#paladin-dancin

[scotianostra]

IT'S A PURE DEAD GIVE-AWAY THAT YOU'RE SCOTTISH IF :-

1. You consider scattered showers with outbreaks of sunshine 🌞 as good weather.

2. The only sausage you like is square.

3. You were forced to do Scottish country dancing 🕺🏻

every year at secondary school.

4. You have a wide vocabulary of Scottish words such as numpty, aye, aye right, auldyin, baltic...

5. You destroyed your teeth when you were young using Buchanan's toffee, Wham bars, Penny Dainties, MB Bars, Cola Cubes etc

6. You have an enormous feeling of dread whenever Scotland play a 'numpty' team like the Faroe Islands.

7. You happily engage in a conversation about the weather with someone you've never met before.

8. Even if you normally hate the Proclaimers, Runrig, Caledonia , Deacon Blue and Big Country, you still love it when you're in a club abroad and they play something Scottish.

9. You used to watch Glen Michael's Cavalcade on a Sunday afternoon with his side kick Lamp Paladin.

10. You got Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals at Xmas.

11. You can tell where another Scot is from by their accent - "Awright, pal, gonnae gies a wee swatch oa yur Sun ? Cheers, magic pal." Or "Fit ya bin up tae ? Fair few quines in the nicht, eh ?", etc

12. You see cops and hear someone shout 'Errapolis'.

13. You have participated in or watched people having a 'square go'.

14. You know that when someone asks you what school you went to they only want to know if you are catholic or protestant.

15. You have eaten lots and lots of random Scottish food like mince 'n tatties, Tunnock's Caramel Logs, oat cakes, haggis, Cullen skink, Lees Macaroon Bars, etc.

16. A jakey has asked you for money.

17. You think nothing of waiting expectantly for your 1p change from a shop keeper.

18. You know the right response to 'Ye dancing ?' is 'Y'askin?' followed by 'Ahm askin' and finally 'Then ahm dancin'. 💃

19. Whenever you see sawdust it reminds you of pools of vomit as that's what the jannies used to chuck on it at school.

20. You lose all respect for a groom 🤵 who doesn't wear a kilt.

21. You don't do 🛒 shopping ... you 'go the messages'.

22. You're sitting on the train �� or bus and a 😵 drunk man sits next to you telling you a joke - and asking 'Ahm no annoying ye ahm a?' and you respond 'Naw, not at a', yer fine. This is ma stoap, but'. 🛑

23. You can have an entire phone 📞 conversation using only the words 'awright', 'aye' and 'naw'.

24. You have experienced peer pressure to have an alcoholic drink 🍷 when out - regardless of the circumstances.

25. You know that ye cannae fling yer pieces 🍞 oot a 20 storey flat, and that seven hundred hungry weans'll testify tae that. Furthermore you're sure that if it's butter, 🧀 cheese or jeely, or if the breid is plain or pan, the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae wan.

26. You know that going to a party 🥳 at a friend's house involves bringing your own drink.

27. Your holiday abroad is ruined if you hear there is a heatwave in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 while you're away.

28. Your national team goes 2-0 up again the Czechs in a qualifier in Prague and your mate says we'll end up losing 3-2 here and you think "Probably". ⚽️

29. You can properly pronounce McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, and Auchtermuchty.

30. Your favourite pizza is deep fried and battered from the chippy.

31. You're used to 4 💨 ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ seasons in one day.

32. You can't pass a chip shop or kebab shop, without drooling, when your 🥴 drunk.

33. You can fall about 😵 drunk without spilling your drink.

34. You measure distance in minutes.

35. You can understand Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like them in your own family.

36. You go to Saltcoats because you think it's like being at the ocean.

🌊

37. You can make a whole sentence out of just swear words.

38. You know what haggis is made with and still eat it.

39. Somebody you know used a football 🥅 schedule to plan their 💒 day date.

40. You've been at a 👰 🎩 wedding where the footie results were read out.

41. You aren't surprised to find curries, pizzas 🍕 kebabs, Irn Bru, nappies and fags all for sale in one shop.

42. Your seaside holiday home has Calor ⛽️ gas under it.

43. You know that Irn Bru is an infallible hangover 😵 cure.

44. You understand all the above and are going to send it to your pals.

45. and, finally, you are 100 per cent Scottish if you have ever used these terms - "How's it hingin'?", "clatty", "boggin", "cludgie", "dreich", "bampot", and "dubble nugget"..

