#constantine (sosu)

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PRESTON GARVEY ROMANCE ACHIEVED 💪💪💪💪💪💪‼️‼️

HELL YEAH CONSTANTINE YOU'VE GOT YOURSELF A MAN

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Anyways, time to shamelessly plug my own AO3

The End of All Things is a super basic canon-divergence Greedfall fic (for all three of you who play Greedfall). Minor Vasco/De Sardet, it’s mostly about De Sardet and Constantin

alone and sublime is a Fallout 4 fanfic for a female SoSu and Deacon. Get used to that, there’s more

take my hands, they’ll understand is a Deacon fic about seeing that dumb egg cry

o my heart is basically backstory for my SoSu but it’s x Deacon so—

with a bat and a blade is a new collection of x Deacon drabbles. There’s currently only one short fic in there, but it’ll be updated with more in a little bit.

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ok i WAS gonna announce this with a doodle but i'm. so tired. anyway

nora + constantine have a band. nora's (electric)guitar + vocals, constantine's drums

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constantine sits bolt upright in bed and nora's worried that he had another nightmare since 1) sat bolt upright and 2) crazed eyes but NOPE!

"nora. nora they don't know the rocky horror picture show."

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yayyyyy it’s doneeeee. referencing this post

AUGHHH okay uhh. feel free to look at this as much as you want but for my mental well-being don’t study the proportions too closely please and thank you yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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hm. with how recent the majority of Constantine's wounds are they probably hurt just kind of constantly (heh. constant). maybe it hurts to smile, wouldn't that be sad.

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note to self. whatever you do. do NOT think of Constantine and baby Shawn. do NOT think about Constantine wearing a baby wrap. do NOT think about him trying to drag Nora out of bed to get some fresh air for a couple moments. do NOT think about Constantine being worried that his nightmares will interrupt what little sleep baby Shawn comfortably gets. do NOT think about how the only way either of them can sleep is by having Shawn on Constantine's chest. do NOT think about how baby Shawn is the only person Constantine knows who doesn't wince or flinch at the sight of Constantine's scarring (Nora does, as much as she tries to hide it, but he can't miss the way her eyes darken for a split second when she sees his face. He knows she doesn't mean to. he flinches at the sight of himself, to. Nora's eyes have been much too blank to do much darkening with Hestia gone, now, though. He'd gladly have Nora full-body-flinch every time she sees him if only to have her get Hestia back.). do NOT think about Constantine forcing himself through his agoraphobia and PTSD so Shawn can be socialized. do NOT think of him swaying back and forth even though it's rough on his bad leg because Shawn won't sleep.

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here's some Constantine tidbits! (attempted) timeline order. [EDIT: noragirlfriend is now named!!!!! thank you charlie!!!!!!!!!! say hi, Hestia!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

claustrophobia counter: I

- grew up in the Great Plains. home life wasn't the greatest due to his dad. got into motorcross/motorcycling because it was cool and he needed an escape in his early teens

- in his late teens his ma moved them both over to Boston after his parents got divorced to be closer to his ma's family.

- ... even though that family was estranged. what else can you do? money and resources were tight.

claustrophobia counter: II

- spent most of his non-school time running around the alleys and sidestreets and nooks+crannys of Boston. this is where he got to know Nora.

- she was WAYYYYY out of his league; as much as a young punk egg-not-not-cracked trans girl can be.

- nora's his best friend! they loved eachother as much as two people can without being in love.

- she had a pretty shit relationship with her parents. Constantine's ma opened her home for her.

- couple years pass. Nora gets into law school, meets her girlfriend (Hestia). Constantine's ma dies. They both take time off of regular activities to mourn. Nora goes back to law school and graduates with flying colours.

- Constantine dodges the draft.

- Constantine attempts to dodge the draft.

- medic!

- killed his commanding officer. not not caught, but the rest of his squad hated the guy as well, so it's not like this was reported. one more casualty.

- glasgow smiles are from a brief stint in captivity

claustrophobia counter: III

- medical leave. Hestia gets pregnant.

- he was still a field medic by the time Anchorage happened. he saw a lot of kids die because of armour malfunctions.

claustrophobia counter: IV

- his team had secured a building and was trying to get it set up as a fallback point for future assaults when the surrounding buildings started being blown up. when he realized what was happening, he gave his helmet to a non-armoured soldier, just before a missile struck their building.

- building collapses. Constantine is stuck under the rubble, specifically crushing his left leg. develops acute compartment syndrome/crush syndrome.

claustrophobia counter: V

- under there for quite a while. had to be cut out of the armour. the other medics wouldn't tell him how the person he was trying to help was doing.

claustrophobia counter: VI

- only got an honourable discharge because of the above events. can't stress enough that this man was not liked by his superiors.

- gov't was really fucking short on supplies so his mobility aid is a modified power armour frame. that's what was in production, that's what they had, whatever, it fucking sucks as an aid. it's painful and a little lot triggering and honestly not that great at it's job.

- Constantine gets home halfway through january and the following... several months were pretty hellish. a very-late-third-trimester Hestia, Nora, and insanely shellshocked Constantine get Codsworth pretty much as soon as Constantine gets back to basically just make sure the house stays livable enough that everyone can recover.

- Constantine gets back into motorcycling. it's freeing in a way he literally can't get anywhere else. keeps his brain quiet.

