#& his sadistic personality obviously had a hand in him thinking & acting the way he did

[dollsolace]

i want to give donna two verses in regards to her motivations etc bc!! i really think donna was the least cruel out of all the lords.

yes, she did what she did - and while she is very intelligent, she is also a very obviously vulnerable person, and miranda herself is intelligent enough to know that also makes her easy to manipulate. donna, despite what people think, does enjoy having company (she's the most impeccable host). while she is secure in her solitude for the most part, she finds she craves companionship on the particularly difficult days. and miranda gave her that companionship. waltzed in and started calling herself mother miranda and referring to donna as her child. the death of her parents was still incredibly fresh, only ten years prior, and she still missed them dearly. miranda filling that maternal role, knowing it was what donna needed, only fuelled her devotion.

to go into a little more detail, the gardener letter really solidifies to me that donna wasn't evil. in the diary it praises miranda for her compassion, and how overjoyed they were for her 'adopting' donna. which sounds like donna had undergone some improvements since her arrival - as she isn't the type to go around outwardly talking about how good miranda is. or her feelings at all for that matter. which in the next entry is confirmed when they write 'she seems happy.' AND that miranda truly was treating her like a daughter, if even those around could see it.

cant remember it word for word its 4am but something something he saw visions of his dead wife and donna told him she could help him see her again. now, if miranda has indulged them with the knowledge of the megamycete effectively being a hard drive with how it retains the memories/genetic codes etc of those that come into contact with it, donna probably thinks that she can help him to see her again. donna has never been a sadistic woman. she's never been one for harming things, and the horror she'd witnessed that was her sisters death would only drive her further away from violence. with the right manipulation, however, she would commit those acts. especially if its coming from someone she holds in such high regard. who claims that its for a good cause. one she has no choice but to believe in, considering the 'gift of power' miranda bestowed on her.

but on the other hand, even if they hadn't been granted that little tidbit of information i still think she'd be trying to use it for good. because miranda said they were doing this for good. yes, she's well aware that she can cause horrific visions. but the knowledge that he'd seen his wife and it wasn't in a way that left him crumbling to the floor in hysterics perhaps gave her the idea of using what she was gifted for good. something miranda claimed their whole false goal was about to keep donna compliant. she invited him to her home with the innocent intention of helping him see his family again. but she can't use it for good, she quickly came to realise, when he began to screech and wail in terror - resulting in him going to drastic measure to end whatever he was seeing.

but !!!! i also really adore musing evil ppl so maybe i'll give her a verse where, while she was still manipulated, she feels no guilt nor shame for what she's done. in fact, she stands by it and her loyalty to miranda until the bitter end. indoctrinated entirely into her little freak cult

[rosetyler42]

Ericka: She doesn't seem to be, she hides it well. But I figure Ericka still deals with some things after she redeems. She tried to kill Drac 5 times and was an accomplish to monster genocide, you don't just get over that. She also deals with anxiety. She's had to learn to get over alot of her fears of monsters, amd worries about relapsing into ingrained bias and what that could mean (since last time, alot of people nearly DIED, including herself and people she loves.) Plus, she doesn't exactly fit in with most humans much like Mavis, except people also look at her like a sadistic homicidal maniac. The fact people judge her appearance, the fact she used to hate monsters, and compare her to Martha doesn't help. Nor does growing up the awkward jumpy noodle in a family of big fearless Van Helsing bricks. Her big insecurity though, is she doesn't deserve the family she has now because of her past, and she's a bit surprised Drac still loves her after finding out she's a Van Helsing.

Simon: He's the son of Dracula and Van Helsing but worries his powerless and shy timid personality doesn't live up to that. He's also sometimes picked on for his size and not being "manly" enough. He's also half monster, though he's human passing enough people may not know. But that doesn't mean some people may not think he's dangerous.

Lucy: Not much. The biggest thing is not being the first dhampir or Dracula daughter, so making herself stand out is a challenge. Plus, Mavis being something of a perfect Disney Princess type can't be easy either. She's also the most obviously monstrous, so people may view her as dangerous, bloodthirsty, and untrustworthy.

Alice: She worries she's still a dangerous monster, and while she still has lingering perfectionistic issues and body dismorphia. Also worries about Susie getting control again.