😂🕺🏻🥳

[anxiousimpala]

Bad kids and Ratgrinders swap au

So I’ve been seeing a lot of swap au’s so I thought to put my spin on it by changing the BadKids classes to that of the RatGrinders

Adaine: Gonna start quick and easy. Personally I think she would be a Barbarian if getting rage crystalled. Porter, after the seeing the aftermath of cafeteria fight in freshman year, decides to convince Adaine to start Barbarian classes. Personally think she has te be a Zealot Barbarian.

Gorgug: Wizard. No in world reason besides being the greatest wizard of all time. Specifically school of abjuration because a big characteristic of Gorgug is how much he cares about his friends so yeah.

Riz: Horizonwalker Ranger. Mostly because I think Sklonda forbids him to be a Rogue like his father( contributes to rage) and because it’s not a secret that Kalvaxus killed him so throw favoured enemy into there. Anyway a horizon walker can also go to other planes of existence, so just a good alternate class for Riz. You could say he should rather be a gloomstalker

Fabian: As soon as I found out about the swashbuckler subclass Fabian is’t going to be anything but Rogue lemme tell ya(Not really it’s kinda straightforward). A lot of the descriptions name fancy footwork so you get a bit of dancin’. Anyway Fabian sort of rebels against his father idea of success by hiding in the shadows and reaping the benefits from other hard work.( Just the vibe I get for Fabian as a Rogue)

Fig: Another thing about this au is that Ankarna is fine and Cassandra still corrupted but moving on; Cleric. Trickery as subclass so that Fig can still evade the perception of others as herself and she worships Ankarna because she feels she needs justice for her parents splitting up. (This one is kinda cheap sorry) Or she could be a paladin.

Kristen:That leaves Kristen with Bard which is meh. Ribbon dancing could be where she gets her magic from but WHAT IF!!! Double clerics baybeeeee. Really hooked on the idea that Kristen worships the NightmareKing!!! Corruption domain baybeeeee. So thats my two cents and all I could conjure from my brain crevices.

[paladin-dancin]

The real reason Deacon was kicked out of HQ:

[marcy-lark]

let us be gracious, 

let us be forgiving - 

we must be courageous, 

despite our misgivings  

[latenightcinephile]

#733: ‘Johnny Guitar’, dir. Nicholas Ray, 1954.

How refreshing to find a film on the list at the moment that I came away from thinking ‘That was a genuinely good film!’ The list conflates ‘entertaining’ and ‘important’ so much that when I remember how entertaining some of the films actually are I get a surge of energy to continue watching. Johnny Guitar is one of those films, but it’s also a weird film in some ways, which makes it even more endearing to me. Perhaps one of the more unusual aspects of it is that it was directed by Nicholas Ray, who is far more closely aligned in popular memory with more serious and less generic films, like Rebel without a Cause. Here, he demonstrates that his commitment to popular cinema was a foundation of his work and not something that was arbitrarily connected to one of his more serious films.

It should be remembered throughout the film that Johnny Guitar is pretty hokey and artificial in many ways. Most extreme is the use of the Trucolor film processing system, which was definitely inaptly named. The process lends the colours of the film a garish contrast, as though the skin tones have faded and the primary colours exaggerated. Ray further exaggerates this contrast by frequently dressing Joan Crawford (as Vienna) in bold reds and lemon yellows. While these colours are almost off-puttingly striking, they do succeed in drawing attention to Vienna and giving her a kind of visual appeal lacking in many of the other costumes (only Ben Cooper as Turkey Ralston, the young gunslinger, gets a similar treatment).

The stagey colours and obvious differences between location shooting and soundstage shooting make the film an exercise in suspension of disbelief, but I found that this improved the appeal of the film as a viewing experience - if it were intended as a thoughtful piece of cinema I might be less positive about these technical quirks. I think that Ray might have intended the film to be a thoughtful commentary in some ways - Roger Ebert and others have somewhat persuasively interpreted the film as a commentary on the McCarthy-era Hollywood witchhunts - but if this is the case it’s good that Ray elected to use a generic type of setting to play that metaphor out in, rather than, say, a more contemporary setting where the metaphor might have become too heavy and obvious.

