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“That’s the best way to name kids.” A grin. Honestly, Darla can’t think of a flower or plant name she wouldn’t like. Some might be a silly, but lots of names were silly. Like Bob. What the hell is that? That’s not a name, that’s just a sound.

Anyway, she tunes back in as Olive responds to her flood of questions, nodding, then her face falling. “That sounds awesome. It’s bullshit, though, the law. But it’s cool that you get to sew toys!” Darla doesn’t fully get toys, but they are awful cute-looking and for some reason kids like ‘em, right? So it’s for a good cause! “Do you, like, restore pre-war ones or make your own?”

Darla gets a small smile in return, shy and skittish. She’s honestly not quite used to people being friendly yet and she wonders if she ever will. For all of Goodneighbor’s bad reputation (and one that’s admittedly well-deserved, even she can admit), it’s still a world apart from the swamp she fled from.

“Both, I guess? I mean, we mostly make new ones because, you know, kids like toys, but sometimes my boss buys old ones from before the war from scavvers and fixes them up for collectors because it turns out there’s a market for that among rich people? Which is neat.”

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[If you’re out and about in Goodneighbor, you might see Olive excitedly bopping along as she helps a hunter (her uncle has a face full of radiation scars and a nervous energy about him) bring in several bundles of birds to sell at market.]

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“All of you? That’s awesome.” Darla gives a little sigh, imagining. She bets there’s a Dahlia in there. Or maybe a Peony. Posie? When Olive starts speaking again, though, she shakes her head and brings herself back to the moment.

“Still getting used to things, huh?” She could understand that. Decent paying work could be surprisingly hard to find, even just supporting herself and her experiments - hard to imagine having family to care for, too. “It’ll all come naturally soon, don’t worry. Have you found work yet?” A moment of regret. Wouldn’t it be nice if she could offer something? It would be nice to have someone help around the farm, but she scraped by herself many times. No way could she pay this girl what she needed.

“I bet the Rexford might be hiring for secretarial staff stuff if you can read? Or, or maybe security? I think that pays good!”

“Yeah! Um, to be honest, I kind of think we got named by pointing at random pictures of plants and hoping for the best.”

Which is, incidentally, exactly how Olive’s sisters were named. She honestly lucked out with the name she got; she’s not sure if she could have stood it if she wound up as Thistle instead of Olive-Mae.

"Yeah, I guess so! It’s a lot different from the country. I mean, you have all these gangsters and, well, there’s less green. I do have a job though but thank you! There’s a little old ghoul from Diamond City that makes toys and things and, um, he can’t really deliver to Diamond City anymore on account of the, you know, the law there. And I help with the sewing and things.”

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That’s so cute, the blush! Is that how she looks, when she blushes? No wonder people like it. She grins and waves, brightening up even further on hearing the name.

“Olive! Like the fruit! Not now, of course, that was a long time ago, but they used t’make oils and skincare stuff and cook with it and - “ Now she felt her face mimic Olive’s in hue, pursing her lips. For fuck’s sake, Darla, why don’t you just throw up your arms and scream ‘HEY, I’M A SYNTH?’ Ugh. “Sorry, I read a lotta pre-war botany books. Nice t’meet you! Welcome to the neighbourhood. So you haven’t been here long? What got you to move in?”

Olive gives a tentative, small wave back. Most things Olive does are, in fact, small and tentative, like she’s almost but not quite confident that she’ll do them right. Thankfully for Darla, she doesn’t pick up on a hint of synth at all, due in no small part to the fact that she’s still not entirely convinced that synths are even real.

“O-oh, you don’t have to apologize! That’s, that’s cool. Botany, I mean. And old books! I, um, I know I’m named after plants (err, I guess all my sisters are, actually) but I don’t know a lot about actual olives on account of them not really...being here, I guess.”

Olive pauses a bit at the last question, trying not to betray the little flurry of panic in her mind as she tries to parse her reasons into something much nicer and prettier that doesn’t involve complicated family politics and swamp murder at all.

“It’s been...a few months now, I guess? I, um, there’s not a lot of prospects where I’m from, I guess? So I needed to move if I didn’t want to be a maid forever, but, um, none of the small settlements along the way really had any jobs for out-of-towners with no, um, references and that sort of thing that could pay enough to support me and my aunts because they can’t work. So it was either Goodneighbor or Diamond City, and, well, Diamond City thought my aunt looked too ghoulish, so we’re here now, I guess! And it’s okay. Kind of spooky but it’s okay.”

