0. Two Random Headcanons For Each Companion.
No one asked. But everyone gets it.
Cait
Her hair is actually a brighter ginger but she keeps trying and failing to dye it black so it stands out less. Turns out two-century-old hair dye is pretty mediocre.
Allergic to grass. Nothing else. Just grass.
Codsworth
A defective unit. Nate and Nora were asked to return him (which is why they still had the box he came in) but neither wanted to. He was smarter than the rest and they loved him as he was.
Can see shrimp colours and will occasionally try to clean stains only he can see.
Curie
Has been running on cleaning alcohol instead of Mr. Handy fuel for the last century odd. No one knows how. That really shouldn't work.
Once she gets her synth body she is very eager to try as many foods as she can and is equally enthusiastic in the facial expressions she pulls when some of the food is disgusting.
Danse
I like to think his name is Noah. That he takes it or is given it by Sole or Haylen. But that's my own little one. I just think he looks like a Noah.
He's the one who taught Elder Maxson how to shave his beard. Not directly. More passively as it was about five years before fallout 4 and he was shaving his beard in the communal locker-shower-room thingy and a 15 year old Maxson would watch occasionally to learn. Arthur Maxson didn't really have his dad to teach him afterall. And Danse wouldn't comment or turn his nose up like Maxson knows some of the other knights would.
BONUS: I think Cutler was also a synth. I think Cutler and Danse escaped the Institute together and were given corroborating memories to help them blend in and because they pleaded to not be separated.
Deacon
He is ginger and sunburns professionally.
Deacon isn't his actual name, which is weird to realise, and I really don't know what his actual name would be. But he vibes like he would have a double-barrel surname from when he was married to Barbara. He keeps it even though no one else will ever know or hear it again. It's his little proof that she existed and she loved him.
Dogmeat
Why is he called Dogmeat.
He is oddly well trained. Like to the point he's effectively a support dog. He can open doors.
Steals shoes but only ever the left one. He never takes both shoes. Only the left.
Hancock
Perpetually runs very warm.
Has a dulled sense of taste and will actively try out any spicy food he can. Can eat mirelurk or other normally repulsive food without tasting it too much.
MacCready
Perpetually cold. He sleeps with socks on and hugging a pillow because when he was on the farmstead with Duncan he often would share a bed with his son. He misses his son.
Really unsure on if crap counts as a swear word or not.
Nick Valentine
He knows Skinny Malone's mother on a first name basis and it haunts Skinny Malone. Nick is aware of this.
He brought Ellie to diamond city from Goodneighbour and sees her as a neice of sorts.
Piper
Collects pens and pencils. Her dream is to find a mostly intact set of gel pens to give to Nat.
She has a mug of her own at The Valentine Detective Agency due to how often she goes over to brainstorm with Nick over a case or story.
Preston Garvey
Gets terrible hay fever and has to wash his face regularly to stop any pollen building up on his eyelashes.
He collects a recipe from every settlement he visits. He wants to make a cookbook of the commonwealth one day because food brings people together.
Strong
Knows how to spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and nothing else.
Getting really annoyed with how low all of the door frames are. He keeps banging his head and he's not happy about it.
X6-88
He finds the idea of dinosaurs rather cool. He is glad they are extinct. But still. He wonders if he could beat one in a fight.
The white lights in the Institute give him a migraine which is why he never takes the sunglasses off.