Audrey: I'm sure her CPTSD added some. She doesn't like being touched or grabbed by the hands or arms, and she may worry she's gullible because of Wilson and Bendy. There's also existential problems, her being a human-looking ink monster, and fear of turning out like Joey and the Ink Demon possibly. Losing her sanity. That said she's still one of the most sane and well adjusted characters IN the Cycle.

Shego: Hides alot of it behind her aloof "Solid tephlon" act, but she often feels not listened to or respected. Her evil solid tephlon act and being a mutant makes it tough to connect with others too.

Mabel: Her fear of growing up and not being the nice one.

Ford: Oh, this one's got ALOT of them, between his hands and his brother. Often seeks external validation amd companionship. Part of how he got tricked by Bill. Also thinks he has to be a lone genius, both as a way of asserting independence, covering for last failures due to worry of what others will think, and because of past bad experiences when he tries to connect with others and get help.

Fidds: Less so now he has his memory back and is slowly putting his life back together, he's still got ALOT of trauma, anxiety, and regrets - including what happened with Ford. And he's still recovering his self esteem after being the town kook for 30 years. He's still rather eccentric and some people have a hard time DEALING with him. However, he's very optimistic and cheerful for a man who gave himself artificial Alzheimers.

Bill: Kinda hard to cover all these. The main ones is feeling lonely and the trauma of what he did to his home dimension. Sort of what Ford COULD have been if he hadn't decided the world meant more than his life's work. Sees himself as a god or patron saint for the oppressed, but really is more of an "Anarchy that I run" type. Hates not being in control.

Meteora and Eclipsa: I'm sure being seen as a dangerous evil monster or evil queen of darkness takes it's toll. That said, Eclipsa seems better able to handle it than Mete with her upbeat attitude. Meteora as Heinous mostly embraced her monstrosity and dark side to the point of rampaging across Mewni stealing souls to take back what was hers, I imagine her post Conquer self is alot more well adjusted.

Bloo: Oh, definitely. @lovelylivelyv could explain this better than me, but a big one is feeling worthless and disposable and fear of Mac outgrowing him and leaving.

Pomni: Mostly her fear of abstraction and worry no one would be there for her/care about her when and if that happens.

Caine: He seems to have a worry about keeping the players happy. Hense his therapy session with Zooble. That's what he's good at, that's what he does, and if he isn't good at that, then who is he? This fear is bad enough it causes intense glitching of the environment until Zooble changes the subject.

@lovelylivelyv 's Jack Nephalem: I'm sure he'd have similar issues to Bendy and Alice of being a dangerous monster. Existential crises about being a demonic toon made of ink and in his OG verse, the soul of a dead guy. He refuses to cannibalize others due to his parents turning into cannibals in game. Not being able to protect his parents from Joey and Wilson or bring them back to themselves. The blursed conflict between angel and devil natures (not as strong since he's a toon and Bendy's not exactly an EVIL devil, but he still probably feels a bit of a tug of war between chaos/mischief and morality.) However, he's actually one of the most sane and well-adjusted characters IN the Cycle. Possibly in part BECAUSE being a Nephalem makes him used to the conflict between his toon and demonic natures. And the one best able to act like nothing bothers him.

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[makahimetenshi]

Follow me inside the wastelands - Chapter 15  -Arthur Maxson x Female Sole Survivor Fanfic

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14242575/15/Follow-me-inside-the-wastelands 

This one will be a long fic with a lot of chapters, I already write the concepts. Since I don’t play as Nora in Fallout 4 because Nate for me is the real protagonist the personalities and ideas are pretty fanbased from another fanfics I read

If you are very very very delighted with one fic and want a continuation I didn’t write or post you can donate me at least $5 bucks, most of this fics have next chapters I don’t finish because lack of motivation but hey a $5 is a $5, I see a few reviews and coments that fics that are abandoned months laters receive coments of wanting to know what happends next. Here it is, I finished my handling with you all, enjoy the fic

 Nora was running around the Prydwen until she saw a familiar siluette, Arthur was there in the command deck, she knocked on a wall to call his attention and went inside

-Hey I was looking for you –she said, looking how he raised his head

-Did anything happened?

-Its late, do you wanna sleep together tonight or prefer me in my own quarters?

