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(never mind that i’m looking into x6 for not an elle thing at all, but for a zetta thing, but that’s neither here nor there)
elle days, the courier out of time, who has stood for robots and AI ever since one literally saved her life on his own decision (because house explains it at one point, that victor was outside of the range where house could instantly and directly communicate with him -- so victor wasn’t acting on orders, he was acting based on what he thought the best course of action was. Victor Saved Elle’s Life)
elle, who, when she began to come into her own and realized she could use yes man’s help, couldn’t bring herself to just walk up and be like “hi, i’ve been pretending you don’t exist for like two months, but remember that idea you had? about taking over vegas? yeah we’re doing that” and install him straight to the mainframe -- and instead approached emily ortal, then brought to yes man an offer to have her adjust his programming so he has free will, and give him a chance to adjust and decide if helping her really is something he wants to do (and also vet him to see if she could trust him, but that was a practical concern, and not what drove her to do all this)
(and then yes man becomes the single person she tells Everything to even when she keeps details and insecurities away from the rest of her friends)
elle, who clings desperately to ed-e when ulysses calls him “home,” trying to protect him like she promised, driven by the fear from her embedded abandonment issues to hold on as long as physically possible until ed-e, with a terrified trill, is forced to shock her so she’ll let go even though he clearly doesn’t want to but his programming insists he Gotta
... who becomes fragile after her trip through the guardian of forever, who breaks after she falls out of her cryopod in vault 111, and she tries to drain the life out of herself in order to focus on what’s Practical, to focus on Getting Things done, because if she doesn’t then she’ll shake apart and then she’ll fail and what little she has left will slip out from her fingers
... and x6-88, the courser who surprises himself when he realizes he has or is in the middle of voicing an opinion (in hubris comics: ”these images are a poor representation of reality. it's as if a . child drew them”; that first sentence is a statement of fact. that second one is an opinion, and there’s legitimately a minute awkward pause there in the middle, it gives me a self-conscious vibe)
x6, who whole-heartedly believes in the institute but acknowledges that everyone within it has different ideals on what best serves their home and that that’s okay, and has embraced that the best way for him to serve is by doing his job, which he is very good at, which he takes great pride in
x6, who will start to drop his carefully curated Institute Accent™ around the sole survivor as he grows more comfortable with him, and tries to hide all the little things that make him an individual, ranging from his interest in art to his appreciation for cats to his fear of heights
i just
elle is already documented at being Very Good with people who are cold outwardly to protect themselves. she knows what to do to convince dangerous people to feel not just unthreatened by her, but safe around her. she has the patience, she knows how to show she’s genuine, she has this down to a formula by the time she enters the commonwealth
i still don’t know what elle’s state is going to be when she enters the institute or how she’s going to handle any of it, but i know that she’s the one of my sole survivors who will actually feel comfortable running with x6-88, and she’s the one who has the best chance to get to know him -- truly get to know him
and she’d be so good for him
and i wonder if he’d start to pick up how screwed up she is. he’s observant, but emotions are not his strong point, they aren’t his field of expertise. but maybe there’s a chance that as he starts to learn to see things differently, he’ll be able to look at elle and see how much she’s been basically -- doing the same thing he has, in a way. maybe he’ll be able to look at her and see the parallels. see the restraint, see the way she’s stifling herself, see the way her brightness changes around the people who manage to knock that away (maccready maccready maccready maccready)
and like... canonically, he ends up deeply admiring a sole survivor who raises his affinity high enough, and the way he talks about them makes it seem like his hero worship of shaun genuinely does start to shift to include them, too. but making things specific for elle...
there’s going to be such a push-pull going on for him. because god does she know how to slip past his defenses and knows how to act once she’s there. god is she capable, and her hyperfocus on Pragmatism would be appealing to him -- that’s not something he’d see as a problem, but as a very good thing
but at the same time as all this emotional Good Shit -- i don’t know how much elle is going to try to pretend she isn’t happy with the institute. probably not at all. i know for sure that at first, elle would want to try to turn the institute around, would look at them similarly as the think tank et al back home. they could do So Much Good, and she’d owe it to literally everyone to try
and she’d want to try to show x6 a new perspective of the commonwealth. she’d want to show him how to look at things from other people’s eyes, to see the Good in the wasteland, to gather more experiences so he could form more of his own opinions, to show him how things could be (because that’s always what elle does. always. look at what your options are, look at how things Could Be, you can make them that way. i believe in you)
she’d be doing so much positive for x6 on a personal level but not positive things for the institute
[muffled x6-88′s internalized, agonized noises of confusion in the immediate distance]
(elle: did you hear that?
x6-88:
x6-88: no)
so yeah Anyway i’m fine. i’m perfectly fine. everythign is fi Ne,
Having some sort of energy rn that I can’t tell if it’s anxiety or I’m just feeling energetic but either way it feels like zoomies and now I’m contemplating going on a run after work
