cielo, and Nova - growing up, so...that probably explains it...

Payback - FIVE CATS?? damn! I feel like the odd one out, but I'm a pretty big dog person.

Coyote - same! I had two growing up, Rouge and Fido, so I'll always be a dog person. Plus there's a bunch of stray dogs around base that I like to feed.

Omaha - It'd be the same thing for me! I had a great dog, Orion, who helped me out on the dairy farm.

Harvard - I had a border collie, Missie, when I was in my teens, so I'm a pretty big dog person ;)

Yale - I didn't have any pets growing up, but I've always wanted a dog.

Fanboy - Once again, the odd one out, but I love cats! There were always a few roaming around my neighborhood at home, even if my mom didn't let me have any.

Halo - I have a cat at home, London, so I'd be a hyprocrite if I said anything else :)

Rooster - Really either for me! My pops is a cat person and my dad is a dog person, but growing up I only remember having a couple cats. It wasn't until a couple years ago when my dad (without telling my pops) rescued a aussie shepard, Layton, that there was a dog at home.

Hangman - I have to agree with Roo there. There were quite a few dogs on the ranch where I grew up. My sister adopted a dog, Brisket, so I end up taking care of it a lot of the time when she's away.

Rooster and Hangman have something in common?? They're agreeing on something??

Shut up.

Shut up.

👀

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Hey yall. I was wondering how everyone got their callsigns. Especially Halo

Phoenix - Wow, Halo's got her own fanclub, it seems right that you should go first...

Halo - oh wow! thanks for the ask! unfortunately, it's just us today so maybe we should wait-

No way! What's the fun in everyone explaining their callsigns when he already know it all?

You're right! we're totally not holding this for blackmail let's do it phe! we can't forget that bob's with us...

Bob - hi :)

Starting with Rooster - at the Academy, this man was the MOST chipper morning person. One time, we were at 6am roll call and he comes strolling down the hallway with this grin plastered to his face. It was even worse the first time we got on a carrier, this man would wake up at 5am WILLINGLY. What kind of psycho does that??

Apparently Rooster does! My pilot, Omaha, is up next! At the Academy, he was the most horribly homesick person. I was constantly walking in on him crying over Nebraska or wistfully telling a story starting with "back in Omaha..." You would think the guy moved across the world, the way he talked!

I've got a good one! I heard this one from Hangman, but apparently he got Javy really drunk one night, and lost him for a few hours. At 4 in the morning, he and his squadron ended up finding him roaming around the woods outside their dorms during the full moon like a Coyote.

Bob, do you have any?

Fanboy got his callsign because he has this incredibly niche knowledge of DC, Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pokemon...I could go on and on. If you ask him about any fandom, he'll reply with a rant for a good two hours. I even heard him chatting up Fritz about My Little Pony...?

Speaking of Fritz, he got his callsign because of this TV in the carrier rec room. There was a cable running across the room, and Fritz was incredibly clumsy. Every. Single. Time. He would trip over the wire and the TV would fritz out! This continued for weeks, there was even a betting pool around it at one point, lol

Yale and Harvard's headcannons are pretty self-explanatory. One of their COs found them having a shouting match about which school was better. That and the fact that half their wardrobe is their respective university's merch.

I have another one! Payback got his because that's what he never does. A restaurant bill, gas money, venmo for a baby shower - it doesn’t matter. He promises he'll get it to you eventually...yeah right, bud :/

What about you, Bob?

It's definitely not baby on board, I'll tell you that much. But it's...classified.

Stealth pilot! But it's actually because my WSO did something incredible during a mission (that is classfied, no matter how hard Rooster begs Ice) and refused to take the credit. Thus - Bob, a simpleton.

Damn, Bob, that's pretty badass! What about you, Phoenix?

I was in a bad training accident halfway through flight school when my plane burned in. I was out of comission for a couple months because of burn injuries, but eventually I came back because there was a job to be done. Your turn, Halo. You were the one they were asking for anyways!

Love you, Natasha ❤️ My callsign isn't as epic as hers. When I was working with helicopters, I was flying an exersize and flew through rotor wash. It blew my hair around my face and someone joked I had a halo. The name stuck!

Wait, you flew helicopters?

Yep! Eventually transitioned to a WSO role because being a fighter pilot always appealed to me but it was too late for me to retrain as a pilot.

That's freaking awesome!

Thanks Bob! What about Hangman? I'm surprised I don't know the origin of his callsign yet.

It's pretty self-explanatory...he's Hangman, he'll leave you out to dry if it means he can get ahead.

He got it the same day he lost a wingman. He's always hated the name.

