#janey headcanons

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btw I'm sorry because it should be the most obvious/automatic beginning of interactions with Janey, who is a raider leader, but I CANNOT do 'your muse captures her for the bounty' plots because:

-I am very loyal to my own writing and therefore we'd need to understand why Janey isn't capable of killing your muse, she's not weak in any way and she's extremely motivated to either kill the captor or herself before being taken back, and she'd definitely be the enemy with the little skull near her name. It's ooc for her to be captured and not turn into a trashing monster. -if it's the Ghoul and therefore stronger, we need to plot why/how she wouldn't still rip pieces off of him and consequentially why he doesn't kill her, and how he's supposed to sleep at night with a person working 24/7 on freeing herself and killing him -even if we get past her capture her life mission will be to keep trying to kill your muse or herself

so we'd need to plot like. your muse somehow catching her when she's dealing with radiation poisoning or already hurt AND making clear they aren't vault tec AND letting her think she has a higher chance to free herself from whoever they are bringing her too so there is no point in risking her life now, and it seems a lot of work for someone who may have just started writing with me, but I cannot make Janey randomly weak, or randomly not a vengeful ass.hole, in the few threads where she was captured she was either poisoned and immediately killed the guy or injured and grabbed by several guys and she still killed one. She's a STRONG raider, woman or not.

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sometimes when I write Janey I think of those tik.toks about 'women who look about to bully you but they are actually girls' girls' with the woman having the body language and tone of someone who is about to start a fight and then she's immediately providing support to you in any form, from sharing makeup tips to giving suggestions about your relationship ("break up, you deserve better")

'nice shoes'

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but also, I've said before that Janey specialized in raiding Vaults and I realized only today that she can do that more easily and better than anybody else because she had a pip-boy. So she can get through Vault systems and get in, kill whatever is left inside, grab everything she can carry and sell it for an enormous price. Plus, much like us when playing the game, she gets to read about the experiments from the overseer's computers (if they aren't too advanced. Rose taught her science skills and she'll remember any password she's seen but she hasn't reached Rose-level of hacker)

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Janey is absolutely the kind of woman who would end up pulling off the 'I'm heroically risking my life to save yours' and spend the next few hours alternating between going ewww at herself and acting butthurt with everybody else even though it was her own choice

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some super small details about Janey (she'd use the pre-war ones in threads where she wants to prove it's really her/some of those she has already used)

-as a kid, she liked broccoli, but disliked peas and gave them to Roosevelt -her idea of a good sunday lunch (once her parents divorced and she visited her dad) was mac n cheese and nuka cola, she tried to 'corrupt' her father into letting it happen by making him drawings but it's unlikely it worked (or at least I think Cooper would want to balance it with a little more healthy food, not just let her explode with sugar) -she sucks at singing, dancing and drawing -she still joined Rose when the woman was singing about what she was cooking to keep the kids entertained -her super fantastic memory for images/codes/whatever she sees/hears isn't followed by an exceptional high IQ, she just has this gift, and so it never came up, which is why SHE thinks everyone pre-war could do that and people she meets now were dumbed down by radiation (it's also why gaslighting/brainwashing could never work) -she loves the sky because it's the one thing that stayed the same -after a reunion with her father, after all the emotions are out, she'd make fun of him over his clothes, fame, choice of accent and more -she collects little pre-war objects and uses that as an excuse to sell life-saving meds over basically nothing (oh you are a ghoul who is about to go feral and have no caps for the vial? give me your watch) -had the great war NOT happened, she would have been an amazing mechanic much to everybody's ???? at this time she fixes weapons and enhances them better than anyone else because she just knows where things go (her memory helps)

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timeline wise I'm thinking

-15 years old Janey leaving the Vault thinking 'okay, I'm messed up, I've been thinking of murder ever since I was 10, but we have a shot at a new life, I'll be here in Shady S.ands with Rose and Lee, I'll watch the kids grow up, I can be good like my dad. -15 and a half years old Janey witnessing the bomb (SECOND time) that takes away Rose from her, and swears to herself that she'll kill Hank, her mom and everybody else involved in Vault Tec. But she still thinks she can maybe keep some sort of honor and not kill everyone she meets the way surface dwellers do. She sticks with Lee while Lee is very slowly starting to build a reputation. -16 years old (and a few months), she tries to prove herself and show that she can already be trusted alone and gets kidnapped by slavers because she's just a teenager, even if well-trained and motivated. She is confident she'll be fine because they are going towards a trap, but when she attacks a pregnant slave girl gets hurt by the slavers. Janey kills someone with her bare-hands for the first time, grabs a submachine gun, and in one day finds out that yes, she can kill people, yes she likes big automatic machine guns and big guns in general, no she cannot be good like her dad because life isn't the way it used to be, so no more cowpokes, she's going to be a raider and kill as needed (this is also a point in which I have the wishlist of 'what if her dad finds her now? she'd save the pregnant girl and it would change something for her) -and yet 34 years old Janey is yes, a raider camp leader, but also did keep some honor, has rules (and she'd hate if someone pointed that out, but she runs camp in a very organized way corporation-style) and the people closest to her know that she basically gives away meds for stupid prices and does other small softie things like helping families, although she still jumps caravans and robs places and kills to make points -34 years old Janey also meets your muse, and then who knows what will happen

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ALSO a reminder that Janey will immediately side with any ghoul/synth who isn't, you know, actually trying to murder people because her instincts to be a contrarian and to fight on behalf of who is getting discriminated now (as the 'crazy kid' from vault 31) wins over her instinct to mind her business, survive and pretend she doesn't care about other people at all. She'll do it in a horribly bad mood because ugh, helping people, but she'll do it. And by 'do it' I mean judge the people doing the discriminating and probably starting a big fight. (Unlike Lucy, who would it because it's the right thing to do, no doubts, or Rose, who would also do it after making sure they are not bad guys, and Terra who would shyly try to offer support without starting a fight, legs shaking and all, and try not to blow anyone up. Steph is minding her business and having a coffee)

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