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“They do a lot worse than pee sometimes!” She snickers behind her hand, hiding a grin. “It’s okay, though, they’ll shoo you away if you stumble on ‘em, and I don’t think people who do that are too concerned with sanitary, anyway. I’ve seen you around Goodneighbour before, right? I’m Darla.”

Olive is trying really, really hard to keep a straight face but she’s blushing a furious pink and there’s really no hiding it. She’s going to give a suspicious look at the alleyway next to her job later.

“Um, well, I suppose they really aren’t, haha. Wow. Um, anyway, hi, Darla! I’m Olive! I live here now, I guess?”

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“Oh, there’s lots of licking in Goodneighbour.” Darla gives a wise nod, hands on her hips. This poor girl looks like a lamb in the lion’s den, though she still doesn’t actually know what that means literally. Helpless, anyway. She needs guidance! “Just it’s usually each other instead of themselves and you gotta be in the right alleys to see it. And they don’t normally like anybody seeing it.”

The wheels are turning in Olive’s head, her nose scrunching a little as she contemplates this new information.

"Oh. Um. Gosh, that seems...probably not sanitary? People pee in the alleys sometimes if they’re drunk enough.”

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“Easy! Gangsters walk kinda like they’ve really got to take a shit. People who just dress nice walk like cats.”

“Oh! Hm. Hmm. Cats like to take breaks every few minutes to groom themselves, so that makes sense, although there’s, um, less licking in Goodneighbor and more combs.”

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I don’t know how you’re supposed to tell the gangsters apart from people who just like dressing up real nice.

[Tiny retcon for Olive’s age. I originally envisioned this version of her as around 20ish but she’s now 18ish.]

nonukesthanks:

They aren’t magic, but I guess when you don’t know how they work it can kind of look like that…

Are you interested in learning about robots? Or, not even robots, but, science in general?

I, I think so? I mean, there’s all these things. I mean, not just robots, you know, but generalized things, and it turns out that I don’t actually know how most things work?

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⚡️ what's the nicest thing you've ever done?

Um. Well...I had a little sister. I mean, I guess I probably still do? But I don’t know what happened to her now, but maybe that’s good? She wasn’t...she wasn’t cut out for the swamp, more than most of us, so I sent her most of my caps for a few years so she could get out of there, and it meant my debt was bigger but...we got her on a caravan and never heard back, so she got away.

⚡️ what's the worst thing you've ever done?

[Olive is suddenly very intent on looking at her feet.]

Um, uh, I don’t...I don’t like to...my aunt Joan...I had a grandfather once but she put him in the swamp? Because you have to do that sometimes. Someone has to do it. I had a cousin once and now I don’t have him because he was like him. Because you have to do that sometimes. I didn’t want to but I had to do it because he thought we could be kings again or maybe just him but he’d have killed everyone and we’re already dying, so what’s the point?

But, um, it didn’t...I mean...it was just him, it wasn’t the others, so it didn’t, didn’t really change anything, and...my family that is okay is still down there? And it didn’t change anything about the rest of the McCraes, the ones that are cruel, so things are probably worse for them because of that, and I can’t fix that and I can’t send them caps to pay our debts or they’ll know where I’m at. I don’t know, it’s just really...other families aren’t like this.

[Olive’s walking around Goodneighbor wearing shorts (repurposed from one of her aunt’s old dresses) for the first time and she is absolutely pleased as hell right now. She’s worn pants before but always under dresses. Olive’s pretty sure this is a momentous occasion.]

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nonukesthanks:

The floating orb with legs is a Mister Handy, Miss Nanny, or Mister Gutsy. Or, in most cases. You might find modded scrapbots in a rough shape similar.

Er…KL-E-0 has an assaultron chassis but she prefers to be called a woman, I think? And it’s best not to argue with her.

Do you like robots?

Oh! Okay then! Got it.

I think so? Maybe? I just think they’re sort of, um, sort of cool, I guess? They’re kind of like magic because they can talk and their brains are made out of metal and things, but, I mean, they’re not magic, magic isn’t real, I don’t think magic’s real, they’re science.

...I wasn’t actually sure if robots were real for a long time, so it’s kind of like finding out unicorns are real, except with more lasers, sometimes? Sometimes there’s lasers.

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