miscellaneous headcanon / more divergencies dump.
spoiler free for season five of the show, not comic spoiler free.
post-nelrathe, he does not smell like hot pockets and desperation for long. he did before he met serena but she white woman'd him and his dog so hard that now, he's more likely to smell like someone actually washed his coat (that's still falling apart and held together with electrical tape and dreams) and he wears cologne. the specific cologne he uses is toskovat's silent at the theme park, which has hard notes of citrus and vanilla, and was chosen by serena.
on that note, by the time the fbsa is established, nelrathe is free, and he has devoted himself entirely to serena officially, terror always has some sort of bow or flower on his collar amid the spikes. sometimes he's even wearing a sweater. he's far more aimed in the realistic manner portrayed in his brief appearances in the show compared to the wild insanity seen in the comics. he's just a dog that humps on command and is immortal thanks to butcher giving him compound v. he is not a maniac.
he has been federally accredited and funded the entire time he has been in operation, from his start in the queen's army posted in the states up until the events taking place between season four and five of the show, even if that accreditation and funding was kept very quiet and off the books during times where he and the boys were under investigation. the government has always given him the means to do his work in taking down supes until they were unable because supes joined the government.
butcher is responsible for the slaughter of approximately 148 supes in one fell swoop, canon to the comics though i will be leaving the history behind it and the means relatively vague to remain as compliant with the show / rpc as possible. just know that he blew their heads off all at once and would do it again in a heartbeat for even less of a reason than he had the first time.
the only two people butcher has ever had sex with have been nelrathe and serena. it will remain that way, because he met nelrathe at twenty-one and immediately got involved with her, and when she was kidnapped, he remained devoted to the point that even getting involved with serena a decade later saddled him with guilt. before her, he had no real interest in it. he is demisexual. he fucks nasty but both women had to earn it.
unfortunately for everyone, butcher adopts people very easily. not legally, mind you, but those in his little gang are family. the important ones to note are that hughie - specifically @awkwardcourage's hughie in both his canon and more importantly his martyr verse - and dogmeat over at @monstyrious are his children. he cares very deeply for them, will protect them where he can, and does whatever he's able to give them both some form of normalcy.
in reference to the above point, terror splits from butcher only on the occasion that either serena, nelrathe, hughie or dogmeat are present. he will stay with no one else, even the other boys. he is never alone, and neither are they.
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