- Hestia dies in childbirth. Nora's inconsolable and can't take care of the baby.

- Constantine takes on all childrearing responsibilities. it's his kid in every way that matters.

- the only time he or the baby could ever sleep was when the baby was on Constantine's chest.

- bombs drop, rip. Constantine was originally the one holding Shawn, but the stupid fucking vault-tec people made him hand him over to Nora for the pods; some bullshit about "a mother's comfort" or whatever the fuck, it's stupid to the point where i don't want to think about it, point being Constantine is already terrified of the pods and can't hold his baby, can't comfort his baby, can't make sure his baby is safe.

claustrophobia counter: VII

- frozen. thawed.

claustrophobia counter: VIII

game start!

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local [UNDEFINED] has the confidence to dye their hair fully rainbow but not to [checks notes] go outside. more at 11

anyway i wanted to try and draw my hair. no colour version under the cut

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you never quite realize how many Important Events in videogames take place in tight spaces until you start to rp as a character that's claustrophobic

i presume this extends to any sort of inaccessible environment, but. yknow. fo4 and Constantine on my brain. so.

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CONSTANTINE AND NORA CORE

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the one where both Nora AND Constantine are "sole" survivors

Nora is still the one shot, and Constantine's first actions upon thaw are still to get Nora out of the pod and try to save her life. This time, however, Nora is not long dead, and is instead still trying to fight Kellogg about Shawn. hate is a strong emotion but i fear it is the only strength she has left. Constantine manages to get the wound to stop bleeding (relatively easy, they're both half-frozen anyway) but can't get to the first aid materials to continue helping (cane snapped with the sudden temperature change the first time he entered the pod, can't get his legs underneath him) and gets pretty distressed about it. ("please, god, not you too, nora, please, please")

Nora, well, she can't let that stand. She helps Constantine keep himself out of a panic attack and they manage to drag themselves first to the nearest first aid kit and then out of that vault-shaped pit.

they go get their jackets back from Codsworth (and Constantine gets his leg brace back) and then onwards into Concord yayy. they have an argument that technically starts in front of Preston during the Power Armor talk but only really happens in the hall outside. "motherfucker you have ptsd" "nora, i'm the only one here with training, and i've seen too many people die in those suits to let it be you" "do you not fucking hear yourself?" "i do. i know. it'll have to work out." and Nora gets onto the ground to help him anyway.

unfortunately, deathclaw. fortunately (and unfortunately for the deathclaw), Nora keeps a level enough head and the deathclaw is too distracted by the giant hunk of metal shooting at it to notice Constantine (said giant hunk of metal) gesturing towards one of the old cars and Nora rigging it to explode. she knows it'll be really fucking bad for Constantine. she does it anyway, because she trusts him.

uhhhhhhhhhh yeah i don't have much else for this one. Nora still has that moment with Marcy ["just... don't let your grief make you lose what you have left."] but it's a lot more hopeful in the "this sucks and is bad and will continue to be bad but i'm doing a little better now" way.

OH YEAH Constantine's a quiet, heavily-scarred, strong man with intense eyes who has clearly been in and won a lot of very very bad fights. he's helpful, sure, and there's a moment or two of him noticing something small and fixing it for someone (an issue, a hit to quality-of-life that they don't have the energy/time to fix right now), but other than when he's doing a job or is actively sought out, he tends to keep his distance. resting bitch face, yknow?

anyway, Nora's always been better with people than he is, so she's in the room while Sturges and Preston (and, lets be real, Marcy) are having an admittedly gossipy conversation about The Scary Guy Who Lives With Us. Nora (who was previously minding her damn business, thank you very much) turns from where she's sitting (barstool) to comment, [incredulously, then disbelieving] "You're kidding, right?" (blank faces) "Connie's the gentlest, kindest man I've ever met."

and then that nudges Preston and Sturges to kinda just... accept that Constantine looks scary and to meet him where he's at and get to know him a little better.

marcy just accepts that he looks scary.

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perks of having an oc with a weird long name: logos. thanks constantine. I think in his youth he would go through the effort of doing all the nice neat block leters and the weird A just so he could do the star

edit: MAN THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TRANSPARENT PNG. also i might go back over this and make it like an actual logo but unfortunately iiiiiiiiiii. don't really like working with vectors and i needed the idea out of my brain

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constantine gets beat up in this one. probable trigger warning for uh, flashbacks, mouth-related torture, hair pulling, etc

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm thinking about Some Fucker grabbing Constantine's face and getting a liiiiittle too close with a knife, probably pushing him back against a wall or into a corner or onto a counter or something. Preston getting the guy off of him before anything happens, asking if he's alright, and Constantine just. he's somewhere else, for a second or two. and then he looks at Preston and nods and says "yeah" but it comes out strangled and more of a whisper.

soon after, during a night spent safely in a settlement, Preston wakes to an empty bed. He finds Constantine in front of a mirror, shaving razor in hand and hair mostly gone. He's struggling with the back of his head. Preston helps.

Constantine sleeps a little easier after that.

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sorry just thinking about the goddamn cops in goodneighbor. pardon, “neighbourhood watch” like that ISN'T snitch central. uughh. anyway i don't think constantine (or nora OR hestia, for that matter) would like them very much. especially because they're prewar and they know that neighbourhood watch = snitch central

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can't tell if this is a constantine x anyone song or a nora x hestia song so fuck it it's a constantine nora hestia song