Instead, what we get is a Western filled with locations and events that border on the fantastic, and a regularly innovative plot that relies heavily on Crawford’s star persona. Crawford plays Vienna as a woman who has been burned by men too much to throw her lot in entirely with any one of them. Her reputation is as the owner of a gambling saloon (and presumed brothel), outside the limits of the nearby trading town. Her success, crowned by the impending development of a railroad nearby to draw in even more paying customers, draws the ire of Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge). Small seems to be driven by nothing in particular - the closest the film comes to explaining her angst is that The Dancin’ Kid, a local gunslinger, used to be with Vienna and is now making moves on Emma that she is both receptive to and afraid of. McCambridge here is enthralling as Emma Small, and acts as one of the most compelling pieces of evidence that the film is an allegory for the McCarthy era. McCambridge conveys the kind of pagan zeal of a character from the Crucible, nakedly demanding that others persecute and incriminate Vienna. Her actions are brazen and transparently malevolent, and it speaks to the theme of moral decay that pervades these films that the men of the town bow so rapidly to Small’s demands.

Into this mix come both The Dancin’ Kid and Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger and another of Vienna’s former beaus, who become entangled in the town’s attempts to drive Vienna out. The main trouble is that Vienna’s reputation and the frenzied hatred of Emma Small makes it impossible for her to plausibly claim her innocence in any of the film’s events - Vienna withdraws her money from the town’s bank at the same time as the Kid and his associates rob it. The Kid’s soft spot for Vienna means he leaves her with her withdrawal, but this simply gives Emma more ammunition in claiming that Vienna must have been a conspirator.

One thing I particularly enjoyed about Johnny Guitar is how inaccurately named it is. From the opening shot of Johnny riding into town, he barely seems to interact with the mechanisms of the plot at all. He refuses to intervene in the film’s inciting incident, a stagecoach robbery, and makes a strong point early on in the film of his refusal to carry a gun. Narratively, the film clearly intends to tell a story of a man’s attempts not to take sides, before he learns the necessity of doing so when Vienna’s life is threatened. By that point in the film, though, Crawford’s insistent power has commandeered the direction of the plot. Johnny becomes Vienna’s helpful sidekick for most of the second half, a himbo that I realised only when rewatching has inspired at least one charismatic D&D paladin of mine.

Eventually, the film admits that its hero is lacking: the final gunfight of the film slowly whittles its core cast down as infighting and surrenders mean it eventually comes down to Vienna and Emma. This in itself feels brilliant; a rare opportunity for the traditional showdown to take place between people usually relegated to the sidelines is fascinating. The men of the town explicitly acknowledge the importance of this, too - the leader of the posse goaded to take down Vienna calls his men back, saying “It’s their fight; has been all along.”

Despite the hokiness of this final fight, and the way it takes place in a wide open valley somehow only accessible via a passageway behind a waterfall, and the persuasive sound of Peggy Lee singing about a man who has done very little of plot relevance (great song, though), it still somehow feels unexpected and innovative. The combination of the female gunslinger and the deaths of many of the men who were inadequate throughout the film mean that the ending is not what would I would have expected in the slightest. Nicholas Ray has made a Western better than many Westerns, and no matter how awkward the thing looks, that’s a good kind of important right there.

[returnn-of-the-mac]

Companions react to Sole being a famous violinist that played Irish/Folk music? (no complaints if Cait's is longer * hint hint *) Love ya work!

Ah this one was fun! You might notice it in this little more in this React than in my others, but I’d just like to point out (in case you haven’t already noticed), I purposely make Sole not have any lines of dialogue because everyone’s SS is different. It kinda breaks the immersion if Sole says something that your Sole wouldn’t say. So that’s why Sole is, well, silent. Just leave their responses to your imagination! Also, I’m sorry this doesn’t really touch upon the “famous” part of your request, but I figured they’d all kind of sound the same as that prima ballerina React I did a while back, so I just did it more as a “Sole is very, very talented” kinda reaction. Hope that’s okay! Please enjoy!😄

FO4 Companions React: Sole Being a Famous Irish Folk Violinist

Sole and their companion were on their way to Salem when they stumbled upon an old music shop. Inside the store, the pair found a collection of perfectly preserved instruments. Upon looking through cases and displays, Sole found a violin— one that was identical to the one they used to perform Irish folk music in the pre-war days. They picked up the instrument and began to play familiar melodies

Deacon: Deacon was completely enthralled by the beautiful performance by his partner. When Sole has finished their song, Deacon enthusiastically clapped and cheered. “WOOHOO!” Deacon shouted, “ENCORE! ENCORE! Play I’ve Been Working on the Railroad next!”

