#or else deacon

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For the ask game, I feel like I know BD Deacon really well already, but I know pretty much nothing about Or Else Deacon yet, so can I get a 0, 11, 14, and 20 for him pretty please? ❤️

Hello!

0 - (the checkboxes)

I'll be real with you, I haven't completely hammered out his backstory just yet 😁 but! I can tell you he is for sure a widower and he is for sure a human and he is for sure from the Commonwealth.

11 - Who is he in his mind? How does he define himself? What name feels right?

At this point in his life, he is outwardly whoever he needs to be in the moment. When he is with Railroad agents, he is Deacon: the goofball, flies by the seat of his pants, probably has some sort of an attention disorder weirdo who pops in and out on a whim and rarely works with others. Other than that, he's playing it all by ear. Even with what's going on with Nora he is in part just being who he thinks she needs him to be... or at least that's what he's telling himself.

14 - What is going on in his head?

His ultimate goal is to bring down the Institute and free all the synths. His Barbara didn't remember being a synth but she had a lot of the markers of someone with CPTSD and after her death and after he joined the Railroad, he latched onto the idea that she had been in some way abused in the Institute, so this is very much his core directive. Everything else is a stream of observation mixed with intuition mixed with tricky schemes to get him to where he wants to be. Everything else he happens to do or see or participate in is just 🤷 happenstance.

20 - Why/When did he first take an interest in the sosu? What were his intentions?

Like with BD Deacon he took an interest in the vault early and was promptly made aware when it opened. He went to investigate immediately, going through the vault's files and tailing Nora for a little while. Unlike BD Deacon, he was not immediately enamoured with her, but he did think she was worth keeping tabs on and he did so through the use of spies and occasionally by watching her himself. His theory for a long time was that she was an Institute plant, sent to implement experimental conditions on the people of the Commonwealth as the General of the Minutemen. The bigger the organization gets the more time he spends watching her personally, convinced that his theory is correct. Through this he learns more about who she is and about what she does when she thinks she's alone 👀 and he becomes less and less convinced that she has anything to do with the Institute at all. From what he's observed, she doesn't appear to have a deceptive bone in her body. Really, by about six or seven months in, he's pretty sure she isn't the lead he'd been hoping she was but he still keeps her in the rotation, just in case he's wrong. No other reason.

Thank you for the ask! ❤️❤️❤️

Here is the prompt list, if anyone is curious to see it!