-Im finishing some things, preparing for tomorrow –his eyes stop for a moment on her face, he smiled and went up and off from his desk, extending a hand, Nora didn’t get what he wanted but walk forward and take it, the man pull it and bring her close to his body, she was surprised but still relaxed, she was always relaxed and let himself be and do, he spinned around a bit and she close her eyes, also smiling.

This reminded her to some old night radio dance with Nate.

Arthur spinned around until her back was facing the view of the commonwealth, the stars and the limited lights of settlements the Prydwen was able to see were illuminating her silluete

Beautiful, that was she was.

He wanted to tell her so bad how he felt. He loved her so much.

Lets make a recap of her flaws, to not make everything so cheesy like he was some kind of blind man, nono, he recognized her problems and the things he didn’t like too, for example: they discussed a lot more than he wished it was expected since she had such different values because of her circumstances and how she arrived this world, she was too derogatory about the life of the wastelands and the people despite being a minutemen general, she should be more connected to people than him but in the insides she was very…hatefull...there was some other flaws like, bad shooter, she was more about punching things, stabing, cut across or exploding things with bombs or grenades, very dangerous in both situations for her own sake, too ignorant on some of the dangers of the commonwealth, when he heard she went with Proctor Ingram to the Mass Fussion Building without a power armor and just swallow all that radiation with Rad Away as a drink…well he nearly died too! She was also careless and underestimate some situations, like thinking that the mayority of people she faces is ignorant for not having school education. Nora was also sadistic and cruel sometimes, but he never see that in person, he just heard about it and wasn’t sure if believe it or not, it could be possible.

Despite looking down on human beings and their poor living conditions she was…respectfull may not be the world but look forward to interact with other species, he was aware of her connection with synths, ghouls, robots and even supermutants a thing he obviously didn’t like  at all, he didn’t understand how she melted so well with them and not with other people Speaking of connections he also heard when investigating her at the begining that she had a…connection, an hability to speak with beasts whoever this was never confirmed.  She wasn’t cultured very much into the brotherhood protocols and ways of acting so she often disappears, hardly make a report or respect the mannerism. He hated when she disappears specifically and she tooks a lot of time to came back. She walks, a lot of walking, almost never uses ventibirds which his responsible elder side thanked because ventibirds used a lot of fuel but on the other side he preferred that she started using it more for her own safety, now that he deeply cared for her he wanted to use the best of the best without sparing. Nora consumed chems, a thing he would never ever approve. And she also had a thing with the hygiene of places and stuff, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but is really a luxury he cant provide much, it was very difficult for him to achieve that level of cleaning on any place and keep it regularly

She also had secrets, many many secrets according to the notebook that Preston gave him,  secrets that she didn’t even want to share with him in the notebook but with other people yes. Secrets about her past life, secrets about her son, secrets about the institute, secrets about her wealth, secrets about the minutemen, secrets on the people she killed…

But the worst thing he really really hated was her eating habits. Im so sorry prewar woman, but you have to eat to not starve! I get that the flavor are not the best but still! Its not optional! Get over it! Arthur had already suspicions about her health being compromised!

When Nora felt that they stopped she open her chocolate eyes, meeting the blue ones of him, he turned his head to a side and she open her lips for a kiss, both kissed.

It was warm, and sweet, caring, wet and Arthur felt overjoyed from it. It was a kiss of pure love.

A hand of him went to cup her check, the other posed on the back of her waist. A hand of her posed on his chest over his heart an the other on his right shoulder. This was magical, Arthur never wanted this to stop.

They were kissing with the doors open in a public place, guards at the entrance of the command deck, now it didn’t matter, they can be together in public.

But tonight wont be the day hell confess, he was waiting for the perfect time to make it outstanding.

-Mmm –she hummed in their mouths before separating, still looking into his blue eyes- im going to my own quarters, im picking you by 6 to have breakfast and leave early so we use all the sunlight

-Make it 6:30 in my own quarters, I already have breakfast prepared and ready

-Alright, see you there honey –she gave him a chap kiss and took a moment to look deeply in his eyes before separating, from his point of view, Arthur see the most beautiful pre-war American wife spinning around the view of the commonwealth until disappearing into the Prydwen again.

By morning both were having a hot coffee with some pasterys Arthur specially asked for her, he wanted to have her stomach filled during the day, shell surely wont have lunch. A  pair of powdered donuts for him and three fudge fusion donuts for she, again, he was happy she eated, this lately concerns him a lot. Now they were spending a lot of time together he notices more this things and her awfull habits make him worry bad.

