always making things worse

bob and bob-adjacent || sentrysoldier on ao3 || main: @candlelitcorners

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Physical Tells to give your bull-riding characters ~

I don't need all these at the moment, but wanted to get 'em together for anyone who could use them!

dry hands with callouses

darkened, shiny scars from rope burn on hands

swollen knuckles

sore body, stiff in the mornings

absently rolls their shoulders to stretch or pop them

or habitually stretching one joint that chronically bothers them

bruising/tenderness inside the thighs

knees crack when they squat down

lower back pain so recurring it's almost just constant

faint tan line of their cowboy hat or protective mask

Please share to get this to writers in your community. Add some of your own! Dropping a couple of these into a fic can be really helpful for showing v telling.

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one of my outer range head cannons is that

Billy has a medical card in Utah

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I just posted Rhett Abbott / Trevor Tillerson on ao3

I just put up my first chapter of my Rhett / Trev fic. I'm quite nervous to write this pairing, but cannot stop obsessing over it >.<

If you're interested in checking it out, I'd appreciate that very much.

the fic

the fic's Spotify playlist

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"...where OXE stored its assets"

"call in the asset"

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no more dumb john hate!!

he's stupid! and obedient!

he memorizes any required combat and mission info, and the rest of his head is full of hot air!!

and to anyone defending him with "he tested off the charts blah blah blah" :

the. media. LIES.

that was propoganda. and it GOT YOU.

the government sold you a smart perfect new cap,

but that's not our dumb john!!

we love dumb john here!!!

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Bob: We're a power couple. Those aren't just words you throw around.

John: We aren't a power couple. We're a need-a-shower couple.

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"Everyone's better off if I just stay put"

Bob says this in the vault. Later, as the void, he does in fact hurt and endanger many people. In a way this fulfills his earlier statement, and one could argue everyone would have been better off. He was scared of himself, and committed the thing he was afraid of.

It sucks to be afraid of hurting people- to be insecure, have doubts about yourself, etc. but it sucks in a different way to actually hurt them (especially those you love, which Bob did!).

So it makes me proud to see Bob learning from and about his past, bonding with others who struggle, and facing the wrong he did to overcome it. That rocks.

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Yelena and John yelling at each other before carrying Bob out of the vault really gives the energy of unstable parents fighting in front of the baby

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so the team has started calling bob and walker, on occasion, "walkie talkie"

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bob needed a father so bad he got a daddy ok

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I don't think it's bad writing for John to want Bob to fix the taco shield, or to still have it 14 months later.

Of course John could bend it himself, but the principle is, "you broke my stuff, you should fix it," and that's very... Walker.

Down the road he could have decided to like it, learned more about Bob and felt differently, etc. but in the moment it was extremely in-character, to me, for John to express waiting for Bob to fix the taco shield himself.

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i imagine bob and ava share a quick look when they see someone attractive, and it can either be:

a) the raised eyebrows, "do you *see* them" kind of look

or

b) severe yearning

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i just know bob has the world's most annoying intox kink

like that guy wants to get high before fucking anything ok

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John and Olivia in high school

Olivia was the one to ask John to their first dance, on account of him being nervous

BUT John flipped the script by recreating the way Olivia asked him to that dance, to ask her to senior prom

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Bob standing in the back of that New Avengers announcement would actually be such a PR nightmare

Like once that goes viral, and the public starts figuring out who he is- pulling the mugshot, plus a "florida man" article or two, and probably some tweets surfacing from people who know him pre-malaysia (high school friends, ex-girlfriends, past dealers, or someone he still owes money, whatever)

I imagine he'd try so hard to act like it didn't bother him, but Valentina is just always dealing with his image or his record, etc etc

just an interesting added street-level layer i think

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the "enemies to lovers" to "whump" pipeline goes crazy

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Alexei and Yelena haven't spoken in over a year, but it only takes half a second for him to recognize her voice through the door

i adore that