#gaigekin

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oh, coincicanons is something my canonmates and i speak about a lot, as we all have fairly consistant patterns? which is really funny.

childhood best friend

The Yearner™️

beau loves.. love! beau loves… soulmates!! beau loves… REVOLUTION.

deredere. not lovecore, but freak 'i was born to meet you' deredere (think 'monitoring (best friend remix)'. or horror of our love!)

blond! (13 kintypes and counting)

emotional mechanic (tails, isabeau, winry, daxter, andi, gaige)

annoying characters (daxter, dave strider, taako, sayori, asagiri gen)

moon/night theming (ranni, sabo, neptune, kuroh, diluc, shinichi)

KNIGHT theming (bucky, dave, link, isabeau, katsuya, keith, clara, mr. nobody (transisitor), adam, gaige, andi)

prince(ss) theming (shouto, sora, fuyuhiko, diluc, shinichi, ranni)

'not without you' (sabo, shouto, bucky, sora, dave, isabeau, fuyuhiko, katsuya, keith, daxter, neptune, gaige, andi, shinichi)

The Knower™️ (sabo, tails, shiro, bucky, isabeau, sayori, venus, andi, diluc, shinichi, gen, ranni)

Looking At You With My Big Ole Eyes 👁️ 👁️ (SABO. tails, shouto, isabeau, clara, daxter, sayori, taako, gaige)

weird unsettling little freak (sabo, tails, shiro, shouto, clara, toy bonnie, venus, gen, shinichi)

daddy/mommy/family issues (sabo, shouto, dave, fuyuhiko, katsuya, keith, craig, raiden, daxter, adam, gaige, diluc, frazie, ranni)

free my sibling they did all of that (sabo, tails, shiro, shouto, fuyuhiko, craig, taako, frazie, ranni)

eccentric curly hair (sabo, shiro, clara (i know what canon says. i looked more like my mom), daxter, gaige, frazie)

musical theming (bucky, sora, dave, link, len, toy bonnie, vinyl, neptune, sabo)

POWERFULLY autistic (sabo, tails, shiro, shouto, dave, link, keith, juliana, clara, vinyl, sayori, gaige, shinichi)

depression gang (sabo, shouto, bucky, sora, dave, keith, craig, raiden, sayori, adam, andi)

manic pixie dream gang (sora, winry, len, clara, sayori, neptune, taako)

…i'm sure there are more! those are just the ones that are especially obvious to me personally. foxes, vampires, and bunnies are also themes, but i wouldn't consider those coincicanons personally because interpretation varies and also they're Me Specifically things. that said, i PERSONALLY have had many canons where i connected to the three in turn.

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[kin-eats]

Oh! Could you possibly do simple/savoury foods for Gaige (Borderlands) kin?

I’ll try my best.

Simple Garlic Shrimp

Simple Beef Pot Roast

So Simple Beef Stroganoff

Simple and Delicious Beet Greens

Simple Artichoke Dip

Simple and Delicious Kale Soup

I hope you enjoy! ~Shadow

[snailshopping]

self care for gaige from borderlands 2 (@smolgay-birb)

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[fictionkinfessions]

Borderlands kin be like: Im gonna be soooo fucking queer

My kin and there sexualities from this source include:

Jack: Bisexual Polyam

Nisha: Bisexual, Polyam

Ellie: Pansexual, Poly, Bigebder

Ellie Kadam: Unlabled, Polyam

Lilith: Straight? Ish? Questioning perpetually.

