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You Okay? | Allison & Standing Bear

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Standing Bear gave the woman a small smile, but a kind one. Whatever thoughts she had were her own. He would not blame her for any of them. He knew what it was like to want to give up. But the thought of dishonoring his family and his very name always stopped him. Hopeless moments passed if you continued on and kept living.

“I should hope not...” Bear ventured closer to the edge, peering over, no obvious fear of heights. “I do not think this building is tall enough. And you are sitting down.” At this, Standing Bear sat down as well, far enough away that he couldn’t touch more than her shoulder if he intended to at all.

“So, if you do not mind my asking, why did you come up here?”

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          ❝ –   he has my eyes.  ❞

    it’s a rare instance of quiet, not even the ringing of her eardrums     from the gunfire interrupted her thoughts, could tarnish the imag     -e of her rosy-cheeked son.   alone with the other mother, resid-     ed safely within the aged, stone walls of the castle in the main     room.   her once delicate fingers, curled around her mug of wat     -er coffee, her pinky instinctively curled oddly however, so used     to firearms now, back in the day she would be tapping a pen ag     -ainst her chin while nate snored next to her on sunday mornin-     gs while she completed a wordsearch.   those memories were     so far away now, like her son.   NORA eyes the bubbles still sp     -inning in the centre of her mug, her expression almost vacant.

         ❝ –   my hair too, but-- i know it would turn into nate’s                    when he grew older.  ❞

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he feels... like a GHOST. most nights, he relives the screaming. he’s taken the night shift on duty, because he doesn’t want to deal with anyone. MANNY asked him only once what happened at bitter springs, and boone choked on the words. 

he looks down at his hands. he’s only made for DEATH. 

there’s the sound of a GROWL in the distance. boone grabs his rifle and gazes through his night scope. looks like three FERAL ghouls around a figure in the distance. they’re not an immediate threat to his team, but... he gets two down. he HESITATES on the third. boone’s hands are shaking, but he inhales a sharp breath and focuses. BANG!

he shouldn’t stray far from his post, but the other guy on duty tells him to go. he carefully makes his way in the direction of the dead ghouls, spotting the traveler in the moonlight. 

“you’ll catch your DEATH out here, traveling at night.” boone says, but his voice doesn’t even sound like his own. he clears his throat. “you need shelter? we got.. food. water.” he feels like he should help someone after the HURT he’s caused. “c’mon. then you can be on your merry way in the morning.” | @stubbcrnwcman

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stubbcrnwcman replied to your post “gvnsmith replied to your post: // one of these...”

Honestly I'd like to hear more about this! It sounds interesting, and I don't think anyone here thinks you're taking potshots. It is something that is glossed over in these new games and its a discussion worth having!))

// tbh, fallout 4 is mainly the one that glosses over things. new vegas doesn’t touch on it as much as 3, but it’s definitely still there, and there are characters (like ulysses) who talk about it. but i mean, owb in fnv revolves around a group of scientists who started their experiments back before the great war, and carried on afterwards — including even an internment camp (as mentioned in my last post)

in fo4, the sosu can comment to daisy that the world post-war isn’t all that different from pre-war, and they can say something similar to piper during the interview. the only other place it might come up is when you investigate the chinese sub, but i haven’t ever dug into that quest (never get around to it in my incomplete playthroughs) so i’m not sure

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// GOOD. JOIN ME IN MY HELL

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stubbcrnwcman replied to your post: �� ✍ �� �� (For both Dean and Elle)

((It disturbs me that Dean being black is considered an unpopular opinion like what??????))

// i distinctly remember there being a kerfluffle about this. granted, it was a WHILE back, and i avoided it once i saw it was happening, bc good god, but yeah, that sure was a thing

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💢 ✍ 💭 🔥 (For both Dean and Elle)

mun talks about muse ;; accepting | @stubbcrnwcman

Something about the muse that annoys you?

