#or all have to enlist

[penumbra-mayhem]

Tank's nickname is Tank because they come from a military family.

(TW: suicide, death, violence, war, limb loss)

Their mom and dad are both officers, each coming from military families as well. It is expected that Tank and their older sister will also enlist when they are old enough.

Tank and their sister move around a lot as kids, which is difficult for any kid and even more difficult for shifter kids; not having a pack can be detrimental to an adolescent shifter's development. Tank's parents, though, always insist that the military is their pack (which is total bullshit). So Tank and their sister make their own pack, a pack of two.

When Tank is ten, their father dies in combat.

In response, their mother buries herself in her work. What little attention she had given Tank and their sister beforehand disappears. Tank's sister reacts by becoming a model daughter, a model sister, a model student, and a model future soldier. She is strong and stoic and perfect—everything Tank aspires to be and everything Tank isn't.

Tank feels their feelings deeply and their grief overwhelms them. One day, Tank asks their sister between heavy sobs how she stays so strong. She responds that you have to have armor for your heart, just as you do for your body. She tells Tank that they can handle anything life throws at them, as long as they remember that they're tough.

She teaches Tank how to fight, both with their words and with their fists. Through her example, Tank learns loyalty and honor and perseverance.

When Tank is twelve, their sister enlists.

She quickly earns the nickname "Tank" from her fellow teammates, for how unstoppable she is on the field and how indestructible she is off the field. She never breaks, never gives up.

When Tank is fourteen, their sister dies.

Her squad is ambushed. She tries to save one of her teammates, despite the orders from her higher-ups to retreat immediately. By the time she sees the grenade land at her feet, it’s too late. She loses both her teammate and her legs.

The discharge is officially a medical one, but everyone knows it’s unofficially a dishonorable one. Having disobeyed a direct order, Tank's sister returns home in disgrace, but she tries to keep her head held high. She puts up the armor for Tank.

Two months later, Tank is woken up by a loud noise. Although they hadn't seen it coming, they know immediately what it is. When they manage to get into their sister's bedroom—through the window since the door is locked—they find their sister, one of their mother's guns, and two letters.

The first letter is an apology to Tank. The second is a scathing rebuke of Tank’s sister’s discharge from their mother.

Tank's mother moves with Tank to a military base in Dahlia and takes a noncombat position. Tank starts getting into trouble at school. They fight with their mother daily. In an effort to build their family reputation back up after so much "disgrace", Tank's mother joins the Shaw Pack.

Tank introduces themself to the pack as "Tank", dog tags hanging on their neck with the same nickname etched onto the back.

[typosandtea]

Nobody including me posts about their ocs enough so please please please reblog reply or whatever with some oc tidbits!

[minhyukie]

any monbebes still around.. having a monsta x revival moment in my brain

[twojamie-o-clock]

Steven & Sara & Jamie should hold hands and dance in a circle over guilt of feeling like they’ve deserted idk

[noblesixjm04]

I can't get this out of my head. It's just something that ive had rattling around. If this doesn't make much sense I'm sorry lol but.

Do you ever think about if the Spartan ii's ever met one of those siblings without realizing it?

Like. John meeting a young female marine. She's quick witted and wicked smart. There is almost nothing she will back down from. At least not until she gets a "win." She will never leave one of her teammates behind. She's also known among her friends for her dry sense of humor.

One day she runs into John whiles he's out of armor. She never realizes that he's the Master Chief as they stare at one another. Blue eyes look into blue. The roots of her hair are blonde. Contrasted against a dark brown. They share the same smattering of freckles. Dusted along their face and down to their arms. Petering out along the backs of their hands.

And when she smiles there's a gap in her front teeth. (One tooth is chipped from a hard won game of King of the Hill.) She jokes that they match.

Apparently her brother had to. Her parents told her about him. How he had passed a few years before she was born. Her mother told her about her and her brothers shared a constellation of freckles.

Maybe Kelly runs into a pair of twin engineers. One is a girl. The other a boy. The girl has her hair cropped short. It's faded green. The boy has long hair. Held back in a tight braid. It's blue.

They strike up a conversation with Kelly one day. Mostly out of boredom. At one point talking about how they had been on their schools track team. Twin Terrors they had been called. They were the fastest in the entirety of their schools career.

They are the only two out of the group of engineers and scientists that could match her humor.

Kelly never sees them again after that. But she thinks about them often enough. About how they all shared the same accented voice.

About the day they all raced.

She won. Of course. But something about it made her feel like she was missing something. She matched it to the same feeling to her younger years with the rest of the ii's on Reach. On some of the few days they had true fun.

Linda was sent to therapy. Well. Not really sent. It was... Suggested. That she go.

Linda did. This time. For the first time. The last time.