Hancock: Hancock swayed to Sole’s music. When they had finished, he nodded in approval. “Excellent performance. Job well done. And without chems either? Damn, you got some real talent, [brother/sister]. You should be proud.” Hancock picked up an electric guitar. “My turn. You just sit back and enjoy the ride.” The ghoul proceeded to perform one of his favorite pre-war classics: Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix. Sole watched him in awe as he perfected every riff. When he had finished his performance, Hancock took a bow. “I’d like to thank the ungodly amount of mentats that contributed to mastering this song—the only song I can play on any instrument.”

Nick: Nick smiled as Sole performed Irish folk tunes on the violin. When they had finished, he clapped. “That was an extraordinary performance. You’re quite the virtuoso, my friend.” The detective sat down on a piano bench and cracked his mechanical knuckles. “You know The Entertainer by Joplin? I know how to play it on the piano if you wanted to perform it together.”

Curie: Curie hummed along to Sole’s melody, immersed in the music. When Sole finished, Curie wiped away a lone tear that trickled down her cheek. “Magnificent. That was absolutely remarkable, [Madam/Monsieur]. It has brought tears to my eyes.” Curie blushed, “If it’s not too much, could you possibly play another melody? Possibly...La Java Bleue by Fréhel? That is my absolute favorite!”

Ada: Ada stood in place and listened to Sole’s performance. When Sole had finished, she finally spoke. “That was stunning, [sir/ma’am]. It’s incredible how nimble you are with that instrument. Me...I could only dream of being that dexterous.” She paused for a moment. “I wish I could compose a melody for you...oh! I can play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star in Morse Code if you would like to hear that.”

Strong: Strong listened to Sole’s song all the way through. “Human...how you play tiny instrument? Strong want to try.” Strong picked up the violin and drew the bow across the strings. It made a horrendous screech that forced Sole to cover their ears. Strong was not amused. “STUPID INSTRUMENT! Why not work for Strong?” Strong crushed the violin in his hands and carelessly dropped the wooden fragments on the ground. “Bah! Useless junk anyway.”

Codsworth: Codsworth listened to every note of Sole’s performance with a strong longing for the past. When Sole finished, Codsworth signed. “Oh, [sir/mum]. I missed this. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to listen to your music again.” The two were silent for a few moments before Codsworth broke the silence, “Please, would you mind just playing one more tune?”

Danse: Danse, genuinely impressed by his partner’s talent, listened attentively to their performance. He then fished through the instrument box and pulled out a harmonica. He began to play harmoniously with Sole. When the two finished their song, Danse smiled. “Cutler and I would play that song among several others when business was slow at our junk stand in Rivet City,” the Paladin explained, “He played the accordion and I played the harmonica. We were decent enough. People gave us tips. We constantly joked about starting up a street band with other drifters, but nothing came of that. And we never spoke of t again once we joined the Brotherhood.” He put the instrument back in the box. “But I digress; that was an outstanding performance, soldier. You never cease to amaze me.”

Piper: Piper closed her eyes and fully immersed herself in Sole’s beautiful music. When Sole finished the melody, Piper approached them. “Blue...that was incredible. Honestly, I think that was the best violin performance I’ve ever heard!” She shook her head and laughed. “Hey, you should play that song for the upper-stand snobs. You’d absolutely blow their minds. I swear you’d make Ann Codman’s head explode if you proved to her that the working class have talent, too.”

X6-88: X6 absorbed every note of Sole’s Irish folk melodies and subtly tapped his fingers to the beat. When Sole had finished, he spoke. “That was excellent, [sir/ma’am]. I do not frequently listen to music— save for a few classical songs— but that was a truly riveting performance. Well done.”