Since they meet she was skinny but maybe it was malnutrition.

They were off the airport walking in their power armors and laser rifles by 7:30, still, she had granades and explosives packed all around which didn’t make Arthur feel safe at all but she was the expert sentinel so better trust her methods.

-So you say a caravan will pick us at the exit of Boston? –he asked, both had their helmets on with the robotic voices and hey Dogmeat was following them too!

-Yeah its not a friendly place for wheely objects and they don’t want to cross further

-Understandable, do they know anything about my identity?

-No, they don’t care enough to ask, they just move to get paid, already leave a booking paid even, what? Are you concerned about your safety?

-I cant be?

-Not necessary, is not the first bodyguard job I do for the brotherhood and you know it

-Well being scared and horny really makes the experience of loving you –he said that as a joke no joke but…Nora stop on her way and stay behind, he look back just to see her standing in his direction, since they were wearing the helmets he couldn’t see her facial experesion. Woops, did he say too much? Too son? Didn’t expect that reaction emmmm better came out with something else…-Is there something wrong with your power armor? –yeah yeah yeah better dismiss the subject.

-Ehhhhhh…no…no…-she said, and started walking faster leaving him behind.  Well that sucked, and he believed that things could go just fine if he was honest about his feelings…a pain appeared in his chest, why? Really caught her off guard that much? It was that weird hearing that from him? He thought something else.

Both walked in silence for an hour or two, hurting Arthurs feelings a lot in the process.

Sometimes the experience of loving Nora also hurted. All relationships sometimes hurted and he was aware of that but…

She killed some bloodbugs in the way, really hard ones but he confirmed the rumors that she didn’t had any shoot skills, unlike him that he do blast heads in one shot, to be in the Prydwen most of the time that was really good.

-We aren’t walking on the roads. –Dogmeat was around, sniffing and walking

-Nope, I did this route to go as quick as possible and not cross danger or people around

-Its not an easy route

-Wait until we have to cross the rivers

-Im not freezing my balls underwater

-Then ill be waiting for you at the other side

They walked with Nora making the lead, they were still on the city but walking in allys and streets empty, Arthur had chills over his neck, they didn’t meet a single person, some screams at the distance, people talking around but not on sight, his stomach hurted this was all an experience its feels like getting in the wolfs mouth just for a woman that maybe didn’t love him back, his life, position, security…he was compromising the brotherhood by doing this! Who will assure him when they arrived this place Sanctuary Hills hes never been before it was gonna be a safe place to stay over? He breathed, in and out to reassure himself, this was eating his brain hard in anxiety and…his stomach sounded, damn, they walked a lot and now he was hungry, or sick of thinking whatever.

-How much until we reach the caravan?

-Two more hours straight walking

-You are crazy its almost noon

-Beautiful city doesn’t? my first time here i get trapped for an entire week, wasn’t unable to find the exit, luckily I had Strong with me

-The supermutant?

-Yeah, I was trying to find my way to Diamond City and I find him first, I saved him and he watch me

-Im so sorry the Commonwealth hasn’t gave you a proper welcome

-A shoot on the head will be more appropriate for the wastelands standards

-heck don’t say that

It was hard to jump off the bridges with the heavy power armors but they managed to make it and arrived to Cambridge. Dogmeat did even better than them

-Well meet the caravan at the Wattz Consumer Electronics

-We walked a lot

-Sorry about that, most of the city is hostile, ill make sure to compensate this

Arthur looked at the distance, they leave the tall buildings behind.

-If im not dead sleepy by night, why we didn’t go on heights?

-You mean jumping on the ceilings? –he nodded- the power armors are too heavy for that, we don’t have much mobility to jump further and the crashes are too hard on this deteriorated roofts, too risky, also there’s a lot of snipers on these roofts

Too hostile.

When they reach the caravan at the entrance of the fabric Nora went to pay the driver a box he counted as an actually big amount but she made an okay sign to make him know that everything was fine. Arthur sit on the back with the dog, power armor still on, he went to take off his helmet but before anything can see the sunlight Nora run to cover his head with a cloth behind him, making both the man and the dog stranged, since the dog wasn’t alarmed he wasn’t neither.

