#fic: wnsa

[aceasadhd]

Genuinely all I have thought about for the last half hour is Agent Cooper, when Workaholic Not So Anonymous is probably set, and the historical context thereof and how all of that prolly affected his views on his feelings towards Louie and Florida.

You have given me horrid brain rot/pos

congratulations you just earnt yourself a head canon info dump

before you go any furth make sure you go and read, kudos and comment on this fic -> Fed 2,367 by guessimdemoms because it's where I got the idea of human DC.

then I named him Danail Cooper to justify why he would get the nickname DC when they already had the District

from there I started my own set of head canons. like how humans can become personifications if needed. Like the CDC is Dr Joseph W. Mountin and the FBI is Charlse Joseph Bonaparte. (Lots of Josephses) is Daniel's middle name Joseph? who knows?

So I personally have no idea what it was like to be a gay man in the 1960's in the USA but that's where YOU DID WHAT ON THE TABLE and Workaholics Not So Anonymous are set. YDWOTT is about 3 months into Agent Cooper's 3 Year contract and WNSA is 2 years and 8 months after that.

I did try to play into him knowing and accepting he's gay and probably going to be single forever because he doesn't really do one-night stands and as a Federal Agent he'll be more scrutinized. He's happy for the States, that they can do what they want, but he himself still lives in 1960's USA and it's still frowned upon.

he knows Florida and Louie are dating and are happy they have the statehouse to be free of people who might judge them. he now knows that the states can take different forms.

Free head canon for you: New York is an Autistic Sex-Neutral Asexual who has a low sex drive and hate sudden touches while his boyfriends Massachusetts and Virginia are pan and bi (respectively) giant horn bags.

so, DC has seen Mass and Ginnie make out but didn't make the connection with New York, so he doesn't know or understand that polyamory is accepted in the statehouse.

It isn't until after WNSA that DC realizes that it's all okay, that California is dating Texas and boning Alaska (they don't start 'dating' until the 1990's) AND having one-night stands with human strangers. He finds out about New York during the AIDS crisis. He finds out about Washington/Oregon/Idaho at New Year's 2000 when they all pass out on each other.

it certainly takes some internalized undoing of human ideals and phobias but with the state's help he comes out to be the cute adorableness he is today.