Longfellow: Longfellow smiled widely as he listened to his partner performed. He picked up a nearby fiddle and played notes that complimented his partner’s perfectly. After their performance, Longfellow clapped. “Bravo!,” Longfellow praised, “I may not know how to play Irish folk songs on the fiddle, but I can teach you some sea shanties.”

MacCready: MacCready smirked and listened to his partner masterfully recreate traditional Irish folk music. When Sole has finished, MacCready grinned. “That was awesome! I never pictured you as the musical type.”MacCready approached an electric guitar that was on display and through the strap over his shoulder. “Now the real question is...can you play rock and roll?” MacCready aggressively strummed the strings of the guitar, creating sharp, piercing beats that caused both himself and Sole to cringe. He quickly stopped and sheepishly scratched his head “...because I clearly can’t.”

Preston: Preston stared in awe as his partner skillfully handled the violin. He clapped once Sole had finished playing. “General, that was incredible. I never would’ve guessed you were a master of the violin.” He complimented. He thought for a moment, and then eagerly turned to his partner. “Any chance you know how to play the pre-war National anthem? I’d love to hear it.”

Gage: Gage was taken aback by Sole’s sheer talent. “Boss. That was...good. And I ain’t messin with ya either. It was damn good.” He studied the violin. “And I ain’t usually a fan of these fancy-folk instruments. I’m more of a trashcan lid and harmonica kinda guy.”

Cait: Cait’s eyes lit up when she heard the all-too-familiar tunes of her homeland. When Sole finished, she beamed. “Hey, ye ain’t half bad! In fact, ye ain’t bad. Yer amazin! You’ve got some Irish in ye?” Sole answered and Cait smiled. “Well you’d probably be surprised to know that I know how to dance to these songs. When I was a girl, I taught myself how to dance in my spare time. Kept me from thinking of me parents.” She looked down and frowned. “But as much as I loved it, it was a risk. They’d beat me if they saw me practicin. So eventually I just stopped tryin.” She looked at her companion earnestly, “But I like to think I still have that spirit in me. The way I dodged punches in the Combat Zone, it reminded me of my dancin. I think I’d like to give it a try again if you don’t mind.” Sole agreed and started playing another tune. Cait aptly began to step to the music; her feet tapping to the beats synchronously. For the first time in a long time, Cait looked radiant and truly happy. When the song concluded, Cait took a playful bow. She then turned to her partner, eyes wide with genuine gratitude. “Thank you, [name]. That truly meant a lot to me.”

[panda-noosh]

The Paladins Catch You Dancing {Headcanon}

Request: Good evening. Can you do a scenario/or headcons where the voltron are seeing a new ship (they decided to inspect further who it is/or who they are). And when they are at the ship they get to meet the captain. And the captain are introducing the paladins to the rest of the crew. They finally meets the future s/o only to find out that s/o and a close friend of s/o is dancin together to a song they both boogie to. They havin basically the time of their life. What would the paladins think of them especially the s/o?

 Shiro:

   okay, even though he has the stone cold features and the leader aura, this would amuse him to no ends.

   he's not a damn robot. the man can be amused by something sometimes, and this is one of those very things.

   I have this image of him walking into the room, following the captain of the ship, and he has his hands on his hips and he sees you dancing and this gracious smile just pulls itself at his lips.

   you haven't noticed him yet, which makes it ten times funnier.

   whilst everyone else is awkwardly standing there, waiting for the two of you to turn around, Shiro is just smiling and chuckling.

   and the captain of the ship is apologising for the volume of the music and your level of unprofessionalism in this moment, but Shiro just waves him off, saying it's okay.

   you turn around and obviously, you're completely mortified.

   Shiro would give you the Dads Thumbs Up and probably ask for you to dance some more.

    Keith:

   awkward mochi.

   yet he still enjoys himself, and he feels amused but like – he doesn't know how to show such an emotion.

   so he just sits and watches you, probably leaning against a door frame because he's Keith.

   and he'll try and fight off his smile, but it's really no use.

   he ends up just ducking his head down to look at the floor, tapping his foot along to the music in an attempt to get all this energy out of his body.

   because, for some reason, seeing you dancing just makes him hype??? like, he doesn't understand it, but it does.

   but then you're turning around, realising the group is standing there and you're getting all flustered and embarrassed, apologising profusely before you offer to take their coats and things, clearly trying to change the subject.

   later on, you and Keith end up getting put in the same room together, alone, and he simply can't help himself.

   he'll smile at you and say, “You're a good dancer,” just so he can see you get all embarrassed again.