-This smells bad…

-I had a hat washed for you wait a minute! You are so impatient –she said covering his face with the cloth, getting out from her suit a wrapped cap, this was very…maternal at least, she was taking care of him. The hat was placed as he stand still on his place, she sighted and also look for a water can and a Salisbury steak to give him, Arthur wait for the food feeling little, small. –now we can go

-Wont you eat anything?

-There’s a horrible smell in the air, I will end throwing up the breakfast -indeed there was an awful smell, the smell of radiation and something rotting in every corner in the wastelands. Still not enough reason to not eat. She was starving herself. When she sat comfortable on the caravans back after going around a couple of times she hit twice the box where they sat –We are okay! Lets go!

Arthur keep eating with the scarf of the wrapped cap down, she hasn’t even take the helmet off. This make him feel bad.

-Are you legs okay? –she nodded as he drank something

-it will be a five hours ride, if you are tired then sleep, ill watch your back

-You know its impossible to sleep on a power armor

-I done it worse

Arthur look around, two bramins were moving the  caravan instead of one, no wonder why she paid so much.

-Nora how old are you? –he asked out of nothing, calling her attention.

She blanked, but still answer- almost 250 years old –what the hell- I was 33 when the bombs dropped, and it passed more than 210 years…and I been around awake almost 4 years…

-Im almost 25

-Yeah I was aware of being a cradle robber –she said that as a joke but with everything she has been trought that joke feeled sour and awful.

They had a really different view of the world, besides being a pre-war person.

So…she had her son late, and she was now even older than before. A shiver run through his spine, a kid with her like he wished so much had risky consequences. But…it would be nice. I must be nice.

He saw her move her back down slowly to the floor of the crate were they were sitting, laying, looking up the sky and the threes. Well that was strange

-Are you okay? –he asked, she was only laying but in the power armor that was at least okay.

-The weather is nice, today is a nice day of spring…when we started…getting along it was summer remember?

-Its been a bussy year yeah –he said drinking his can of purified water, Dogmeat was around sniffing on the can.

He was feeling very intense things for a relationship that has less than a year but…in the wastelands you don’t choose who you love you cling to them once you have them. Love hits you hard as a rock and its hard to suppress or ignore this feelings. Every moment could be the last opportunity to be together and he…sees that, he values every second together and wanted to exploit it to the top.

Arthur take the nap she recommended, not laying, just sitting with his legs crossed to not loose balance, she helped to make the wrapple cap more comfortable around his neck and cover him from the sun. Nora sit at his side with the laser rifle altought he wasn’t going to feel really protected by her shooting skills.

Some hours passed until the man wake up, the caravan stopped and a big weight left the crate, making his floor all woobly waking him up by force. It was already night, his vision had in front a bridge with a small river, at his sides some stone pillars with laser turrets and some interesting patrol towers behind him, his eyes look for Nora, hands up at the patrol tower who had a sniper pointing at her

-Its me Cait! Im back! Let the caravan rest for tonight, the other power armor is my companion

Dogmeat was also around Nora, running.

-Good to see you Nora! Took you time to came back here! –the woman turn down her rifle and Nora run to him

-Put on your helmet okay? Im going to greet some people, stay in the caravan –he nodded, still sleepy, he was in no position to fight right now his muscles were all sore from sleeping inside the power armor sitted in that position for so many hours, better let her take care of the situation.

He saw Nora hugging a woman with some red short hair even in her power armor, lifting her as she cursed loud. The dog next to them barked happy.

The surroundings look like…a neighborhood from the prewar, the pavement was of course destroyed and in bad state but it has been filled with cement in the big holes he can see even in the night, the lights of the street were functional, he looked up and see a poor conection of cables that will surely look awful during the day, Arthur believed they did a better cable connection at Croup Manor. The houses that were illuminated and easy to get a look were…well they must be nice looking before the bombs dropped but now…well handmade was a word? Precarious? Retouched? Lets not lie ugly was the real word, he can see why Nora hate everything so much but it wasn’t much different from Croup Manor it just that this was her home and seeing it in this conditions must be really hard for her.