Mordecai: Transman, Queer, Acespectrum

Angel: Lesbian

Amara: Transwomen, Lesbian

Moze: Bisexual, Polyneutral

Timothy: Bi/Pansexual, Demiguy

Axton: Bisexual

Gaige: Omni, Greyace, Gender fucked

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[snailshopping]

andro fashion for gaige from borderlands 2 (@smolgay-birb)

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[fictionkinfessions]

i miss the vaulthunters so much. my memories are so vague, but—i miss mordecai, and his slow recovery. tina's enthusiasm, and watching her bloom into the person she became. i miss my siren, and his hand in mine, and his cheek pressed to mine when i had an arm around his waist and he was slumped over onto me, his arm around my shoulders. i miss riding reckless and patching up and running into bandit camps. i miss playing loud trashy music on our coms. i miss lilith. i miss DT! pandora was never supposed to become home, you know? the vaulthunters weren't supposed to become my family. but they did. and i miss them so, so much. i wonder if i ever got to introduce y'all to dad. i always wanted to. (especially my siren. god, he deserved to be around a dad that loved him.) - gaige #🦊🔮🎃

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[fictionkinfessions]

Actually, no, I've been thinking about it and after talking with my brother I wanna send in a mix of a fanon complaint and a disability post

All those people I've seen in the Borderlands fandom whenever I look up stuff for Gaige are like "oooh it'd be so nice to have her as a girlfriend! She'd fix up mechanical things and you could leave hickies on her neck!" all this "uwu STEM gf" bs

Like do y'all realize she literally watched a classmate BLOW UP in front of her?? Do yall realize she got chased by a corrupt police system and fell into a war at only 18yo?? Not to mention if you follow the lore through Borderlands 3 she is THE Vault Hunter who canonically kills Handsome Jack. That girl is a ball of trauma!

Which actually reminded me just how mentally fucked up I was as Gaige. Like it was bad enough I had AuDHD and dyslexia (including dyscalculia), and bipolar and bpd and anxiety as a kid, but I was also transfem, which is what caused Marcie to start to hate me for... some reason. Idk what was going on in her head.

I hate ice, so crash landing on the shelf added some kinda trauma, plus Roland decided making me, the youngest and smallest Vault Hunter, go find the Firehawk. That was fun /s. Lil tore him an absolute new hole for that one.

But at some point we figured out I also age regressed as young as like, 3? I don't know if we ever figured out the cause of that or even what triggered that. Sometimes I'd just be yelling about Marcie or something else traumatizing and then somehow through the rant I just started becoming less and less eloquent until it clicked for Lil that I was mentally smol and she stepped in to take care of me.

I wish this world cared about trauma results as much as Pandora did. No one on Pandora ever questioned that the things that had happened to me had severely damaged me in ways that may not have even been reparable. But they understood that it affected how I continued existing. They didn't shoot us weird looks if I had a meltdown and Lil had to physically try to hold me down. Even if it resulted in a somewhat comical, in hindsight, scene of her being dragged across the floor for a few feet.

Hell, they were even far more accepting of gender identity and personal interests. I said I was a girl, and they just rolled with it. Didn't matter that I was a scrawny flat-chested 5'3" kid who'd physically crawl inside runners and technicals to fix them. "Gaige says she's a girl, so she's a girl." Never a question of "but you like engineering" or "well what's in your pants". Those who I was close to got told that Eden-5 had exceptional medical care (at least in our canon) and that I was completely physically transitioned (and because of that care, able to carry my own kids). Otherwise? People just thought I was a cis girl who liked robots and computers. No one cared. I miss that place sometimes. Sure the bandits were annoying, but at least I didn't have people giving me the fifteenth degree just for existing

- it's that same Gaige kinnie who sent a message about cutting off her arm lol

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[fictionkinfessions]

Oh oh canon disabilities lol

Just gonna skip over the great list of "audhd with multiple trauma-based disorders" and say my Gaige canon. I mean, it was very much my intention (based entirely on impulse) to cut my arm off because that wound up being the exact amount of metal it took to summon Deathtrap but it was a very...unique experience being a robotic engineer. And I think only Sir Hammerlock really had any idea what it was like to have a prosthetic arm. I miss him sometimes, him and Wainwright were really great uncle figures

- Gaige (Borderlands)

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