Do you have any fan art of Deacon and Charmer in your current fic? I love it so much and look forward to it every week!
thank u so so much!!! ur so kind <3 and thank u for the ask!
i actually dont! for one thing: 100% of my contribution to fandom is writing bc i absolutely cannot draw to save my LIFE, so i cant make fanart for them myself :(
but secondly, and maybe most importantly?: other than red hair and green eyes (and the green shirt+combat boots outfit), i... genuinely have no idea what charmer looks like. i dont know much about her at all tbh. when i started writing wycb however many months ago, i kinda purposefully made her to be pretty amorphous just so she could be "true" to her canon, which each player creates themselves. since its really a deacon fic and not an oc fic, i wanted her as easy to use as a self-insert as possible, if that makes sense.
thats not at all to say that i wouldnt love and encourage fanart of her and deacon!!!! (like the scene where hes tending to her hand in the church.... oh that would go so crazy) its just more than i'd want the art to showcase what charmer looks like to the artist/reader rather than what she looks like to me :3
sorry for giving a SPEECH instead of a simple yes/no but im a writer ok if u want longwinded fic u must endure longwinded responses to asks :P
Hello blog featuring my fav character, interacting w my other fandom posts 💖💖💖 you just made my day
hi!!! hello!!!!! hehe i couldnt help it, your post was so good!! deacon (and fo4 by extension) is #1 in my heart as clearly evidenced by my blog but dishonored is an incredibly close second. *blows kiss at the sky* i love u corvo attano and daud and whalers and assassins and dunwall and emily kaldwin and tall boys and the knives of dunwall dlc in particular
I have so many questions about the kind of shit our dear Charmer got dragged into before the world ended now.
boy oh boy do i have a fic excerpt for you!!! its less about the shit she actually got dragged into prewar and more about how she applies that experience to her current situation, but this is the primary mention of her profession in the fic. thank u for ur ask :3
Deacon was better than anyone she’d ever known at not letting his emotions get through that "intentionally indifferent" look he always wore, but he was still human.
Her partner didn’t think anyone could read him. He was right about that, but Charmer wasn’t just anyone. Before the war, before she was Charmer, she was an attorney. It was practically her job to read people. Every day, back then, she met people like Deacon.
In her line of work – public defense – every single one of her coworkers had something motivating them to climb out of bed and return to the office, day after miserable, overworked, underpaid day. Their fight against their oppressive system, advocating for one defendant at a time, kept their tanks full of gas even though the engines were sputtering. They all knew they couldn’t make sweeping, meaningful reform just by securing a not-guilty verdict for one person who the judicial system had beaten down – but for them, giving that one person another chance was enough.
She saw so much of that in Deacon. When he rescued one synth, it didn’t put a single dent in the Institute’s oppressive regime over the Commonwealth, but he didn’t care. It didn't matter. That was one synth, one person, who could live freely thanks to the endless hours he selflessly poured into them (usually with no reward, either, aside from a stoic 'atta boy' from Des. The former PD in Charmer could relate to that, too).
She saw Deacon in more than just her cohorts, though. She saw Deacon in the defendants who refused her help, who just wanted to get their proceedings over with so they could face the consequences that weren’t even owed to them. She saw Deacon in her clients who truly had done something terrible but refused to own up to it, choosing instead to shut her out when she tried to tell them she wanted to help them anyway. She saw Deacon in the prosecutors she crossed paths with every day at the courthouse, stepping into a role they felt they were destined to fill because they believed they were doing what was right - and this was the only way they could do it. She saw Deacon in her clients that had been in and out of the system for years, who always welcomed her with a wisecrack and a smile when she went on jail visits because they knew what they had gotten themselves into again, and there was no use running from the inevitable.
She’d never tell him, but Charmer knew Deacon much better than he suspected she did. Her past-life experience combined with the practice she’d gotten in the past few weeks, she could see through that mask of his almost like it wasn’t there.
When he was angry, he’d pull at the hem of his shirt, because the motion was similar enough to balling his hands into fists that it would have to suffice.
When he was disappointed, he’d scrunch the bridge of his nose and pretend he was adjusting his glasses.
When something caught him off guard or startled him, he’d tense his shoulders for a split second before relaxing back into his cover.
When he was trying not to laugh, he would clench his jaw like it would help tame the laughter, and the muscles underneath his ears would pulse ever so slightly.
When he was smiling – truly smiling – the crinkle of his eyes would raise his sunglasses to sit just a hair higher than normal.
26. How do they come off to others? What first impression do they usually make?
Scary and cold or warm and sexy/inviting, dependent on who you are and what she wants from you. She comes off as confident to any and all.
27. Do they prefer to travel alone or with company? Who have they traveled with if any? Current companion if any?
Definitely alone, though she doesn’t do much traveling. Desdemona always pairs her with Deacon when she has to run for the Railroad, though she “resents” it (enemies to lovers, you know how it is). She prefers Drummer Boy’s company because he’s quiet, polite (ie just the right amount of snarky), and does what she says.
Teddy
47. What’s their favorite radio station and song? (post-apocalypse)
He’s partial to Mojave Music Radio, but he listens to Radio New Vegas on occasion (he doesn’t like hearing the news bc hes usually on it lol). He named his pet fire gecko after Big Iron by Marty Robbins, but his favorite is either Love Me As Though There Was No Tomorrow by Nat King Cole or Heartaches by the Number by Guy Mitchell
48. What’s their favorite post-apocalyptic food? Are they a picky eater? Do they know how to cook?
My beloved boy would eat dirt if he thought it would sustain him. He knows it wouldn’t, of course, but he’s absolutely not a picky eater. He likes bighorner and radstag (ik they’re not in nv shhhhh big boi like meat), and he loves agave. He’s also a great cook because he’s always had to be. Mf could whip up a pretty tasty dish over a campfire even without much to work with.
40. Thoughts on death, if any?
Delilah feels fairly... flippant about it, since she tends to inflict it so often. She tries not to think about it if she can avoid it, but if she must, she thinks it will practically be a vacation from the life she leads now. Her survival instincts are incredibly strong, but it doesn't really stem from the fear of death.
I would fail to recruit Delilah 😔 Unless I had seen a lot of fandom buzz about her I probably would fall for the facade and maybe never even know what I was missing!
i have a feeling she'd cause quite a few people to start a new save <3 dont worry its just part of her charm!!! bweheheh
I have to ask though… no Atom Bomb Baby on Atom Bomb Baby?
LMAO I KNOWW I KNOW i tried so hard to fit it in there but it just wasnt the Vibe u know?? we can just pretend. squeeze it right on in at the end there :P
i will also say that i named it and made all the fun little graphics for it before i knew just how popular the song was in the community, my individuality complex begged me to rename but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i like it!!! it stays!!!!
Thank you for your fan fiction. I love reading it and it's a highlight each week. I really enjoy how to write scenes and I'm a SUCKER for you writing a character with an appalachia accent, (I have one so it's nice to hear it.) It's the first time I've seen it used, and used positively. Great work, and again, thank you for the fan fiction. Deacon girlies eating well out here.
thank u so much aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! yalls asks about wycb means the world to me, seriously. im so glad youve enjoyed it so far!! and omg are you kidding i love appalachian/deeper southern accents that arent really the "alabama southern bell" that we see all the time. i even took some time to listen to some dialect youtube videos for the area just to make sure i got it right, so im so so glad it rang true for you <3 thank u!!!!