There was people walking around, in one of the houses there was a cooking station at the backyard, he sees a lot of gardening tools so they must have crops, there was also parcels of entirely crops, just crops, there must be a house before but there now only crops which was good that they have the food secured. A greenhouse was in some other parcel too and he can see… a lot of security, a lot of turrets, a lot of patrol towers all around the little “island” at the edges, since the river was low and easy to walk anybody can walk their way to the place to protection must be needed, the water was there obviously for natural reasons but mostly for humidity and resource functions. He will ask Nora about it, knowing her it surely was a subject she thought about

The caravan advanced in the streets, the people there was just doing…their stuff, chill, just walking by and working like in Croup Manor, she also bring peace here, of course it was a fantasy, if a lost creature appeared from the forest everybody will take out a gun from the middle of their asses to shoot but it was the most reachable peace state a place can achieve in the savage wastelands, at least in the outsides of a fortification like Diamond City. A lot of cattle was walking around with a pastor or somebody guiding them, he wasn’t a fan of animals around people but it was understandable for their uses

The smell of burning meat and coal in the air, but at this hour people was cooking so it didn’t seem that strange, what it was strange was the grey smoke coming out from some backyards, that’s a lot of smoke.

Yeah it doesn’t look all bad, of course it wasn’t as polished and organized as the brotherhood of steel bases but this wasn’t a military forte, this was just a neighborhood of people living their life, using the resources of the land. There was even business around the houses structures, like, new structures that they look very out of place in contrast with the old prewar house aesthetic but is not like it wasn’t better in any other place

Well apparently in Jack Cabot house it was.

The place has a lot of light, he wonders where the energy comes from but the sound around tells him that there was a lot of generators functioning.

Caravan took him a bit far into the place and then he heard Nora running on the power armor where he was, that’s right, heard, the power armors are loud

-So is this were we stop? –he asked with the helmet on. Dogmeat was nowhere to find but as she said the dog was a free spirit so he wouldn’t mind too much.

-Yeah I just saw you running from me and came to you –she chuckled- come on get down, lets go to my house

He went down, the caravan moved a lot and the brahmins whined at the sludden lost of weight, accustomed to the way they were walking for the last 8 hours –what time is it? –he saw the caravan continue their way in the road

-Almost 22hs, I asked for people to wait for us to arrive, lets go to dress before the dinner start! –she take out the helmet, so he did the same.

-A communal dinner? In the street?

-Nono! An authentic neighborhood barbecue!

-Another? Last week we did one in the airport

-Yeah but this time we are doing it with beef steak! Well, brahmins aren’t exactly beef but im sure it would turn out better than the last one with my recipie, I gave exact instructions and how barbecue sauce must be and apparently farmers found the perfect substitutes for some of the ingredients so im willing to try it! Im hungry! I expect to come out great!

Datadatadatadatadata he had to try to imitate old recipes for her to actually want to eat, and give her meat, it was expensive but he prefer ir than let her starve to death

Both went in their power armors inside the womans house, Nora open the door and turn on the lights just to be received by Codsworth.

-Hello maam! Good to see you safe and sound! –Arthur was a bit disturbed by the robot but Nora saluted him with a very bright smile, this was the robot from her stories. A classic domestic mister handy –Mr Preston told me what happened to you I cannot do other thing than worry…

-Awww –she hummed authentically emotional about it calling the mans attention.

-and keep working in the hot water system, its finished

-Really? Theres hot water!? –she said genuinely happy running to what apparently was the kitchen on one side, opening one of the taps and letting the water run over a pan to fill it.

-Yes, its only functioning in the kitchen and the shower and it takes some moments to heat…-Arthur look around, there was pipes over the ceiling and walls where he supposed the water moved from one side to other

-Amazing! How do you make it?

-Sturges find a way to connect gas cylinders to the hot water tank you bring some months ago, so the tank needs that supply –she closed the tap and moved down her back still into the power armor to be facing  the water into the pan –there was a laundry room over in the hallway as far he can see so maybe the tank was there, as the pipes reunited suggested.

-It feels warm –she said close enough to feel the change of temperatures, it was life changing to see this in her home after so long

-It needs a bit more of time before getting hot hot

-But it needs this fuel right? The gas cylinder

-Yes but…-she smiled bittery and went when she heard that response, sighting.

-Well its going to be for special ocattions then.

-It can be used to cook also! –the robot tried to cheer her a bit.