Oh shit...

Thanks again for the ask, anon! Hope you enjoy the gossip session from your favorite two favorite WSOs and their pilot! Till next time!!

(ooc - does someone want to hear me yap about my Halo helicopter pilot lore?)

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has anyone is the squad watched heated rivalry and if so what did they think of it 👀

Yale - omg heated rivalry! i love that show!

Phoenix - since when did you start watching it?

Harvard - yale and i binged the series when it came out

makes sense

???

???

Rooster - i ended up watching it with my dads a couple weekends ago, i really enjoyed it!

Payback - the COMPACFLT's watched heated rivalry???

Fritz - that explains why Ice told Maverick he loves him in Russian after class!

or it could be because he is russian?

Fanboy - everything's a sign rooster!

ya know what? nevermind.

Bob - if you think about it, Ice and Mav were literally Ilya and Shane at Top Gun

STOP I CAN SEE THAT

Omaha - I started watching it with Halo and we got halfway throught the first episode before I realized it wasn't just about hockey...

dude, how?

Halo - that's what I said!

Hangman - I haven't watched it yet

Coyote - go watch it. maybe even with rooster...

???

???

(ooc - icemav are literally hollanov you can't convince me otherwise!)

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hiiii omg congrats on making the account, i cant wait to speak to you all, im such a huge fan :))

i dont really have a question for you guys (yet..) but whoever answers this, how is your day going?

hiii there, it's fanboy and payback here! thank you so much for the lovely ask, i can't believe we have fans!! - don't tell hangman that, his ego's already big enough ;)

my day's going well so far, thanks! We flew a hop with Mav this morning and thankfully SOMEONE didn't make a push-up bet (how many time do i have to apologize?) the squad hit the hard deck in the afternoon, which meant we had to listen to bradley and jake's flirt- i mean bickering all evening 🙄 (you do know they can see this?)

oh well, it'll be good for them! thanks for the ask and we'll see ya soon!

-your favorite pilot and WSO duo!

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Question for everyone willing to answer!

Why are you an aviator? What about it drew you in?

Wow, our first ask, and a great question too!

Rooster - I'll start! I became an aviator because ever since I could remember, I've been surrounded by Naval aviators. I've always thought it was the best job around and really that's all I've wanted to do. (*cough* nepo baby *cough*)

Phoenix - My dad was a Major General in the Army. I wanted to join the Navy mainly to spite him but then I met Rooster, who seemed dead set on becoming an aviator, so I decided to give it a shot. (aww, thanks Phe!)

Bob - I was living in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, which destroyed the area. I saw the missions the Navy flew and how they saved people. I joined the Academy because I wanted to give back like how the Navy helped me.

Payback - I attended the Naval Academy because, hello, free college, and while I was there one of my commanding officers referred to a course on aerodynamics. I found it really interesting which then inspired me to attend flight school!

Fanboy - Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to be an astronaut. The most effective way to accomplish that was through the naval aviation path!

Coyote - I stayed with my grandfather one summer, who told me about his cousin who flew missions during WWII and the Korean War, which really inspired me. He and my mother encouraged me to apply to the academy and I worked my way up from there.

Omaha - When I was in high school they ran an ad in the school paper for an introductory flight. I begged my parents to go and thankfully they let me. I then set my sights on the Academy, which ended up getting me out of my small town.

Harvard - I studied medicine at Harvard and orginally enlisted in the Navy with the intention of becoming a Hospital Corpsman. During that time, one of my friends (Fritz) graduated from the Academy was heading to flight school. I thought that was a interesting career so I decided to shift my sights to aviation

Yale - I started out studying medicine at Yale as well but I studyed to become a WSO so I could accompany Harvard in flight school :)

Halo - One of my cousins at the time was studying mechanical engineering and working on a carrier. I got to visit her and the planes drew me in!

Fritz - My brother went to the Academy to study nuclear engineering, but I've always found aviation interesting so I joined up to be with him and ended up here!

I think that's everyone! Let me go ask my dads what they think about it...

What did Ice and Mav say when you asked them, Rooster? I've always wondered what made two men like them decide to join up.

They both got this faraway look in their eyes and answered with "it's complicated" so that doesn't really clear up anything.

Wait, we almost forgot Hangman! How did you become an aviator?

I agree with Kazansky and the Captain.

Okay then...anyways, thanks for the ask! If you have any more questions, don't be afraid to send them our way! Bye for now!

(creator's note - I don't know much about the Navy, most of this information comes from headcannons and research, so I apologize in advance for any inaccuracies there may be!)