She met an older man. Her elder by about three or four years. With the same red hair, that has streaks of white at the temples, and piercing green eyes.

Those eyes that looked at her like she does down the snipers scope. Those eyes that seemed to know her own.

She could see them widen. Hear the hitch on his breath as they flicker to a photograph and then back to her.

He...

Maybe she had seen him in passing once. Despite him never having been on this ship before.

He has been the one to pull the trigger.

"I don't think I'm the right match for you." His voice rumbled in a familiar way.

When she left. Linda tried to stop thinking about the worn, frames photo on his desk. The one with a boy. About eight or nine. With a shock of bright red hair. He held an archery trophy in one hand. In his other. The hand of a little girl. Close to five. With that same shock of red hair and green eyes that seemed to see you even through the cameras lense.

Fred meets a medic after a nasty injury. The Odst's and Marines in his company joke that he has as getting the best medic around.

He was a young man. Kind and deeply empathetic.

Those same Marines also joked about how the two of them could be siblings in a different life. With how they shared the same sloped nose and sharp jaw. The same, soft manner of speaking.

"Seriously Lieutenant. Just give the Doc the same hair cut. Could fool me that's for sure."

The medic said that he did have a brother. One that he has never met. That he had passed away a few months before he had been born .

But he and his parents visited his grave every year on his brother's birthday. And that this was the first year that he wouldn't be able to.

"He's be turning thirty three today." The medic had just finished Fred's stitches.

"Oh." Fred spoke it before it could be stopped.

"Oh what?" The medic had asked.

"I turned thirty three today." It was one of the few things he remembered. Something he rarely thought about. Because something around it had made his heart hurt.

"Here then. Happy birthday." The medic handed Fred a chocolate granola bar.

[mariajmajesty]

❤️

[cirr0stratus]

“talk to me Goose” in Top Gun: Maverick bears the same weight as “Good, Kat” in All Quiet on the Western Front and No I Will Not Elaborate

[dearweirdme]

[yunogf]

streets are saying doyoung e word is nigh 🙃

[halamshirals]

woke up and immediately started thinking about post-game solana and their relationship with the crows. being a crow is the only life they've ever known, but there's just no way i can imagine a post-game where they can stay with the crows. the year they spent with harding and varric was, easily, one of the best in their entire life simply because they were able to make actual decisions and be a person in some capacity. and it was followed by the bestworst year of their life since they released a double-blight and had to fight gods. but again, they were in a position to make choices of their own volition.

BUT ALSO. i cant imagine a way for sol to leave the crows without managing to convince lucanis to not be first talon. which i have thought about at length but still dont quite know How That Would Go

[acheronist]

original seaman's papers scan i found -> zoom in on the description info -> after i stared at it for hours trying to read the incredibly faded + loopy script.

@bridglars 🤝 insane people alert

[bonny-kookoo]

The feminine urge to rage right now 🤲

[slytherinshua]

people need to stop celebrating the fact that scoups is exempt from military enlistment. people have started to only focus on the fact that he’s not going and ignore the fact that he had a serious injury which is why he’s exempt. real carats who actually cared about their artist’s health would much rather have the standard 1.5-2 year hiatus for military and a completely healthy artist than an injured one not going.

[sarahwatchesthings]

Trevor Laird in "Mindwarp" (1986) and in "Smith and Jones" (2007) + Clive Swift in "Revelation of the Daleks" (1985) and in "Voyage of the Damned" (2007)

[heybaetae]

my heart was so heavy today but i saw dan and phil again tonight after eight years and i just love them so much i have a lot of feelings… i needed that so bad ❤️‍🩹

[ibbity]

Operation "romance Preston" is now a success. It ended up being delayed slightly due to the fact that for some reason he decided to start idolizing me in the middle of rescuing Nick Valentine and tried to initiate the final affinity conversation while we were actively running away from Skinny Malone. This was not optimal, so I did not pick up the conversation cue right then lmao. Instead we went to Goodneighbor and went down to the Third Rail for a little jazz, and Preston wandered behind the partition next to the stairs and started the affinity conversation again. Obviously I went straight for the "romance" option and heyo! Magnolia was singing in the background, it was so nice. We had a previous affinity conversation under the same circumstances, so it was like a callback in a movie.

I've seen people complain that Preston is too low-key and not expressive enough when you romance him but honestly I think that's just how his character is written? He's clearly more of an internalizing type who doesn't like to make a big emotional display and being slightly awkward and unsure of what to say when caught off-guard with something significant tracks. I liked his response anyway, felt realistic and I find emotional restraint where there's clearly a lot behind it more appealing than just throwing it all out there at the slightest prompt. Also, dude's just coming out of an extended phase of suicidal depression, it would be odd if he started skipping and squealing. Anyway, my girl got her man first try and I'm pleased.