-Nah, the woods gave the food a special flavor anyway

Nora had such high standards he thought, there’s no way you can have unlimited gas supply just paying a fee like before the bombs dropped. That’s never ever going to happened at least in their time alive on this earth. You need a massive group of structures, knowleage, people willing to work together in that task, infrastructure around several areas and disciplines…too much for the wastelands…

-I also been keeping the room clean for you maam –said the robot and she smiled.

-Codsworth this is Arthur –she make them both greet, Arthur just raised a hand a bit uncomfortable with giving a robot a human treatment but he will respect him, as by how Nora described him he was apparently a member of her surviving family and it was important for her- we are going to the barbecue tonight.

-Oh that’s great news maam, do you want me to get something ready?

-Get out the fancy clothes please –she said moving to a corner of the living room to get out from the power armor.

-Yes maam –then the robot went out the room, going inside the hallway.

-Come and park here, ill hide our fussion cores –he went and do as he was told, coming out ahhhhhh this was liberating, Arthur and Nora both stretched their arms and legs that were all hard from being such a large amount of hours inside the power armor.

He look at her, the warm lights on the ceilings make her look beautiful, but he thought that frequently because she was indeed, beautiful.

-That was interesting –he mumble low and then she went to stretch him in her arms, wow he didn’t expect that at all

-You are quiet

-Nothing special, this is just new –then she kissed his cheek, and he smiled also hugging her by the waist, he wonder if the robot could feel…jelousy? Because he wasn’t his old master but he was still hugging his wife…althought he had no one to snitch about it…

-Maam! The change of clothes are ready! –they both heard coming from the hallway, Nora separated and went to the power armors to take out the cores.

-Go and pick whatever you feel comfortable and change, don’t worry, you’ll be safe around me.

-I didn’t worry a bit about it.

-Pick something nice, we are going to a party!

He went inside the bedroom as the robot came out it was wide, it had a lot of space and in the double bed there was several clothes bended to display, he went for something simple not wanting to think much because this wasn’t his area: a checkered shirt and slacks. He came out from his suit and put on the old fabric, feeling it dry and rusty but still, he can see it was clothes from the prewar, washed to be usable and not having radiation smell but still old. Arthur look at himself on the broken mirror and…it wasn’t bad, red was a good color, he liked it, not a bad choice, it was so strange to see this vision of himself like a…prewar man…the scar in the face didn’t help to make the  dream but here was war before so some mens had scars too.

Nora came not so long and look at him with a smile

-What do you think? –he asked.

-The woodsman look has its charms but ill will go with other options…-she said pointing at some other pack of clothes over the bed.

-Do you want me to change? –she denied with her head and sat on the bed, crossing her long black legs, Arthur swallowed saliva and bend the knee, oh yes this was his thing, on the floor he automatically started to unlace her long boots, loving the view of the woman from bellow.

-No, pick something for me too and lets go to eat, im hungry.

Oh shit yes no funny time she wanted to eat! The man do as quickly to take out the boots from her legs and move, he can get a payback from that sweet little game from before later when she fills her stomach.

-Mmm ill go with this one –he pointed at a laundered cream dress and she smiled.

-Well do you wanna help with this over here or…-Arthur laughted at seeing her hands on the zipper, he went out the room getting amused to the new shoes she gave him.

-Change yourself and lets go –he said and she  chuckled, he suddenly had a thought and stopped- hey since we are here do you have some photos from before?

-Mmm no…-bullshit

-Come on don’t be boring.

-Codsworth had a few, most were destroyed or scavenged, like most of our things –shit he messed up bringing a sour subject to the table, guess hell had to talk with the robot.

The robot was already looking for him at the command of his master, Arthur was a bit uncomfortable that he heard all the conversations but a small cabinet open on his head, in the inside there was…papers…a lot of papers…He put his hand inside a bit uncomfortable and take all the content out.

A folder…some handwritten notes…oh my a gun…a closed mini box…another closed mini box…a third closed mini box…and…four photos! It was a bit disappointing that there was only three but it would be a surprise if they was more. He placed the rest of the content inside the robots compartment and check on his treasure.

