2. Two Random Headcanons For Each Companion.
A few people asked so hark
A word to the wise that Danse's section is on the grimmer side and is my musings on the nature of Cutler's death. Or murder.
Cait
She's not got dainty hands. Her hands are rough and she has a bit of eczema on her knuckles. Curie badgers her endlessly to use creams to hydrate her skin and Cait responds with all the enthusiasm of someone getting hit with two unskippable ads.
Used to have her ears pierced but it was done rudimentary and also being a fighter it didn't stay neat. One of her earlobes is torn and the other is nicked off. She doesn't notice it until she is off chems and can't remember when exactly it happened.
Codsworth
He was the only Mr Handy in Sanctuary. It was very lonely. Not that he minds. In the early days it was somewhat a distant concern in the face of all the cleaning he needs to do. Broken glass gets everywhere.
He did nose around the other houses in sanctuary in the early days of the fallout. He isn't one to brag but he's certain Sole's house was the best. The others. Mm
Curie
She finds molerats cute but visibly recoils if someone offers her a docile one to hold. She loves them, truly, but to touch them isn't on her cards. She rather they are free.
She celebrates every holiday. She used to in the vault. She would sing happy birthday to herself every year she spent alone like the Mars rover. It's a habit that has stuck.
Danse
His power armour was originally Cutler's. He lost his set storming in to find Cutler. When he did find Cutler: well. All that the Brotherhood knight could admit was left of his Cutler was the power armour Cutler had been taken from.
I don't know if Danse and Cutler were romantic or platonic. If they were romantic I don't think it was in a way that Danse ever admitted as such. It was him and Cutler against the world and they loved eachother truly. Platonic or romantic. Before the Brotherhood they saved up together to get a safe place to rest in Rivet city. In their initiate days if one of them was being disciplined then you could be damn sure the other was too. In the mess each always held the seat by them for the other. As knights they would do checks of eachother's Bunks before inspection to make sure the other didn't get caught out by Krieg. As best friends or as lovers they were never apart.
Cutler is now dead and Danse killed him.
Danse wears Cutler's armour.
Deacon
Can tell who is approaching by the sound of their footsteps. Or their breathing. His hearing is freakishly good.
Equally: he can perfectly mimick and steal someone's gait and breathing pattern. He does it occasionally to test Glory.
Dogmeat
He sleeps on a different companion every night. Not their bed. Them.
Can not hold an egg safely in h his mouth. He will eat it. What did you expect.
Hancock
He once had a trip that lasted a week where he fixed the plumbing in the Third Rail. No one knows how.
Very prone to ear aches. He's not deaf, his jaw is just prone to grinding and that isn't good on his joints.
MacCready
Likes being squeezed in hugs. Even if he groans and jabs at Sole with his pointy elbows. It reminds him of Little Lamplight when some of the kids would huddle up together when sleeping to feel less scared. That or he yearns for the hydraulic press.
Has always wanted a dog. He cracks a small smile whenever Dogmeat comes to sit with him. He wants to get a dog so Duncan can grow up with dogs like MacCready himself did.
Nick Valentine
He keeps a pair of old glasses to hand for when he's reading documents. He doesn't need them. He doesn't even use them all the time. But he likes to do it when he is bickering with Ellie purely because he can. She calls him dramatic.
The original Nick had a acute sense of smell. He can still smell things as a synth, but in the early days the difference really messed with him.
Piper
Nat doesn't remember her mum or father beyond the stories Piper regales her with and that haunts Piper. Nat knows what Piper says is true when it comes to their parents. But it is only true as Piper remembers it. And Nat only knows the comforting truths. It haunts Piper.
Piper talks in her sleep in full sentences. You can have a conversation with her and it goes to nonsense so quickly. Think you are being interrogated by the mad hatter who is drinking hot chocolate instead of tea.
Preston Garvey
Despite collecting recipes for a cookbook: he eats like a uni student. It's coffee and whatever he can cobble together if Sturges isn't cooking.
He's not very good with a gun. He's good enough but he never stood out for his skills with it. What defines Preston in the Minutemen is how he takes care of and organises people. Not how efficiently he kills them.
Strong
Lactose intolerant.
I honestly don't know much about Strong beyond the sheer amount of Sass he gives me whenever I exist in the vicinity of a work bench. I think he is jealous because he will never know the joys of B&Q.
Me making him lactose intolerant despite him seeking the milk of human kindness is in no way me being petty whatsoever.
X6-88
The institute has attempted to clone him a few times to see if they can recreate his level of performance. They can't. It doesn't bother X6-88 to see synth after synth made in his image be terminated or repurpose. But it sits with him. He never actively recalls it but he can never forget it.
Would not be able to put a boba straw through a boba tea lid. He smashes it or bends the straw every time.