   Lance:

   he joins in.

   he's been working for quite a while. my boy needs some fun in his life, and you are here to give it to him.

   so whenever he sees you dancing, his immediate reaction is “Thank you heaven I needed this,” and then he's jumping into the room and swaying his hips to the music you've chosen to play.

  this, of course, would get your attention and you would be embarrassed at first, but seeing Lance dancing would kind of ease that embarrassment a little bit.

   because, suddenly, it's like you were never dancing at all. everybodies too busy yelling at Lance to get back in formation to even bring up the fact that you had just been taking a break off work to dance.

   but Lance doesn't stop. he's hype all of a sudden, and he's also a banging dancer.

   he probably grabs your hand and starts to dance with you, even though he doesn't know you, and soon you two are just dancing in the middle of the room, everybody else having given up trying to get through to him.

    Hunk:

   even though he has no idea who you are when he first sees you, he's your biggest fan.

   as soon as he walks in and hears the music, he's doing a little jig in the corner.

   but then he sees you dancing and all of a sudden he's a damn cheerleader.

   he'll jump up and down whilst cheering, making you completely lose your head because omg there's people here.

   but even after you've stopped dancing, Hunk is still cheering, shaking his head from side to side whilst yelling, “Ay! ay! get it! ay!”

    and everybodies telling him to be quiet, and you're a flustered mess in the middle of the room, but Hunk is just so proud of this stranger who he's never spoken two words to.

   I can see, as time goes on, this is definitely what you two bond and joke about. he's constantly bringing up  that one time he walked in on you dancing and you have to constantly tell him to shut up, because it still haunts you to this day.

    Pidge:

   the first thing she sees when she walks in the room is the machines and the tech in the area, not you.

   you're barely making yourself subtle, though, which is the thing. you're waving your arms around and swinging your head back and forth, completely lost in the music.

   but Pidge sees the machines behind you and suddenly she's barrelling forward, ignoring you completely.

    she's so amused and enchanted by the technology, that she just acts like she didn't see you.

   acts. because she did. of course she did.

   but she's sneaky, and she doesn't bring it up until you two are alone.

   and it's not like you dancing was that big of a deal to her. she lives with Lance McClain. she's not too fussed on the fact that you were spending your free time doing something fun.

   but that doesn't stop her from bringing it up.

  you two end up in the same room together and suddenly she's talking about your dancing and you don't know what to say because you could have sworn she didn't see you.

   “I'm not blind, you know. these glasses are my brothers. I don't even need them.”

   she'd find a kick off of making you all flustered and embarrassed, but she would only bring it up when she felt like she needed to.

[ao3feed-adashi]

dancin' with our shoes off (know i think you're awesome, right?)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2xCdycl

by risingrainbow

the five universes with a happy ending and the one without one.

Words: 9506, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: M/M

Characters: Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Lance's Family (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Adam (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Allura (Voltron), Romelle (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron)

Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron), Adam/Shiro (Voltron), Allura/Romelle (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Five And One, Fluff, Angst, Childhood Friends, winterguard, Canon Divergence, Canon Compliant, Black Paladin Lance (Voltron), Royalty, College, Multiverse, Cuddles

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2xCdycl

[paladin-dancin]

Sole's legs got tired on the way back to sanctuary.

(my first art post HAD to be deacon)

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Send me react and fic requests!

for any of the fallout 4 companion babes <3

[paladin-dancin]

Welcome back, we were waiting for you! Could you do Paladin Danse reacts to Sole constantly taking every opportunity to flirt with him? (before and after Blind betrayal) How do you think he’d react? Could you use they/them pronouns as well please<3

Thank you so much, it's great to be back! Just as a disclaimer, I try to use they/them pronouns for Sole in every writing to be the most inclusive for everyone <3!