>  elle

i specifically chose to make elle stutter-prone because... frankly, there just... aren’t... enough characters who are. i get it — creators need their characters to be easily understood, but i’m stutter-prone, and everyone talking so smoothly in media ... kinda messes with me sometimes...

anyway. this is under the ‘annoys me’ question because, even though i chose that quirk for a very specific and personal reason... sometimes i’m annoyed writing it, because i have to sit here and be like, “is she still understandable? does this make sense? am i being clear enough about my meaning?” etc. so... the reason why it annoys me... is that it stresses me out sometimes... gg i played myself

>  dean

dean, do you HAVE to use a heavy but different emphasis on every other word? dean, i only have italics at my disposal, since you aren’t the all caps type 99% of the time. i don’t want to pick up using tumblr formatting just to communicate all your fucking emphases. i’m going to strangle you with my bare hands

Favorite thing about writing the muse?

>  elle

less writing and more like, an effect of writing — i Love seeing people’s characters react to elle in a way that, like... validates the role i try to write her in. there are certain things she’s supposed to be good at, some effects i try to aim her towards — and every time i see the internal or external dialogues of her CR that reflect these things, i’m like. “i’m writing her right”

with OCs, you don’t have a canon to reference / check back against to make sure you’re IC and writing them correctly. this is the best i get with elle, but honestly, it feels even better than that, because it’s much, much more difficult to write a character who is, say, supposed to inspire people to believe they are capable of change, or supposed to evoke certain symbolism, without just shoving this down the “audience” (the thread partners and those who are reading along)

>  dean

any time i really #Nail writing his dialogue. /clenches fist

Favorite memory of the muse?

>  elle

another shoutout to rafe because it’s gonna be rough topping the character development that built up during our long running doctor who audio series crossover verse. this isn’t a very specific answer, but it’s hard to narrow down a specific moment out of that and my memory sucks to boot

>  dean

i havent gotten a chance to break him out of his box very often, but i really enjoyed the ghoul questions from his old blog. writing his answers was a lot of fun, but having multiple ghoul muses on my dash also doing those questions at the same time... it was a Good Feeling

Unpopular opinion about your muse?

>  elle

elle might be a malleable protag, but she’s still an oc, so i’m always a bit ??? about questions like this for any of my protags

as for the courier six role in general... i, uh. well...

okay, let’s go with this one: i’m personally not terribly fond of female couriers who go the legion route and then don’t get fucked over by it, one way or another. likewise, i’m not really fond of... “queen / princess of the legion” + someone else filling caesar’s seat. that’s just... that’s just not how the legion works. the legion was always doomed to fail because of the way caesar set it up. if caesar dies from his cancer, the legion is going to fall about sooner rather than later — but it’s still not gonna last past his death

and it doesn’t matter if the courier is related to caesar (like being his daughter), because the legion’s culture is specifically set up so that there aren’t dynasties or family rivalries. and it doesn’t matter if the courier is married to caesar, because women have no power in the legion and never will. they can’t even fight in the arena. like... it just doesn’t work. the lore made that really clear, imo

>  dean

pls stop joking about “how do his sunglasses stay on,” those jokes were old eight years ago, they’re especially old now. pls

also, i am 99% certain dean is straight. there is a small chance he’ll surprise me, but... sometimes, a character just seems straight, y’know?

one more for the road... before he was a ghoul, dean 👏 domino 👏 was 👏 black. this stopped being a discourse a long time ago, bbbuuuut, i ain’t budgin’ on this

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“She seems nice?” Elle offers tentatively. “I’ve heard a lot of good things about her. She’s out there, helping people... I just worry. It sounds like she’s caught up in... well... She’s in the middle of basically... a war. It’s not the same kind of war like back in the Mojave, really, but it still... is one. I dunno what else to call it. And I... well, I mean, I can’t help... but worry... that...”

“She’s in over her head?” Dean Domino interrupts, sounding bored. “Like you were?”

Elle’s shoulders hunch slightly, like she’s been caught. “Um...”

“It’s not my problem,” Dean continues snidely. “It’s not your problem, either, for that matter. If she wants to gallivant all across the countryside making a martyr out of herself, she’s welcome to it.” He eyes Elle from behind his sunglasses. “You’re not thinking about tagging along, are you?”

“I... well...” Her shoulders hunch more. “I didn’t... say that. It’s just... It’s... good that — someone is helping people. But, you know... you know why I — can’t.”

Dean taps the ash off his cigarette. Good, he thinks to himself. What he says is, “That’s what I thought.”