He felt…weird seeing at the photos with a void in the chest…there was Nate, the famous Nate, Nora’s husband, because she was still his widow, she never take the ring off, ever see her without it. The first photo was of the two of them in their marriage day, he was in a black suit and her in a lovely and elegant white dress with a white cap instead of a veil, classy and original, hugging each other with a smile. Gosh she looked pretty and different. Arthur wished to see that for him one day even if in the brotherhood the concept of the white dress doesn’t exist he knew about this old world tradition and it looked…beautiful, it looks beautiful on her, if she asked him for a suit and a white dress he will search all around the world to find a dress for her to use on their special day.

The second picture show them both, she was  pregnant and he had a hand on her belly, a heat appeared on his face, gosh he wished for that in a not so long future. Again, she looked…so different…more big, but again, she was pregnant, and in the other one she had a dress…alright…

The third photo had the full family, even Codsworth was on, now they had their baby and their robot, this would be the picture that makes Nora the saddest, she always get sad talking about their son…She was sitted holding the baby and Nate was kissing her cheek and holding the babys hand, Codsworth was just around.

The fourth picture…oh shit oh shit oh shit whyyy what was the explanation!? He searched for some kind of inscription o text around but he didn’t find anything until he flipped the photo and…oh…oh my…

All pictures had inscriptions…and had a chronological order.

The first one was about their first vacations together.

The second one was the marriage

The third one was the pregnancy and the last one was the baby, he gets it.

-Why you people go to vacation in underwear back then? –he asked and hear the response from the other room.

-That’s not underwear that’s a swim suit! Back then you can swim on the rivers and seas without getting sick!

-You are kidding –he said still looking for more details.

-No sir, waters could be in some areas dirty but not poisonous –responded Codsworth taking Arthur a bit of his safe zone but it was still interesting  to hear- there was beaches, spas, resorts…all places with water to play and relax, people will save their money all year just to enjoy a few weeks

Nora looked so different in this photo.

She was chubby. No wonder where the wide hips come from, she didn’t have much boobs back then neither but she had more, more of everything!  More flesh! She was more rounded, had much more curves…gosh she isn’t naturally this skinny. Arthur came to the realization that she was really starving herself.

He compared it to the photo of their wedding, her legs looked wider even, same size between both, not much chest. Then, on the photo of her pregnancy her boobs looked bigger but for obvious reasons. A pain appeared on his chest, nonononono she lost a lot of her health in this time. By any chance Danse meet her that chubby? He doesn’t remember her look the first time they meet since that much time  passed, what he does remember is that she apparently had been wandering a time around with the minutemen before hearing the signal of the Cambrige Station.

Looking at the photos he felt…bad…really bad for her…she lost so much of her old life…the rounded apples on her cheeks were now gone, she had a slim face structure that marked very well her cheekbones, but that wasn’t normal.

-How do I look? –she said walking in the hallway, the skirt of her dress moved lovely with her hips but he only smiled sadly.

-You look different –he gave her the photo, Nora took it- your shoes tonights looks classy tho.

-I lost a lot of weight –she smiled bitterly, Arthur took her hands with the photo still between her fingers and kiss each.

-Did you lost it after your pregnancy? –he asked looking at how small her wrists looked, he always see her skinny but now…it makes her fragile.

-No, I actually was wider, but when you are big and…have periods of going hungry…you lost a lot of weight, a lot, suddenly –he heard that stories about going days without eating, trapped in some places, not finding anything, traveling to more and more full scavenged places…

-I never get the chance to get fat because food was always limited, so I’m used to eat and stay this way.

-I don’t think ill ever see myself like that again, not in the wastelands –the life of this century even robbed her old image. And he…can’t promise or even see himself fulfilling a healthy lifestyle for her to be chubby and have a good diet at his side. He cant see himself providing meat to her everyday, and he was the elder of the brotherhood of steel!

-You are beautiful –he said to reassure her.

-Its not that bad, I had to lose that weight anyway, society back then didn’t want big womans, do you see how small is the Nuka girl waist? But Nate didn’t mind at all and we were happy, he was even happy when my boobs grow up at getting pregnant. He always was a boob man.

Well he understands the man well, maybe one day hell see that too.

He smiled to her, and she smiled too.

-Lets go to the party shall we? –she nodded, Arthur left the 4 photos inside the robots compartment and closed the little door with force, Nora laughted a bit and went to check on the robots head a bit worried he used too much force, but it was all fine.

-Well be back Codsworth!

-Have a nice evening maam!

-Make the bed for us please!

Well now the robot knew they were going to fuck.