*Obviously Spoilers bc of Blind Betrayal, so post Blind Betrayal is under the read more*

At first, Danse would definitely be oblivious to Sole's flirting. The innuendos and remarks that they make towards him would go right over his head. However, when Sole ramps up the flirting by taking any opportunity they can to sneak in a suggestive glance or comment, Danse slowly but surely figures out the intentions behind their words. The next time he catches on to Sole's attempts to flirt with him, he pulls them aside. "Soldier, I cannot allow these comments to continue. " He says, sternly looking down at Sole. He knows that this kind behavior could get in the way of Brotherhood operations if he let them continue. That isn't to say that he doesn't lay in bed that night thinking about it... and Sole. 'maybe in another life..' he thinks to himself as he drifts off to sleep.

Post Blind Betrayal, if Danse is romanced, he wouldn't be bothered in the slightest by Sole's comments. In fact, he makes a few attempts at flirting back. They aren't very good attempts, but he's trying his best. One evening, they're both walking back to sanctuary when sole comments on how beautiful the sunset is. "Not as beautiful as you." Danse says with a smile, causing Sole to turn red and smile right back up at him while he takes their hand in his and they continue on towards Sanctuary.

If not romanced, he might be a little put off at first by Sole's constant flirtatious comments. Eventually though, as he learns to relax and feel safe in his new life, he might start playfully flirting back, if only to see Sole's shocked, blushing expression.

[paladin-dancin]

Yay!! I’ve missed you! ❤️💕

anon, that honestly means more than you'll ever know :) I really didn't realize that some people looked forward to my posts! Thank you, and I missed you all so much!

[paladin-dancin]

When you walk into Safari Adventure and find 462882561946 Gatorclaws waiting for you

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Companions on the 4th of July

Heyyyy no one asked for this and I'm a day late but why not? Backstory: The minutemen are holding a firework show/ cookout at the castle to celebrate the holiday and everyone's invited! Cait: She loves seeing the exploding of the fireworks and wears a grin throughout the entire firework show. She threatens to throw a firecracker at Sole when they point out how cute it is that she's having so much fun. Codsworth: He finds the holiday nostalgic and it reminds him of the day when mum and sir and little Shaun sat and watched fireworks just like this. How reflects on how much things have changed since then and becomes emotional until Sole lets him do the honors of lighting off the fireworks. Curie: "Oh... Zis is beautiful!" She exclaims, her eyes full of awe as she watches the fireworks from her seat. She has never seen fireworks before this, and thinks they're absolutely perfect. For weeks afterwards she asks Sole many questions about how they work. Danse: He likes the concept of the holiday because of how patriotic it is. It reminds him of the amount of pride that the brotherhood has. Of course he's the one cooking out, wearing an apron that Sole insisted he put on over his power armor. He isn't sure what it says but everyone else is laughing at the large lettering that says "kiss the paladin". Deacon: No one can find him for the majority of the night, not even Sole, who's almost always able to point out the sunglasses-wearing trickster in disguise. When Sole opens up the first box of fireworks, Deacon jumps out wearing brightly colored body paint and yells, "BOOM!" Sole falls screams and falls back, and doesn't hear the end of it for weeks. Dogmeat: He's loving the whole event. People are throwing him snack cakes and bloatfly burgers left and right. By time the fireworks start he's stuffed and laying on Sole's lap, snoozing and having sweet dog dreams. Hancock: Of course he loves the 4th. He gives everyone a very extensive, very Chem-fueled version of the history of the American Revolution. When it gets dark he insists that he leads off the fireworks with a singing of the national anthem. He forgets some of the words in the middle but everyone loves it and he bows confidently at the end of the song, everyone applauding. Maccready: Much like dogmeat, Mac stuffs himself full of food during the event and he accidentally misses the fireworks because he falls asleep inside the castle. He pouts the next day. Nick: He helps danse with the food and smiles when he sees that everyone is enjoying their self. He sits next to Piper and Sole during the fireworks as he lights a cigarette and stares at the night sky in peace. Piper: She won't admit it, but fireworks kind of scare her. The noise just frightens her and she can't explain why, but she does a pretty decent job at hiding it. She sits next to Sole on a blanket as they watch, and when Sole sees that Piper jumps at every loud boom that goes off, they let her hold Sole's hand for comfort. Preston: He plans the get together and patrols the area while everyone enjoys the show. He's just happy knowing that Sole and the companions are having such a good time spending time with one another. He feels like the holiday really embodies the spirit of the minutemen. Strong: He hates fireworks and yells at Sole every time one goes off.