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#𝙲𝙷𝚄𝚁𝙽𝚂𝚄𝚁𝚅𝙸𝚅𝙴 - a private & mutually exclusive amos burton of the expanse series. mainly sourced from the tv show with a sprinkle of books and an torpedo of headcanons. minors dni. 21+ preferred. pre-established plots / connections heavily encouraged. using beta editor & xkit rewritten. sideblog to @astrakofe

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bio. rules. memes. headcanons. promo.

#𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙶𝚁𝙾𝙻𝙻 .

@valiantsword- original character based on the old guard. inspired by the legends of king arthur.

@aeternals - muli-muse full of heavily canon divergent characters from a wide variety of fandoms. essentially, everything else i want to do gets placed here.

@inkpromise - book based gallowglass de clermond of a discovery of witches ( heavily canon divergent )

@wolfisheart - fanfomless werewolf inspired by various urban fantasy lore.

tennant

Wes Chatham as Amos Burton THE EXPANSE (2015-2022) - Season 6

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— portrait .

ombrafcrged

"Some." Chiara amended for him, with a smile as she took a sip of the whiskey from her glass. "Some people. Other people relish a man who can indulge in all of his vices without regret." Regret and shame were not elements of the human nature that she'd ever found much use for -- not when it came to herself, at least. Useful tools for manipulating others, when need be, but that was not the conversation at hand. "As for what I want? I want to cook for you." There's something of a self indulgent tint to the words.

"I spend my nights cooking for self entitled narcissists who pay more for a spritz of foam on their plates than most people on this station might make in a month's time because they can -- because they think it says something about themselves." A twitch of an eyebrow. "And it does. Just not what they think it does." She shrugs loosely, fingers interlocking around the glass as she watches him. "It'd be a nice change of pace to cook for someone who can ... fully appreciate everything I have to offer."

churnsurvive

for a moment amos simply exists. all of his muscles go still so he can take in the sights and sounds of the bar around him. he half wonders who gave the lady a head's up he'd walked out of his room. chiara. chiara? given the description she had to be talking about the pozza d'acqua place that felt like it took money just for walking by the damn door. no way he could ever afford that nor, honestly, would he want to.

out of sight out of mind.

the smart bet would be asking why. why him. why now. why a lot of tactical questions but since his stomach growled again and he'd bet on himself if it really was some kind of set up. " sure. " he says with about as much enthusiasm as he's said everything else. a meal was a meal. " but i probably can't afford whatever you're sellin it for. i sure as hell can't afford to step into the place on a normal day. doubt i can even come close on a private visit. people kinda assume since they know holden's name we must be rollin' in it but, honestly, it costs a lot of money to be knee deep in shit all the time. " at least they hadn't had to pay fred for most of the repairs done to the roci. "

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— interaction .#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— main verse .#ombrafcrged #i would apologize for him but you get it

i do think the change is subtle enough that amos doesn't pick up on it but there is a point in his characterization where the people who need protecting break down into two subgroups.

the first being the original people who need to be protected because they can't or won't protect themselves.

and the people he wants to protect because they matter to him.

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— headcanon .#i also think naomi was always part of the latter but it was hard for him to mentally define

ombrafcrged

@churnsurvive gets a starter.

He'd been in the brothel suite he'd rented out for nearly two days - a not unusual feat, from what her informants had told her .. at least for him. She'd slipped one of the girls script to let her know when he came up for air, and she'd made her way into the bar shortly before he'd emerged. She'd given him time enough, to have a few drinks, to mellow, before she made her approach, a bottle of whiskey in one hand, two glasses in the other. Sitting, uninvited, she settled the glasses between them, uncorking the bottle and pouring a generous amount of the liquid into both before capping it and setting it back down on to the table. "Do you eat with the same voracious appetite that you fuck, I wonder?"

churnsurvive

there were two empty shot glasses in front of him, a glass of water, and a beer. all the lights and sounds were a slight deviation from the room he'd just spent all his time in and it was taking a few minutes longer than he was used to in order to get acclimated.

sometimes it was easy to forget how long a day was because the light cycles to help circadian rhythm was subtle, especially in the brothel rooms. it wasn't until someone called him and said they needed to have a family chat on the roci that he'd realized he'd been gone for two days.

