#sergeant bitter-root

[dykedvonte]

It's a shame that Sergeant Bitter-Root and Manny/Boone have never met cause those conversations would be fucking rough

[high-voltage-rat]

a family doesn’t have to be a mom and a dad. a family can be an exhausted lieutenant, a disabled ranger, an ex-khan, a lesbian, and a farm boy with a stutter. a family can be five snipers with red berets.

[obscure-fallout-characters]

Alright, this is technically 2 but answer one or both if you want: 1) the NCR first Recon and their team dynamic? I.e Gorobets is their CO, but Sterling is the grandfather/elderly advice? 2) Bitter-Root and Major Dhatri father/son dynamic? Such as: Does Bitter-Root call Dhatri dad in private? Frequent letters, do they talk about Bitter Springs at all?

ooohh, this is my jam!!  (only for part 1 but i might come back for part 2 later)

The first recon is most definitely a family unit, like, they casually call each other by familiar terms (most common is sister/brother, maybe cousin every once in a while, but they do endearingly call sterling either “old man” or “gramps”)

although gorobets is technically their leader, a lot of them do look towards sterling for advice.  In the wasteland, old age is a sure sign that that person knows something useful.

bitter-root comes across as the scary older brother.  the “if you mess with my family i will stone cold murder you” type.  but, it turns out he’s actually pretty chill when you hang out with him.  he will murder if you hurt his family, though.

betsy is your cool older sister that you’re always low-key jealous of.  you want advice on how to score that cute girl?  too late, she’s betsy’s now.

10 is, of course, the darling little brother that everyone would die for.  although they know he can take care of himself, the fact remains that he’s new to the field, so they all like to make sure he’s good

and finally, gorobets, who tries to at like their father but he tends to come across as a stern, older brother.

[obscure-fallout-characters]

Head canons on Bitter Root and when he was still in the Khans? I know he had an awful childhood but I refuse to believe he didn't have at least one nice thing happen to him

ooooh

he liked sneaking off whenever he could, especially at night, when he could get up high and look at the stars

there actually were a couple other kids that he got along with pretty well

they use to play together a lot, unfortunately, he didn’t see them around after bitter springs…

and there was this one guy, in his early twenties or late teens, who liked to sneak little goodies to him every now and then

it’s part of the reason he doesn’t like to think about bitter spring.  sure he got revenge against some truly awful people, but he also lost the only people who’d been nice to him until that point

[notentirelycertain]

I’ve been playing Fallout New Vegas again so I decided I’d draw Bitter-Root and 10-of-Spades in Mspaint. I think all of camp McCarran is pretty cool in game.

Not super happy with how I drew 10-of-Spades, might retry drawing him later.