" why not? " amos leans forward to gulp down half the water before picking up the offered glass of whiskey. "people act like fuckin's some unnatural thing to be ashamed of. if you're not gonna have fun they why do it. "

his stomach chose that particular moment to growl. he'd felt it more than he heard it over the din of people so he threw back half the whiskey as if that was somehow going to prevent his stomach from growling again. " thanks for the drink but what d'you want? "

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— interaction .#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— main verse .#ombrafcrged #i did this in the middle of getting dressed and without my glasses so #uih i hope it's as ok as i think it is. lol

i think there's a certain degree of anxiety that comes from amos wanting to deal with things right away. when he was a kid, he had to wait alone in the dark for the bad things to happen. by dealing with them head on or right out of the gate there's a degree of control he can take, no matter if the outcome is good or bad.

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— headcanon .

secretkittendetective

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— portrait .

amos is all logic and thinking and efficiency. there is a very narrow margin with which he actually response with emotion to anything and that usually involves children and lording power over those that need protecting. he hates bullies. he hates people who pick on those who can't defend themselves. i think that is largely due to how he grew up / those times when he was unable to defend himself. now that he can, he fully intends to. when he labels someone as someone he needs to protect he fully intends to defend them, too. it's not emotional, it just what he views as a simple fact of life. things are very black and white for him in that sense. right or wrong. clean cut.

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— headcanon .

diver5ion

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— portrait .

@penancefcrged said, ‘ i don’t know who i am . so how am i supposed to know what i want ? ’

amos had seen, time and time again, when too much emotion was part of the equation people tended to overthink everything. but, see, life didn't have to be so difficult. you were who you were, simple as that. no need to twist it or change it to look better from the outside. not that he could possibly know whether or not that's what was happening right now. from what he could tell, though, there'd been a lot of push and pull on clarissa's life. maybe a lot of expectation on who she should be versus what people wanted her to be.

" you are who you are, " the mechanic shrugs one shoulder and looks up. head tilts to the side just slightly in thought. there was no emotion he could reach out and touch that might make his words a little more relatable. those had been shut off around the same time as his fear. ever since then he'd felt a little like he watched the world from outside his body. almost like it was just a meat puppet and he was holding the strings.

" no need to over think it. your brain knows what you want even if you don't. it's gotta in order to survive. what's the first thing you think of? no filters. just the first thought. "

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— answer .#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— main verse .#penancefcrged

spacewonder19

The Pelican Nebula Close-up ©

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— imagery .

" this one won't be grateful for your mercy. "

T_T

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— ooc .

thvmuse

Fictional men who have the "it's ok to murder but it's never ok to disrespect your wife" energy >>>>

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— musing .

@homefcrged said, ‘ sometimes i could swear i’ve known you forever . ’

there were times when parts of conversation went over his head. not because he didn't understand the language but because he wasn't exactly sure what the social etiquette was supposed to be in any given situation. amos loved naomi, as much as he could really love anyone, which wasn't much but it was something. before holden came along she'd never really judged who he was and proved to be the moral compass he'd been missing since running off into space. although, what he had guiding him before that hadn't been the best, either. baltimore was a shit show. he had to die before he could be born. really be born.

would naomi still feel the same if she knew him before? if she'd known timmy instead of amos?

" i haven't been here forever, " one shoulder shrugs up. he's hunching over a bowl of stuff that was pretending to be chicken alfredo. most everything in the bowl was some kind of processed soy and it wasn't that it tasted bad or anything, just that the texture of the protein substitute was a little funny in his own. " but you see me in ways nobody's ever tried to before. thank you. "

#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— answer .#˗ˏˋ 💀 ———— main verse .#homefcrged